{"id":19245,"date":"2021-02-24T16:43:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/?p=19245"},"modified":"2021-02-24T16:43:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:43:43","slug":"how-to-move-seamlessly-between-learning-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/blog\/how-to-move-seamlessly-between-learning-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"How to move seamlessly between learning platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever heard of the saying \u2018when you fail to plan, you plan to fail\u2019? Some phrases sound good and that\u2019s it, but there\u2019s a lot of truth to this one. And no more so than when you\u2019re finally upgrading from an LMS to something better or moving learning platforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A successful migration is a lot like a brilliant holiday, it starts way before launch day! You wouldn\u2019t leave packing, researching activities, transfers and booking your flights until travel day, but forward-planning is often overlooked when it comes to learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, those overlookers often arrive at learning launch day and their content\u2019s all over the place, they haven\u2019t promoted the move to users, they\u2019ve failed to set their goals, and they\u2019ll find themselves playing catch up in the first few months.<\/span><\/p>\n

Luckily, this is your guide to all the things you can do to prepare yourself properly. It’s how you can build a good foundation and kick off the era of your new platform in style.<\/span><\/p>\n

The kick-off: Goal and objective setting\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

If there\u2019s two things you really need to establish off the bat, it\u2019s what your goals are for launching this new learning platform and the benefits of doing so. Yes, they\u2019re great for your L&D team to know, but their biggest power lies in convincing your two most important stakeholders: business leaders and the learners themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

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You should be able to say \u2018here are the benefits you\u2019ll get from using our new platform\u2019 and \u2018these are the objectives it will help us all achieve together\u2019. Putting it bluntly, why should they care otherwise? Business leaders will be interested in how it drives the company goals, and individual learners will be won over if they understand the impact on their personal objectives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, this doesn\u2019t mean stopping with just two questions. But we\u2019ll cover some of the other ways you can work out where you are and where you want to be in the rest of this, which might guide your goal-setting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you aiming for culture change?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Now, this could be part of your overall benefits, but it really does deserve its own section. Why? Because the limitations of an earlier platform often shape the learning culture, which drives many people to new pastures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, your old LMS might live completely separately from all the other tools people use, so there\u2019s no way for them to learn in the flow of work<\/a>. Or perhaps your old platform is the typical top-down structure, where only a select few create and assign content. Well, that puts an end to social learning and knowledge sharing<\/a> because internal experts can\u2019t communicate independently.<\/span><\/p>\n

Establish what that cultural change is and work out how you\u2019ll empower and encourage people to adopt these new behaviours. Taking a step back, you\u2019d be wise to audit your current culture, learning habits and all those limitations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a theme of this entire guide, but you really need to audit what you\u2019re currently doing and map that against where you want to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

Start by asking yourself these questions:
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