Formerly known as Lynda.com, LinkedIn Learning offers courses on business and leadership skills. 

Topics: Project management, marketing, finance, communication, and more. 

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Korean, and Bahasa Indonesia.

Integrations: LinkedIn Learning courses can be delivered directly into up to 25 Learning Management Systems or directly on the LinkedIn Learning Hub by bringing content from partners, including CodeCademy, Coursera for business, EdX, GetAbstract, GlobeSmart, Harvard Business Publishing, OpenSesame, O’Reilly, Pluralsight, SkillShare, Udacity and and UdemyBusiness. LinkedIn Learning also has partnerships with dozens of course authoring providers.

LinkedIn Learning for Business offers a curated collection of over 16,000 courses specifically designed for organizations and their employees around creative, technical and business skill development. 

Topics: Business skills, Software development, Data science and Analytics, Digital Marketing, Creative Skills, Leadership and Management, Sales and Customer Service and Personal Development.

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Korean, and Bahasa Indonesia.

Integrations: LinkedIn Learning courses can be delivered directly into up to 25 Learning Management Systems or directly on the LinkedIn Learning Hub by bringing content from partners, including CodeCademy, Coursera for business, EdX, GetAbstract, GlobeSmart, Harvard Business Publishing, OpenSesame, O’Reilly, Pluralsight, SkillShare, Udacity and and UdemyBusiness. 

Harvard Business School Online provides high-quality courses on various business topics. All courses are self-paced, led by Harvard professors and deliver certification. Topics covered include: 

• Business Essentials: Credential of Readiness (CORe), Business Analytics, Economics for Managers and Financial Accounting. 
• Leadership & Management: Leadership Principles, Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Accountability, Organizational Leadership, Management Essentials, Strategy Execution, Power and Influence for Positive Impact and Negotiation Mastery 
• Entrepreneurship & Innovation: Entrepreneurship Essentials, Disruptive Strateg, Design Thinking and Innovation and Launching Tech Ventures 
• Strategy: Disruptive Strategy, Business Strategy, Strategy Execution, Sustainable Business Strategy, Global Business and Economics for Managers. 
• Finance & Accounting: Leading with Finance, Financial Accounting, Sustainable Investing and Alternative Investing
• Business in Society: Sustainable Business Strategy, Sustainable Investing, Power and Influence for Positive Impact, Global Business and Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Accountability

Languages: delivered in written English. Closed captioning in English is available for all videos.

Integrations: The Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) catalog can be integrated into your institution’s Learning Management System (LMS), which allows for simple tool integration and unlimited access to HBP course materials for students, instructors, and course administrators.

Skillsoft offers a wide range of off-the-shelf courses covering various topics such as leadership development, business skills, IT certifications, and more. Skillsoft, which acquired CodeAcademy, provides courses in multiple languages and supports integration with learning management systems.

Kallidus offers off-the-shelf courses covering areas such as compliance, health and safety, leadership, and more. Their courses are available in multiple languages and integrate with learning platforms.

Topics

• Business Skills: from coaching skills and hybrid team management to learning to evaluate performance and improving communications. 
• Compliance: With over 30 courses on compliance, Kallidus offers ready-to-go courses for employees on topics such as Bullying and Harassment, GDPR and Information Security. They also have courses more specific to managers to support mental health or spotting unconscious bias. 
• Customer Service: Everything employees need to master customer service. From handling angry customers to perfecting their first contact. 
• Health and Safety: Kallidus offers over 35 ready made courses on health and safety in across industries, including fire and electrical safety, mental health, sustainability awareness and HAACP. 
• Influencing: Courses for employees and managers wanting to develop skills around influencing in the workplace
• IT and Project Management: from social media awareness to information security and digital skill development. 
• Leadership and Management: Kallidus Leadership courses are designed for aspiring and current managers to improve in their roles and include a range of categories depending on their industry.

Languages: Courses can be delivered in up to 100 languages. They also offer an integrated language translation feature and course text transcript. 

Integrations: Kallidus off-the shelf courses can be delivered in your existing LMS, Kallidus’ LMS, Learn, or cloud based platforms.

Cortexa specializes in off-the-shelf courses for the corporate sector, including topics like leadership, communication skills, project management, and more. 

Languages: Courses are available in multiple languages

Integrations: All courses can be integrated with learning and cloud based platforms.

GO1 provides a wide range of ready-made courses on various topics, including compliance, professional development and leadership for employees at all stages of their professional journey. To deliver these courses, GO1 partners with over 200 providers to host their content on the GO1 Content Hub with +10,000 digital learning resources to choose from. 

Languages: The GO1 Learning Platform supports English, German, Spanish and Portuguese, with content available in many more languages.

Integrations: GO1 courses can be completed on the GO1 Content Hub, but they can also be integrated with hundreds of other tools, including LMS’s, LXP’s, Collaborative Learning Platforms and HRIS. 

Learning Pool offers a diverse library of ready-made e-learning content, covering topics such as compliance, health and safety, customer service, and more. Their courses are available in multiple languages and support integration with learning platforms.

Categories: Business skills, Fair, Safe and Legal, Compliance, Leadership and Management, Personal Skills, Hospitality and Retail, Manufacturing, Housing, Contact Center, Financial Services, Public sector courses and Social care and Health

Languages: Multi-language support 

Integrations: Accessible on any modern device and supportive of both SCORM and xAPI, Library Content seamlessly integrates into any learning environment.

OpenSesame offers a vast library of off-the-shelf courses. With a catalog of over 12,000 courses, they cover all topics relevant for your workforce, including business skills, compliance, diversity, professional certification, technology and wellness.  

Languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Integrations: All their courses integrate with popular learning management systems.

Pluralsight offers a vast library of technology-focused courses, covering topics such as programming languages, cybersecurity and cloud computing. Their courses can be filtered by skill-level – from beginner to advanced – and by subject, including: architecture & construction, business or creative professionals, IT ops, manufacturing & design, software and web development.

Languages: Courses are in English, but the video player delivers course content and lets you control settings for subtitles. Google Translate provides translations of video course captions. You can view a list of Google Translate’s available languages (external site, opens in new tab) to find one that fits your needs.

Integrations: Skills, Plurasight’s LMS can integrate with many Learning Management Systems and content aggregators, including SumTotal, SuccessFactors, Cornerstone, Absorb, Pathgather and Degreed. They can also integrate with other LMS’s depending on the integration capabilities of the LMS.

Coursera partners with top universities and institutions to provide technology-related courses to offer paid and free courses. Their content covers subjects like data analysis, machine learning, software engineering, and more. 

Languages: Coursera offers courses in over 50 languages, the top ten are English, Spanish, Russian, French, Portuguese, Arabic, German, Vietnamese, Italian and Chinese.

Integrations: Coursera can be integrated with most Learning Management Systems and LXPs to deliver their off-the-shelf courses.

Udacity offers a wide range of technology-focused courses, particularly in areas such as data science, artificial intelligence, programming, and web development. Their courses are designed to provide hands-on learning experiences and are often developed in collaboration with industry partners. 

Introductory course offerings include coding, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence fundamentals. More in-depth courses explore programming languages like Python, JavaScript and SQL.

Languages: English 

Integrations: Udacity courses are deployed on the Udacity LMS

Codecademy is a popular online platform that provides interactive coding courses. They offer courses on various programming languages, web development, data science, and more. Codecademy’s hands-on approach and interactive coding exercises make it a great choice for aspiring developers.

Languages: English 

Integrations: Codecademy can be integrated with any SaaS application or service using Tray Platform’s universal connectors to deliver their courses on your SaaS tool of preference. 

edX is a massive open online course (MOOC) platform with over 4,200 courses that collaborates with universities and institutions to offer a wide range of courses, including technology-related topics. 

They provide courses in areas such as computer science, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and more. edX offers both free and paid options, with the opportunity to earn certificates or even complete degree programs.

Languages: edX offers a variety of online language courses to choose from that teach English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Mandarin.

Integrations: The Cornerstone on Demand (CSOD) and edX for Business integration enables organizations to manage their edX content within the Cornerstone learning management system (LMS). With this integration, edX courses can be automatically synchronized to the LMS catalog, where they can be managed like other system training types.

DataCamp focuses specifically on data science and offers courses that cover topics such as data analysis, machine learning, data visualization, and more. Their courses provide hands-on coding exercises and interactive learning experiences to help individuals build practical skills in data science no matter their skill level. 

Languages: Courses are in English, but all course subtitles are in nine popular languages: Spanish, French, Chinese [simplified], Portuguese, German, Korean, Japanese, Russian, and Italian.

Integrations: DataCamp courses can be integrated with LMS/LXP at their enterprise level. To understand if you’re eligible for integration, contact them directly.

Cloud Academy offers a thorough Training Library with courses focused on cloud computing platforms and technologies, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and more. Their courses cover different levels of expertise, from beginner to advanced, enabling individuals to develop cloud skills and certifications.

Languages: Their courses are in English, but as of March 2023, they’ve added Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German subtitles, in addition to English, to their most popular and most recent courses.

Integrations: If your organization has an LMS, you may already be using SCORM content. Cloud Academy supports all versions of SCORM from 1.2 onward. You can export your SCORM package from your LMS and upload it to Cloud Academy as a Custom Resource in Content Engine.

dominKnow is a course authoring tool that provides off-the-shelf courses covering various industries and topics, including compliance, sales, customer service, and more. 

Languages: You can clone any course and choose from over 50 preloaded languages that automatically update system text and course interface for things like tool tips and navigation.

Integrations: All courses offer the option to be delivered as SCORM compliant so they can easily be uploaded into the LMS of your choice. To deploy fully-editable courses, you will need to opt for using the domiKnow course authoring platform.

Maestro Learning specializes in ready-made courses for healthcare and human services professionals. Their content covers topics around workplace safety, food safety, power skills, healthcare compliance and anatomy. They also offer customization services and cater content to specific needs when needed. 

Languages: English, but can be translated upon request 

Integrations: Courses are SCORM 2004 or SCORM 1.2 compliant, which means they can be deployed on any LMS that is SCORM compliant. 

Lingel Learning provides off-the-shelf courses in areas such as leadership, sales, customer service, and more. 

Languages: English 

Integrations: Lingel Learning off-the-shelf course catalog covers a range of topics and work on any Learning Management System (LMS) that complies to SCORM standards. They can also custom brand their courses to include your logo, imagery and colors.

Course-Source offers a detailed catalog of off-the-shelf courses from a range of course providers covering broad business topics, including business skills, personal developments, health & safety, compliance, hospitality, housing, building and management and office & IT. 

Languages: Multi-lingual, depending on the course of choice 

Integrations: All courses can be delivered on SCORM 1.2 compliant Learning Management Systems. 

eCom Learning Solutions offers thousands of evidence-based eLearning courses from award-winning publishers, covering areas like business skills, technology, compliance, health and safety, leadership, wellness and more.

Languages: multi-language support provided on request basis.

Integrations: OpenSesame content works with all learning delivery platforms. 

ServiceSkills has a library of off-the-shelf courses focused on customer service training. Their courses cover topics such as communication skills, conflict resolution, customer satisfaction, and more.

Categories: Customer service training courses addressing the full spectrum of customer service training, client success, team building, mentoring, diversity, conflict resolution and leadership skills across 22 distinct training series. 

Language: Videos are in English, but they include captioned English, Spanish and French subtitle options.

Integrations: ServiceSkills courses can be deployed via SCORM 1.2 and other eLearning builts, the LMS of your choice Human Resources Information System such as Workday, Paycom, Sage, PeopleSoft, Paylocity, UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), ADP, Bamboo, Paycor, Paychex and more.

SalesFuel provides off-the-shelf master classes that focus on improving sales skills and driving revenue growth. Their courses include Digital Credibility, Leading with Insight and Selling with AI and EQ. SalesCred master classes are delivered by Zoom or in person and they are best suited for teams of 10–50 people.

Languages: English 

Integrations: SalesFuel masterclasses are delivered on Zoom, so any Learning Platform with a Zoom integration can be used to deliver their insights.

Vengreso delivers off-the-shelf sales training programs that cater to modern selling techniques, particularly in the digital and social selling space. They offer two courses appropriate for Sales teams, including LinkedIn Sales Mastery and Video Sales Mastery. Their LinkedIn Sales Mastery course learnt best in micro-learning sessions, as it combines live instruction with on demand learning and live coaching. This helps attendees integrate what they learn. 

Languages: English 

Integrations: Vengreso courses are delivered through their SaaS tool.

Adobe Creative Cloud provides courses on graphic design, video editing, photography, and other creative skills. Their content focuses on Adobe software applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and more. Users can learn by product or role and enrol in the learning path that matches their career path.

Their courses are off-the-shelf, short and cohort based, meaning users can enrol in the time zone that suits them best and receive appropriate certification within 2 weeks. 

Languages: for courses delivered in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, the course materials are available in English.  For Japan, training course materials are available in Japanese.

Integrations: To enrol in courses, users have to register or log in to their Adobe ID. Adobe Authorized training is delivered by Adobe Certified Instructors at an Adobe Authorized Training Center (AATC) or at your place of business.

Skillshare is a learning community for creators. Anyone can take an online class, watch video lessons, create projects, and even teach a class themselves. Skillshare offers courses for creatives in various roles for individuals and teams. Their main categories include lifestyle skills, creative, business and technology skills. 

Courses in: Drawing & Painting, Graphic Design, UI/UX design, Marketing, Animation, Creative Writing, Digital Illustration, Film & Video, Photography and Entrepreneurship. 

Languages: Skillshare accepts classes taught in English, French, German, Portuguese, or Spanish.

Integrations: Skillshare has its own Learning Community Hub, but it does offer a LinkedIn Learning Integration for teams looking to deliver Skillshare courses. 

Domestika specializes in creative and design courses, including graphic design, animation, illustration, and more. Their off-the-shelf courses are filtered by popularity, experience, software and skill. Anyone can purchase affordable lessons for whatever creative skill they want to develop. They also offer a team subscription more suited for business. 

Languages: You can follow Domestika e course in its original language, or activate subtitles available in Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, Italian, French, Polish and Dutch.

Integrations: Domestika delivers its courses in its own Domestika homepage. As of June 2023, integrations with other LMS are not available. 

CreativeLive offers a wide range of online courses focusing on creative disciplines, including design, photography, art, music, and more. Their courses are taught by industry professionals and provide a mix of live streaming and on-demand content. As of June 2023, they have over 2000 classes users can watch for free. 

Languages: English

Integrations: You can take classes on the CreativeLive on a subscription basis. Some other tools, like LinkedIn Learning have a partnership with CreativeLive to offer some of their courses for free. 

School of Motion specializes in motion design courses, covering topics such as animation, visual effects, and motion graphics. Their courses cater to beginners as well as professionals looking to advance their skills in the field of motion design.

Categories: 2D animation, 3D animation, Design and Career Development self-paced and guided courses lasting anywhere between 6 hours or 8 weeks. 

Languages: English

Integrations: Courses are delivered on School of Motion’s LMS. However, their courses can also integrate with any other LMS system.

Canva Design School provides free online tutorials, articles, and resources on graphic design, branding, and visual communication. Their content is suitable for beginners and intermediate designers looking to improve their design skills.

Languages: English

Integrations: Their tutorials and courses are delivered for free on their website. However, you can integrate all CANVA courses into several Learning Management Systems, including Moodle, Microsoft Teams, Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom, D2L and Blackboard. 

This guide has been updated in June 2023 and will be updated within the next 6 months. We aim to provide you with a relevant and comprehensive list of the top +30-course content providers for off-the-shelf and ready-made courses, grouped into different categories based on similarities. These providers offer a wide range of courses to support professional development across various industries and disciplines.

Whether you’re seeking to enhance your technical skills, improve your business acumen, unleash your creativity, or focus on health and wellness, there are course content providers available to cater to your specific needs. Many of these providers offer courses in multiple languages, ensuring accessibility to a global audience.

Additionally, these providers understand the importance of seamless integration with learning management systems and online platforms. This integration enables a smooth delivery of courses, tracking of progress, and engagement with learners, making the learning experience more effective and efficient.

But we know that off-the-shelf courses are not for everyone. As easy as they are to deliver, they are also limiting and often generic. This is why many choose to experiment with creating their own training experiences. If you would prefer to create your own training experiences and courses, we also have a FREE guide on how to create engaging training experiences for employees in blended environments.