Has your LMS become irrelevant in your greater learning strategy? Are you employees finding it difficult to use? Do administrators find it old and stodgy or want to get rid of it altogether? Take a look at this presentation (originally prepared for Training Magazine's Online Learning Conference in Chicago on September 23, 2014) for some insight into why you may want to keep your LMS around and how you might be able to transform it into a more useful and usable piece of technology in your portfolio.
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What's Your LMSs Status? Online Learning Conference 2014
1. What is your LMSs Status?
Brandon Williams | Associate | The Educe Group
Online Learning Conference 2014
Learning M. System
2. Brandon D. Williams
Functional and Strategic Consulting
– Focal points:
• Internal Social Collaboration Platforms and
Strategy
• Recruiting, Learning, and Performance
Management Systems
Session Information:
– Feel free to ask questions along the way
• I love being interrupted
3. Informal Polls to Start…
Who here uses a learning management system?
Who here uses informal or collaborative technology within
their organization?
Are they integrated into a larger talent management suite?
*either together or in combination with Performance*
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4. The Big Picture: A Reminder
• “You’ve lost…that…learn-ing feel-ing…”
– Do we understand the importance of learning or have we been
wrapped up in buzzwords and trends?
– Do our sponsors “get it”?
• The purpose: Utilize these systems to empower, enable,
develop potential of our people
– Not just another IT project, not just business goals
– It behooves us to align our systems properly
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12. Web Based Training
Virtual Classroom
Reference Document
Instructor-led Training
Podcast/Video
13. LMS: Catalog Set Up
• How is your catalog structured?
• Does it allow learners to find training that will build
targeted skills and competencies?
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Cornerstone “Subjects”
Saba “Categories”
15. LMS 2.0: Catalog Set Up
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How is your catalog structured?
Does it allow learners to find
training that will build targeted
skills and competencies?
Saba “Categories”
Expert Search
Featured Categories/Content
Grouping by content type and user generated tags
16. LMS 2.0: Catalog Set Up
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Grouping by content
type and user
generated tags
17. Evolution of LMS
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Registration
and
Tracking
Curricula / Blended
Learning
Web Based
Training
Development Plans/Skills
and Competencies
Collaborative Capabilities
and Mobile for BYOD
Talent Management
Extended
Enterprise
20. Metrics in a 2.0+ World
• Focus:
– Less on utilization metrics
– More on the impact skill and training has on
employee and organizational performance
• Which metrics are more important for your business?
Traditional Business Metrics Traditional Learning Metrics
Revenue Hours of Learning Delivered
Profit Margins Participant Seat Time
Order Volume % of Passing Exam Scores
Customer Satisfaction Unit cost for learning developed
Defects Participant Satisfaction Ratings
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Source: “Begin With the
Business in Mind,” Matt
Donovan,
CLO Magazine, January 2012
21. Why adopt Web 2.0 for learning?
• Improve knowledge sharing
• Foster learning
• Provide more informal learning
opportunities
• Improving communication
• Finding resources more easily
• Boosting collaboration
• Building organizational relationships
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I4cp/ASTD study sponsored by Booz
Allen Hamilton
22. Why adopt Web 2.0 for learning?
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Basics Leading edge Future state
IBM Institute for Business Value November, 2012
Captures new
ideas from
anyone
Identify specific
opportunities where new
ideas could add value to
the business
Develop processes for
collecting internal and
external innovations on an
ongoing basis
Mine social interactions
to identify future
innovation needs and
trends
Use internal
communities
to innovate
Build platform where
internal communities can
come together to share
insights
Provide resources to
moderate communities
with the greatest strategic
value
Identify potential
community involvement
based on social
contributions
Enable more
structured
innovation
Conduct ideation events
involving employees
from across the business
Extend innovation events
to the larger stakeholder
population
Embed innovation
events and social data
into the ongoing
product development
process
23. The Evolution of Work
• From hierarchies to a more flattened structure
• From fixed working hours to flexible working hours
• From hoarded information to shared information
• From on-premise to the cloud
• From email as primary form of communication to
being a secondary form of communication
• From siloed and fragmented to connected and
engaged
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The Collaborative Organization: A Strategic Guide to Solving Your Internal Business
Challenges Using Emerging Social and Collaborative Tools
24. Future of LMS: Integrated Talent
Management
1) Increase peer-to-peer learning.
2) Encourage the development of talent ecosystems.
“Companies are not making the headway they need to ensure that
they have adequate talent — managerial, technical, and
functional — in their people pipeline. Many are either ‘hit-or-miss’
in their people-management practices — or have identified their
priorities but aren’t translating plans into action.”
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Mind the (Skills) Gap, Harvard Business Review
Creating People Advantage – BCG/WFPMA
37. Thank you for your interest!
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Contact Us
Brandon Williams
Email: bwilliams@educegroup.com
Phone: 301.760.3005
Twitter: @bdotw
Additional information and white papers can be found at:
www.educegroup.com
Notas do Editor
Social networks for individuals (around the world)
Source - http://socialmediatoday.com/node/195917
Fun site-evolving map of social networks
http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2013/01/02/world-map-of-top-social-networks-shows-just-five-left-facebook-dominates-127-out-of-137-countries/
Social networks for businesses
So I’ll say this UP FRONT to be clear – I agree with Dave.
I’ve been working almost exclusively for the past 2 years with organizations implementing so called social LMSs and they ALWAYS start with core LMS capabilities with expansions into collaboration – this is different from 4 – 8 years ago when we were all just talking about harnessing the power of informal collaboration within LMSs
http://www.wkrg.com/story/26381671/bersin-by-deloitte-anticipates-global-spending-on-learning-management-systems-to-grow-21-percent-to-more-than-25-billion-in-2014
Oracle-Taleo ($1.9bn), SAP-SuccessFactors ($3.4bn), IBM-Kenexa ($1.3bn).
That’s right. Three acquisitions of single LMS providers totalling roughly three-and-a-half times the market’s total forecast global value. Clearly the money men reckon the future of the LMS is not merely secure, it’s golden bright.
http://donaldhtaylor.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/does-the-lms-have-a-future/
What are some complaints you’ve heard from your users? It’s critical to have the “voice of customer” as a part of any LMS structure.
Blue – learner (INTERFACE)
Grey – Admin
SIMPLY IMPLEMENTING ANOTHER MAY NOT HELP
How is your catalog structured?
Does it allow learners to find training that will build targeted skills and competencies?
YOUR OWN content, content you’d otherwise find with colleagues or on GOOGLE (only industry specific), learning that otherwise would be pushed to you, collab etc.
Tracking and Registration – admins only, track ILT, reporting butts in seats, # of training hours
Web Based Training – self service
?= gamification? Mobilization?
Workplace agility starts with understanding how knowledge is captured and accessed in the organization. Go through matrix of structured to unstructured and formal to informal
Where does learning take place? How do employees get the information they need to do their jobs better?
Social Networking – can provide it but can’t make people use it
LMS – can determine it’s future
- Driving its future as well as it adoption – role of the learning organization, incredible opportunity for learning organizations to show connection to bottom line objectives – instead of ROI, it’s Impact on Business
Jacob Morgan, AUTHOR
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobmorgan/2013/09/10/the-evolution-of-work/
1) From hierarchies to a more flattened structure
2) From fixed working hours to flexible working hours
3) From hoarded information to shared information
5) From on-premise to the cloud
6) From email as primary form of communication to being a secondary form of communication
7) From siloed and fragmented to connected and engaged
How are you tracking your pipeline? Performance software/processes… but how are you tracking people developing into that pipeline through specific initiatives? How are you benchmarking/measuring their progress (especially poignant if you only have one-sided yearly reviews.)
Increase peer-to-peer learning. Just a few years ago, gaining new skills meant enrolling in night school or leaving a job to obtain an expensive graduate degree. Time and cost constraints limited these options.
Fortunately, new technologies and services deliver education flexibly, giving America new opportunities with “Education 2.0.” A diverse array of educational resources allow people to upgrade their skills, whether with a refresher on linear algebra through Khan Academy, mastering the basics of coding with CodeAcademy or pursuing actual course credit from an online institution. Learning is no longer relegated to specific hours or a brick-and-mortar location.
Teaching itself can also be crowdsourced. Peer-to-peer learning platforms like Skillshare, School of Everything and TeachersPayTeachers trust that often the best person to teach a lesson is someone who just mastered it.
Encourage the development of talent ecosystems.
When planning training, companies should embrace this axiom and consider their whole ecosystem - not just their full-time staff - and offer training to partners.
http://blogs.hbr.org/2012/09/mind-the-skills-gap/
Let’s take a quick look at a case study…
Quick intro of Educe and what we do
Here’s a snapshot of our team
- different generations
- different work locations
- different schedules
Our challenge – working effectively + productively
As we continued to grow, the question we started asking ourselves was where does our knowledge reside?
- important for getting the right information during engagements
- started asking ourselves about how we would onboard new hires
Each of these methods relies on two groups: knowledge seekers and experts. The knowledge seekers either proactively use organizational resources to find the knowledge they need (pull), or are provided information the organization determines should be distributed (push).
Recognized that everyone could be a contributor at some level, on some topic
Related to performance support, how do we support our organization during times of change?
Use social LMS as vehicle to quickly disseminate information, updates, etc. Doc management allows for smooth transitions. Business continuity, fast ramp up for new team
We approached this as a workplace solution effort.
Increased system usage – both volume and adoption
We have consistent processes where we did not before – performance, recruiting
Time to deployment for new hires on decrease