Unlocking Learning Trends: The Top 2025 LinkedIn Learning Courses You've Been Watching at QMUL

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From sharpening technical expertise to boosting writing skills, these courses reflect the evolving priorities of students and staff alike. In this article, we’ll dive into the top five most-watched LinkedIn Learning courses at QMUL—revealing what’s driving us to learn more and how these resources are helping us to improve.

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Coming in at number Five on our list of most watched courses is:

5. Getting started with Excel for Microsoft 365

Learn how to enter and organise data, perform calculations with simple functions, and format the appearance of rows, columns, cells, and data. Plus, learn about accessibility features, how to work with multiple worksheets, build charts and PivotTables, sort and filter data, use Microsoft's AI Copilot with Excel, and more. Excel expert Dennis Taylor demonstrates how to efficiently manage and analyse data with this powerful program.

Start the Excel Essential Training (Microsoft 365) course on LinkedIn Learning.

4. Write effective emails

Writing email is a vital and often overlooked part of professional communication. When you use proven strategies for writing great messages, people enjoy working with you and are eager to cooperate on shared goals—all of which helps you get recognised and get ahead at work. 

Start the Writing Email course on LinkedIn Learning

3.  Tips for Better Business Writing

Want to advance your communication skills? Improve your writing. Clear and concise writing is the key to helping your audience understand your message—whether it’s delivered in an email, report, memo, or white paper. 

Start the Tips for Better Business Writing course on LinkedIn Learning

2. Giving and Receiving Feedback

The only way to improve is with feedback. Giving—and receiving—feedback is a skill that's relevant to every member of an organization. In this course, psychologist and author Dr. Gemma Leigh Roberts first guides you through both how to receive feedback effectively—by tuning into a growth mindset, managing your emotional response to feedback, and implementing feedback. Gemma then teaches on how to effectively provide feedback by reducing bias, following a tested frame for giving feedback, and learning how to give feedback regularly. 

Start the Giving and Receiving Feedback course on LinkedIn Learning

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And the number one most viewed course on QMUL's LinkedIn Learning Platform in 2025 is...

1. Time Management

Improve your productivity, get things done, and find more time for what's most important with Time Management Tips. This series provides actionable time management advice in just a few short minutes.

So it seems we could all use a bit more time!

Start the Time Management course on LinkedIn Learning

Continuous learning is at the heart of professional growth, and QMUL is no exception. With LinkedIn Learning offering thousands of self directed courses, which are currently free for QMUL staff and students, it’s fascinating to see which topics resonated most with our community in 2025. Get in touch with us if you'd like to learn more.