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With so many features and options, things can get a little overwhelming when it comes to using a new LMS. We’re talking about a new platform, after all. Here are exactly 6 best practices that instructional designers follow when it comes to getting used to a new LMS and figuring out how to use it at its full potential.
The mobile worker is among us. Are you aware?
It happened smoothly, one day after another, one technological advancement after another. It crept like a bug in every office space and in every workplace setting. We can no longer consider him or her to belong to a science-fiction, tech-reliant future. The mobile employee is HERE, NOW!
It’s impossible to tell what features should have the perfect LMS. With so many types of organizations, multiplied with so many types of learning needs, this is a rather impossible task. But I’m pretty sure that most L&D professionals faced with the challenge of getting a new LMS know by now what they DON’T want in an LMS.
Laura Overton’s 4 Tips for L&D leaders on how to make a lasting impact in 2016:
1. Focus on your business problem
2. Understand the learners
3. Think performance, not course
4. Equip your team
Your company is just like an ecosystem; everything is interconnected. The success of your learning and development company strategy depends not only on instructional designers and their knowledge and ability to create training courses, but also on the coordination between them and your internal departments of HR, IT, Design or Marketing. A learning management system can support this coordination by providing the best tools and by hosting all the knowledge in one centralized place.
Deep learning happens when each learner is offered a truly personalized learning experience. Big data allows instructional designers to know each learner’s interests, level of expertise and learning goals and then provide a custom learning path. This learner-centric approach encourages great results.
Personalized learning is the tailoring of learning environments with the primary focus on learners and how they experience the process of knowledge acquisition. Find out what can instructional designers do to personalize e-learning courses and how learners experience a personalized learning session.
Corporate learning is critical for increasing skills, improving the leadership pipeline, and enhancing employee engagement. As millennials transform the workplace we have known for the past decades, it is essential for businesses to assess their current learning environment and strive to build a corporate learning experience that is customized for every employee.
