The Learning Hub
In the early days of eLearning, your online training ecosystem may have revolved around your LMS — learning management system — or consisted entirely of an LMS. But the online training landscape is changing to accommodate a broad variety of learning platforms and strategies. Your online training ecosystem may well include a learning experience platform (LXP); a microlearning platform; various social and collaborative learning tools — and a place to gather and store learning data collected from all of these as well as other online and in-person learning activities. That place is likely to be an LRS — a learning record store.
The LRS is part of an xAPI ecosystem, which enables you to collect learning data from an enormous variety of places where learning occurs. The xAPI standard makes it possible to create statements about learning activities, such as viewing a video, reading an article, completing an activity, or participating in a simulation, far beyond the course completions, engagement time, and test scores that your SCORM-based LMS gathers. You can also collect data on activities that occur in a much larger number of platforms and learning spaces — anything from a mobile app to a CPR dummy to a kiosk on your warehouse floor.
Any tool or platform in your ecosystem that collects data on learning activities, including your LMS, will send that data to the LRS.
Using an LRS in an xAPI-compliant online training ecosystem empowers your L&D strategy: Most LRS platforms include sophisticated reporting and analytics features as well, making the LRS an essential component in a data-driven training strategy.
Once your various online and in-person training activities are recorded in the LRS, the LRS might:
… and much more.
Your LRS can be integrated with your LMS. It can also be configured to control access to records and to determine which tools and platforms can create or access records.
While both the LRS and the LMS might include analytics and reporting abilities, the LRS does not replace the LMS. Most LRSs do not offer the user and course content management functions of an LMS, or the advanced certification, scheduling, reminders, discussion forums, and quizzing abilities a full-featured LMS will offer.
Whether you need to add an LRS to your online training ecosystem depends on your training strategy and goals. If you have tools in your ecosystem that generate xAPI statements, you probably need an LRS. If you plan to expand your training strategy beyond SCORM-compliant tools and platforms — and you want to be able to capture and use data on those learning activities, you probably need an LRS. If your training occurs in a small number of places or you have only a small number of learners to track, you probably do not need an LRS.
If you have questions about whether you need an LRS — or any other questions about developing your training strategy and ecosystem — connect with a learning consultant at Neovation Learning Solutions today.
Games
Simple games layered on top of content
Scenario-based games that use the content
Leaderboards, competition
Fan excessive competition among employees or teams by offering large prizes for top performers and/or shaming those with lower scores
Challenge employees to beat their own past performance, or design a leaderboard that shows each employee only the four scorers above and below them
Points, rewards, badges
Award points or levels for completing sections of training or playing for a set number of minutes
Award levels, badges or points for recalling or applying content correctly, demonstrating mastery
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Introduction to Online Training
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Introduction to Online Training
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