Fiona Nunn discusses different levels of personalization in learning, from basic to adaptive. Basic personalization involves small customizations like name changes while adaptive personalization allows a system to learn about a learner and suggest the most appropriate content. Nunn also discusses how to achieve scalable customization through systems that can be customized for different roles, locations, time availability and knowledge levels while keeping the core content and simulations the same. Key aspects include standardization, client buy-in to agile processes, and focusing customization on what will make a real difference for learners.
11. Levels of personalisation
Basic
Name change, choose a colour. Using LMS
functionality creatively. Makes it friendlier.
Customised
Driven personalisation within a course, through
questions that diagnose what you want or need.
More focussed learning.
Adaptive
System adapts to deliver appropriate content. Smart,
the system learns about what you know and want as
you learn.
12. Basic
Colour change or name entered to make it
more friendly
Customised
The learner makes decisions about what they
want to see via a simile diagnostic – focussed
on learner needs/preference
Adaptive
The system adapts to how the learner learns
and suggests or delivers the most appropriate
or relevant content
Levels of Personalisation
In the future – there will
be no bounds…
25. Customisable in several ways:
• Same system
• Different roles
• Different brands/locations
• Different ways to use the system face to face
with customers/telephone/online support
• Customise scenarios video/audio/images
• Steps and simulations remain the same
Systems simulation scenarios
26. • 4 systems
• 4 roles
• 362 minutes of e-learning that's 40 hours!
• 49 launchable deliverables with 178 components
• 21 tutorials
• 61 show me simulations
• 61 try it simulations
• 35 role play simulations
In 12 weeks!
Scale!
28. • Coordinate client diaries
• Clients come in as part of the team and cede
individual decision-making powers to the group
• Work in iterations, or fixed-duration sprints, and
prioritise essential functionality: plan which
inessential elements to cut if you run out of time
• Clients pay by the sprint, not for fixed delivery:
agree what's achievable within each sprint
Key differences
29. • Work as a close team
• Quick results - 7 weeks
• Value for money
Wins
30. When is Agile scalable?
• Standardisation
• Client/SMEs buy in
• Right kind of project
32. Final tips
• Get the balance right between cost and
benefit of personalisation
• Concentrate on what will make a real
difference – it may just be using the right
jargon for a particular audience that makes
the most impact
• Don’t try and be clever for the sake of it
33. More information?
If you’d like to chat about scalable
customisation – get in touch!
@FleighNunn
fiona.nunn@brightwavegroup.com
brightwavegroup.com
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Here’s what I’m going to cover today
We’re also going to show you have easy it can be to customtise a piece of elearning during this webinar and thank you for sending in your photos
I’d be interested in finding out what sort of experiences you may have had in any of these areas.
Now … the challenge for this session
First the challenge which a lot of learning providers would love to be able to do – why? But why is personalisation the latest buzz?
What is it? Personalisation – (anything that we feel has been created for our individual needs or desires) The why
Engages – we get what we want focussed and relevant – no flim flam it feels it is just for us – appeals to our individuality (or belief that we are)
Time saved – most of us are time poor these day, and information rich - we don’t have time to search for stuff that is relevant
Time is money in business –
(maybe put these on a screen)
Learns what we like to read or watch and gives us suggestions that are relevant and focussed to what we have watched or read – the suggestions improve the more we engage in the content
Why wou;dn’t youi be personalised – helping them to get there
They want people to find these AHA moments, when we find something that’s really great, or really what we want, or especially something we didn’t know we wanted til we saw it !! We feel good about the brand and come back for more
Husband watching – suddenty said ‘How did it know’ – Amazon had suggested something as he logged on to go and buy the exact same thing!
learning providers want to:
engage their learners
They want them to spend less time learning
And they need to deliver effective learning within a budget
But there are levels of personalisation, so here’s what I think are the levels …
Basic
Name change, choose a colour. Using LMS functionality creatively. Makes it friendlier.
Customised
Driven personalisation within a course, through questions that diagnose what you want or need. More focussed learning
Adaptive
System adapts to deliver appropriate content. Smart, the system learns about you what you know and want as you learn
There are no bounds to what we might be targetted with in the future …
Adaptive learning – imagine a system that knows what you’ve already learnt, knows what sort of content you are interested in, and also knows what the next steps in that learner journey might be for you?
The system makes suggestions of the content you should look at and also knows how you prefer to take your learning at different times of the day, for example? So it suggests a short learning game when you are on a train- because that’s when you play games. It suggests an article to read when you are having coffee in your favourite café, cos that’s when you like to read longer articles.
swap images
Top level path, plus deeper dives
Diagnostic that interrogates what the learner already knows and suggests/ gives missing content
Role or department filter – choose a persona
New slide with take a a look at just one of those areas … show background.
Here’s a chance for you to help build a small interactive exercise using some of these approaches about …. Here are a few of the photos you have sent in – choose which ones we might use in the course, and we ‘ll show the results a bit later.
Link to Sheep Dip
And of course one of the types of e-learning that has a parituclary bad reputation is compliance training. But there are smart ways to make compliance courses more engaging by personalising them to individual needs or preferences. For example ….
Compliance
Customisable in several ways:
Diagnose to establish role/level and existing knowledge then signpost relevant content
Content divided into:
Required Essential Additional
Different assessments based on level and role
Additional topics created for local audiences delivered within the same shell and then questions added to the assessments
Not true personalisation but it is getting towards it.
4 different roles (for different part of the organisation requiring different level of compliance) and hence 4 versions of the Test.
there are 10 topics (+1 a local customisable one) divided into 3 categories, According to each role the learners get different modules identified as Required Essential or Additional
Required (complete these to unlock the Test)
Essential (understand these before going to the Test)
Additional (look at these if you want to know more)
The Test covers all the topics in Required and Essential.
So expert learners will complete the Required topics and pass the Test
Overconfident learners will complete the Required topics, fail the test and then be prompted to go back to the Essential topics, where they have not done well
People who are new to the topic or the company are encouraged to do the Required and Essential
Additional modules are there as a resource for learners to refer to at time of need
The key benefits of this solution are:
It tests and evidences that a large population is compliant
Expert learners are not sheep dipped
Nobody would self-report as on overconfident learner, but here is a mechanism for people to identify that they need to pay more attention to the topic
So there are some great ways to customise and we’ll see some results shortly, but can you make that scalable? Well yes!
Actual global learners
Potential global learners
Large scale project – but can it be personalised?
2362 minutes of e-learning
that's 39.5 hours!
49 launchable deliverables with 178 components
21 tutorials
61 show me simulations
61 try it simulations
35 role play simulations
13 hours of audio recording over 3 sessions with 6 actors
Simon at Loophole said that the 7.5 hour record was the longest voiceover recording they've done for anyone, ever!
Covering 4 different IT systems
4 different roles in the bank
Based on 172 individual items of source content (talk about TMI!)
So you can see how you can do some simple things to personalise coures, and that these can be scalable. But can you do this quickly.
Well yes within reason.
The traditional production method for e-learning has been waterfall for many years
Clients worked as part of the team, and individuals were happy to leave decisions to others if they were not available
We worked in sprints, and had priorities for functionality – so if something took longer we all accepted that some things might get added taken out
Clients paid for number of sprints not for a fixed delivery
Clients worked as part of the team, and individuals were happy to leave decisions to others if they were not available
We worked in sprints, and had priorities for functionality – so if something took longer we all accepted that some things might get added taken out
Clients paid for number of sprints not for a fixed delivery
Buy in
Linking back to personalisation – customisation and bringing it all together - Show the result course
Summarise – two levels of personalisation – background and learning paths