Innovation Partners

Enable, validate, and refine learning assets to achieve a globally accessible learning experience

Provide a personalized learning journey, using algorithms and learner inter

Learning path is adjusted based on the learner’s performance on questions or tasks

They may include additional data point beyond right or wrong, such as confidence or challenge level

Broad category includes intelligent automation tools and/or Artificial Intelligence design components

Includes chatbots, and robotic process automation tools

These are often pre-programmed responders that react to a specific input

Includes tools designed to create linear animations

Often packaged as video files

Include the tools to create augmented reality learning content; applications for augmented experience delivery; live, remote assistance from experts; and robust reporting capabilities to track and monitor success and/or compliance

Platforms often provide learning experiences via existing mobile devices (i.e., tablets, phones)

Offer similar functionality to gamified platforms, but emphasis is on the ability to collect and share earned badges

Provide seamless credential authentication and verification across online learning experiences

Enable learners to showcase their qualifications and credentials across all digital platforms

Provide simulated experiences for complex business applications or complex machines

Feature a simulation engine, allowing participants to make decisions through a branching or emergent experience

Can include virtual and live elements

Emphasize connections and coordination between individuals and those that can provide input/guidance on a variety of topics

Often include matching services, scheduling and mechanisms

Remove the barriers to establishing coaching and mentoring relationships

Support mentoring relationships as they continue

Includes data collection to provide insight into the effectiveness of a coaching or mentoring program

Enable individuals to experience content and socialization in-their-own time and at fixed times within their cohort

Includes cloud-based platforms to deliver a semi-synchronous experience.

Support teams at the point of collaboration and work

Allow individuals or organizations to coordinate and connect a large, rapidly evolving group of participants’ ideas, votes, and micro-tasks

Primarily pull-based learning systems, where learners access information as they need

These on-demand experiences often link or point to content hosted elsewhere (e.g. third-party resources, internal intranet resources, LMS, etc.)

Organizations curate content assets to be consumed by learners on demand in journeys often called “learning paths” or “plans”

Enable an organization to collect data from a range of sources, compile customized reports, analyze the results, and share visual representations of the data to key stakeholders

Support the Design Thinking or Collaborative Design processes

Specifically designed to manage digital assets across an organization

Focus on the sharing, management, and retention of work documents

Often include workflow automation tools that support the creation, approval, and maintenance of work documents in a validated environment

Used for creation and packaging of self-paced, asynchronous learning assets

Example: web-based training courses

Provide business owners and learning developers a continuous development experience through policy, procedure, recorded demos, and practice simulations

Specifically cover the process from the creation of policies and procedures through the development of training

Enable a workforce to identify and certify that a specific learner or population has demonstrated mastery of a skill

Provide advanced reporting to provide insights into workforce readiness

Provide a range of game-based mechanics e.g. Jeopardy applied to learning

Provide access to digestible, familiar games that can be integrated into a learning journey

Often includes reporting and analytics features, e.g. individual

Use game mechanics (e.g. points, badges) applied in a learning context

Employed with the goal of increasing learner engagement and promoting retention and, ultimately, application

Used to engage and track the talent across an organization

Learners map where skill strengths and gaps match

Primarily designed to manage learning assets/content shared across and organization, including, but not limited to the design, development, tracking

Primarily designed to manage formal learning events in an organization including, but not limited to launching, tracking, and reporting

Focus on the delivery of rich media across an organization

Host and enable effective sharing of high-bandwidth assets, such as video, across the learning network

Provide social learning and information sharing through ongoing thread and asynchronous operation

Designed to support learners in using new software, websites, or apps
– Create step-by-step guidance assets
– Often include features that automate the creation processes

Designed to: Collect feedback or insights from a target audience

Often provide some analysis/scoring of results and trends

Designed to provide level 2 testing(pre and post-tests) for a population

Cloud-based

Can be linked to/from other learning events to deliver validated tests, capture results for each learner

Common features include question banks, item analysis, advanced reporting

Tools can be stand-alone or bundled with other platforms such as an LMS

Includes tools designed for the creation of video outputs

Can include the remote capture, live capture, and post-production

Include tools that enable a learner to submit and receive feedback from peers, SMEs, and facilitators primarily through recorded video

Interactions are easily uploaded, distributed, tracked, and evaluated

Includes the tools to create and/or host Virtual Reality learning content

Hosting platforms often provide robust reporting dashboards and cross-platform communication

May require additional equipment for fully immersive VR experiences

Focus on the enabling the virtual sales environment

Provide a workflow support the sales process, including delivering learning and performance support at the point of need

Includes platforms that provide a toolset designed to support an event with a discrete event with a virtual or a hybrid of live and virtual experience

Can include a range of features such as registration management, schedule management, live streaming, incentive tracking, document sharing, social components, and archival

Designed to deliver live content virtually

Many of these platforms include participant interaction features, such as whiteboards, polling, annotation, and breakout rooms