Learning Management Systems – The Value of Reporting

Measuring the value and impact of learning programs and investments is an ongoing challenge. While more than 85% of all organizations measure training enrollments, less than one-half measure actual training hours by employee and only 35% measure true completion on a regular basis. Social and informal learning have only increased the complexity, and the demands for justification have certainly intensified. But, learning measurement doesn’t have to be a recurring headache. TalkTactics OnDemand has a reporting module that provides instant access to data and results previously ignored or put in the to hard basket. For more information www.talktactics.com

Learning Management Systems On The Increase

Smart Companies provide employees with learning opportunities to keep skills and knowledge razor sharp so employees produce quality work. In the past, employees typically learned in classrooms led by expert instructors. But this scenario has changed.

Organisations implementing E-Learning can expect several benefits that help drive business forward due to knowledge and well skilled workers. Learning Directors can easily quantify the scale, timing and duration of these benefits by considering one or more key metrics and then calculating the value to the organisation. Benefits include:

• Faster employee competency
• Flexibility of Learning
• Consistency of Learning
• Repeatability
• Travel Reduction

The Future of Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Recent research found that many organisations seem to have a love-hate relationship with their learning management system (LMS). 

In my experience there’s no subject  that generates such a polarised and heated discussion among learning and development (L&D) professionals as their expectations of the LMS.

It’s always refreshing when facts back up one’s intuition, and recent research did just that. It found that among larger organisations, most currently have an LMS, with over 90 per cent having been installed for more than two years. But when asked if they would recommend their current supplier only 23 per cent were in the ‘very likely’ category and the negatives totalled exactly 50 per cent. Now there are two aspects to the issue of recommending a supplier; either, you’re completely comfortable with them, or you’re reluctant to admit that a previous decision was questionable.

So let’s try and sum up these findings. Most medium to large organisations have an LMS installed. They are fundamentally using it to benefit their learners and they are capturing the benefits it brings to the L&D function as well. They have a remarkably low level of satisfaction with their current supplier, are under-using it for corporate benefit and most can’t show a realistic return on their investment in the functionality.

If you fit into the above then you need to be talking to TalkTactics who are leading the market in new generation LMS systems. www.talktactics.com