Step 3 of the Modernize Process. Recycling content with an eye towards improving its effectiveness and design requires the application of modern instructional design techniques to select reusable pieces of content. By recycling existing content, time, effort, and budget are all conserved during the development process when compared to new program development. The three key success criteria for recycling training content are future reusability, content modularization, and content searchability.

1. MODERNIZE Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Reuse instructionally sound training content to
save time and money and maximize the ROI of
your training programs.

2. WE HAVE A
BIG
PROBLEM

3. CONTENT DEPRECIATION
Annual reuse rates of training
programs hover around 50%
annually. Meaning half of what
you make each year goes in the
trash.

4. Annual expenditure and time investment on new training program
development exceeds the attention placed on maintaining legacy
content by a wide margin.
But…

5. Companies that maintain and reuse their
learning assets enjoy a much better return on
investment for training expenditure.
Annual expenditure and time investment on new training program
development exceeds the attention placed on maintaining legacy
content by a wide margin.
But…

6. REDUCING IS NOT ENOUGH
Reducing unnecessary content and performing an audit
improves legacy content quality and starts the process.
However, auditing and reducing alone does not salvage
quality content and put it back to use.

7. REDUCING AND REUSING
IS NOT ENOUGH
Reducing unnecessary content and Reusing instructional
sound content still do not complete the process of stopping
content depreciation.

8. THERE IS A WAYTO
STOP
THE LOSSES

9. By recycling existing content, time, effort, and budget are all conserved
during the development process when compared to new program
development.
Recycle Content
Step #3

10. THETHREE KEYSTO SUCCESS
FUTURE USABILITY
INTEROPERABILTY
SEARCHABILITY

11. FUTURE REUSABILITY
Training content that can be reused and continually offered for years into the
future is an excellent investment.

12. TO
FUTURE-PROOF
YOUR CONTENT
THINK OF THESE
COMMON RULES3

13. Broad Statistics not Specific Data1
Vs.

14. Broad Statistics not Specific Data1
Using current annual statistics leads to future data
inaccuracies. In turn, learners will perceive that training
programs as outdated and irrelevant. Use mean statistical
trends over a period of years to paint a broader factual
picture for learners that doesn’t age.
Vs.

15. 2 Interoperability not
Compartmentalization

16. 2 Interoperability not
Compartmentalization
Can instructor-led training manuals be used by trainers both in-
person and virtually? Can e-learning courses be accessed from
desktop computers and mobile devices alike? Ensure that
recycled content can live where learners have a need to access it.

17. 3 Timeless Examples not Current Events
Five years from now, which leadership
development example will have more
cultural relevancy: Odysseus’ epic
struggle to overcome a Cyclops, sirens,
and Gods along with his own
shortcomings as a man in the Odyssey, or
the crude and Machiavellian rise of
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel?

18. 3 Timeless Examples not Current Events
Five years from now, which leadership
development example will have more
cultural relevancy: Odysseus’ epic
struggle to overcome a Cyclops, sirens,
and Gods along with his own
shortcomings as a man in the Odyssey, or
the crude and Machiavellian rise of
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel?
Illustrate training concepts with timeless examples rather than
current events which may or may not be recognizable to
learners years from now.

19. MODULARZATION
Logically modularized training content ensure ease of access for learners that
want to take a deeper dive into a particular subject area.

20. In Recycling legacy training programs,
Modularization should mostly be applied to formerly
lengthy and unwieldy course that were identified
during the Reduce stage of content conservation.
MODULARZATION
Logically modularized training content ensure ease of access for learners that
want to take a deeper dive into a particular subject area.

21. TO
MODULARIZE
YOUR CONTENT
THINK OF THESE
FRAMEWORKS2

22. 1 Micro-learning

23. 1 Micro-learning
Job aids are meant to serve as a reference to workers on the
job – and to that end, they are oftentimes highly succinct and
information rich learning objects that can be reused for a
variety of different purposes.

24. 2 Just-in-TimeTraining

25. 2 Just-in-TimeTraining
Job aids are meant to serve as a reference to workers on the
job – and to that end, they are oftentimes highly succinct and
information rich learning objects that can be reused for a
variety of different purposes.

26. SEARCHABILITY
One of the most exciting was to recycle training content is to ensure that
learning assets are properly tagged and stored for learners and learning and
development team members.

27. TO
CREATE
SEARCHABILITY
THINK OF THESE
TOOLS2

28. 1 Metatags

29. 1 Metatags
The work of going back and adding metatags to old learning
assets is not exciting, but it holds immense potential for
ensuring that learners and L&D staff can access training
content on-demand.

30. 2 LMS’s and LCMS’s

31. 2 LMS’s and LCMS’s
In the age of Google when learners are accustomed to having
information directly at their fingertips, ensuring training
content search ability and ease of access is extremely
important.

32. “Modernize makes it possible for L&D
teams to re-engage their learners”
Arun Prakash , Chief Learning S trategist

33. SEE
MODERNIZE
INACTION!

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