What does a real life e-learning strategy look like?

September 17, 2009 at 6:50 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 11 Comments

I was reading a post recently about e-learning strategies http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/09/elearning-strategy.html and one of the things that I totally agreed with was the fact that there aren’t that many examples of e-learning strategies available on the internet ! Now as much as I like to take I also acknowledge I gotta give back too ! So here’s my 2 cents worth 🙂

I have created a few e-learning strategies in my past roles and I have learnt a lot about them along the way. I started off small..creating strategies for local learning program rollouts, for small L&D departments and then onto  national and global e-learning initiatives.

I am going to share here an e-learning strategy I developed about 12 months ago. I agree with Alisson Rossett’s view (http://www.clomedia.com/features/2009/April/2603/index.php) that a strategy  tells everybody who you are and what you intend to accomplish. The strategy I created here had a few aims :

• Give my L&D team direction in terms of what we were going to do in re to e-learning
• Give the wider HR department a roadmap of what we were going to do and how
• Tie in with the organisation’s people goals and demonstrate how the my L&D department was going to contribute – essentially making the line of sight clearer.

One of the key considerations for me was to determine where we wanted to be but also take a close look at where we were in terms of e-learning and identify what we were doing well and what needed to change or improve. It was no use coming up with blue sky scenarios and ideas when we didn’t have our basics sorted out !

So the strategy outlines where we intended to go and how. The emphasis was on utilizing our existing resources (people, systems and materials) to their fullest capacity.

Here it is eL Strategy Blueprint 2008- 2009

Drop me a line if you have any questions or would like to discuss further !