Engaging Experience for the Digital Learner — The rise of LxPs (Learning Experience Platforms)
The benefits associated with digital learning are numerous. Corporate digital learning affords HR and Learning and Development (L&D) executives the opportunity to develop a wider talent pool with the same digital learning assets, providing the most efficient use of their learning budget.
For busy employees who want to learn, digital learning provides the convenience they need to breach those competency gaps at spare moments — in traffic, over the weekend, or while the kids are asleep. It gives them the flexibility to pause and resume learning at will. However, a learner centered strategy requires a mobile-centric implementation strategy.
Digital learning is no longer an outlandish concept; everyone is taking advantage of it. With the surge of technology and consumer grade apps, your ‘learning consumers’ seek engaging experiences that provide the most returns for their time invested in learning. The user experience is crucial for effective digital learning. Simply put, “People ignore design that ignores people”
Great technology (fit for purpose) with poor user experience (UX) can only make a great ‘click-next’, attendance-based learning portal, driven by compliance. Users are looking for consumer grade experiences offered by their popular social media, video-based sites, and gaming accounts and are longing for those digital experiences in the workplace, starting with HR.
While traditional Learning Management Systems (LMS) provide that digital launchpad to enhance learning offerings, your users want more! The digital learner experience is a combination of great content/portal Interface and great content experience. Learning Experience Platforms (LxPs) provide these and more.
These are five features of learning experience platforms:
· An intuitive and elegant user experience.
LxPs provide learners with a platform UX compelling enough that they would want to pay for it. The platform’s intuition is built around apt content curation capabilities and deep machine learning to self-curate or recommend paths.
· World Class Content
Even with a great platform UI (user interface) & UX, there begs the next big question — what develops the user? From simple ‘how-to’ short videos to longer certification courses, LxPs provide the user with multi varied, video based and interactive content, that are micro-modular in instructional design. This is tailored to engage the modern learner with just-in-time skill development which can easily be applied for business results.
· Robust Data Presentation and Analytics.
LxPs provide quantifiable metrics and qualitative representation of learning activity to both end users. This data is also summarily aggregated across specific business units and organisational demographics to provide actionable insights to L&D professionals to understand what, how and where people learn.
· Collaboration and Content Creation Capacity
The future of learning is currently leaning towards enabling and empowering the learner with tools to define their learning paths and curate learning for this path. Social interactivity in learning provides 20% of the entire learning experience to reinforce the formal learning. Some LxPs enrich this collaborative experience by allowing administrators to create content for the user to quickly engage and consume learning. Learners can also create more knowledge resources for others.
· Integration and Aggregation Capability
With numerous content providers and knowledge sources out there, the prime LxP comes embedded with aggregation technology to pull content from multiple sources for the learner. In other instances, the LxP can also link up with other third-party enterprise systems for data exchange and display. This integration must however be seamlessly executed to ensure overall consistency in the learner’s user experience.
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