Next Learning Valley's learning concepts

You learn throughout the day as information comes to you in every possible way. A talk, a webinar, a course or an article; you learn something from everything. We focus on four ways of learning: social, personalized, data-driven and workplace-driven. François - co-founder of Next Learning Valley - talks about these four ways of learning and how they reinforce each other.

Social Learning

There is an enormous amount of valuable knowledge in an organization. You want to share that knowledge widely to raise the level of knowledge throughout the organization. To achieve that, you need to know who the knowledge carriers are. In our experience, they are not always very visible to colleagues. Therein lies a nice challenge.

Social learning happens all day long. A chat with a colleague, a consultation, a recommendation of a book or a presentation are all sources of new insights that help you do your job better. In our learning environment, we encourage social learning, and make clear who has what knowledge.

By embracing social learning, tacit knowledge is shared. This is the knowledge a person possesses through experiences in a specific context. By sharing experiences with each other, people can enrich each other. You also leverage more knowledge in the organization.

Our experts are happy to tell you more about social learning.

Personalized Learning

With personalized learning, we give the control of learning back to the employee. In our Learning Experience Platform, we offer a whole variety of learning experiences. You can ask feedback from a colleague, you can ask a colleague to do something for you, there are videos, blogs, e-learnings and so on, and there are 39 different learning experiences. The learner can decide at their convenience in what way they want to learn. If the learner does not know exactly where to start, he can work with a tutor to map out a learning plan. If we want to personalize learning even more, this can be done using data.

Personalized learning ensures that less time is needed to achieve a given performance. This is because the learner determines what he needs at that moment to achieve a particular performance. This makes the learning experiences not only more specific, but also smaller. In addition, giving learners their own direction increases engagement within learning.

Our experts are happy to tell you more about personalized learning.

Data-driven Learning

A personal development plan forms the basis for the learning environment. The employee draws it up together with the manager. On the basis of, for example, test results and learner behavior, we can fully automatically adjust the learning environment according to need and level. The data from the Learning Experience Platform also provides valuable information for the next step in the learning process.

It is possible to send notifications to the learner and make interventions when adjustments are needed. We can even fully automate this. Then we capture all the data from the learning environment and structure and visualize it in such a way that you get insight into what is being learned in the organization. In our dashboards you can discover patterns so you can optimize the learning process. We also offer the possibility to make the data from the learning environment available to managers or HR.

Data-driven learning creates two benefits. You save time because repetitive actions can be automated and you gain visibility and control over how people learn, what skills they possess and what you need to bridge the so-called skills gap.

Read more about data-driven learning here.

Workplace Learning

In workplace learning, the focus is not on acquiring knowledge but on optimizing skills. Skills that you only master by doing it in the specific context. The context makes it more complex but more importantly more valuable because employees understand why they need to learn something and how they can apply the learning experience in practice. Leading a meeting, for example. Prepare the meeting, conduct it and evaluate it. You learn by doing it.

With workplace learning, you put performance front and center. After all, the learning experiences are designed to take place in and around the workplace. You also actually put abstract learning into practice. This allows the team leader to see what the learner has learned and check it off in the digital environment.

Want to know more about workplace learning or the other concepts? We are happy to engage in conversation.

The concepts reinforce each other

The concepts can stand alone as well as be combined. For example, you can link workplace learning to social learning and personalized learning. In the case of the meeting, the employee can lead the meeting when he is ready and afterwards ask for feedback from colleagues to do even better in the next meeting. All of these learning experiences can be captured using data-driven learning. In this way, the concepts reinforce each other. At Next Learning Valley, we like to challenge our clients to think about this and look beyond it.

The Learning Suite

In our Learning Suite, we have several modules that support learning concepts. For each client, we create a customized learning ecosystem in which we make concepts come to life with technology.

Want to learn more about the Learning Suite and its various modules?

Then read this blog.