Custom eLearning Content for Employee Training
Written by: Phillip Carmichael
When it comes to custom eLearning content for employee training, there are many advantages to having tailored lessons, courses, and programs developed. Discover below some of the benefits that custom eLearning content can bring to your organization.
Custom eLearning Development Services
Every organization is different, possessing different cultures, workforces, organizational goals, and skills gaps. These vast differences make finding "off-the-shelf" training content that is relevant and valuable to your organization challenging. Custom eLearning development services address companies' need for tailored training solutions.
Custom eLearning services combine programs with learning management, enabling organizations to train employees effectively, meet their goals, overcome their fear of technology and attain measurable results. The design and implementation of eLearning content unique to your company and audience ensures engaging experiences and exceptional knowledge recall.
Corporate companies can use custom online training to upskill, reskill, and train their teams, maximizing the value and ROI of their learning and development investment.
Our eLearning development specialists and in-house studio production team will collaborate with your organization's leaders to develop innovative eLearning content tailored to your goals and explicitly designed for learners' responsibilities and roles.
Custom eLearning Development Overview
According to the Association for Talent Development, eLearning is “a structured course or learning experience delivered electronically. It can also include performance support content. There are also many different elements that can make up an eLearning program, such as live or pre-recorded lecture content, videos, quizzes, simulations, games, activities, and other interactive elements.”
As the world’s workforce shifts to largely hybrid and remote working environments, the use of eLearning for corporate training has grown at a tremendous rate. According to an article in Small Business Trends, corporations have increased their use of eLearning by 900% in the last 16 years.
The advantages of eLearning for employee training are abundantly clear:
According to a Brandon Hall Group study, eLearning typically takes 40% to 60% less employee time than learning in a traditional classroom setting.
Each dollar spent on eLearning results in a $30 increase in output, according to a 2020 research report from Facts and Factors.
72% of firms state that eLearning helps them keep a competitive edge by staying up-to-date with technological change.
eLearning clearly brings tremendous value to organizations, but custom eLearning content goes above and beyond in terms of providing value. Pre-created courses can be quick and easy to implement, but these “one-size-fits-all” courses may not fully cover your organization’s unique training needs. Custom eLearning content ensures that employees are getting the exact information and training they need based on their role and your vision for the future.
eLearning Course Development
Custom online course development takes investing in solutions and partnering with an experienced company and team to achieve maximum results. Once you have found a trusted partner, you can discuss your needs at a high level before jumping into the eLearning content creation stages.
Custom eLearning course development includes various stages and may differ depending on the project, scope, interactivity, and course requirements. In general, custom online course development includes:
Storyboarding: This includes investigating the initial scope of your learning and development requirements, learning objectives, course design, and knowledge and information checks.
First draft: The first iteration of the custom eLearning course is presented without voiceover. At this stage, your business can provide input, add insights, and recommend how the training course can be altered to meet your precise needs.
Revisions: We incorporate feedback from the first iteration, and the voiceover is included and synchronized with the eLearning video animation. We present this second iteration for final revisions.
Final draft: We make minor adjustments before we hand the final course over to you.
Project completion: Your company gets full ownership of the final course deliverables, including custom templates and audio, video, and image files.
5 Benefits of eLearning for Employees
Custom eLearning training courses are flexible and meet your precise learning and development needs. Tailored training possesses many benefits, including targeted learning, branding personalization, exceptional employee engagement and recall, detailed monitoring, and ownership of eLearning content.
1. Truly Focused Learning
Personalized eLearning training courses are specially designed for your organization and employees.
Sometimes pre-made courses include information and material that is not directly relevant to a learner or employee’s position. These courses often cover a broad range of topics that may or may not be relevant to your individual needs. Investing in custom eLearning content allows you to filter out the noise, ensuring your learners and employees are receiving the precise training and learning they need to succeed, without being given extraneous information.
2. Reflect Your Branding and Culture
Custom eLearning content can be developed using your unique branding, incorporating specific logos, language, colors, typography, and other attributes. This provides a seamless experience for the end-user learner, who will strongly associate the lesson and course content with your company or organization’s brand and culture. As a result, you can roll out eLearning to your organization knowing full well that all materials will encompass and exemplify your corporate culture, brand, values, and standards.
3. Excellent Employee Engagement and Knowledge Recall
In general, eLearning increases retention rates 25% to 60%, compared with retention rates of 8% to 10%. And with custom eLearning content, knowledge recall can be even higher as learners are actively engaged with their tailored training. By incorporating interactive elements, motion graphics, animation, photos, iconography, and other multimedia, custom eLearning content greatly enhances employee engagement, allowing learners to become more involved in the personalized material they are interacting with.
4. Performance Tracking and Measuring eLearning Effectiveness
Custom eLearning content enables you to utilize targeted assessments based on your curated lessons and courses. In turn, this allows you to gather crucial data on the effectiveness and efficacy of your employee training efforts, including information detailing where learners are struggling or stuck and what subjects could use more in-depth instruction and explanation. Additionally, these customized assessments can provide further instruction by giving learners feedback and supplemental information when they provide a wrong answer.
5. Complete Ownership of Custom eLearning Content
When you have custom eLearning content created for your company or organization, you maintain complete ownership of all materials and content created. You’re thus able to administer training as needed and provide employees with access to eLearning on demand, if you so choose. Courses can be easily updated based on the latest developments as well.
Corporate eLearning Solutions Tailored to Your Requirements
At Intellezy, we know that a technology rollout at one organization often looks much different than a rollout at another organization. These variances are precisely why we offer custom eLearning content solutions. In collaboration with your leadership team, we’ll develop the same expertly crafted videos in our expansive library – only we’ll cover concepts unique to how your team uses the new software in their day-to-day. This personalized approach centered on your vision and goals is a cornerstone of our change management and learning and development strategies.
With 30-plus years of industry experience, we will partner with you to meet your learning and development goals, increasing your team's productivity and impacting your bottom line. Contact us to learn more about our custom eLearning content.