In the age of information glut, Learning Portals can provide Learners a way through the chaos to Learning and Knowledge that is useful and easier to access. However, success stories are few and far between due to technology and design challenges. In many organisations, the LMS is viewed as a Learning portal but not the one that provides the flexibility and user experience required.
In part 1 of our webinar Learning Portals – User Centric Gateway to Learning & Knowledge, we made the case for a Learning Portal to be responsive to business and learner needs.
In the upcoming part 2 of our webinar, we explore the different approaches to implementing portals depending on the needs and style of organisations, as “one size fits all” rarely works. We go into the details of optimising design and user interface, along with architecting information that is personalised for the user.
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Designing Learning Portals for Consumption & Value Add
1. Thurs, 31st August 2017, 12-1 PM, Sydney
Ways to participate:
• Q&A Box - comment, whinge & opinions
• Twitter Backchannel - @lrncafe #learningportals
Learning Portals Part 2
Designing Learning Portals for
Consumption & Value Add Knowledge
Sharing
Better
Practices
Experienced
Panel
2. Introductions
AnglicareSA
ANZ
APA Group
Australian government
Baxter Healthcare
Bayer
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank
Blackboard
Blackmores Institute
CBA
Cbus Super Fund
Coco Cola Amatil
Cotton On
CSIRO
D2L Australia Pty Ltd
DEDJTR
Degreed
Department of Education and
Training
Dimension Data
Diplomatic Academy FCO
Domain Group
e3Learning
Eastern Health
FlexiGroup Limited
GPC Asia Pacific
Registrations
86+ 55+
Organisations
2
Jeevan Joshi
LearningCafe & CapabilityCafé
&
Principal Consultant
Robin Petterd
Sprout Labs
&
Principal Consultant
Gram Consulting Group
AG
IECL
IMC
IP Australia
Ira Felinski Consulting
King & Wood Mallesons
LearnFLIX
Lion
m3 Collective
Nous Group
NSW Department of
Education
Pernod Ricard Winemakers
QUT
sanofi consumer healthcare
Skillsoft
soft system sciences
St John Ambulance
Suncorp
Swinburne
Tasmanian Health Service
Telstra
Transport Accident
Commission
UTS
Ventia
6. Success =
course completions + passing assessment
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Compliance
CPD
Technica
l
Mandatory is an easier world.
• Funding is easier
• Need is beyond dispute
• Employees don’t have a
choice
• Success is clearly
understood.
7. Organisational Learning is shifting away from
mandatory Learning
http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
Innovation
Culture
Behaviour
Productivity
Compliance
Technical Training etc.
8. Gap is between what we do and what is
expected
Competitive
Advantage
Mandatory
Easy to
Measure
Difficult to
Measure
Compliance
Technical Training
etc.
Innovation
Culture
Behaviour
Productivity
Current
L&D world
What
business
needs
What
business
gets
9. Success of L&D will
depend if they can
enable the
consumption of
discretionary
learning
9
Learning Portal
is critical in the
world of
discretionary
learning
Search
Personalised
Consume
Review
Relevant
10. 10
● Most content is about available courses
ie training brochureware.
● Where is the value add ?
11. Budget $
L&D Capability
Technology
Audience User Experience
Design
Solutions, Skills Knowledge
Capability
Performance
Strategy
Business Outcomes $ +
Learning & Performance
EcosystemEnablers
Solution
Business
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learnd.com.au
Visualising the Learning Ecosystem Stack
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12. Portal - Business Outcomes & Strategy
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Should be ready to
respond to business
needs every six
months
Should be the point
of access for
employees
Should be accessible
to business
stakeholders to make
changes
Should be an enabler
of business change
15. Different Approaches – Choose the one that
works for you
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Sometimes the
easiest to
implement
LMS Platforms
moving to
provide more
flexibility.
Current and new LMS
& Portal products are
moving here.
19. 19
● Visits to Learning Portals is low. Public
web sites would close down.
● Learners don’t see value in using the
Learning Portal
20. Performance & Capability
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Use Capability
Frameworks to tag
and structure content
Create sub sites
even even if they are
temporary
Use a Knowledge
Management
approach and
incorporate other
sources.
Link Portal content to
Performance
Objectives
21. Performance & Capability
21
Cybersecu
rity
Capability
Current in 12
months
Plugging Gap (12 months) Implication for
Portal
Project
Managers
(PM)
2 4 • Retrain Construction PM (40%)
• Hire Experienced PM (60%)
• Set up subsite for Project
Management
• Onboarding
Architects 1 5 • Hire experienced Architects only.
• Use contractors for specific skills
• No need to train
• Use as mentors
• -
• Contractor induction/ learning
• -
• Support mentoring program
Analysts 1 4 • Retrain Construction Anlyst (40%)
• Hire Experienced Anlyst (50%)
• Transfer from internal IT (10%)
• Reskilling resources
• Onboarding
• Onboarding
Sales 1 5 • Hire experienced Sales Team (80%)
• Retrain from current sales (20%)
• Onboarding
• Reskilling resources
Speed to
capability
Quick access to
resources
New and curated
content for
Cybersecurity
Keep pace with
developments in
cybersecurity
23. Design, solution and experience
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Who are the employees? Segmenting beyond roles
● Who are they?
● What problems are they experiencing?
● Where are they experiencing their problems?
● When are they experiencing them?
● Why are they experiencing them?
Different viewpoint to the business
25. Design, solution and experience
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Design is a process
Designing a portal is more like
web design than learning design.
Co-design workshop
Start with card sorting all topics they want
to see on a portal
Collaborative development of a site map
Paper sketching of the interface
Building the journey maps
Prototyping
Done by visual designers
26. Solution - content approaches
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Custom Curate Employee
generation
LMS Maintain/update
compliance/CPD courses
Assessments for new
skills (these are licensed
not custom developed)
Learning
portal
Based on business needs
and personas a calendar of
content is developed and
released over time, includes
blogs, and video.
Usage of learning portal is
driven by email.
Links to MOOCs for
retraining
Employee written blog
posts about coaching
Commenting
27. Solution - personalisation approaches
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Role based Behaviour based
LMS Content management system Marketing automation and
adaptive learning systems
This is a common approach in
LMSs. e.g. course categories
and pathways that are linked
to job roles
Navigation is designed based on
roles
In marketing automation systems
personalisation works off:
● page views, clicks
● form fields
In adaptive learning systems what
elements are shown or
highlighted depends an
employee’s past actions e.g.
answer to quizzes or self
assessments
28. Technology - 4 approaches
28
Use your existing LMS Add a new content management
system
Use your existing content
management systems
Replace your LMS and add a new
content management system
29.
30. Technology - analytics
30
Learning approaches
xAPI enabling the learning portal
Marketing approaches
Using ‘cookie’ based tracking
and marketing automation
systems
Google analytics - but this
doesn’t track individuals
Collecting data beyond activity data
Employee’s self assessment of the impact of resources
NPS style surveys of impact
Correlations between learning activity and business results are hard but not
impossible
31. L&D Skills matrix
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Planning Design and Build Expansion
Skills Design thinking and
human centred design
Information design
Web design/User interface
design
Web development
Development - integrations
Content curation and
generation
Content curation - selection,
tagging, promoting
Content generation - storytelling,
copywriting
Marketing
Platform awareness e.g.
what exists beyond an
LMS for building a portal
Most these are only needed
at start-up and is the best
option to bring in external
assistance?
This needs to be systemised
into a workflow
34. Next Steps
Join Special
Interest
Community
Attend Workshops
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UnConference
Melbourne
Brisbane
LearningCafe
LinkedIn Subgroup
Register interest
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Register interest
www.learningcafe.com.au
Or send us an email - enquiry@learningcafe.com.au
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