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Nick J. Howe
Chief Learning Officer
Area9 Lyceum
Why the 21st Century techenabled workplace needs
Adaptive Learning
The goal of every learning and development
organisation is to take positive action to
upgrade or build new skills in the workforce.
Yet despite the best efforts of L&D, the fact
remains that much of traditional corporate
training is inefficient and does little to move
the needle in making employees more
competent in their current jobs and prepare
them for new demands of the 21st century
technology-enabled workplace.
For greater efficiency and effectiveness in
talent development, employers need to make
adaptive learning the foundation of their L&D
strategies. Even if an employer isn't ready for
enterprise-wide deployment just yet, at a
minimum what adaptive learning has to offer
should be evaluated. As companies look to
the future, they must deploy training that
expands and enhances workers' skills-an
urgency that makes adaptive learning all the
more crucial.
Improving ROI
Any investment in corporate training must be
effective, as measured by its direct support of
the goals of the organisation, its ability to meet
the needs of all stakeholders, and its impact
as a learning intervention. Time to market is
becoming even more critical as technology
speeds the pace of change. In such highly
competitive, fast-evolving business
conditions, companies can't afford training
that doesn't produce the right return on
investment.
Against this backdrop, adaptive learning may
be the key differentiator for L&D teams as
employers seek to upgrade worker skills. It
brings together the best of computer science
and cognitive research, delivering a
personalised, computer-based approach that
adjusts to the needs of each learner in online
and blended learning scenarios.
Personalised approach
To be most effective, learning programmes
must adjust to the needs of each and every
learner. Such personalisation not only
improves impact and engagement but is also
key to gaining efficiency when training
employees who typically have very little time
to devote to learning while they try to carry out
their daily business activities. Historically, the
only way to achieve personalisation was
through tutoring. This approach is
prohibitively expensive for corporate training
and does not scale.
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