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Maturity in Large Scale Corporate e-Learning

Understand the indicators of maturity in corporate e-learning and learn how companies can improve their e-learning practices and strategies. This study provides a battery of indicators of maturity in e-learning based on interviews with prime companies.

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Maturity in Large Scale Corporate e-Learning

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  1. Maturity in Large Scale Corporate e-Learning RosárioCação ICELW New York, 11-13 June, 2014

  2. Understanding Corporate Maturity Maturity is about reaching a development level that maximizes skills and talents, optimizes the response to needs, reflects past experiences and recovers from the things that went wrong Indicators of maturity Companiesneed to assesstheirownmaturityintermsof e-learning inorder to improvetheir e-learning strategies, procedures, andpractices.

  3. Aims, Sample, and Methodology To identify key indicators of maturity in e-learning and provide a battery of indicators of maturity that companies can use to self diagnose their e-learning practices and maturities and design strategies to improve their practices. We conducted semi-structured interviews at prime companies and looked for good practices, off the stream and disruptive practices, and their experiences within e-learning. Theresultis a list ofindicatorsofmaturityclassifiedinsevendimensionsofmaturity

  4. 7 Maturity Dimensions Strategy Structure People Experience Learning process Learning design Learning products

  5. 7 Maturity Dimensions Strategy • Motives for using e-learning in the company and kind of objectives it follows Strategy Structure • Link between e-learning and business strategy People Experience • Ability to balance corporate idiosyncrasies and trends in the learning industry Learning process Learning design Learning products • Importance, weight, and role of e-learning in the overall training and development strategy • Degree of centralization/decentralization and convergence/divergence of the international e-learning strategies • Ability to develop think-globally-act-locally e-learning strategies, procedures, and practices • Effective use of e-learning • Top management attitudes towards e-learning

  6. 7 Maturity Dimensions Structure • Training organizational structure and its evolution Strategy Structure • Physical resources to support e-learning and their adequacy to the e-learning strategy People Experience • Financial investment in e-learning & weight of e-learning in training initiatives and budgets Learning process Learning design Learning products • Degree of dependency on external funding • Type of cuts that are made during recession periods • Certification of the training process & compliance with legal requirements, norms, and standards • Internal procedures in e-learning and extend to which they are formalized and monitored

  7. 7 Maturity Dimensions Experience Strategy Structure • Confidence in current e-learning initiatives People Experience • Perception of the initiatives in e-learning as isolated experiences or as a cruising-speed performance Learning process Learning design • Perception of quality of previous experiences in e-learning Learning products • Ability to cope with and recover from bad experiences • Ability to develop experiments and test different approaches

  8. 7 Maturity Dimensions Learning Design • Adequacy of tools and platforms used Strategy Structure • Degree of integration of e-learning tools with HR management tools People Experience • Degree of use and perceived easiness of use of the tools and platforms Learning process Learning design • Degree, motives and methodologies used to outsource nuclear activities of learning design Learning products • Methodology to create and update the courses • Degree of centralization/decentralization of the design process • Innovation in terms of pedagogy • General attitudes towards learning trends

  9. 7 Maturity Dimensions Learning Products Strategy Structure • Types of learning products that are created or used People Experience • Complexity, diversity, and depth of the learning portfolio Learning process Learning design • Technological support of the learning products Learning products

  10. 7 Maturity Dimensions Learning Process Strategy Structure • Development of individualized • e-learning plans People Experience • key performance indicators and tools and methods of evaluating e-learning initiatives Learning process Learning design Learning products • Social dynamics & existence of support systems • The use of e-learning to promote informal learning, online communities of practice and online coaching

  11. 7 Maturity Dimensions People Strategy Structure • To whom the courses are target, degree of openness of the courses, restrictions of use, and degree of voluntariness People Experience • Maturity of the trainees, their reactions and attitudes towards e-learning, and their basic and digital literacies Learning process Learning design Learning products • Maturity, strength, R&D, and general attitudes towards e-learning of the training team

  12. Slides available at: slideshare.net/rosariocacaoPaper available at: https://coimbra.academia.edu/RosarioCacao Maturity in Large Scale Corporate e-Learning RosárioCação mrac@dei.uc.pt

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