The 10 Most Popular LinkedIn Learning Courses of 2025

With over 20,000 courses available on LinkedIn Learning, it can be overwhelming to select a starting point. Take a look at the top ten LinkedIn Learning courses for IATSE workers in 2025 for inspiration, and if you're not sure where to start, check out the How to Use LinkedIn Learning course. This short course will get you up and running, and you’ll be able to find the content that’s just right for you.

1. Project Management Foundations
   Project management is a start-to-finish approach to getting things done and making projects more successful. It's a profession, but it's also a set of techniques that anyone can apply to achieve goals and manage project work more effectively. Project management can be used to guide small, simple projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives.

2. Excel Essential Training (Microsoft 365)
   Get up to speed with Microsoft Excel, the world's most popular spreadsheet program. Follow along with Excel expert Dennis Taylor as he demonstrates how to efficiently manage and analyze data with this powerful program. Learn how to enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, and format the appearance of rows, columns, cells, and data.

3. Premiere Pro 2025 Essential Training
   Video is a personal, powerful, and dynamic art form. For transforming raw footage into impactful stories, filmmakers and editors look to Adobe Premiere Pro, the industry-leading application. This course helps beginners unlock the potential of the latest edition. Instructor and filmmaker Ashley Kennedy teaches all the essentials while building a short promo video from start to finish. Ashley shows you how to import and organize your media so you can start your project off right. She covers how to edit video and audio, correct color, add titles and effects, and more. Her project-based approach lends context to each of the tools, allowing you to experience both the technical and creative sides of the editing process. If you’re looking to become competent and comfortable with the foundations of video editing, join Ashley in this course.

4. Learning Vectorworks
   Built upon a long history of powerful CAD and BIM development, Vectorworks offers a feature set that helps users design and create projects using an efficient workflow. In this course, get familiar with the core features of this powerful software. Henry Santos walks through the user interface and shows how the workspace is organized. In addition, by taking you through a small project—a table design—he provides a hands-on approach to learning this software package. He also covers the drafting and design tools, explores basic 3D modeling, shows how to use the resource manager, and more.

5. After Effects CC 2023 Essential Training
   Adobe After Effects enables you to create amazing visual effects for film, TV, video, and the web. It’s a very powerful tool, but how do you get started using it? In this course, motion designer Alan Demafiles guides you through the essentials of using After Effects. Learn how to use layers and shapes with transformation levels, masks, nesting, collapse transformations, and much more. Explore animation in After Effects with keyframe interpolations, the graph editor, time remapping, expressions, and so on. Go over the tools and techniques you need to create transparency for compositing, and then find out how to work with a wide variety of effects. Learn about creating and rendering basic 3D effects, then dive into the intricacies of 3D geometry, including renderers, features, Cinema 4D, and more. Discover ways to work with trackers, then finish up by learning to render your creation using the Render Queue or Media Encoder.

6. DaVinci Resolve Fundamentals
   Are you new to DaVinci Resolve? Are you intrigued by the power of this digital video media creation tool? Do you find the power of this tool intimidating or confusing? Then this title is for you. Join instructor and professional colorist Patrick Inhofer in this course designed to get you up to speed in as little time as possible. This course includes a 60-second commercial for you to work with so you can get comfortable with the layout and workflow as you follow along. Patrick starts with the process of importing your media, using both manual and automated tools, before showing how to start building a rough cut in Resolve. He then explains how to refine your rough cut using trim tools and adding titles and transitions, details the important aspects of color correction, and shows how to organize and mix sound clips. Patrick finishes the course covering the export process, showing how to use preset templates as well as how to create your own reusable custom templates.

7. Blender 4.0 Essential Training
   Blender is a powerful open-source solution for 2D and 3D modeling, animation, compositing, and post-production. In this course, get a thorough overview of the feature set in Blender 4.0 and beyond, as well as practical production techniques that combine know-how with a healthy dose of how-to. Instructor David Andrade dives into specific techniques, such as scene layout and modeling, sculpting, texturing and shading, 2D and 3D animation, character rigging (also known as armatures), visual effects and simulations, rendering, and geometry nodes. Plus, get performance-boosting tricks to render your creations even faster. Each lesson helps you gain the control and skill you need to create stunning, professional artwork for multiple platforms: games, movies, and animation.

8. Photoshop 2025 Essential Training
   Whether you’re an experienced creative professional or someone who has just recently purchased a camera, learning how to use Photoshop efficiently and effectively is the best investment you can make to get the most out of your pixels. Photoshop is a deep, complex, and at times, intimidating product. In Photoshop 2025 Essential Training, Julieanne Kost filters out the noise and complexity for you so that you’ll end up empowered and able to quickly get the image results you want. This course gets you up to speed with the Photoshop interface and introduces the core features and concepts you'll use, whether you're a photographer or designer. This course is part of a Professional Certificate from Adobe.

9. How to Speak Smarter When Put on the Spot
   Public speaking can be nerve-wracking even with ample preparation time. An unexpected spotlight can further ramp up the heart-pounding, word-fumbling, and mind-blanking. In this audio-only course, Matt Abrahams shares six easy steps to improve spontaneous speaking. Matt Abrahams teaches strategic communication at Stanford University and hosts a top podcast: Think Fast, Talk Smart. He is the author of two best-selling books on speaking: Speaking Up without Freaking Out and Think Faster, Talk Smarter. Matt shares how you can listen deeply to better respond and connect with any audience. You’ll learn tactics to address anxiety–such as holding something cold. Matt shares why to “maximize your mediocrity” and offers a formula for great self-introductions. Finally, get expert strategies for recovering quickly when you draw a blank and approaches for “preparing to be spontaneous.”

10. Networking Foundations: Networking Basics
    When someone begins to study networking, they’re challenged with knowing where to start. This is due to the wide spectrum of technologies falling under the umbrella of networking. This course provides an overview of the foundational topics any networking professional should know, as well as an introduction to emerging technologies. Instructor Kevin Wallace delves into the purpose of networks, as well as how networking technologies benefit us in both our personal and business lives. He covers network addresses, including the structures of Internet Protocol (IP) version 4 and version 6 addresses. Plus, learn about switches, routers, fiber-optic cabling, and other essential pieces and parts that make networks work; the OSI model; common network services; wireless networks; and more.

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