Needs Analysis
Achieve Greater Success Through Innovative Learning
Designing successful learning solutions requires thorough insight into your business goals and KPIs, and how those directly relate to the application of knowledge through the performance of required skills to maximize the desired outcomes. Unfortunately, many curriculum designers skip the most critical step in the design process – a business needs analysis that includes not only desired learning outcomes but also focuses on the motivational components to ensure long-term behavior change. By skipping this step, or not diving deep enough into the learner, the content created often falls short of reaching the intended goal.
Truly Effective eLearning Development Begins With Analysis
To help you develop a more cohesive and effective eLearning strategy, our experts will walk you through a detailed needs analysis process. During this process, we’ll review several crucial factors and details that many Instructional Designers overlook, including:
Performance Blockers
While it may seem obvious, one of the most important things to analyze is the skill or knowledge the learning is focused on building. Too often, learning designers start developing content without a deep understanding of the actual context, environment, competing variables, and long-term consequences that will be encountered on the job. A thorough review is necessary so that all parties involved in the curriculum design process understand and align the true focus of the learning plan.
Impact of the Learning
Understanding how the learning, or failure to learn, will impact your staff is important to creating effective content. It is important to dive deep into not only the impact the learning will have on the organization, but also the impact the learning will have on the individual. This personal, real-world impact will help enable more effective curriculum development.
Real-World, Actionable Examples
Demonstrating skills or knowledge in a real and relatable way is important to effective learning content. Often, analyzing the experiences of recent learners and employing them as SMEs can help to create more impactful examples.
Mistakes to be Made/Avoid
It may seem counterintuitive, but focusing on mistakes that learners may make, or should make, can help to increase the effectiveness of eLearning content. Mistakes are one of the most impactful learning experiences, after all. Identifying potential mistakes, and creating eLearning that encourages and addresses them, is key to lasting learning.
Tools and Resources Available to Learners
The most effective training content takes into consideration all tools and equipment a learner will use to execute a skill or support their knowledge. This requires an exhaustive review of your technology ecosystem to ensure that training accounts for tools and resources that will be used by learners on an ongoing basis.
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Insights Into What Makes for Successful Microlearning
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- Is microlearning a good fit for your organization?
- Delivering microlearning
- Planning a curriculum with microlearning
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Featured Case Study
Bright Horizons Case Study
Interactive Classroom Learning
Bright Horizons is a publicly-traded, leading provider of child care and early education, back-up care, and workplace employee servies with over 1,000 locations and 30,000 staff around the glob.
Bright Horizons wanted to supplement their existing training materials with interactive learning. Their goal was to help their teachers practice skills relevant to their responsibilities without taking too much time away from the classroom. In addition, the learning experience needed to be fun and engaging, both to appeal to their learners and to highlight Bright Horizons’ company culture.
Allen Interactions and Bright Horizons collaborated to develop a 2D interactive game-based e-learning experience for their employees in child care centers. Initial efforts focus on skills related to health and safety.
After trusting Allen Interactions with their training needs, the company experienced the following:
13 Modules
120 Hours of Learning
3.5k Learners Certified