The People v LMS - A Learning Technology Story (ATD Ascend 2017)
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PlentyofL&DprosareangryabouttheirLMS.Butwhy?
Traditionallearningtechnologyisbasedonanacademicdistancelearningmodel.
Untilweescapetheacademic“coursemodel”L&Dwillcontinuetorelyonpoorlyfittinglearningtechnology.
Themodernemployeelearnsinavarietyofways.
Ifpeoplecanbalancedozensofsingle-purpose,rightfitappsinreallife,whywedostriveforasingle“learningtech”atwork?
L&Djustcan’thandlethetruth– wedon’townworkplacelearningandwecan’texpectpeopletoalwayscometous.
L&Disasmallpartofamuchlargerlearningandperformancepuzzleinthemodernworkplace.
It’snotthetechnologythatistoblame…
… it’stheacademicmindsetL&Dhasyettoescape.
Thereisno“oneplatformtorulethemall”whenitcomestotheneedsofthemodernworkplace.
Thefullworkplaceecosystemmustbeconsideredtodesignaright-fitlearningandsupportexperience.
Allinputsintotheemployeeexperienceshouldbeincluded.
Theemployeemustbeatthecenterofacontinuouslearningandperformanceexperience.
Whattoolsareemployeesalreadyusingtodothejob?
Whatpiecesofyourexperiencedesignaremissing?
Involveallcriticalpartnersinthesearchfornewtools.
Onlyworryaboutfullintegrationonceyourexperiencedesignisproventowork.