{"id":19376,"date":"2023-12-07T11:34:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T16:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/?p=19376"},"modified":"2024-06-24T16:32:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T20:32:31","slug":"expert-analysis-reusable-learning-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/expert-analysis-reusable-learning-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Analysis: Reusable Learning Content"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Most everyone in their career has had to sit through a training that was too general, too long, or too outdated. In this day and age people expect a more tailored experience<\/a> and more flexibility in how they can learn\u2026but how do you do that?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In this blog, two of our expert consultants, Emily Crockett<\/a> and Deneena Lanius, will walk you through what reusable learning content is, the basics of how to implement it, and the benefits your organization can expect once it has been implemented.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Question 1: What is reusable learning content and how is it different from what organizations do today?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Emily Crockett<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Reusable learning content is NOT<\/strong> a copy. Reusable learning content is the same object used in multiple contexts across learning materials, courses, or programs. While copies of documents worked for Learning and Development (L&D) professionals when that was the only option for creating differentiated and personalized learning, those copies have created a learning content explosion and version control nightmare. This means that content management becomes really difficult! Content can start to get lost because there is so much to look through, people get frustrated so then they just recreate it, more copies are created, so and so forth.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Perhaps your organization created a compliance training course that uses 85% of the same content across departments while the remaining 15% is department-specific. In the \u201ccopy world,\u201d each department would have separate copies of the training to keep updated. When changes need to be made to the 85% of the content that should be the same for everyone, someone has to change it in every copy created to maintain consistency across the organization. Content contributors would also need to know where all copies are stored to accomplish updating the courses. In the \u201ccontent reuse world,\u201d the 85% of content shared across the courses all comes from the same source objects and you can see clearly where those distributed links are. When you have to update the 85% shared content, you only need to update it once to update every version instance.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Deneena Lanius<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Learning and development professionals have always provided differentiated instruction, but the old approach of making copies of the original learning asset and personalizing it for the needs of our particular learners creates an unsustainable content maintenance burden. Reusable learning content allows us to achieve differentiated instructional materials in a more extensible way. \u00a0Reusable learning content streamlines efforts by repurposing materials, saving time, maintaining consistency, and enriching the overall learning experience.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Enterprise Learning<\/a> focuses on using reusable learning content that allows us to personalize learning experiences efficiently. The following scenarios illustrate a few examples of how this personalization happens:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n