{"id":5801,"date":"2017-07-20T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.efrontlearning.com\/blog\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2024-05-20T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:14:48","slug":"adaptive-learning-strategy-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.efrontlearning.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/adaptive-learning-strategy-benefits.html","title":{"rendered":"How will adopting an adaptive learning strategy help your business"},"content":{"rendered":"
Research conducted by the American Psychological Association has long endorsed the belief that learning approaches should be adapted to individual learners in early educational settings.<\/p>\n

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However, for a long time, corporate trainers never fully understood the power of the adaptive learning approach.<\/strong> Many organizations still develop training programs based on \u201cstandard\u201d company policies.<\/p>\n

In taking this approach to corporate training, business leaders often fail to take one important fact into consideration:<\/strong> All people learn differently, and a one-size-fits-all approach to corporate training<\/strong><\/a> is likely to hinder learning outcomes.<\/p>\n

Adapting your company\u2019s training strategy<\/h2>\n

Most forward-thinking teaching approaches today believe that cookie-cutter training models aren\u2019t where the future lies.<\/strong> To achieve better learning outcomes, you need to design and implement an adaptive learning strategy<\/strong><\/a> that enables your employees to personalize how and when they learn.<\/p>\n

So, what is adaptive learning?<\/strong> And what makes it different from most other acknowledged training approaches?<\/p>\n

The principles of adaptive learning are simple:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Give employees the ability to learn when they want, how they want, and what they want, and the learning outcomes will be far more positive than forcing employees to learn in accordance to rigid corporate training policies and dictates.<\/em><\/p>\n

Obviously the \u201cWhen\u201d, \u201cWhat\u201d, and \u201cHow\u201d, must all fall into broadly acceptable corporate parameters. For instance, if the new product is to be launched next week, you shouldn\u2019t allow employees to learn about it the night before!<\/p>\n

The idea behind adaptive learning strategies isn\u2019t new.<\/strong> Employers have always aspired to adapt corporate learning to the needs of their workforce. However, with today\u2019s technological innovations, adaptive learning has become more of a reality than a mere aspiration.<\/p>\n

The power of adaptive learning unlocked<\/h2>\n

So, how exactly does an adaptive learning approach add benefit to a company\u2019s training strategy?<\/p>\n

It does so on several levels,<\/strong> but most importantly it enables company staff to learn in ways that they find effective. What this means is that your learners don\u2019t have to adapt to how you are training them anymore.<\/p>\n

Instead, your training approaches adapt to overcome the everyday corporate training and learning challenges that you and your staff face.<\/strong> This ends in a win-win situation for both, the company as well as employees being trained.<\/p>\n

Consider the following situations:<\/p>\n

1) Timing challenges<\/h3>\n

The employees, whom you wish to train on a new product or service, are extremely busy supporting a crucial project for the company.<\/strong> You just can\u2019t spare them for training until next month! But that will be too close to the impending new product\/service launch date!<\/p>\n

With an adaptive learning strategy in place, this should not be an issue at all!<\/p>\n

Thanks to adaptive training technologies, corporate learners can now learn on-demand,<\/strong> whenever they have the time to do so. It could be on weekends, during project breaks, or even after regular business hours.<\/p>\n

2) Scheduling challenges<\/h3>\n

You wanted to hold an important training session next month, but the lead instructor and some key support staff can\u2019t be available full-time until the following month. Should you cancel your plans?<\/p>\n

Because adaptive learning is largely online,<\/strong> usually delivered through an asynchronous model, your employees and instructors don\u2019t need to coordinate schedules in order for the training to proceed.<\/p>\n

Even with partial instructor availability, and a reduced complement of support staff, your company can still go ahead with its training plans next month!<\/p>\n

3) Employee engagement challenges<\/h3>\n

The next group scheduled for training are a mix of new recruits to the company and company veterans. How will you ensure everyone stays engaged?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The benefit of having an adaptive learning strategy is that employees with divergent experiences and skills<\/strong><\/a> can all be trained \u201ctogether\u201d \u2013 yet each of them learns at their own pace. Every learner assimilates content<\/strong><\/a> when they are ready, without impacting their fellow learners.<\/p>\n

By using solutions based on Simulation, Group participation, Gamification<\/strong><\/a>, Virtual Reality<\/strong><\/a> (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and 3D, you can further heighten employee interest in training. Employees will be fully engaged in what they learn!<\/p>\n

4) Content \u201crichness\u201d challenges<\/h3>\n

With a mix of Millennials and Gen-X\u2019ers in your company, you fear that Millennial learners won\u2019t take too kindly lengthy PowerPoint bulleted-text, while that\u2019s all that seems to work with the older employees.<\/p>\n

By adapting your learning strategy to your audience, you are able to embed content using multiple media into the same training initiative.<\/strong> While the Boomers and Gen-X\u2019ers and Y\u2019ers are following the course using the PowerPoint slides, Millennial employees can learn the same concepts and theories using podcasts, videos and other rich instructional media.<\/p>\n

5) Evaluation challenges<\/h3>\n

With a hugely diverse workforce, how will you evaluate and assess whether individual learners have actually benefited from the training you just delivered?<\/p>\n

The beauty of using an adaptive learning strategy is that it offers tremendous flexibility,<\/strong> not just in how employees are trained, but also in how individual learners are assessed and evaluated<\/strong><\/a>. Adaptive learning technology can even offer personalized learning paths, individual remedial lesson plans, and tailored recommendations for review and revisions.<\/p>\n

While developing an adaptive learning strategy might look overbearing \u2013 it\u2019s really not!<\/strong> If organizations invest the time and effort to put the right strategy in place, all of the above benefits, and more, can make for a quick payoff!<\/p>\n

Adaptive learning best practices<\/h2>\n

How one goes about developing and implementing an adaptive learning strategy is extremely important. Here are some best practices to help you get started:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Know your audience.<\/strong> Before you start putting a strategy together, identify who your learners are by conducting a comprehensive audience analysis<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Listen to your staff.<\/strong> Poll employees across the organization to get a sense of what they are looking for as part of a training strategy<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Revise, re-use, re-tool.<\/strong> Do not throw away all of your training content just yet! Instead, once you get a sense of what employees are looking for, you may see opportunity to re-purpose some of your existing investment<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Identify building-block components early:<\/strong> Because technology will be a key driver for the strategy, evaluate alternate technologies early in the process. This will help you better develop other building blocks for your strategy subsequently<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Engage in peer consultations:<\/strong> If possible, reach out to other organizations who have implemented such a strategy to learn from real-life examples of adaptive learning solutions that actually work<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Seek help:<\/strong> Engage with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), specialized contractors, and experienced freelancers on related best practices and industry norms. Seek their input for developing and implementing personalized corporate adaptive learning policies and procedures for your company<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Test and evaluate:<\/strong> Despite the temptation, don\u2019t launch with a \u201cbig bang\u201d. Instead, do a pilot roll out first (perhaps to one Section, Department or Regional office), and evaluate results before deploying to a broader audience<\/p>\n

A key to successful strategy development and implementation is adaptation. As part of your strategy, put in place processes to regularly review, revise and adapt the tactics to ever changing corporate and employee needs. With so many changes taking place each day \u2013 in technology as well as in training approaches \u2013 having a \u201cbuild once and never change\u201d strategy is bound to fail.<\/p>\n

Stay focused!<\/h2>\n

As you already know, adaptive online learning is never about the technology!<\/strong><\/p>\n

While technology is certainly a key to making the strategy work, it is just an enabler. If designed appropriately, good strategies too will adapt to the technological environment prevalent across your organization.<\/p>\n

For example, a well-designed adaptive learning strategy should allow employees to learn using their smartphones, tablets, laptops and even their desktop computers.<\/strong> There should also be sufficient flexibility built into the strategy so that employees can learn when and where they want \u2013 not just if they are on premises, or at designated \u201ctraining\u201d locations.<\/p>\n

However, to achieve those results, it is vital that corporate adaptive learning strategy developers and implementers stay focused on objectives \u2013 to allow flexibility in learning \u2013 and not get side tracked by specific learning tools or technologies.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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