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How to create a Learning Ecosystem with Forma LMS

In today's fast-paced and constantly evolving Learning & Development (L&D) landscape, organizations must equip themselves to create a learning ecosystem that stimulates continuous learning opportunities, while ensuring people's involvement. For those unfamiliar with it, a learning ecosystem is the combination of tools and solutions used to provide, manage and monitor the skills development programs in an organization. It is strategic to create a learning ecosystem that includes innovative digital technologies and the best practices necessary to improve and / or support both learning and individual performance.

For most organizations, these technologies include a Learning Management System (LMS) in which it is possible to manage, organize and control the entire training process and it is for this reason that they are used not only to keep employees' skills up to date. in the company, but also to supervise those of new hires.

According to estimates conducted by the eLearning Industry, the LMS sector is growing by 25% every year.The use of a Learning Management System (LMS) is essential if you want to achieve the goals of professional growth, personal satisfaction and staff loyalty. Especially the younger one. Notwithstanding that the use of an LMS must be seen as part of an overall training project, what are the key requirements that a corporate LMS should be able to meet?

REFLECT THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

A corporate LMS must reflect the corporate organization chart: roles, divisions, hierarchies and responsibilities. Each role requires specific training content and, consequently, different permissions to access the courses. Hence, an L&D manager must provide management rights and security permissions to specific roles so that leaders have an overview of their students' progress. With the help of an LMS, it is possible to assign different learning paths or training resources for each type of user, or create personalized paths aimed at the growth of specific users. Even the possibility of free use of content, if provided by the LMS, is another revolutionary function in the concept of corporate training, because it provides that employees can choose their training activities in total (or partial) autonomy. All this translates into effective professional growth experiences and greater user satisfaction, who will be more involved and eager to learn.

COMMUNICATE WITH OTHER SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS

The LMS can be considered as a component of a larger ecosystem in which the goal is to collect and catalog experiences and skills. It follows that the more sophisticated the LMS is in its functions, the more it is right to integrate with the company information system: just think of the need to report the results of the training carried out on the LMS in the HR platform or to have to retrieve from the company organization chart the hierarchy to understand who can authorize to follow a certain training path.

ENSURING CONTINUOUS LEARNING

Corporate training is one of the key tools to remain competitive on the market, especially in an era in which every professional area changes in a short time. The applicability of e-Learning fits perfectly with the increasingly widespread perspective of life-long learning, that is, the training process must accompany the employee throughout their working life.

MONITOR PROGRESS, USER PERFORMANCE AND TRAINING ROIs

A corporate LMS must have adequate reporting and analysis tools to monitor all aspects of a training program. With the right tools, you can keep track of everything from employee / student engagement to assessment results. This means that it is possible to identify patterns and trends useful for an optimized planning of future training and for calculating the ROI of the training.

Open Source: Choosing An LMS Designed For Organizational Learning

The choice of the Learning Management System (LMS) is the first fundamental step in developing an effective eLearning strategy in step with the times. Open Source technology is an added value to implement advanced skills development strategies. This technology gives L&D managers the freedom to customize and incorporate external content, plug-ins and other software into the learning strategy to meet specific business needs.

Among the choices available on the market, in Grifo multimedia we use Forma.LMS, an elearning platform cited by the elearning industry for having won several awards as the best open source elearning platform.Forma.LMS is an online learning platform, which simplifies the management of courses and the distribution of training content, allowing you to create engaging and usable activities at any time and from any place. Its features include the ability to analyze user skills, issue certificates, manage events as part of a calendar of training activities. There is also space for the community that allows users to exchange views for a collaborative approach to learning processes.

With the robust functionality and flexibility of open source technology solutions, you can equip yourself with an LMS platform that can meet your ever-changing training needs with the ability to deliver successful organizational learning for years to come.

 

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