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LinkedIn Learning

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LinkedIn Learning is an online course library from LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, launched in September 2016 using content from Lynda.com. Its business offer lists more than 24,000 expert-led courses in 25 languages, across business, technology and creative subjects, including leadership, artificial intelligence (AI) and certification preparation. Features include AI-driven coaching and role-play, code challenges and AI skill pathways. Plans cover single learners, teams of up to 20 accounts and organisations with 21 or more, and it is also sold to higher education, government agencies and libraries. Organisation plans add learning administration, custom content uploads, links to learning management systems and an insights dashboard. All learning is online. Prices are not published on its business pages. Individuals and teams can start with a free month, and organisations are asked to contact sales. Certification options include Professional Certificates from LinkedIn and partners such as Adobe and Microsoft, practice exams for Microsoft, Atlassian and Amazon Web Services certifications, and continuing education units for fields such as accounting and project management. It launched with more than 9,000 courses.

Mindtools Kineo

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Mindtools Kineo is a UK workplace learning company formed when Mindtools, founded in 1996, bought the learning provider Kineo in May 2025. For organisations it offers consultancy and custom learning design, off-the-shelf and adapted learning programmes, and learning platforms that track and manage training. Its main topics are management and leadership development, compliance and essential skills, and onboarding and induction. Most learning is digital, with short e-learning modules and mobile access to videos and articles. Some programmes add residential workshops, peer support groups, mentoring and work-based projects. Individuals can buy a separate Mindtools membership, which gives access to a content hub of articles, videos and quizzes, short Skill Bites and an artificial intelligence (AI) coach. Individual membership costs £12 a month, £30 a quarter or £110 a year, each after a 7-day free trial. Prices for organisations are not published. Mindtools is owned by Cambridge Information Group (CIG), a family-owned investment firm, and bought Kineo from City & Guilds. The combined business announced the Mindtools Kineo name in December 2025. It states its content reaches 24 million people in 160 countries. Its operating company, Mind Tools Ltd, is registered in Edinburgh.

Sponge

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Sponge is a Bristol-based digital learning company, launched in 2004, with further offices in Berlin and Brussels. It designs custom e-learning, blended programmes and facilitated learning for large employers, typically organisations with more than 10,000 staff. Formats include animation, interactive video, simulations, games and performance support tools, and courses can be translated into more than 200 languages. Topics include compliance, onboarding, leadership and management, sales enablement, and equity, diversity and inclusion. Most custom projects take about 10 to 16 weeks from discovery to delivery. A sister brand, Sponge Compliance, offers more than 400 ready-made compliance microlearning courses and the Spark learning management system (LMS). Prices are not published. Its information security policy says it works in line with ISO 27001:2022, the international standard for information security management, but the site does not claim certification. It has won Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) Learning Awards, including Gold for Learning Provider of the Year in 2019, and Brandon Hall Group awards in several years. The parent company, Sponge Group Holdings Limited (company number 11935701), was incorporated in April 2019.

Video Arts

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Video Arts is a maker of workplace training films and e-learning, founded in a West London house in 1972 by a group including John Cleese and Antony Jay. Its courses use humour and storytelling to teach management, leadership, communication, mental health and wellbeing, customer service, compliance and other workplace skills. The library holds over 1,000 learning assets, including more than 400 microcourses, with a growing range in other languages. Organisations can use it on Video Arts Play, its own learning management system (LMS), or load the courses into their existing platform as Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) packages. It also offers embedded video and an AI coach across the library. Prices are not published. Access is sold as an annual licence that scales with the number of learners, with an onboarding package and a smaller package for small businesses, and a free two-week trial is offered. Video Arts is part of the Tinopolis Group, which it joined in 2008. Its history page lists the Queen's Award for Export to Industry in 1982 and early films such as Meetings, Bloody Meetings, and the site states that it has won over 250 awards.