The rapidly digitizing global economy is not just redefining jobs and careers but also education. The demand for skills is evolving, making it difficult for higher education and corporates to keep up with the pace of change. This has led to a global skill gap that is widening at an alarming rate. In a 2023 Wiley survey, 69% of human resource professionals reported that they were struggling to attract, retain, and train adequately skilled employees. Insufficient and non-aligned L&D practices are further creating learning gaps within organizations. This can render companies inefficient and lead to lost opportunities.
Although a transformation in higher education may help, it cannot meet the immediate needs of the global economy. Therefore, businesses must build a workforce development framework that emphasizes effective upskilling and reskilling of employees.
Transforming Workplace Education with Technology
The World Economic Forum recommends that businesses employ technology to adopt flexible and accessible learning pathways to reskill their existing workforce and upskill them for evolving digital roles. Simultaneously, companies need to diversify their hiring pipelines to fill vacant positions with adequately skilled individuals. One of the 4 measures to build a job-ready talent pool is to leverage online learning platforms. This is where community-oriented measures to remove critical learning barriers, such as high cost, access to data, devices, and connectivity, can prove invaluable.
One of the most effective ways to overcome barriers to learning is to integrate a powerful LMS with the organization’s existing digital ecosystem. Here’s a look at how an LMS can help foster a culture of continued learning and growth, in sync with the evolving industry landscape.
1. Enable Anytime, Anywhere Learning
Advanced learning platforms offer a unified experience across devices, which facilitates learner-driven experiences. This, in turn, boosts motivation and engagement, improving learning assimilation and retention.
2. Ensure Accessibility and Inclusivity
Modern content development tools support the creation of accessible and inclusive content. Augmenting learning materials with assistive technologies, such as speech recognition, image and video captioning, and text-to-audio, ensure accessibility and compliance with web access guidelines.
3. Leverage Data Analytics
AI/ML-powered analytics help discover existing learning gaps. Integrating an LMS with organizational workflows facilitates targeted learning to meet immediate and future skill requirements. Additionally, LMSs can help track learner progress and content effectiveness to assess the efficiency of learning programs and identify areas of improvement.
4. Address Diverse Learners
Online LMSs empower organizations to personalize and localize learning experiences. Customization facilitates the creation of unique learning paths based on individual skill and knowledge gaps. This also aids in aligning individual learning to business goals. Plus, AI-powered tools ease translation of content into multiple languages and add cultural nuances to provide standardized training across geographies.
5. Foster Collaborative Learning
Organizations today are increasingly employing a globally dispersed workforce. Online learning platforms, equipped with video conferencing, discussion forums, and group activity tools facilitate collaboration. Additionally, internal competitions, leaderboards, and gamification elements deliver immersive learning experiences, fostering healthy competition and motivation.
6. Seamless Integration
Modern API-based learning platforms seamlessly integrate with existing learning systems to augment empower organizations to provide equitable learning opportunities to all. Cloud-based systems ensure scalability and accessibility without the limitations of time and space.
Partner with the Best
Transforming learning and transitioning to the latest learning technologies can be a daunting task for organizations without in-house technical expertise. Yet the need to transition cannot be overemphasized, given that 40% of skill requirements are expected to change by 2025.
Partnering with a leading technology provider, known for facilitating adaptable, customizable, and uniformly accessible learning experiences, can be a game-changer in the mission to bridge skill and knowledge gaps in an organization. Integra’s proprietary platform, SkillPilot, delivers exceptional results, transforming learning such that it translates into quantifiable business outcomes. Request a demo to learn more.
