As modern work environments change, organisations need to be able to deploy custom eLearning experiences to target their employees and build the skills and capabilities they need to operate effectively within their specific role. Building custom eLearning courses that can help employees to meet these needs can be a challenge, often requiring custom learning solutions to address the specific needs of your organisation, it’s learners and stakeholders.
In this article, we look at our own approach to personalised, self-driven, custom eLearning solutions that gets the results organisations need while giving learners the experience they deserve.
• Identifying the issue
• Identifying specific needs
• Building a learning blueprint
• Developing a personalised eLearning solution
• Gathering feedback
• Optimising and maintaining your learning
Identifying the issue
Before you can develop an eLearning solution that’s right for your organisation, you need to develop a clear picture of your organisational needs and the specific problem or problems that your learning will help you to overcome. Consider your business goal, the challenges preventing you from reaching that goal, and any obstacles your learning will need to accommodate to be successful. With a clear and specific idea of your goals and challenges, you will be able to shape a custom eLearning course that will deliver results.
Identifying your specific needs
The other essential elements to understand when developing a plan for your eLearning development are the specific training needs, both for your organisation and for each of your learners. Organisationally, it is important to understand your learning development capacity and capability, the structural elements of your organisation, and how this will impact on your ability to create and deliver learning.
You will need to understand where and how employees will access the learning, how this will interact with and fit into their work, and any specific learning or cultural needs that the learning will need to accommodate.
Building a learning blueprint
Once you have a clear view of the problem that your learning is aiming to solve, and the needs that it will need to meet, you can begin developing a blueprint of the overall structure of your custom eLearning content. This will take into account not only the information you have uncovered so far, but also the requirements of any stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts, and the methods and mechanisms you will use to deliver your learning.
Look at what authoring tools will help you and your team achieve your goals, ask yourself:
• What is it that I need out of my learning management systems?
• Does my existing training material need to be edited to fit my new course?
• What specific training requirements do I need to include to ensure learning leaves a lasting impression?
The blueprint that you form at this stage will help to scaffold the next steps of your personalised learning design.
Developing a personalised eLearning solution
Next comes the point of actually creating the custom learning solution that will deliver the skills and the knowledge that you need. One of the advantages of eLearning is its flexibility and adaptability, and with the information you have on the needs and requirements of both your learners and your organisation, you will be well positioned to create a personalised learning experience that is tailored to your organisations needs.
Adaptive learning content, or to branching scenario technologies can help you create a more personalised learning experience for your learners, one that adapts to their level of competence and experience and supports them to develop the new skills they need to support your initiatives. Choose a custom eLearning development tool or partner that can make use of realistic scenarios that react to the choices and actions of the learner to create a more relevant, engaging experience that facilitates knowledge retention to help carry learning forwards into the workplace.
Gathering feedback
There are several ways to gather feedback – one is to reach out to your learners for direct feedback, either within the flow of learning, or by post-completion surveys and interviews. The information can be used to gather more than just opinions on the learning; confidence surveys, as an example, can be used to identify how undertaking the learning has affected the learner’s level of confidence in carrying out their job role, letting you see the direct impact of your learning on performance.
Tools like Guroo Pro offer detailed learning analysis. Dive into common wrong answers and misconceptions among your learners, interaction times, drop-off points and more, allowing you to build a clearer picture of how your learners are performing.
Optimising and maintaining your learning
With information on the performance of your learning in-hand, the process of optimisation can begin. Identifying sticking points, misunderstandings and other barriers to learning will allow you to go back through your learning and your blueprint, identify which elements are not performing as they should, and make necessary adjustments. This is an iterative process – after each set of changes is made, data can be re-collected, compared, and content adjusted again, ensuring that your personalised eLearning program is consistently optimised to perform at its best and drive the outcomes you require.
How Guroo Pro can help: Custom eLearning development services made for you
This process forms the core of every custom learning design process at Guroo Pro. Our Studio team brings together professional learning designers who have expertise in a range of fields to develop training material that achieves your goals. Our custom eLearning development services ensure that you get the right eLearning solutions by providing tailored, personalised learning design support at every stage of the process. Get the solution you need and deliver on your organisational strategies and goals.
Get in touch with a Guroo
At Guroo Pro, we approach custom eLearning development from a personalised lens, allowing you to easily identify your learners needs, create a blueprint to guide learning development, develop custom-built eLearning that meets your specific needs, and gather feedback to help you maintain and optimise your learning. We focus on eLearning that goes beyond traditional online training courses, by offering ongoing support that ensures your teams training material gets you the real world results you want.
We have worked with a wide range of companies to help them create bespoke eLearning solutions that have helped them to deliver on their strategic initiatives. With the support of our studio team and expertise, we guide our clients through several stages as we develop their personalised eLearning solution that fulfil their unique needs.
If you’re ready to take your learning further, reach out to us today. Tell us your goals and objectives, and one of our Guroo's will deliver a fast and free demo of our personalised, custom eLearning solutions.