In yesterday’s post, we featured three benefits of adaptive e-learning in the workplace; here are five more worth considering:
4. Improves Overall Understanding and Engagement
Because adaptive e-learning technology adapts to each learner’s learning goals, learning progress, and learning style in real time, it can improve each learner’s mastery of a topic.
Learners will encounter new information when it’s most relevant to their individual learning experience and won’t be forced to move on to the next topic until they’ve mastered what they’re currently learning. In addition, learners become much more enthusiastic about and engaged in their own learning and development when they are exposed to learning content that they care about and that’s relevant to them, and they can fully understand what they’re learning.
5. Allows Learners to Learn at Different Paces
Adaptive e-learning systems will automatically recognize when learners need to slow down and spend more time learning certain tasks and topics and when they can speed up so they don’t get bored. Some things just make sense to some learners faster, while others need to take more time to truly understand. And each learner will be more adept in some areas and topics than others based on their previous experiences and education.
With adaptive e-learning, learners won’t have to worry about keeping pace with others in their course and can spend time really engaging and mastering a topic or task before they need to move on to the next. And they can breeze through learning content that they already understand.
6. Frees Up More Time for Better-Quality One-on-One Coaching
When learning and development professionals don’t have to worry about evaluating each learner’s modules, coursework, etc., they can focus more on coaching each individual learner. They’ll be able to help each learner develop her or his own career path and will be able to offer advice on next steps and additional courses learners will want to explore so they can keep moving forward professionally. And the development pros will be more invested in each of their learner’s goals instead of only focusing on test scores and performance on cookie-cutter assignments that may not be relevant to their learners.
7. Empowers Learners to Take Part in Their Own Learning
If learners focus on learning tasks that are relevant to them and their everyday roles and career goals, they’ll become much more engaged in their own learning and long-term development. They’ll begin to feel empowered to seek out other learning opportunities that interest them and that will continue to move them forward. They won’t just wait around for others to tell them what to learn next.
8. Higher-Quality Assessments and Metrics
When learners are only evaluated on what matters to their individual learning and development and can learn at their own pace, each assessment they take and each metric each learning course divulges will be of much higher quality. Learners will no longer get low marks on assessments because they were rushed through material, and each assessment they take will be relevant to their individual learning goals and paths so you won’t have to see irrelevant metrics in each learner’s profile.
If you want your employees to be truly engaged in their learning and development, and for your organization to reap the many benefits of its learning and development programs, you should consider implementing adaptive e-learning methods today.