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Sustainability is now a hot trend, and often it is associated with environmental responsibility. However, the environmental benefit is just one of the positive outcomes of a sustainable approach. Sustainability is a strong business principle that simply means to sustain positive results over a longer period, for more stakeholders, while continuously reducing cost and negative impact of various kinds. Seen in this light, sustainability is not such a revolutionary idea.

Today’s learning organizations recognize the prevalence of informal or just-in-time learning and search for ways to support this type of learning in tandem with more formal blended training programs. This paper proposes a structure of eight phases of workplace learning that can serve as a framework for designing blended learning solutions with formal and informal components.



Providing accessible learning is a fundamental need as today’s work force expands to include a more diverse population of workers; baby boomers who continue to work later into retirement age; an educated group of disabled workers who are now graduating from universities; and other workers who have situational disabilities. Accessible learning allows organizations to recruit and retain employees with disabilities and enables the continued contribution of an aging work force. It allows organizations to attract new talent and maintain their investment in their high performance knowledge workers. As a result, accessible learning has become more than a compliance goal, it is now a competitive advantage.



This paper offers a set of best practices for identifying learning needs that support business priorities, align a solution and measure results. It is a consolidated set of ideas, tips and techniques collected from the experiences of SkillSoft customers.

Highlights include:

  • Helps organizations move from "order takers" to business partners
  • Provides practical approaches
  • Is based on the best practices of organizations around the globe
  • Outlines an approach for level 4 msmt
  • Prescriptive method to make the shift from the left of the LGM to the right



This research report looks at learning strategies and the use of e-learning technologies in high-growth companies – by focusing on the experiences of six such organizations. In addition, we include data from Bersin & Associate's Corporate Learning Factbook research, our annual benchmarking study on trends in corporate learning practices.



Yogi Berra, that paragon of word manipulation, exposition and baseball, is often quoted as saying, "The future ain’t what it used to be." And, surprisingly, so it is in the world of learning measurement. We cannot sustain our training departments based on how well we do against our training budgets. This only leads to the budget being cut on a year by year basis. If we measure ourselves as an expense, so we shall be treated like an expense. That means we are the first to go when funds are needed elsewhere.

 



The SkillSoft Learning Growth Model describes the predictable stages that all companies go through as they progress from their initial e-learning implementations to enterprise-wide, strategic e-learning.