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E-learning: A simpler approach, please?

 

This article from Antoine Poincaré, Head of Sales at Coorpacademy, featured in Training Journal in the November edition – the UK’s most influential Learning & Development publication – argues the case for a fuss-free way to produce e-learning. 

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E-learning: A simpler approach, please?

Antoine Poincaré argues the case for a fuss-free way to produce e-learning.

The good news is that we all agree we’ve moved beyond SCORM in e-learning. The bad news is, have we really?

There’s no contradiction, because what’s happened is that SCORM was so dominant for such a long period that it’s very hard for the sector to shake off the paradigm. The issue is that its legacy is limiting the way we design content, and therefore is harming learners, as well as an important but neglected constituency – the e-learning designer. Let’s refresh our memory to see why.

SCORM stands for shareable content object reference model, and is a model that was all about creating units of online training material that could be shared across systems. 

SCORM defined how to create shareable content objects that could be reused in different systems and contexts and was a useful innovation.

The problem is that all these years later we have ended up with two major SCORM-related issues. First, it’s an old standard since its last official update was in 2004, so what it offers is not suitable for the way we work with content today.

The second problem is that along with the standard came software to build SCORM-aligned course content, which has been shaping the way we have been consuming e-learning ever since. 

The first feature developed with this software was the ‘import my PowerPoint deck’ tool and too much of the market never progressed any further. It’s easy to appreciate how this came to pass: PowerPoint is the norm in the classroom training context, so let’s apply what we know works here to the online setting when moving learning and development online.

Let’s get disruptive.

But when Elon Musk started PayPal, he didn’t approach NatWest and ask them how they would approach creating an online bank; he developed something disruptive and new. But that’s what we just don’t really do yet in the e-learning world.

In e-learning, we never progressed beyond the SCORM view of the world and that dominant PPT metaphor. As a result, we’ve had a full generation of training L&D professionals uploading PowerPoint decks into learning management systems and presenting that to group of learners. 

Fortunately, there was a step forward in 2013 when the global learning industry decided not everything has to be SCORM-compliant. At at once, great new Edtech start-ups came along promoting new, more stimulating delivery styles and UX, including mobile-first content. 

Unfortunately, along the way too many of the new players neglected that important constituency: the e-learning designers – who are now challenged to produce new and engaging content for these new platforms, but with tools that are almost antiquarian in look and feel. 

As a result, a huge question mark hangs over content creation and authoring; will it be easy to create and engaging enough?

At the same time, we are demanding these same content creators and authors improve their skillsets. The ideal list presented in the Learning & Performance Institute’s Capability Map which features 25 skills across five categories aimed at individuals and teams, and ranging in scope from strategy to learning facilitation. 

It’s hard to imagine how we can expect to add great user interface, design, composition, audio video, platform and art competencies, to name some of what makes great content that engage users. 

Today’s e-learning content creator demands more.

We need a solution that will help inspire and empower today’s e-learning content created. In effect, it’s high time a WordPress or a Wix emerged for learning content creation. After all, in the 2000s it became possible to build great websites with easy-to-use tools which allowed people to create them without the need to ever look at the Javascript and string exception handling that lay behind them.

Yet no equivalent revolution has taken place in the world of e-learning. Most e-learning designers are still stuck in the e-learning equivalent of that raw html hacking phase. E-learning designers need great, easy-to-use, drag and drop interfaces that hide technical complexity and promote creativity.

That way, they can devote their creative talents to developing the user interface, design, composition, audio video, platform and art skills with the best tools at their fingertips.

E-learning designers need great, easy-to-use, drag and drop interfaces that hide technical complexity and promote creativity.

After all, active learning is not the same as passive consumption of a PowerPoint slide or a 10-minute video. To truly engage, learning has to be structured, measured, involving. There must be useful, participative activities for the learner, and that activity has to be tracked and evaluated. You need to keep the learner motivated, supported, and on top of their own learning journey.

In addition, there must be ways to work and access the same content through multiple modes, from traditional study to something more playful. It should be consumable in multiple ways and times, solo or as a group activity. It has to be scalable and look great, but still track and provide quantifiable metrics that show the specific skills the learner is acquiring, or struggling to grasp.

Achieve design goals.

So, let’s get to a stage where there is a Wix to help designers achieve those instructional design goals. Workplace learning influencer Josh Bersin says in his 2019 analysis on HR tech trends: “While we’d all like to have a YouTube system at work, there are times when we need a [structured way] that steps you through an entire curriculum and actually delivers you at a point where you have truly learned a new body of knowledge.”

You can only achieve this via a learning platform that is entreprise-class, and data-based from end to end, and was designed to put the learner at the heart of every process. 

Noted senior learning transformation strategist Lori Niles-Hofmann recently stated: “Over time, we have expected the standard instructional designer to be both an expert in designing content as technically proficient in one or more rapid authoring tools. But I have rarely met anyone good at both – and the fact is, rapid authoring tools deliver the weirdest digital learning experience, unlike anything else online. 

“Likewise, you cannot get detailed analytics unless you know xAPI, which is again another coding skill. You have to know how to break Storyline 360 code and add xAPI, but I want an e-learning tool which is exactly like SquareSpace – but which can do quizzes! I want it to build digital experiences easily, and have the robust data behind it without me having to code one single thing.” 

Insightful remarks from commentators like Bersin and Niles-Hoffman help us the see what a ‘Wix for e-learning for learning content creation’ would look like. A few Edtech innovators and learning platform providers are designing solutions with the content creator and the learner simultaneously in view. We owe it to all the frustrated content builders out there to deliver on the experience promise for all our users. 

Antoine Poincaré, Head of Sales at Coorpacademy. 

HR leaders: what’s coming in the next 10 years? Key insights from Gartner Reimagine HR London 2019

 

At the Park Plaza London on September 18-19th, 500+ HR professionals gathered during the Gartner ReimagineHR 2-day event around 7 tracks reimagining the future of HR. HR Executives from all across Europe had the chance to attend 28 Gartner-led, insight-driven presentations.

Insightful keynotes: what’s next in the future of work and HR?

Brian Kropp, GVP and Chief of HR Research Gartner, did an opening keynote on ‘How HR Can Reimagine Work to Drive Performance.’ He said: ‘While important, things like artificial intelligence and automation are only part of the future of work story. Along with these conspicuous shifts comes a number of underlying trends — like rising transparency, or new work habits — with the potential to fundamentally change how work gets done.’

He did advise HR leaders to shift the focus on more important and new questions.

For Ethics, ‘How do we ethically use the data we collect?’ In the field of Skills, ‘How do we develop all skills as AI eliminates learning opportunities?’ When it comes to Information, ‘How do we meet employees’ expectations for information transparency?’ In the Managerial space, ‘How is technology changing what it means to be a manager?’ and – in terms of Jobs – ‘How can we use AI to increase access to jobs?’

Thought-provoking questions, such as the one on Skills. We realize that facing the rise of AI, it is vital to ‘learn how to learn’, especially with soft skills. As Alvin Toffler said, ‘the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.’

‘Building critical skills and competencies is a top priority for 73% of CHROs. Every organization leverages on-the-job training for employee learning and development,’ said Gartner expert Brian Kropp. ‘Learning in the flow of work’ – as Josh Bersin puts it –  is also becoming critical. We need to keep in mind that 85% of the jobs of 2030 haven’t been invented yet. We’ve entered into an era of lifelong learning. Employees have to learn ‘in the moment’, ‘in the flow of work’. The ability to gain new knowledge, to learn how to learn, is becoming more valuable than the knowledge itself.

This feeling was also shared by HR leaders present at the event; as one of the top HR executive of a big pharmaceutical company said during a discussion at Coorpacademy’s booth: ‘We have looked deeply into skills and learning to realize that most of our managers and leaders were very well equipped for a world that stopped existing about 10 years ago.’ 

As the pace of business and automation speeds up, demand for employees to be able to think outside of the box, to learn how to learn the next skill sets, the ones needed in 10 years and not 10 years ago is moving to the foreground!

How to upskill and reskill a whole nation?

On September 19th, Jean-Marc Tassetto, co-founder of Coorpacademy, and Stéphan Bruno, Head of Human Resources for the Government of the Principality of Monaco, were presenting their keynote ‘The Big Bet on Learners’ Engagement’ – taking the business case of the Principality of Monaco as an example in front of 50+ HR leaders.

‘We started 6 years ago, not sure about what to do but certain we wanted to put the users back at the center of the learning process. As the only certainty about the jobs of tomorrow is uncertainty, it was the right bet and the right path to follow,’ said Jean-Marc Tassetto, co-founder of Coorpacademy.

Jean-Marc Tassetto, co-founder of Coorpacademy, speaking about the big bet on learners' engagement

Stéphan Bruno showcased the learning success story of the Principality of Monaco: ‘If we want to change the culture within our government, we need to offer an experience in digital tools that’s as good as what the GAFA can offer. We want to transform into a learning organization, and Coorpacademy offers us a unique way to do that while upskilling our people’, said Stéphan on how to upskill and reskill a country.

How to upskill and reskill a whole nation? ‘As head of HR I envision to create a learning culture, providing the opportunity for everyone to learn what matters most for our country’s future, whilst making them owners of their personal development. Consider who they are and not only what they do!’ Stéphan Bruno concluded. 

Stéphan Bruno presenting the learning success story of the Principality of Monaco

A country, like any organization, needs to keep one step ahead. The public services have to be modernized and digitized for all citizens, the country needs to keep on attracting investors and companies while facing a stiff and international competition. By relieving Monaco from its territorial constraints, digital technology is an opportunity to virtually ‘extend’ the country and generate a new development cycle; in the end, to keep that step ahead. 

This is what Coorpacademy is helping the Government of the Principality of Monaco to do with its user-centric Learning Experience Platform providing hyper-individualization of learning paths, to any of the 3,600 civil servants in Monaco. Helping the country to become a learning organization and prepare it to the future of HR… happening now!

Food for thoughts.

Gartner expert De’Onn Griffin outlined in this article 6 ideas about the future direction of the workplace and how organizations can prepare for it. 

One of the 6 ways the workplace will change in the next 10 years is that constant upskilling and digital dexterity will outweigh tenure and experience. 

She says: “In today’s digital economy, the demand for new ideas, new information and new business models that continually expand, combine and shift into new ventures and new businesses will increase. Employees must consistently refresh their digital dexterity to meet these needs.” “By 2028, the most high-value work will be cognitive in nature. Employees will have to apply creativity, critical thinking and constant digital upskilling to solve complex problems.”

Did you know that you could find in the Coorpacademy course catalogue 189 courses on digital culture, 67 on digital dexterity, 36 on creativity, 36 on complex problem solving and 17 on critical thinking? And counting!

 

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.

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

5 minutes to learn – an article from Jean-Marc Tassetto, co-founder of Coorpacademy

 

A study by Bersin by Deloitte paints the portrait of corporate learners today. Overworked: two thirds of them said they don’t have enough time to do their job. Impatient, too: they won’t spend more than 4 minutes on a video and have an attention span of 5 to 10 seconds on a website. Lastly, learners today are distracted, unlocking their smartphone up to 9 times an hour and logging online 27 times a day on average. The study also shows that employees are likely to be often interrupted by outside elements, such as virtual or real interactions, or even by themselves, while they are focused on a task. Sometimes, every 5 minutes. A short period of time.

Those 5 minutes are not a lot of time to complete a task, let alone receive training. And it is often difficult to devote entire days to training sessions. At the same time, a growing need can be observed among employees to take control of their training journey and develop skills progressively, on the topics they want and whenever they want. And Human Resources managers are becoming aware of this. 

Coorpacademy, as a new player in the online training market, is trying to solve this equation through shorter training modules and sessions of “microlearning” and even “nanolearning”. The idea is simple: it’s a relevant answer to the chronic lack of time from the traditional corporate training model.

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.

Several studies have shown the efficiency of microlearning. An article in the International Journal of Educational Research Review states that a group following a “traditional” training program is less efficient than a group with the same content in a microlearning format (64% vs. 82%), and that microlearning can increase an individual’s learning capacities by 18% compared to traditional methods.

In order to create moments that are favorable for learning and thus transform the training process and make it a truly effective tool for the transformation of companies, a change in our ways of thinking is fundamental.

Heads of human resources and training, you should look at the training experience as a whole before you start scheduling training programs: every coworker must be able to manage their own learning time and pace.

Managers, you have a fundamental role to play: to accompany the training of your teams. Allow and encourage new ways of learning!

Finally, employees, don’t forget that for every moment spent in training, even if it’s only for a few minutes, you are developing your skills and knowledge, and therefore your current and future employability.

Why Training Is an Under-Used Source of Employee Insight

 

This article was written by Jean-Marc Tassetto, co-founder of Coorpacademy and former Managing Director of Google France, and originally published in Incentive & Motivation. Incentive & Motivation magazine offers the latest news in incentives, employee rewards, employee engagement, motivation and employee benefits. Distributed to HR, Sales and Managing Directors with key industry senior incentive level incentive buyers.

Why Training Is an Under-Used Source of Employee Insight

Here are a few extracts of the article:

Co-founder of Coorpacademy, Jean-Marc Tassetto, outlines how new training analytics could offer unexpected help to HR professionals

Training is, as we know, a key source of workforce engagement – an important component of helping employees feel a real sense of belonging and identification and a tangible way to underline your commitment to their future learning and development as their employer.

[…]

Up until recently learning analytics only existed in a very partial way. That was because the dominant training technology we’ve been using – the Learning Management System (LMS) – managed access and tracked participation of learners, namely the attendee list and the scheduling of trainer time, but little else.

The LMS might offer information on content downloads, task completions and module completion, but the data was very thin to say the least. What’s changed in this picture is the debut of a much more flexible and useful L&D technology tool  – new-style Learning Experience Platforms (LEPs), as recently formalised as a separate market category by Gartner.

What’s different about the LEP contribution, as opposed to the LMS support idea, is that they are all about the learner experience – being highly user-centric in their delivery model and usability. Less well-known is the fact that some of the most advanced have revolutionised the analytical possibilities for L&D professionals because LEPs track delegate behaviour and tests what works and what doesn’t (based on internal new ways of collecting data such as the xAPI).

[…]

What this means in practice is that the HR or Chief Learning Officer is increasingly the recipient of data-based insights and gets to exploit all sorts of new types of insight – not only what someone has learnt, but how the learner got there and which learning approach they chose. This opens up the possibility for new performance indicators, such as Curiosity, or Resilience – both hugely valuable HR metrics. And of course, this will ultimately aid the workplace learner – as the learner become aware of what her own data says about her progress and experience so as to ensure long-term employability.

The transformative potential of these new indicators is even greater if you consider that the World Economic Forum identified re- and up-skilling of the current workforce as the number one strategy companies need to embrace in light of our continuing transformation into a knowledge economy. Knowledge, in the Google age is easily acquired, curiosity on the other hand seems less ubiquitous, and many commentators believe we need to boost employee curiosity as well as to build greater resilience and adaptability to change.

[…]

So let’s help prepare our teams for this uncertain but dynamic future and see what LEP and xAPI-enabled training feedback and KPIs can give us: a new source of analytics that means that HR professionals and incentives professionals can use multiple, appropriate, data sources to 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 curiosity and aptitude for change. Not only are these traits important ones to cultivate, but they are also important ones to keep.”

You can read the entire article here.

You can also read these other articles from Jean-Marc Tassetto.

Jean-Marc Tassetto’s interview for French television (BFM Business).

Is LXP the new LMS – Enterprise Times

Computational Thinking: a key skill in the 21st century

 

Is LXP the new LMS?

 

Coorpacademy co-founder and former head of Google France Jean-Marc Tassetto explains why a new breed of e-learning solutions are making the learner, not the training booker, the focus.

Jean-Marc Tassetto, co-founder of Coorpacademy, wrote this new piece published in Enterprise Times, a British online business technology magazine website.

Discover the full article here!

Here are some extracts from the article:

“Learning Management Systems (LMS) have been the central and most talked-about technology in the e-learning and corporate Learning & Development (L&D) space for the last 20 years. The problem: they are really there for course bookers, not the road warriors who actually need the training. A gap that has led to the rise of a new, more learner-centric, class of e-learning software, the ‘LXP’.

Influential L&D sector analyst Josh Bersin coined the term a few years ago. However, the idea was really properly sanctioned when Gartner gave it the seal of approval earlier this year.“

[…]

“Companies that only use an LMS typically have an administrative team managing the software and deciding what courses and training modules will be made available, with content choices made by Learning & Development managers and executives. The vast majority of employees cannot directly influence their learning experiences or content offerings.

Instead, learning needs to be embedded into the learner’s daily activities or the applications on which learners spend the most time, and we need new content creation models. Most likely in the form of e-learning that is smart, consumer-like and properly integrated into the flow of everyday activity.

An LXP, then, should reflect how we all behave in our day-to-day lives – how we look for content on our smartphones and address any knowledge shortfall as soon as it is identified.”

[…]

“Instead of privileging the administrator, however, LXPs are designed to cater to the learner’s immediate and future needs and be adjustable to their level, employing a range of tools to do so. Asking them questions before any teaching takes place (the flipped pedagogy model) is a great way to pinpoint learning levels. It means users only get offered the lessons they need.

This is the foundation of a move towards adaptive learning, in which content and teaching frameworks are customised to the individual. Such learner-centric platforms work and can secure high user engagement levels. Take the example of one of our users, Schneider Electric, which places user centricity at the heart of its training: “Individuals are able to self-pace their learning, and we are experimenting with mobile learning as the next frontier in this journey. Digital learning is now a way of life here.”

To read the article in its original form, it’s here!

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

Computational Thinking: a key skill in the 21st century – TrainingZone

Learner Engagement: why any corporate learning has to have the learner at its centre – TrainingZone

Computational Thinking will be vital for the future job market – Enterprise Times

 

Coorpacademy number 2 of the top Learning Experience Platforms for 2019!

The American expert on digital learning Craig Weiss ranked Coorpacademy 2nd in the top Learning Experience Platforms for 2019!

Who is Craig Weiss?

Craig Weiss is the CEO of The Craig Weiss Group, an American research and advisory company. He was recently named the most influential person in the world for the digital learning space.

Last June, he was already speaking about Coorpacademy: « This LXP (Coorpacademy) is definitely a fast riser. UI/UX is excellent. Analytical data is quite good. Gamification battles – are very cool. Admin is good and learning environment is strong. Mobile plays well. Video management is superb. » 

What is the full ranking?

  1. Learn Amp (UK)
  2. Coorpacademy (CH-FR)
  3. Degreed (US)
  4. EdCast LXP (US)
  5. Percipio by Skillsoft (US)
  6. 360Learning (FR)
  7. Looop (UK)
  8. TILE by Toolwire (US)
  9. magpipe by Filtered (UK)
  10. me:time by Lumesse (racheté par Saba) (UK)

Discover here Craig Weiss’s newsletter which announced the ranking.

A good way to start off 2019 right!

Improving workplace e-learning for employees

 

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

Coorpacademy co-founder Jean-Marc Tassetto discusses workplace learning, and why technology is essential in supporting employee upskilling.

Sapiens author Yuval Harari has written that the kinds of skills we need in the workplace are radically shifting, with Artificial Intelligence (AI), bioengineering and other emerging technologies making both our lives and what we do between 9 to 5 look very different.

In his latest book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Harari is also now warning us that the future of education is going to be as equally disrupted, given how young people already have far too much information, and that what’s needed instead is to coach people in “the ability to make sense of information, to tell the difference between what is important and what is unimportant, and above all to combine many bits of information into a broad picture of the world.”

Of course, it’s not just futurologists like Harari who are warning the training sector change is afoot. Another is learning industry analyst Edmund Monk, who warns that “The current school student sees learning now as not being about fact retention, but synthesis and analysis of those facts,” and that A-level students will soon be allowed to take their smartphones into their final examinations, as we move away from memory testing into synthesis challenging.

Whether or not that really will happen that soon, surely what we can agree on is that the whole concept of skills, as well as the more crucial question of which ones really matter for employer now and in the near future, is under the microscope.

The rising value of the soft skill

As we continue deeper into the new century, ‘soft’ skills such as critical thinking, communication, working better with other people and creative thinking will end up more in demand, in contrast to the ‘hard’ skills and technical skills that are more reliant on fact-retention.

Indeed, occupations that rely on such soft skills may account for two-thirds of all jobs by 2030 according to Deloitte, while the Manpower 2018 Talent Shortage Survey underlines how transferable soft skills are gaining greater importance, with more than half of employers saying communication skills – written and verbal – are their most valued employee attributes, followed by collaboration and problem solving.

Another study, the World Economic Forum’s recent Future of Jobs study, gives us even more clues as to we can expect. Creativity is one of the top three skills workers will need, it says, and while robots may help us get to where we want to be faster, they cannot as yet beat humans at creative tasks. (Intriguingly, emotional intelligence, an attribute that did not feature in the top 10 in its last (2015) report, has somehow become one of the most desired skills needed in the workplace.)

Learning and Development (L&D) leaders need to accelerate their efforts to upskill and reskill employees – plus say goodbye to long, boring training sessions that are too general to be personalised.

The critical question, then, is how organisations will learn or re-acquire these increasingly desirable new capabilities? Learning and Development (L&D) leaders need to accelerate their efforts to upskill and reskill employees – plus say goodbye to long, boring training sessions that are too general to be personalised, and not at all engaging to today’s learner.

The LXP difference

The good news is that a new generation of digital tools is making training relevant and exciting, delivering what the learning organisation of tomorrow says it will need: the learner at the centre of the learning experience. There is undoubtedly a shift happening from an administrator-centric approach to one of a learner-centric approach, or a Learning Centric Platform (LXP or LEP). For example, analyst group Gartner defines an LXP as an additional portal layer that simultaneously expands (i.e. range of content) and enhances (i.e. delivers greater personalisation) the learner’s interaction.

Given how, when done well, such LXPs provide “a better learner experience through improved personalisation via adaptive learning, recommendations and individual learning paths,” it’s clearly time L&D leaders heeded the cue to get the learning experience back to the top of their list when they think about education technologies.

They also need to re-think training to be more like what people really want to engage with now – think, content that is diverse, interesting and very easily accessible, mobile, always on, always available – delivered in engaging, bite-sized chunks that are engaging and fill gaps in knowledge where they exist.

And, where appropriate, L&D teams should exploit the engagement potential of techniques like gamification, online competitions and quizzes between learners. Neuroscience has shown us that playing stimulates curiosity and the desire to progress, for example, as ‘play’ in the widest sense creates a positive, reinforcing learning experience.

To be successful, a modern workplace learning experience should be deeply integrated with a job position and be directly useful to the learner. Microlearning is a very powerful way to make this happen, and should therefore be well integrated into the learning experience, allowing the employee to directly look for the knowledge she really needs before a meeting, for example. At the same time, the contribution of wider communities of learners should not be underestimated; the ability to interact and measure up to others increases learning capacity.

As a result of the kind of dramatic employment changes people like Harari and organisations like the World Economic Forum predict, it is becoming essential we all examine our long-term employability. Businesses who let up-skilling their staff fall by the wayside because they haven’t revisited training technology requirements will find themselves in a perilous position going forward. So now is the time, perhaps, to think again about your whole position vis-a-vis technology for training.

W: coorpacademy.com

Source : Education Technology, Sunday 11th November 2018. Discover the original article here: https://edtechnology.co.uk/Blog/improving-workplace-e-learning-for-employees/

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