Big Data In eLearning

Is continual consumer education worth the investment? Learn how to measure metrics that matter and achieve buy-in to quantify the value of customer training.

L&D stands poised at a moment of opportunity to up its game in using data and learning analytics, but many learning professionals are held back by worries about their own capability gaps and their organization’s readiness to embrace data-driven learning. This post gives seven valuable tips and two free planning tools to help with the creation of a successful and sustainable learning analytics strategy.

Fear of the unknown holds L&D back from furthering learning analytics in organizations. But while caution is a useful instinct, the American Mythologist Joseph Campbell said, ‘we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us’. Every explorer needs a map and compass, so how do you find out exactly where you are on learning analytics – and where you need to go?