A future-proof LMS and rapid e-learning programme for 50,000+
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The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games brings nations together in a colourful celebration of sport, culture, and human performance. Ahead of the complex international event, Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games commissioned imc to implement a highly scalable learning management system (LMS). What was need was a future-proof digital learning platform, plus an easy-to-use content creation tool to generate e-learning materials at speed.
Starting from scratch under time pressure
The Commonwealth Games have a mammoth training requirement. With a workforce of over 50,000 employees, volunteers and contractors to upskill rapidly, Birmingham 2022 needed an LMS to streamline the training process. The team had to start from scratch just nine months before the event with no existing LMS in place.
A sustainable digital learning platform
Systems and contracts carry over from one Commonwealth Games to the next. For that reason, Birmingham 2022's aimed to achieve a better knowledge transfer between each organising committee. The team sought a solution that could be reused for the 2026 and 2030 Commonwealth Games.
Meeting the learning needs of a diverse audience at speed
Time was limited before the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, so the team needed everything to come together rapidly – without any risk of scope creep. Implementation of the LMS had to remain on brief, on budget, and on time.
Another challenge were the needs of a very diverse audience of learners. Different ages, languages and levels of technical ability among the volunteers and employees required the LMS to be extremely user-friendly and fully intuitive to navigate.
A future-proof LMS and rapid e-learning programme
All employees, contractors and volunteers involved with the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games attended face-to-face orientation sessions. The purpose of the four-hour sessions was to help the workforce familiarise themselves with the procedures specific to each venue. A blended learning programme was the best approach to deliver the learning. In order to protect the limited amount of face-to-face training time available, the team used the LMS to host other bite-size training and support.
Integration with a workforce management system
The LMS, branded as 'B-Bright', pulled user data from Rosterfy, a volunteer and workforce management system. For the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, a simple data transfer service imported the data from Rosterfy. The plan is to integrate the two systems for future games.
Rapid e-learning creation with imc Express
imc Express is an easy-to-use authoring tool that takes the hassle out of content creation. Content creators can easily import text from Microsoft Word, add multimedia content, drag and drop images, and build interactive learning activities to engage learners. To support the most inclusive Commonwealth Games ever, video content was automatically subtitled, making sure it was accessible to the entire workforce.
A future-proof success story
More than 20,000 users signed up for B-Bright, with 16,000 users enrolling in the first 16 days after launch.
There were over 85,000 course registrations from these users, meaning that on average, each user signed up for four or more courses. This is a testament to the quality and value of the LMS, as all content on B-Bright was voluntary, yet it still kept people coming back for more learning.
Beyond 2022, the LMS will be reused for the next two Commonwealth Games, saving significant time and money.
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Easy and accessible content creation – even in stormy seas
Aprendio is a Danish start-up enabling high impact learning
in the maritime and renewable energy sectors.
Training to drive the green transition
Aprendio is a dynamic and scaling business and has ultra-expertise in its domain. Mikkel Hansen, CEO & Co-founder with more than 25 years of experience in the industry, explains: "The maritime and renewable energy sectors are rapidly changing – they are vital in enabling the huge ‘green’ transition as they help drive the world’s shift towards a green economy.
The need for additional and highly trained staff has never been greater with millions of new jobs being created globally."
To support the strong demand for better and faster training content, Aprendio needed to find a suitable authoring tool. Key considerations were the fast creation of e-learning content that was easy to distribute to learners anywhere in the world, and ease of accessibility.
Creating accessible, impactful content that can reach professionals anywhere
Aprendio reviewed many of the leading authoring tools, including imc Express. They found that the market was divided broadly into advanced tools and easy-to-use tools. As their focus is making an impact quickly for their clients’ organisations, Aprendio did not want a complex tool that would take them and their customers a long time to master and use.
“We especially liked the intuitiveness of imc Express and the quality of its output versus other tools.”
In Mikkel’s experience, one of the key factors to ensure a learner’s success is the language. Therefore, the automatic translation feature of imc Express is a great help for them. Because only if a learner really understands what they learn, they can internalise it, which is highly important especially when it comes to security training on ships.
The other critical element was for diverse, easily accessible content, which imc Express’ video and audio features provide, allowing learners to watch and listen while they practice or learn technical tasks. Mikkel summarises:
“We need to break-down barriers to learning and help people do their jobs well. imc Express allows us to do this.”
Bye bye old-fashioned learning materials, hello modern, accessible content!
Within a very short period, Aprendio have been able to deliver hundreds of additional high impact trainings to learners, and make learning shorter, smarter and more relevant. Mikkel said:
“I’ve actually been sitting onboard a ship, with a satellite connection, using imc Express to convert training they had made onboard into a course.”
“imc Express allows you to get training content in your learner’s hands fast. Not in a matter of months or weeks, but hours.”
The KPIs at a glance:
- Small team produced more than 60 training contents in less than 1 month from onboarding
- 50 % of Aprendio training content is now produced in imc Express
- Took creation of digital learning from months and weeks, down to hours
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Resource Saving E-learning, by and for Employees
The UNIQA Group is one of the leading insurance groups in its core markets of Austria and Central and Eastern Europe.
It has around 21,000 employees and exclusive sales partners serving over 16 million customers across 18 countries.
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Wanted: A sales training course that’s learner-focussed and quick to deploy
In the past, training at UNIQA was very hands-on and traditional. The training documents were created by individual employees who were experts in their fields. These courses often took many weeks and months to create. In most cases, they were too long and inflexible and they offered UNIQA’s teams nothing in the way of modern, digitalised learning.
The company needed a way of harnessing the knowledge of its experts and getting this to its sales teams. This was no small ask, given the employees in question are spread across 18 countries and many work remotely. The solution had to be fast, readily accessible, dynamic and highly efficient.
Rapidly deployable, modern e-learning courses – created by employees and trainers themselves
As a trusted provider to UNIQA for over 20 years, imc was the obvious partner for building an online training campus. The campus is a digitalised platform that makes sales training and development programmes more accessible and efficient for employees. Digitalisation of these programmes means that employees can now engage in learning at any time and from any location.
To fill the online campus with content as quickly as possible, UNIQA implemented the imc Express authoring tool. With this tool, anyone can create training content quickly and easily. It was an instant hit with the test group (sales employees and trainers):
“imc Express helps us make learning mobile”
“The tool is very time and resource efficient”
“With imc Express, content can be created quickly and easily using AI”
imc Express: an easy-to-use authoring tool that streamlines learning
“imc Express is self-explanatory, interactive and multimedia-friendly. It’s actively helping us achieve our goals around voluntary and independent learning,” says UNIQA digital learning specialist Mario Kopic.
It does this by taking the hard work out of creating learning content and by delivering modern, interactive learning experiences. The resulting content, which can be accessed from any device, caters to different learning styles, whether visual or auditory.
In addition, imc Express allows course authors to collaborate on content – during the actual content creation process. No more time-consuming coordination and feedback processes.
The successful implementation of this project in Sales made people elsewhere at UNIQA aware of imc Express. Consequently, departments like Group Operations, Learning & Development and HR are now also making extensive use of the tool for their digital training needs. And what do these departments see as the main benefit of imc Express? Its intuitive usability. imc Express is easy to use, enabling experts to spend more time imparting their knowledge and less time thinking about the tool itself.
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Ensuring high quality across global operations
The Hansgrohe Group is a major player in the bathrooms, kitchens, and wellness industries, generating €1.4 billion in sales annually. The company lives and breathes premium quality and design. It needed a best-in-breed learning platform to ensure the highest quality delivery across all its global operations with over 5,400 employees in 34 companies and 20 sales offices.
How to achieve a consistent delivery worldwide
The Hansgrohe Group is committed to top quality. Delivering on this commitment entails communicating the quality message to all employees at multiple locations around the globe. To that end, the company needed to guarantee the same high level of expertise in all its divisions, whether in the USA, Europe, or China.
Face-to-face professional development was another challenge: shift workers in production had few options for attending courses held at remote locations during their normal working hours.
A top-tier distributed learning system
In 2006, Dynamic Media GmbH (later merged with imc) developed an LMS for Hansgrohe. Since that time, all employees have been able to learn independently, free of time constraints. They have access to industrial safety courses, fleet training programmes, and diverse learning offerings for topics in IT security, quality management, and staff development. More recently, the company introduced its employee app, giving its production workers easy access to the learning platform and relevant training content.
But that’s not all. In 2021, Hansgrohe adopted the imc LMS. This opened up a whole new category of learning to its installers, resellers, designers, and others. These users can now access a wealth of e-learning content and information on the company’s entire hansgrohe range and its AXOR luxury range.
Each division of the Hansgrohe Group is able to design its own training content. The company uses imc’s content authoring tools – Content Studio and imc Express – to create engaging e-learning content. Hansgrohe chose Content Studio because of its impressive user-friendliness and wide range of options for interactions.
Thanks to imc Express, the company can now automatically translate user-generated content and integrate it directly into the LMS. This is possible because imc Express is browser-based. The system also includes approval workflows to ensure that only approved high-quality content gets shown to learners.
Flexible corporate training a big hit with employees
During the pandemic, Hansgrohe hit on the smart idea of using their imc LMS as a vaccination booking tool. The platform gave employees and their families an easy and convenient way of booking appointments, enabling them to take advantage of the company’s in-house vaccination offer.
The project manager in charge, Jasmin Gargano, is pleased with how the system worked.
“Our main criterion was to give our employees a fast, bureaucracy-free booking system so they could protect themselves and their families. And the imc Learning Suite seemed the perfect choice for the necessary central administration capability. Our employees were already familiar with the system, so they found the booking process very easy. The resulting personal data was deleted from the system afterwards. Needless to say, the offering was very well received by our workforce.”
At Hansgrohe, learning ties in with the company’s core value of mutual appreciation and respect. A key tenet of the corporate culture is for all employees to be empowered to learn independently. Thanks to the adoption of the imc Learning Suite and imc authoring tools, this is now a reality at all the corporate locations.
The company also continually expands its learning paths and optimises internal processes with regard to skill and competency level. Hansgrohe plans to focus ever more closely on the needs of its employees to provide them with even better training.
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How the latest authoring tools can ‘change the game’ in scaling global e-learning creation
mybreev is a cutting-edge company that offers pioneering solutions in the field of online
duty of care training (security, safety, cyber education, and compliance e-learning) across the globe.
Our comprehensive e-learning programs ensure that our clients stay ahead of the curve
and are well-equipped to tackle the challenges of today's rapidly changing liability environment.
Producing e-learning that keeps pace with learner needs
Uwe Roniger, CEO of mybreev with more than 25 years of expertise in the industry, had been looking for a super-fast authoring tool that could provide a cool, engaging content experience for global learners for more than 2 years.
As Uwe explains: “Even though only 10-15% of the off-the-shelf content that mybreev supply to their clients needs customisation, it is this 10-15% that is most important for both the learner and the client company, to personalise their content and provide the best learning experience.”
Around 50% of mybreev’s clients request customisation or language localisation so finding the right authoring tool would have a huge impact on mybreev’s efficiency. However, this solution was proving very difficult to find. “In our own private media consumption, we can view anything we want, instantly in our own language, for free. So why, in the professional sector, are clients still having to invest huge amounts of money and time in translation? In an age of technology, this doesn’t make sense,” Uwe says.
Using AI super-powers to create limitless, global e-learning
As a future-focused, innovative organisation, mybreev’s CEO, felt strongly that an automated tool using the power of technology was the solution and tasked his senior manager, Jutta Nowak-Strauch, to find the ideal authoring tool.
Jutta’s many years of experience in e-learning content creation meant she understood fully all the problems that can occur in the production process. The frequent changes needed to create the optimal learner experience, especially where multilingual content is required, are the most time consuming. She explains “all learners learn better in their own language”.
As soon as Jutta saw imc Express in action and tried the system, she was convinced.
“I was astonished to find how much AI was already available within imc Express, compared to other solutions, especially the AI voices. All our in-house content producers are now using imc Express as part of their suite of expert tools.”
No more learning boundaries thanks to imc Express
Uwe explains, “previously we had no limitations in what we and our clients could create in terms of content experience. But we did have limitations in what we could offer the client in terms of customisation and language possibilities and of course our clients had budget limitations. Since the discovery of imc Express, the boundaries have been lifted and our clients are now able to offer an amazing, customised content experience to any learner, anywhere in the world, instantly and without additional budgets.”
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