Will you accept this challenge? The Battle requests are becoming terrific!

 

After we rewarded Sory Fofana with a prize for being the player of the millionth Battle on Coorpacademy, we decided to redesign the Battles on the platform. We started redesigning the Battle requests. Let’s see how! But before diving in, just a quick reminder on Battles…

1 battle  = 2 players + an average of 6 questions on 1 course level

 

A Battle is launched by a player to another, randomly or strategically chosen, your choice! The one who has the more right answers, or the fastest one in the event of a tie, wins the Battle. But not only, this player also wins stars to climb up the ranking and improves his or her knowledge base. Not mentioning the feeling of pride you receive after winning a Battle!

The redesign of battle requests

 

What are the objectives? The player who receives Battle requests…

1. …Is now better notified of being challenged

2. …Can choose better the Battles he wants to play and the opponents – they are well displayed on each Battle request cards.

3. …Can review the course before accepting the battle to get more chances to win!

Just see for yourself!

The new design of Battle requests on Coorpacademy

It’s time to play!

Learners Vote Coorpacademy as Top Gartner FrontRunner® for Learning Management – Press Release

 

Corporate Digital Learning expert Coorpacademy is pleased to announce that it has been recognised as the leading ‘FrontRunner® for Learning Management’ by The Gartner Digital Markets Research Team.

Software users voted Coorpacademy top in the entire category, based on Usability and Customer Satisfaction, beating 22 other providers including Cornerstone LMS, OpenEdX and Lessonly.

Coorpacademy is a major force in the provision of user-centric corporate digital learning solutions. Coorpacademy makes in-work training always about the user, connecting back with the learner to find a better way to deliver what they want, as well as encouraging staff to develop their skills, especially ‘soft’ ones, to future-proof both their careers and the corporate knowledge base.

It is a leader in the next generation of Workplace Learning tools, the ‘Learning Experience Platform (LEP),’ which work by enhancing learner interaction and engagement as well as offering a wide range of training content. In Coorpacademy’s case, this translates into new digital functionalities, such as gamification and mobile learning, the latest teaching innovations including reverse pedagogy and 5-minute targeted ‘micro’ training modules, individualised learning paths and multiple forms of high value content via a catalogue of over 1,000 courses.

Commenting on the news, Jean-Marc Tassetto, co-founder of Coorpacademy, noted that, “We are extremely proud to be recognised by the learners themselves as a leader in Usability and Customer Satisfaction, as we are all about the user experience and the fact that users rate our platform so highly is testament to that. This reflects our determination to only ever offer training that suits the learner and which engages them enough to keep them coming back for more!”

About Coorpacademy

An Edtech startup and the European leader in Corporate Digital Learning, Coorpacademy is revolutionising online training with a Learning Experience Platform that integrates the latest innovations in instructional design, including gamification, microlearning and adaptive and social learning. Coorpacademy offers tailor-made content for its B2B customers and their 800,000 employees, but also a catalogue of over 1,000 courses produced with top industry experts like Forbes, IBM, IBM Think Academy, Wolters Kluwer and Video Arts.

Founded in 2013, the company is based at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)’s Lausanne campus, and also has commercial offices in Paris and London.

About Gartner Frontrunner®

FrontRunner®’s Learning Management Quadrant tool is 100% data-driven and has been architected to help businesses easily identify top software products in a particular category, based on verified user reviews across three websites – Capterra, Software Advice and GetApp, which operate under the overall Gartner Digital Markets umbrella. The final rank is derived from user reviews to highlight users’ current most-favoured Learning Management software: products qualify as FrontRunners if they have received 20 unique user reviews in the last 24 month and earned the top scores for Usability and Customer Satisfaction, as well as offering the core learning management functionalities of course tracking and course management.

“Had I not played Battles, I wouldn’t have been amongst the 4 laureates of the Paris Airports MOOC” – Discover Sory Fofana’s interview, the player of the millionth Battle on Coorpacademy

 

The MOOC Paris Airports laureates awards ceremony, organized by Tourism Academy, occured at the Maison de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable in Athis-Mons (France) on July 4th, 2019.

The MOOC Paris Airports is an online training platform powered by Coorpacademy which will allow this new learners promotion to specialize in airport services jobs, from welcoming tourists to airport security and assistance to people with reduced mobility.

We are proud to help creating jobs in what is the first showcase of France in the world with our pedagogical expertise.

Remise de Prix Tourism Academy MOOC Paris Aéroports

We also took this opportunity to interview Sory Fofana, who finished at the 4th spot of the MOOC and who played the millionth Battle on Coorpacademy!

He enjoyed his learning experience on the Paris Airports MOOC and now wants to keep training as an Hotel Assistant Manger. He started on Monday (08/07/19) to practice his new skills in a 3-stars hotel.

“The MOOC gave us great insights to propose a top-notch welcoming experience to tourists. I’ve never seen an online training platform as complete as this one, with as much learning content. It was completely new to me and really great!”

Sory Fofana, joueur de la millionième Battle sur Coorpacademy

What were you doing before taking this Paris Airports MOOC online training?

Before I took this training, I was doing an internship in order to become an Hotel Assistant Manager. I just finished the theoretical part of it. Now, I’ll start the put into practice part of it, on Monday, July 8th. For the next 4 months, I’ll apply what I learned in the theoretical part of the training.

You finished 4th in the Paris Airports MOOC, how did you achieve this great result?

It was a long challenge, and pretty difficult for me. How did I do it? I needed to earn points, especially with playing Battles one I had finished all training contents. Had I not played Battles, I wouldn’t have been amongst the 4 laureates of the Paris Airports MOOC.

What did you think of the online training platform?

I thought it was great. It was completely new to me, I’ve never found something similar to this. The website is great, the training content was very pedagogical and the more you finish modules, from Basic, Advanced and Coach, the more you want to learn the rest. The pedagogy is great, and it’s playful at the same time.

What did you think of the Battle mode?

When I had finished all courses, and after I got all badges and certificates, I received a Battle requests. I started to look into this. And I was like: “Let’s try this!” The more I received Battles requests, the more I played, and I told myself: “If I want to finish among the laureates, I need to challenge other learners and play Battles!”

What was your favorite course on the platform?

My favorite course was the one on Indians. I worked for more than 10 years in the hospitality field at AccorHôtels, and I was welcoming Indian customers. Indians can be complex customers, they have their own way of asking things and I needed to adapt every time to their culture, to their ways of thinking and to their ways of seeing things. This course really interested me in order for me to face any kind of situations with Indians. They’re very curious, and the more they ask questions, the more they show interest to our culture, to our ways of seeing things. Through this course and the Battles associated with it, I really understood how to welcome Indians when they visit France.

What do you want to do after?

Battles.

Congratulations on the millionth Battle played on the platform! 

Thank you very much! It was a great experience, an enriching one. Thanks for all the work you’ve done for the platform to work seamlessly, I didn’t see any bugs. It was great overall!

Bravo!

Sory Fofana, joueur de la millionième Battle de l'ensemble des plateformes Coorpacademy

  

According to a study by City and Guilds Group, UK employees are bored with L&D… Pain point by pain point, discover what Coorpacademy does to make their learning experiences better!

 

According to the study Learning Insights 2019 by City & Guilds Group: ‘UK employees want their employers to provide a much more curated and tailored approach to training to better equip them with the skills needed for the future. They want to see more engaging (37%), personalised (35%) and better-quality (29%) content, as well as shorter micro-learning (23%) methods available at work.’

More engaging?

Why not try the ‘Battle’ mode on Coorpacademy?

In our Learning Report 2018, we identified a type of learners, the Players (the learners who played at least one Battle) and we realized that Players were more engaged and more efficient in training. The Players are 2x more present: the number of months that a learner is active on the platform during his/her whole learner life cycle is two times higher for Battle players than for non-players. The Players are also 3x more active, with more than 3x more lessons viewed. They also dive deeper into the content: they have started and completed 7 more modules on average than non-players. Finally, the Players are 13% more successful (success rate is measured as the completion rate of started modules) than non-Players.

By the way, did you know that our clients are also seeing the difference? In our latest interview with BNP Paribas Asset Management (they launched their Coorpacademy-powered platform Digit’Learning in May 2018), Sylvie Vazelle-Tenaud, Head of Marketing Europe for Individuals, Advisors and Online Banks, told us:

We present the platform as a tool for gaining expertise with a gaming aspect. In our communication, we mainly highlight the functionality of “lives”. We also highlight the fact they can earn stars. This functionality enables us to generate emulation between employees and make them want to take the courses again. Conversely, we didn’t communicate very much about battles but the employees discovered that functionality on their own and loved it! Coorpacademy offers flexibility in learning without being time-consuming, as the average duration of an entire learning journey is 20 minutes. Employees build their expertise in record time while having fun!

Indeed, more than 70,000 Battles have been launched on the BNP Paribas Asset Management platform in only one year. And the Battle mode is pretty successful on Coorpacademy, because we just reached 1 million Battles played on all Coorpacademy platforms!

UK employees want more personalised training content?

Our Behavioural analytics allow us to create 27 learners’ profiles, in order for everyone to have the most personalised and individualised course recommendations.

In one of his latest article published in TrainingZone, Jean-Marc Tassetto, co-founder of Coorpacademy, takes the examples of the Curiosity or Perseverance Key Performance Indicators and how they can be of great help for learners (for their own individualised course recommendations), but also for L&D managers.

L&D managers and administrators benefit [from Behavioural Analytics] because they can access all sorts of new types of insight – not only finding out what someone successfully learned, but how the learner got there and which learning approach they chose.

This opens up tremendous diagnostic value, way beyond pure learning analytics. It also opens up the possibility for new performance indicators, such as curiosity, or perseverance – both hugely valuable HR metrics.

Take curiosity, identified as an “important variable for the prediction and explanation of work-related behavior” (Mussel, 2013). That is really critical, as motivation to engage in lifelong learning is a sine qua non of employability for today’s worker.

Notably, another important effect of curious collaborators is that they contribute to a company’s innovation potential, particularly in the light of the “death of top-down management” (cf. John Bell, 2013).

Employee learning perseverance is another potential new KPI example. When you next need to decide who to recruit to lead a project, or who to train, it may be useful to select those who are qualified but also the most resilient candidate (cf. Amy Ahearn, 2017).

Better-quality?

Our courses are co-edited with top experts, such as IBM, Video Arts, Wolters Kluwer, famous publishing houses… 

Shorter?

All our courses are available in a microlearning format: 5 minutes, just the time you need to learn quick insights or refresh your memory on a topic, before an important meeting or when you flight is about to take off.

In his article 5 minutes to learn, Jean-Marc Tassetto, co-founder of Coorpacademy, explains the concept of microlearning:

The content is divided into several shorter, more accessible sessions, with the creation of opportunities and contexts as a background. A session of microlearning should be seen as an opportunity to create special and useful “moments” for learning, particularly on mobile, while waiting for a meeting to start or a plane to take off. It’s during these moments that employees will want to integrate a few useful notions.

We launched “5 minute learning”: short content, editorialized and contextualized according to what’s going on and what our customers need, and delivered on mobile, which allows the creation of these short learning “moments”. All of this is supported by an engaging user experience.

Contact us to know more about what Coorpacademy’s Learning Experience could offer to your organisation!

Let’s start using a whole new class of meaningful HR KPIs – Jean-Marc Tassetto in HRReview

 

This article has been originally published in HRReview. It has been written by Jean-Marc Tassetto, co-founder of Coorpacademy. To read it in its original form, it’s here.

There’s plainly a crisis in how HR and L&D is working with training data. For example, according to the 2019 run of its annual Digital Learning Realities Research, HR analysts Fosway reported that only 14 per cent of respondents in the UK HR community think they are effectively measuring the impact of learning, while 53 per cent admit they’re probably doing it ‘ineffectively’ and 33 per cent are not even trying.

Discover some extracts of the article:

“However, help may finally be at hand in the form of the Learning Experience Platform (LXP), originally defined by workplace learning expert Josh Bersin and recently formalised as a new market category by Gartner.”

[…]

“Why we need to move beyond the LMS

That’s because LXPs track any behaviour traces and use them to test what works and what doesn’t, based on a powerful new way of collecting such data, the ‘Experience API’ or xAPI standard. The Experience API is a technology designed to create a rich environment for online training and learning and is there to address the limitations found with the e-learning technologies currently used that are too focused on tracking the learner through a specific course, rather than through diverse learning experiences.

Why does this matter? Up until recently, elearning analytics only existed in a very limited form, as any learning data that was harvested was very partial. That was due to the fact that the technology L&D had to rely on for so long – the LMS, the Learning Management System – is primarily an admin and delivery system, designed for managing access to training and participation of learners.”
[…]
The rise of new HR metrics 
So how does this new API work? By working with activity streams. The best way to understand this is if you look at someone’s Facebook wall, what you are looking at is a series of activity stream statements, and the concept is gaining traction as a useful way to capture a person’s overall online activity, on social networks and in the enterprise. xAPIs capture learning experience data – and as we start to aggregate these streams across an enterprise, we can identify the training paths that lead to the most successful or problematic outcomes, and so what determines the effectiveness of the whole training programme. Doing that would in turn enable HR leadership to glean new insight not only on what a learner has successfully learnt, but how they gained this knowledge and which learning approach they chose to follow. This provides opportunities for strong diagnostic values and advance performance indicators, such as Curiosity, or Resilience, and other very promising new HR metrics.
For example, ‘Curiosity,’ is associated with advanced abilities including an aptitude for learning – and as Knowledge, in the Google age, is easily acquired, employees we know who have this capacity could be a real asset for the company.”
[…]
A deeper picture of workplace learning
By using these new behavioural indicators, data available for Human Resources and line of managers of the real capabilities of their teams becomes much richer and more complete. What’s more HR professionals can properly consider the full candidate potential of a person for a specific job not only in terms of their knowledge and skills, but also their character and behavioural qualities. Brands would have access to not only what a particular person has actually learned, but also how the learner landed there, what learning approach they have chosen, so we can come up with tailored recommendations that are close to their actual needs. Good news for the corporation and the benefit for the employee is to help her become the real owner of their employability. Finally, trainers and HR managers also benefit, because they can access all sorts of new types of insight – not only what someone successfully learnt, but also how the learner got there and which learning approach they chose.

So let’s seize the chance that the powerful combination of the LXP and the xAPI offers – and make workplace training and development the truly strategic business tool we all know it deserves to be.

You can read the article in its complete and original form here.

Discover other articles from Jean-Marc Tassetto, co-founder of Coorpacademy:

How to Stop Worrying About a Jobless Future? – Bdaily Business News

Let’s welcome a new dawn of behavioural learning analytics – TrainingZone

Why Training is an Under-Used Source of Employee Insight – Incentive & Motivation

Coorpacademy in the Top 20 finalists of EdTechXGlobal Awards 2019 Scale-Up category!

 

Coorpacademy has been selected in the Top 20 finalists of EdTechXGlobal Awards 2019 Scale-Up category!

20 finalists included those education and training companies who have shown the most revenue growth momentum over the last 3 years.

Along with Coorpacademy (Switzerland), other finalists include Learning Technologies Group (UK), Toppr (India), Busuu (UK), ApplyBoard (Canada), Amity University Online (India), Le Wagon (France), Openclassrooms (France), Twinkl (UK), Unicaf (Cyprus), Virtual College (UK), Touch Surgery (UK), FutureLearn (UK), Learnship (Germany), Ducere (Australia), Upgrad (India), Circus Street (UK), Mindtools (UK), Seagull (Norway), Clio Online (Denmark).

We are proud at Coorpacademy to have been recognized by EdTechXGlobal as an innovative, fast-growing and impactful company transforming the future of learning and work!

Who’s EdTechXGlobal?

EdTechXGlobal connects the global learning community through insight, investment and thought leadership event series – including the flagship summit, EdTechXEurope in London and local Ecosystem Events in Africa, Asia and Europe. These curated EdTechXGlobal events bring together executive level investors, innovators, and industry influencers from worldwide education technology companies from across 60+ countries. EdTechX is also the founder of London EdTech Week, a connected, curated event series featuring 40+ event hosts powering events across London each June.

Read more here!

Coorpacademy in the top 20 Finalists of EdTech Scale-ups

Coorpacademy has been recognized as a FrontRunner® for Learning Management by The Gartner Digital Markets Research Team!

 

Coorpacademy has been recognized as a FrontRunner® for Learning Management by The Gartner Digital Markets Research Team!

FrontRunners is a 100% data-driven graphic, published on Software Advice, which helps businesses easily identify the top software products in a particular category, based on verified user reviews across three websites: Capterra, Software Advice and GetApp, which operate under Gartner Digital Markets umbrella brand.

Coorpacademy has been named as FrontRunner in Learning Management Systems software

How does it work?

Software Advice’s FrontRunners uses reviews from real software users to highlight the top-rated Learning Management software.

To be eligible for inclusion as a FrontRunner, a product must:

  • Have at least 20 unique user reviews in the last 24 months
  • Offer the following core functionality: course tracking, course management

Products that meet these requirements and earn the top scores for Usability and Customer Satisfaction made the cut as FrontRunners.

We are proud at Coorpacademy to have been recognized by users as a top player in terms of Usability and Customer Satisfaction.

Discover more here!

 

1 million Battles have been played on all Coorpacademy platforms!

 

Learning is difficult.

Learning new skills has always been tough, in school or in corporations. To remedy this situation, we provide on the Coorpacademy platforms features coming from the gaming world to sparks engagement and make training fun, addictive and attractive.

Gaming features provided by the Coorpacademy platform

The Battle mode, one of our most iconic gaming feature, has a significative impact on learning, in the short-term but also in the long-term. What’s a Battle? A mode where the learner can challenge another one in a quick quiz battle.

You think you’re unbeatable on cognitive biases, those thinking traps that can easily trick your mind and ways of thinking? You want to challenge your colleague Anna on the topic? It’s easy: launch the Battle mode, click on “Create a Battle”, choose your Playlist, the course and the course level (in this case the “Always one step ahead!” Playlist and the course Cognitive Biases: Thinking Traps) and answer the questions.

Once the quiz is done, Anna will receive an email inviting her to answer the same questions. The one who has the most right answers wins the Battle, and then Stars to climb up the ranking. If it’s a draw, the one who answered the fastest wins the Battle.

You won? Anna wants her revenge and challenges you again on her favorite course, Inbound Marketing and Growth HackingAnna challenges you with the Battle mode

Because you’re doing Battles, Anna and yourself are more engaged in your training courses. It’s been proven that Battles were improving coworkers’ engagement in corporate training.

In our Learning Report 2018, we identified a type of learners, the Players (the learners who played at least one Battle) and we realized that Players were more engaged and more efficient in training. The Players are 2x more present: the number of months that a learner is active on the platform during his/her whole learner life cycle is two times higher for Battle players than for non-players. The Players are also 3x more active, with more than 3x more lessons viewed. They also dive deeper into the content: they have started and completed 7 more modules on average than non-players. Finally, the Players are 13% more successful (success rate is measured as the completion rate of started modules) than non-Players.

Our clients are also seeing the difference. In our latest interview with BNP Paribas Asset Management (they launched their Coorpacademy-powered platform Digit’Learning in May 2018), Sylvie Vazelle-Tenaud, Head of Marketing Europe for Individuals, Advisors and Online Banks, told us:

We present the platform as a tool for gaining expertise with a gaming aspect. In our communication, we mainly highlight the functionality of “lives”. We also highlight the fact they can earn stars. This functionality enables us to generate emulation between employees and make them want to take the courses again. Conversely, we didn’t communicate very much about battles but the employees discovered that functionality on their own and loved it! Coorpacademy offers flexibility in learning without being time-consuming, as the average duration of an entire learning journey is 20 minutes. Employees build their expertise in record time while having fun!

Indeed, more than 70,000 Battles have been launched on the BNP Paribas Asset Management platform in only one year. Playing is natural, it doesn’t seem to require a lot of effort and at the same time it helps and favour learning.

Learning becomes easier.

On all our platforms, we reached 1 million Battles played!

Will you launch the 1 million and one?

Ready, steady, challenge!

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