Corporate training is vital to a company’s success – which means you need the right tools within your organization to effectively create an impactful training program. Creating the right corporate learning technology ecosystem for your business will support a flexible, seamless learning experience for both training teams and employees.

In this guide, you will learn:

• The Corporate Training Technology Ecosystem
• What is an LMS?
• What is a VMS?
• What is an LXP?
• What is Video Conferencing?
• Benefits of a Corporate Training Tech Stack
• How to Integrate Your Technologies
• How to Encourage Employee Buy-In
• How to Begin Rolling Out a Corporate Learning Technology Program

The Corporate Training Technology Ecosystem

The corporate education technology ecosystem consists of a variety of learning solutions designed to be the building blocks for information sharing and learning. For trainers, the integration of these technologies offer a flexible learning environment designed to suit their teaching needs. These three technologies also work together to create a seamless learning experience for employees, whether they are meeting in breakout rooms online, listening to a live training session they missed, or watching a training video while on the job.

Elements of the corporate learning technology ecosystem include:

• A learning management system (LMS)
• A video management system (VMS)
• A video conferencing solution
• A learning experience platform

Did you know? Personalized, relevant training is desired by 91% of employees. A corporate training technology ecosystem offers opportunities for personalized, flexible learning.

What is an LMS?

For businesses in need of a robust training program or continuing education sessions, a Learning Management System (LMS) helps instructors effectively distribute learning materials. Corporate LMS software enables organizations to manage the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of eLearning programs right from a desktop — transforming what had been an almost-exclusively manual, person-led process and creating new opportunities to enhance offerings and scale resources. Popular LMS solutions include Cornerstone, SAP SuccessFactors, and Bridge.

What is a VMS?

A video management system (sometimes called video libraries, video platforms, video content management systems) is an asynchronous video technology for creating, hosting, searching, and streaming videos online. A VMS, such as Panopto,  enables the easy capture, management, and viewing of video content for the purposes of communicating, educating, or entertaining. Different from synchronous real-time video conferencing technologies that support live, two-way video conversations, video platforms offer a range of solutions for on-demand video and, increasingly, live, one-to-many streaming video. A VMS solution is needed in addition to an LMS in order to more easily create, store, and share video learning content.

 

What is an LXP?

Corporate trainers have the option to share learning content through a Learning Experience Platform (LXP). An LXP is a learning software that lets users create personalized paths based on AI-driven recommendations. What that means is that as a user finishes one piece of content, the LXP recommends similar content to advance the learner to the next step based on their past content engagement or previous engagement from similar users.

What is Video Conferencing?

Video Conferencing is an online technology that allows users in different locations to hold face-to-face meetings. Video conferencing has radically improved the way employees communicate, putting faces to voices and creating a more personal connection during virtual learning sessions. Common video conferencing communication tools include Zoom, WebEx, and Microsoft Teams.

Benefits of a VMS in Your Corporate Training Tech Stack

Most corporate business training centers already have a VC and LMS in place – but VMSs like Panopto truly integrate the technologies into a seamless learning ecosystem. A VMS is purpose-built to produce, store, and share video content – a feature many learning stacks are missing. Panopto is the central hub for trainers and learners and makes all video content easy to use.

Benefits of a VMS in your corporate training technology ecosystem include: 

• Streamlined workflows. Your VMS acts as the central hub of your ecosystem, seamlessly integrating every VC and LMS solution you have. These integrations allow trainers and employees to easily create and ingest video learning content without ever having to leave your LMS environment. 
• Automatically captured live sessions. With a VMS like Panopto, you have the ability to automatically schedule the recording of learning sessions and fully automate the lecture capture process. You can use a recording device on-premise or in the cloud from any web browser or smartphone, and your videos are automatically uploaded to Panopto and shared with users.
• Powerful search capabilities. Your videos should be automatically indexed and searchable, whether they come from Panopto’s recording software, Zoom, or any other recording origin.  Panopto’s Smart Search feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to automatically index and time-stamp every word that’s spoken or displayed on-screen in 15 different languages.
• Straightforward and secure permissioning. Security of your company’s intellectual property is vital in the corporate learning technology ecosystem. Panopto’s video management system integrates with SSO ID management solutions as a number of LMS authentication systems for both desktop and mobile users to ensure all video content is secure and only available to those who have permissions.

 

📣 “Panopto helps us to organize, store, and deliver video, so that anybody in any office can find any training materials they wish. Doing that, in turn, is helping us unite our offices and take advantage of our shared expertise.”

Julie O’Brien, Attorney Development Manager, Perkins Coie LLP

How to Integrate Your Technologies

When you integrate your organization’s corporate learning technologies, it’s easier for employees to quickly find and securely share information captured in learning assets and trainers to seamlessly share information. You can automate typically time-consuming and complicated video workflows to ensure all employees are able to utilize both on-demand and live video for rapid information sharing. 

As you can see, recording technology,  a VMS, and an LMS/corporate intranet are all seamlessly working together in this workflow. There are multiple ways to integrate technologies, and it’s easy to find a solution that works for all types of learning environments.

How to Encourage Learning & Development Teams Buy-In

Implementation of new technology in a business is one step – but encouraging buy-in and adoption is another step entirely. While resistance to change may be common, there are a few steps to take to help ease new users and incorporate the technology into a corporate training program. 

There are 4 steps to encouraging employee buy-in when introducing new technologies:

1. Demonstrate the benefits of learning technologies. Showcasing the positive benefits to the new corporate training technologies will help lessen concerns from employees and help to focus on the benefits these technologies will bring. Benefits include a more flexible learning environment, higher employee outcomes, personalized learning opportunities, and increased employee engagement insights. 
2. Share examples of other organizations successfully completing integrations of technologies in the classroom. Drawing inspiration from other corporate learning programs  who have successfully implemented an ecosystem of learning technologies can showcase the benefits of using these technologies. Find case studies and testimonials of institutions who have successfully incorporated this learning ecosystem in their business setting.
3. Highlight features and opportunities the technology brings. New technology can seem overwhelming at first, but starting small and highlighting unique and helpful features of different technologies within the ecosystem will showcase how the tools can fit into their specific learning style.
4. Gain trust through an early adoption program. Find a few users to begin using these technologies regularly, such as department heads or managers. Peer-to-peer learning can be helpful when implementing new technologies to help showcase benefits and use cases from trusted colleagues.

How to Start Building Your Corporate Training Tech Stack

The corporate learning ecosystem isn’t one specific workflow, but a concept that can look different for a variety of businesses. The corporate training tech stack is comprehensive and can be personalized to suit your specific needs. With flexible scalability, your organization has the option to grow at a pace that makes the most sense for your employees and training team. 

For those just starting to upgrade technologies, beginning by incorporating one or two new workflows may be the best option. An example would be using a tool like Panopto as an end-to-end solution on an employee’s existing laptop. 

Once new technologies are integrated, scalability is crucial to expanding your learning programs to make them even more flexible. At this stage, more complex solutions with multiple tools may become the norm. 

Rolling out a corporate learning technology program will look different for each business, so it becomes vital to choose technologies and tools that offer the flexibility to grow with your business.

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