How an LMS Platform Enables Adaptive Learning
Adaptive learning is any type of training that is tailored to an individual’s learning needs. Learners can master the same materials as their peers at a pace with their specific strengths and weaknesses in mind. When it comes to employee training and bridging skill gaps, adaptive learning offers a more seamless learning experience. At first glance, creating an adaptive learning strategy may seem nearly impossible without adding hours upon hours of administrative time onto your existing training management schedule. But this isn’t the case.
A digital LMS platform automates personalization and incorporates adaptive learning opportunities all from a single system. Through the power of artificial intelligence, the ExpertusONE LMS platform tailors course recommendations to each learner’s needs. The system also offers a variety of interactive learning options—like polls, quizzes, videos, and audio content—to encourage engagement. Your learners can get the content they need in the formats that are most impactful for them, which will improve information retention.
Digital LMS software is integral to this adaptive strategy. Legacy platforms were not designed to offer the flexibility and adaptability that digital learners now require. The main benefit of using an adaptive learning approach with the ExpertusONE LMS is creating a learning environment that is flexible, engaging, and personalized, all from a single platform. You can provide engaging, interesting learning experiences for each of your team members. Here are four ways our platform does just that.
Benefits of Adaptive Learning Features In An LMS Platform
The traditional one-size-fits-all teaching model does not account for every individual’s learning style or abilities. With the ExpertusONE enterprise LMS and its adaptive learning features, you will create a positive, pro-learning environment with better-trained employees, and beyond the better rapport you’ll create with your staff, you’ll reduce the time and resources necessary to achieve your learning goals. So how do you optimize your training for success?
Your LMS needs these features:
1. An LMS platform must offer flexibility for the learner.
A flexible platform offers learning opportunities that cater to each student’s unique needs and learning styles, providing them with tailored experiences and activities that they can complete on their own time and content that is more likely to engage and motivate them. The ExpertusONE LMS platform was designed to offer learners flexibility regarding both learning materials and access.
For modern workers, flexibility is essential because work styles and schedules are not as uniform as they once were. With our digital platform, team members can train:
- While connected to the internet in their offices or at home
- While working online, using downloaded training courses
- From their desktop devices
- From their mobile devices, using our mobile LMS app
Remote workers need the freedom to train wherever they are as well, which means they need positive digital experiences available to them from a desktop or mobile device. Business leaders can positively influence learners’ feelings towards corporate training by giving employees the space to do their work at their own pace and providing platform accessibility anytime and anywhere.
2. Extensible apps must be available through the LMS to provide seamless learning experiences.
Extensible applications are essential for providing a seamless connection between the learner’s everyday workflows and the training program. The ExpertusONE apps for Slack, Salesforce, and Microsoft Teams enable learners to easily access resources, notifications, and information so that they can fully engage with training on the platforms they already use.
Our apps for Slack and Microsoft Teams streamline the onboarding experience. With our LMS Slack app, training managers can rapidly deliver product knowledge and collaborate with their team—ensuring that everyone has access to information easily. Onboarding new hires through the Slack and Microsoft Teams applications makes the process as quick and easy as talking. Learners will be able to jump right into training on a platform they are already familiar with. With these extensible apps, you can make training part of your team’s daily conversations.
Manage your content alongside your sales data in a single location within the Salesforce app. Connect learning objectives to sales for more impactful training outcomes, equipping your business to build the sales pipeline. Conduct one-on-one coaching sessions to ensure that knowledge is retained and your team members get the best value out of training.
Training through Salesforce can also shorten the sales rep ramp times by creating learning pathways and onboarding plans that can rapidly be distributed through the Salesforce LMS app.
3. An LMS platform must offer personalized experiences through the power of AI.
AI-enabled personalized learning experiences maximize the engagement and training potential of employees and ensure that each learner gets the most effective training plan for their unique needs. Artificial intelligence works within the LMS to serve each learner with personalized course recommendations based on the skills they want to learn and improve. The LMS platform leverages AI to know users’ interests, job titles, the training their peers are taking, and more to determine the most relevant courses. This makes it easier to cultivate learning environments that resonate with their individual goals, personalities, and perspectives.
Individualized home pages ensure that each learner gets the information that is most important to them first. The home page will let them know critical info such as which courses are overdue, upcoming deadlines, the status of their existing certifications, and when compliance certifications are about to lapse.
Learners can earn rewards through a point and badge recognition system to highlight rising stars and learning leaders across your organization through LMS gamification. The top category rankings are also displayed on learners’ home page leaderboards—an incentive for the right learning behavior.
Automated course assignments enhance the experience for LMS users despite their different learning styles. By separating learners into different groups based on parameters of your choosing—i.e., roles or the status of their courses—you are able to speed up the content delegation process, allowing training managers to offer pertinent facts to those who need it the most. So, when new staff join your company, transition from one role to another, or need a reminder to finish designated training, it is possible to interact with them and give them the materials they may need.
4. Create immersive content with a digital LMS platform.
The Interaction Studio feature within the ExpertusONE LMS enables learners to engage with content in the best way for their learning preferences, whether through audio or visual materials. This feature was designed to keep learners interested and increase the learning impact for better retention through an immersive experience and engaging e-learning content.
Effortlessly create engaging courses that give your learners multiple ways to understand and take in the content. Interaction Studio allows for multiple types of content and resources to be used, such as videos, interactive simulations, and assessments, which can enhance the overall learning experience. To make learning fun yet meaningful, Interaction Studio can incorporate polls, quizzes, video and audio files, and images.
Additionally, the user-friendliness of this feature ensures that all information is easily digested and understood. Keep track of how well your program is running and tweak any areas that will make it more appealing to your learners or improve knowledge retention. The best way to boost knowledge retention depends on the individual learner. Incorporating a variety of interactive elements in your course is a great way to ensure that every team member is covered.
Adaptive learning can help level the playing field for students with different learning styles or abilities, providing them with an equal opportunity to succeed. The ExpertusONE LMS platform contains adaptive learning LMS features so you can tailor your training program for the success of your team. To give your business and employees the highest chance of success, you must invest in an LMS platform that can flex, change, and mold to fit your unique learners.
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