Stuck in inflexible pages, much of today’s learning materialremains trapped in traditional formal vehicles like eLearning courses orpresentations. As a result, learning content—and the time and effort that goesinto it—is often poorly leveraged. But dominKnow Learning Systems isproving that it doesn’t have to be that way.
Organizations are awakening to the importance content playsas a competitive differentiator, and they are now demanding tools and processesthat allow them to gather, create, organize, disperse, and reuse learningcontent in multiple ways across multiple learning vehicles.
But having the right tools is only half the battle,according to Chris Van Wingerden, dominKnow’s vice president of learning solutions.“Today’s technology promises access to learning content for everyone, fromanywhere—but so often, the content that organizations create can’t deliver onthe promise.”
So, while today’s learning content development tools need tosupport the creation of content for both formal and informal learningexperiences, that’s not enough, according to Van Wingerden. “Having the righttools is the obvious first step, but to fully maximize the considerable timeand effort that goes into creating learning content, eLearning designers needto start thinking less about ‘courses’ of content and more about the componentsthat give content its value and meaning.”
And Van Wingerden should know. dominKnow has a long historyof producing content development and publishing tools that allow organizationsto fully leverage their learning efforts. dominKnow’s multiple-award-winning,cloud-based authoring and publishing platform has been helping organizationsaround the world maximize their learning content investment for more than adecade.
“Because dominKnow is a cloud-based, collaborative authoringenvironment with all assets centrally stored and accessible, we are able toadapt and reuse content across all phases of a project, in both a classroom andeLearning setting,” says Janice Brown, director at Larmer Brown, a provider ofchange management and eLearning solutions.
- Step 1:Secure content development tools that support the creation of single-source,multipurpose content—that is, content that can be easily repurposed forclassroom learning, traditional desktop eLearning, mobile learning, andperformance support. Here’s an interesting example of multipurpose content.
- Step 2:Start thinking about your learning content as a valuable corporate asset, anddevelop content creation and publishing processes that support this way ofthinking.
For more on Step 2, Van Wingerden will be lending his expertiseto Learning Solutions 2017 Conference & Expo this week, March 22 – 24 in Orlando,Florida. In his session, Learning Everywhere: Designing Content for Multipurpose Use, Van Wingerden will helplearning content designers and managers develop strategies and processes forcreating single-source, multipurpose content that supports learning at alltimes of need.
More about dominKnow
For more than a decade, dominKnow Learning Systems has beencreating eLearning software for small teams and large organizations. Withthe dominKnow Platform,organizations can collaboratively gather, create, review, share, reuse, anddeliver content that can be used to help learners at any time of need—fromformal learning through to application on the job. The platform supports thecreation and delivery of single-source, multipurpose content that is easilymonitored and measured—so organizations can see who is using what content, andhow effective the learning interaction has been.
You can check out the dominKnow Platform at LearningSolutions 2017 in Booth 413.
