E-learning Consultant
Do you need a skilled e-learning consultant? Ixir’s experienced e-learning specialist is at your service for any tasks requiring expertise in online learning, available on a daily rate or for a longer term.
We also offer tailored training sessions and coaching on e-learning.
Examples of situations where our e-learning consultant can help:
Looking for an LMS?
Selecting an LMS is often the first step in transforming training online. The market is filled with platforms for every possible need.
Ixir operates independently of any specific platform or technology. We do not offer our own platform or receive commissions for recommending any particular solution. However, we have extensive experience with various platforms and closely follow industry developments and the continuously expanding selection.
Platform Selection as Part of Your Training Strategy
The market offers a vast array of learning platforms. What kinds of integrations do you need? How do you want to build your courses? What type of learner data do you want to collect? There are countless possibilities for all these aspects.
Technical decisions are closely intertwined with strategic questions related to your organization's learning development, such as what you aim to achieve with your training programs. When choosing a platform, it is also important to consider the expectations of learners as well as those who design and manage the courses.
The extent of the platform selection process depends on your current situation, organization, and specific needs. Our expert will support you in planning the process and, if needed, handle its execution.
Get in touch, and let's find the best solution for you!
Creating a training architecture
Often, individual courses are created based on emerging needs in different situations. As the number of courses increases and there are multiple target audiences, the end result can be an unmanageable collection of various trainings and knowledge packages.
Sometimes, it is wiser to start the development of training or the transition to an online format by creating a training architecture. This is where Ixir can help.
What are the benefits of training architecture?
A clear training architecture saves everyone's time.
Participants can easily find the courses intended for them and navigate seamlessly from one training to another. There is targeted training available that meets their specific needs.
Professional training architecture also eases the work of training administrators. When the training architecture functions well, it's easy to:
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Eliminate overlapping courses and identify training needs.
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Standardize and align the content and delivery methods of training into cohesive and pedagogically consistent units.
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Establish a unified training monitoring system and gather feedback.
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Integrate new courses into the overall structure.
What does creating training architecture mean?
When creating training architecture, we analyze the target groups and determine their skill needs through surveys, interviews, or workshops.
Based on existing training and training needs, study paths are developed. These paths allow different audiences to efficiently utilize the training you offer.
All of this is organized in a course catalog, which outlines the objectives and key contents of individual courses included in the study paths.
Developing your trainings
There are many ways to fail in implementing self-paced online training. On the other hand, even a good course can often become excellent with a little refinement. Ixir offers expert assistance in developing asynchronous online courses.
Ixir's online course expert will review your training and provide concrete steps to polish it to perfection. If necessary, we can also carry out a course makeover.
This is how courses are developed
What kinds of things can be improved in courses, and how does it happen? The development of training is based on an analysis in which our e-learning experts assess the implementation of your training from various perspectives according to your needs. Based on this analysis, a plan is created on how the course should be improved.
For example, these are the things we assess:
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Content: course content delineation and course structure.
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Pedagogy: motivating the target audience, course progression and interactivity, as well as measuring learning outcomes.
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Communicative implementation: language, expression, and visual elements.
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Technical solutions: user-friendliness, functionality, and leveraging technical capabilities.
Evaluation of Training Impact and Effectiveness
Training design always starts with defining objectives. Feedback is often collected after the training, and LMS provides data on participant performance. This information alone does not always fully answer whether the training has truly achieved its intended goals.
To gain deeper insights, it is beneficial to also conduct broader target group analyses and, in some cases, more comprehensive impact assessments to evaluate the effects of training programs and overall learner satisfaction.
Does Your Training Make a Difference?
The ultimate goal of any training is change. When participants acquire new knowledge, skills, or competencies, it shapes their understanding and often influences their behavior.
This change can have a wider impact. For example, after an effective occupational safety training, the workplace becomes a safer environment, accidents decrease, and work processes become more efficient. Similarly, a well-executed anti-racism training for the general public can help reduce prejudices and strengthen equality and social cohesion in the society as a whole.
This broader transformation is referred to as impact. It can influence different areas of society or be reflected in your workplace culture. Impact goes beyond individual knowledge or skill acquisition — it becomes visible over time, often well after the initial learning experience.
How Is Training Impact and Effectiveness Evaluated?
Evaluating impact requires a comprehensive analysis of how training influences learners and their environments, as well as a long-term perspective on its effects.
Ixir’s expert designs and conducts various kinds of target group studies, user analyses, and extensive impact evaluations related to your training programs.
Get in touch, and let’s explore how we can help assess the impact and effectiveness of your training!
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