Conor Gilligan from Webanywhere gave a presentation on the Extended Learning Enterprise (ELE). The ELE involves elearning targeted at non-employees to link learning outcomes to performance data across industries globally. Key benefits include measuring learning assessments against product sales. Sectors that could benefit include value added resellers, membership organizations, and for-profit training providers. The ELE differs from employee training in that it is community-driven, can create accreditation paths for certification, and allows purchasing content. Examples provided were Yum Brands reducing turnover through standardized classes and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors increasing revenue through their online academy. Tools were also briefly mentioned.

1. Conor Gilligan - Head of Workplace Learning
Division at Webanywhere
What is the Extended
Learning Enterprise?

2. Who is Webanywhere?
11 years in e-learning
Moodle Partner in the USA, UK, Poland
Totara LMS Platinum Partner
UK Commercial. Procurement Service Approved
Supplier
Tin Can API Partners, Learning Locker LRS

3. Geography
120 staff across 3 locations
Katowice, PL
Chicago, US
Leeds, UK
London, UK

4. Today’s Agenda
● What is the Extended Learning Enterprise?
● Extended Learning Enterprise vs Employee Training
● Examples
● Tools you can use

5. The Extended Learning
Enterprise

6. Extended Learning Enterprise (ELE)
Is elearning targeted at any non-employees
It’s relevant to any industry globally and is easy to
measure
The key benefit is linking learning outcomes to
performance data e.g. learning assessments to product
sales
Which sectors could benefit from ELE?
Value Added Resellers
(VARS)
Membership
Organisations
For Profit Training
Providers

7. Extended Learning Enterprise
vs Employee Training

8. ELE vs Employee Training
Extended Learning Enterprise
● Links learning to performance
● Driven by community
● Can create ‘accreditation
paths’ for certification,
increase competition
● Access on the go - need for
mobile learning
● Can purchase content
● Elearning seen as beneficial to
the user
Employee Training
● Does link to performance, but
often performance tracked in a
separate system
● Driven by employees and
champions, often seen as
‘extra work’
● Certification is possible, but
less common
● Mobile learning is needed, but
corporate firewalls often act as
a barrier
● mainly for free access to
employees, no revenue model
● Elearning often seen as a
something extra to complete

9. Increase Sales,
decrease costs
Benefits of ELE...
Improve Compliance
Support International
expansion

10. Examples

11. Yumm Brands
● 40,000 restaurants, 115+ countries,
1.4 M employees
● Over 800,000 users trained using
standardised classes
● Reduced employee turnover by 20%

12. Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
● Established in 1869, a professional
body with certification standards
● 120,000 members worldwide, in 140
countries
● Increased revenue channel via ‘RICs
Online Academy’
● See more - https://academy.rics.org/

13. RICs Online Academy

14. Tools

15. A few options...

16. Thank you

17. Contact
e - conor.gilligan@webanywhere.co.uk
w - www.webanywhere.co.uk