Let's say you just saw a job offer you are interested in, you are out of office/home, you are in a internet cafe or on vacation somewhere and don't have a copy of your CV with you. You need to send a copy of your CV, or handle it on paper and don't have the time to rebuild it from scratch?

Provided you have internet access, and a LinkedIn account, you can use your profile on LinkedIn to print a pdf curriculum vitae. Go to your profile page on LinkedIn and select the pdf button.

Paper based curricula have often to deal with shrinking informations in a limited number of pages, the no more than 3 pages rule applies here; this is usually done by leaving out informations viewed as accessory or non relevant. Unless you are applying for a teaching role, or something where your learning history really counts, education is possibly the first thing you cut out.

It's great to live digital, pump up your education history and get noticed

Your online profile has no such lenght limitations. Consider the LinkedIn profile, there you are allowed to add as many education experiences as you'd like to. And this is a great chance to show off all of your education background. This is good for a lot of reasons: you can detail what you learned, highlighting a research you worked on, the tools you used, who your teachers were, where you studied, expand your network, get back in contact, etc.