The expanding learning technology market can feel like a confusing, bewildering place. But we can work out what's going on by finding the common features and trends the new generation of learning products share.
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3. What the market feels like…
The range of solutions is
immense… making
supplier choices more
exciting, but also more
complicated and risker
than ever before.
Fosway Group
We get the sense that
neither learning leaders, nor
learning tech providers, quite
know how to make sense of
the market.
Redthread Research
5. If only we could make sense of it all!
Towards Maturity
Redthread Research
Brandon Hall Group
Learning & Performance
Institute
Elearning Guild
Fosway Group
LinkedIn
Open University
OFCOM
Open University
OFCOM
Good Practice
AI Now Institute
Educause
Corporate Learning Analytics Summit
Society for Learning Analytics Research
Journal of Learning Analytics
ARtillry Intelligence
9. Introducing the learning technology ecosystem
Commoditization in the market
means tech providers can be
switched in and out of the tech
ecosystem.
Redthread Research
New players are carving out their
presence in corporate learning
ecosystems.
Fosway Group
Towards Maturity
10. How does the ecosystem stick together?
Mobile app
On the job learning
Simulations
Watching videos
Playing games
Social learning
ILT
E-learning
Learner
Browsing the web
Desktop learning
Laptop
Virtual classroom
11.
12. A market of connected products…
The range of solutions is
immense… making
supplier choices more
exciting, but also more
complicated and risker
than ever before.
Fosway Group
Commoditization in the
market means tech providers
can be switched in and out
of the tech ecosystem.
Redthread Research
13. How can I scan the market to decide what should
go in my ecosystem?
14. Technology radar
Quadrants show different types
of products, whatever
categories work for you!
Rings indicate stage of
adoption:
o Adopt
o Trial
o Assess
o Hold
15. Brightwave technology radar group
Working group takes snapshot of the scene
and assesses key products.
We then populate our own company radar,
advising which products should be:
• Kept on the ‘watch list’,
• Trialed internally
• Trialed with ‘early adopter’ clients
• Offered in our solutions
16. • Learning delivery
• Content creation
• Intelligent systems
• Measurement and engagement
The Brightwave Radar
20. How often do learning technologies
providers have a positive impact?
Source: Fosway Group, Digital Learning Realities
Research 2017
7%
27%
34%
22%
10%
Always
Frequently
Occasionally
Rarely
Never
21. Agile and user-centered approaches to
implementation
User needs
analysis
Pilot launch
Analyse
feedback
Resolve
before next
release
Release to
discrete
audiences
Measure
and engage
23. Learner engagement
• Monthly reviews of usage
• Community and social engagement
• Learning programme usage
• Individual and group usage
Success benchmarking
• Usage goals
• Community engagement
• Wider system measures
• Track throughout the year
User feedback
• Face to face with stakeholder
• One-to-one user interviews
• Support tickets
• Surveys
Plenty of data to measure…
25. Measuring behaviour change
Wherever there is change, there is the need
to learn. Wherever there is learning, there is
the need to engage.
Brightwave have brought together specialist
capabilities from the worlds of marketing and
communications to help our clients engage
their audiences to drive behaviour change.
Whenever we engage, there is an opportunity
to measure.
26. Analytics to share successes
Highlighting best practice
Evidencing success
Amplifying engagement
Locating champions
Building on success with further content and
programmes
27. Mark Aberdour
Chief Technology
Officer
Speak to our consulting team!
Nick Eastham
Learning Technologies
Consultant
Amanda Rubython
Learning Technologies
Consultant
Elly Davies
Learning Experience
Consultant
Olivia Lory-Kay
Senior Consultant
Seffy Smith
Learning Consultant
Caroline Freeman
Director of Design
Hello and welcome
Making sense of the ever changing learning technology landscape
How to make sense of the market
How to track interesting products in the market
Some tips for implementing new products
Who am I?
The learning technologies market
continued expansion
merger and acquisition activity
more niche, specialist vendors than ever before
Niche solutions solving specific challenges and integrating with existing technologies
average L&D team now uses over 20 different technologies to support their learning delivery!
So many new products
How do we understand the market
Who do we listen to
Lots of opinion
How much of it is based on EVIDENCE?
Key research reports from the last 12 months
Common thread through multiple research studies
Many analysts coming to the same conclusions
Research from thousands of organisations
What’s happening on the ground
We picked out 12 key themes
For example:
- LMS isn’t dead, but it’s changing
- xAPI still has no compelling business case
- Lots of talk about measurement, social and mobile, but less action on the ground
Immersive and AI are ripe for experimenting, but tread carefully
Sign up for the digital download…
One area of particular interest
Relates to the growing product market
Especially WRT niche, specialist vendors
STACK or ECOSYSTEM
Social learning
AI
Mobile
ILT
Immersive
Video
Microlearning
Niche solutions solving specific challenges.
Integrate really well with existing technologies
Swap in and out of the stack with relative ease – commoditization.
Performance support, continuous improvement, knowledge management, workplace support and curated content.
They want to complement your LMS, not replace it.
LMS usage has actually risen over the past 2 years
If you're in the market for an LMS, look for something modular and integration-friendly.
API just a standard way of sharing data between systems
Also used for authenticating between systems (e.g. login to a site using your Facebook login)
Explosion of new products on the market use APIs to connect with each other
Many people are hung up on xAPI: HOWEVER multiple research studies show it is not gaining traction and that LRS usage is decreasing
‘Understanding xAPI’ found to be one of the top challenges.
APIs are mainstream, API companies even advertising on billboards!
APIs are enabling the explosion of new services and products without having to code apps from scratch
E.g. when you use Uber you use Twilio (for all the SMS messaging), Braintree (for payment services) and Google Maps (for drivers)
Barriers to entry are lowered. E.g. Lift uses the same API services!
Anyone can do a startup based on APIs
Which brings us back to…
So how do you manage that risk?
So we’ve look at the crazy market
We know an average org has 20+ learning technology products
And we’ve seen how products are tied together into ecosystems
So how to you track which products to use?
The Radar is all about tracking interesting products.
Products are organised onto the Radar using two elements:
Quadrants represent different categories of products or tools, whatever categories work for you.
Rings indicate what stage in an adoption lifecycle the advisory board thinks they should be in: adopt, trial, assess or hold.
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
Brightwave staff can all add interesting products into a shared spreadsheet.
Radar group takes a snapshot of the spreadsheet and assesses the products.
We then populate our own company radar, advising which products should be:
Kept on the ‘watch list’,
Trialed internally
Trialed with ‘early adopter’ clients
Offered in our solutions
Learning delivery:LMS, virtual classrooms, social learning, video sharing, content curation, immersive learning.
Content creation:Products used in the creation of digital learning: immersive, games, interactive media, elearning, animations, scenarios, infographics.
Intelligent systems:Products using AI to deliver learning including chatbots, adaptive learning, recommendation engines, voice recognition tools.
Measurement and engagement: Business intelligence, learning analytics, online assessment, competency management, performance management, engagement
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So we ‘ve looked at:
How to make sense of the market
How to track interesting products in the market
Now we’re going to look at some tips for implementing new products
Only one third doing what we want to be.
BW NPS shows we are working in that top third!
Bear in mind this covers internal teams and external vendors
All sorts of things can be done to ease the implementation. This is how WE keep out of that two thirds of vendors who disappoint their customers.
User needs analysis: What do users REALLY want?
Pilot: Avoid big bang rollouts, find issues early
Analyse: Collate user feedback, analyse usage data
Resolve: Amend before release.
Step it up: Launch to discrete audiences in turn
Measure and engage: track engagement, respond to results, run campaigns, organise into 2-weekly sprints.
Going to take a closer look at ’measure and engage’
Impact measurement is a long-standing problem in the L&D sector.
All the research was unanimous in that hardly anyone is measuring the impact of learning on performance and business results
(Towards Maturity, Fosway, Brandon Hall, GoodPractice)
All those APIs!
Everything is already in place: measure across the ecosystem and push data into a centralised system.
We have the means to measure like never before, but knowing what to look at and making it happen are different problems.
Before implementing learning analytics, decide exactly WHAT you are going to measure, and what subsequent changes you can realistically make.
Some people using learning analytics tools, other using BI tools. A split is emerging.
Higher Ed is way ahead of corporate learning wrt learning analytics
Many institutions using of predictive analytics to identify at-risk students, and then intervening as appropriate
The KEY is that they KNOW what they want to measure.
The key success criteria in their case is PASSING a course, so they look for at-risk students.
What do we want to measure in workplace learning?
So what DO we need to measure in the workplace…
Compliance, culture, leadership, innovation
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