Expectations for L&D leaders have never been higher than they are today. Your teams expect you to create training content that is relevant, impactful, and speaks to the current moment.
But how can you deliver courses that match today’s challenges and opportunities when creating content takes weeks, if not months? How can you keep your existing content from becoming dated when the world moves so quickly?
We want to support you to create exciting learning experiences that stay relevant for longer. That’s why we’ve developed a tool to make it fast and convenient to publish and iterate courses using input from subject-matter experts.
Most L&D teams face major challenges when creating course content
We work with a lot of L&D teams, and we talk regularly with L&D leaders about the difficulties they face. These discussions tell us that the biggest challenges L&D teams face when creating content are bottlenecks in creating content, and low course engagement rates.
1. Bottlenecks in creating content
On average, it takes 130 hours and $22,178 to create a single hour of eLearning. And most L&D teams work on their own, meaning they’re solely responsible for creating this content. If you’re lucky, you might have a small team of instructional designers to help you out.
It doesn’t have to be so hard. Every organization has the subject matter expertise and institutional knowledge to create engaging, impactful courses that move with the times.
You just need a way to bring it all to life for your learners without having to spend months developing each course.
2. Low course engagement rates
Science tells us humans learn best from peer-based interactions. Instead of being a one-way street, modern training needs to be collaborative, decentralized, and above all else, current.
Unfortunately, a lot of the content offered through L&D platforms is outdated, and isn’t built with collaboration in mind. That’s a big reason why the average course completion rate in 2020 was only 20-30%.
The best way to overcome these low engagement rates and keep your learners motivated? Empower your subject-matter experts to create fun, interactive content in minutes, rather than days or weeks.
Enter our Authoring Tool.
6 steps to creating impactful courses with our Authoring Tool
Creating content should be a smooth, streamlined, and collaborative process. And when existing content becomes outdated, it shouldn’t be a chore to update it.
That’s why we’ve developed our Authoring Tool to allow L&D teams to empower subject-matter experts to author courses. Then, once these courses are developed, L&D leaders can either validate them as meeting L&D standards or point out areas for further improvement.
Here’s our six-step process to creating learning content with our Authoring Tool that makes an immediate impact for every one of your learners.
1. Invite subject-matter experts
Your greatest asset as an L&D leader is the expertise within your teams. Your subject-matter experts have a lot to offer when it comes to creating current and engaging content. You just need to know how to leverage this expertise and put it to work.
The first step in creating great content with our Authoring Tool is to invite subject-matter experts to co-author your content. Have them weigh in on the issues, and don’t be afraid to pick their brains for the insights your teams need.
With these experts as co-authors, your content will have more credibility, and the insights they offer will make learning more engaging and stimulating for learners.
2. Create course content
Our Authoring Tool makes it quick and easy to create great content. Copy and paste information from any format, and bring the material to life by using a range of formats from our 100+ trusted partners, including YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, SlideShare, and plenty of others.
This creation process is decentralized, meaning subject-matter experts can contribute content and help build courses directly without having to ask L&D leaders for permission. Even better, our Authoring Tool works with the tools your team actually uses, instead of being simply SCORM-based - though of course our platform works with SCORM too.
There’s a reason why our users deploy their first course within just an hour on our platform. It’s fast and intuitive, and it frees you up to spend more time with learners.
3. Exchange internal comments
Every great course is the result of internal deliberation. To turn a first draft into a completed version that is ready to ship to learners, you need to exchange ideas, point out areas for improvement, and watch things take shape with input from subject-matter experts.
Our Authoring Tool makes it easy to share these insights. You can exchange private notes as you co-create courses, suggesting topics for discussion and areas for improvement. This way, every step of the training process is collaborative - even creating the content itself.
4. Include interactive assessments
With our Authoring Tool, you can shape your assessments to suit learner needs, using different question formats to make sure they understand and retain information.
Choose from a variety of over ten question formats, including open-ended questions, multiple choice, and opinion questions to keep learners engaged. You can also bring the material to life by asking learners to rank items in order or identify the right ‘hot spot’ in an image.
5. Publish and iterate
Once your course is ready, you can ship to learners and use their reactions to improve your content and delivery. Our Reactions feature makes it quick and easy for learners to let you know what they think, giving you the resources you need to iterate and improve over time.
This feedback loop is a big reason why our users achieve course satisfaction rates of up to 99%. It makes it easy to build content to match the needs of your learners, as well as notifying you whenever existing content needs updating to reflect changes or market developments.
6. Reward your co-authors
When learners engage with your course, our platform sends notifications to your subject-matter expert co-authors to reward them for their contribution. This tells them they’re valued, and helps to reinforce the habit of contributing to shared learning.
Before you know it, your learners will be creating course content on their own and inviting you to contribute as a co-author. That’s what Collaborative Learning looks like in practice.
Our Authoring Tool lets you ship engaging courses in minutes, not months
It shouldn’t be hard to create and share great content. That’s why we’ve built our Authoring Tool to help users deliver short, to-the-point courses that match today’s learning needs and help teams to stay current.
What’s more, we know it’s working. On average, our users report an average consumption of 11 activities per learner per day. Even better, courses created with internal collaboration are rated as being twice as helpful as courses created by L&D teams alone.
That’s the power of Collaborative Learning: you can quickly address learning opportunities, put the needs of your people first, and distribute ownership of your learning.
With our Authoring Tool, you and your teams no longer have to deal with flat, outdated content. Instead, you can ship more, ship faster, and ship higher-quality by putting your L&D team at the center of learning culture and growth.
If you’d like to learn more about how Collaborative Learning with our Authoring Tool can help you, book a demo with one of our learning experts!
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