Bersin by Deloitte recently reported that better analytics is one of the main buying criteria for new HR solutions, with good reason. The data about what your employees are learning and what they know can add huge value when making decisions for the business. This trend is only gaining more momentum as HR analytics are being used more to make business and talent decisions.
Traditional corporate learning solutions provide metrics for mandatory training, compliance, and courses offered by the LMS. You likely have insights into course enrollment and completion rates, but this is a limited view into the actual learning happening within your organization. Based on the 70:20:10 framework, the metrics offered by your traditional corporate learning solution provide insights into only 10% of the learning happening within the organization. Just imagine what you could accomplish with insights into all the learning happening at your organization.
90% of learning is happening outside of L&D, with no insight into this learning.
Workers are learning all the time and they spend the majority of this time on self-directed learning. Traditional solutions gather metrics for the once-in-while learning happening at the organization, but not the learning happening every day, week, and month.
There are few tools that promise the ability to provide insights into all the knowledge and learning happening in the organization.
The Experience API (xAPI), an open source API in its early stages, promises the ability to track any kind of learning experience [ADL]. API stands for Application Program Interface. It allows one piece of software to talk to another software application. People are moving from SCORM to xAPI because xAPI allows you to collect more data about course usage. xAPI is a buzzword in the industry because of what it promises to offer in the way of insights into learning.
xAPI enabled courses provide more data on courses, but courses are still only a small percentage of the learning happening in your organization. One major hurdle to leveraging xAPI for all the learning happening in your organization is the IT undertaking needed to xAPI enable all of these sources. xAPI depends on other systems to track and send learning experiences to a Learning Record Store (LRS). That means every system in your organization (LMS, wiki, knowledge base, document center, helpdesk system, etc) would need to be xAPI enabled in order to gather data around employee activities in these systems, and you need to maintain an LRS system to collect all that data – a huge IT undertaking.
Another solution, a Saas offering with a turn-key implementation process that requires low IT investment, is Degreed. Degreed is xAPI enabled. It can receive xAPI actions from other systems. Degreed also offers a variety of other tools that provide line of sight into all kinds of learning happening all across your organization, whether those sources are xAPI enabled or not.
Degreed provides insights for all the learning happening in your organization
Degreed simplifies the management and reporting of all the learning happening at your organization – regardless of source. This gives you insight into everything your employees are learning, every day – both employer-directed and self-directed learning. The reporting of articles, videos, podcasts, books, events, online courses, instructor-led-training, and more can all be compiled in one beautiful dashboard.
Degreed offers organization-level and group-level reports, and an individual insights page for each employee.
Traditional corporate learning solutions use hours, or seat time, as a unit of measurement for employee learning – stemming from the traditional classroom-based learning approach. But this unit of measurement doesn’t quantify the actual learning happening today. We know from our research that classroom based training occurs infrequently throughout the year, but employees are learning constantly via online searches, peers, podcasts, books, and other sources.
Degreed is the only enterprise learning solution that can normalize and summarize all learning happening in your organization using the Point System. The science behind the scoring was informed by expert Larry Rosenberger, former CEO of FICO and the man behind the science of the FICO credit score, and David Wiley PhD., a global leader in instructional design and open education.
Interested in gaining real insights into all the learning happening in your organization? Visit get.degreed.com