Case Study
HP Enterprise Creates a One-Stop Brand Portal
HP Enterprise created an award-winning solution that met the organization’s need for centralized access to brand assets and guidelines with context-specific brand training—all in the same location. Instead of accessing brand resources in one location and brand training in another, which would decrease the utility of the training, AllenComm created a combined portal that could bring learning into the flow of work.
Design and Development of Custom Learning Technologies
AllenComm has the experience and expertise to design and develop a wide array of learning technologies—including authoring, learning management, learner experience, simulation, and collaborative applications. We offer professional design, UX, engineering, and implementation solutions that will integrate with your existing learning ecosystem.
Authoring Solutions
Decades ago, AllenComm created one of the very first authoring platforms for the learning industry. Since then, we have designed generations of authoring systems to support custom eLearning and blended solutions. Although we leverage off-the-shelf applications whenever possible, we are continuously challenging ourselves to create scalable learning technologies to support robust gamification, simulation, high-end media, and personalization. We can design and develop for a single initiative, or we can design a scalable solution that can be leveraged by the client’s in-house developers.
Custom Solutions
- Gamification: Apply the elements of game design to improve learning.
- Simulation: Provide realistic practice—both cognitive and technical—in a controlled, risk-free environment.
- Assessment: Automate the creation, management, and personalization of skills assessments, evaluations, reviews, diagnostics, etc.
- Mobile Learning: Create mobile apps for learning in the field.
- Social Learning: Support collaborative learning including cohort activities, project-based learning, and peer reviews.
Scalable Innovation
- Custom Template Creation: Enable greater scale with advanced templates for gamification, simulation, assessment, etc.
- Training and Coaching: Provide workshops, work in tandem with in-house teams, etc., to ensure adoption of custom learning tech.
- Maintenance and Support: Troubleshoot on demand and support your in-house team; update tech to work with new applications.
Learning Portals for Custom Learning Management
A learning portal is not a learning management system (LMS), learner experience platform (LXP), or learning content management system (LCMS), but it may have characteristics of all three. The rationale for developing a learning portal usually comes from a unique organizational, industry, or market context. These solutions are often combinations that bring together the features of e-commerce and learning, for example, or customer support and learning.
Portal Use Cases
- Skills-Based Learning: Manage skills at the level of each learning objective, tracking development and proficiency and providing personalized feedback.
- Learner Experience: Guide and sequence learners on personalized journeys comprised of multiple experiences delivered over extended periods.
- Instructor-Led and Hybrid Learning: Create tracking and management of resources, instructors, and materials for ILT, V-ILT, and hybrid learning.
- Combination Use Cases: Bring learning into the flow of work to create situational relevance and create proximity to the point of need.
Value
- Branded UX: Create a streamlined and highly branded UX for a specific program or audience.
- LMS Optimization: Take full advantage of existing APIs to extend functionality.
- Multi-Tenant Solutions: Create separate learning databases based on client or security needs.
- Scalable Features: Combine pre-built functionality with add-ons and custom technology.
Learner Experience (LX) Add-ons Enhance Existing Functionality
AllenComm offers a unique set of web services that function as add-ons to your existing learning technology. They extend functionality or add additional capabilities depending on the needs of your program. This category of learning technology is not well known, but it is a practical, less expensive alternative to upgrading your core learning platforms.
Learning Use Cases
- Collaborative and Social Learning: Include cohort-based activities, cue up peer or manager feedback, etc.
- Ratings and Reviews: Include learner-generated reviews of resources and courses (and personalize options based on reviews).
- Action Plans: Create goal-setting apps that prompt learners to plan and execute on their goals.
- Homework and Project-based Learning: Request that learners share content (text, audio, video, etc.) with other learners for individual or project-based learning.
Administrative Use Cases
- Learner Dashboards: Provide learners with dashboards that aggregate all of the feedback on their learning journeys.
- Advanced Data Collection and Reporting: Support more granular tracking and reporting—often at the level of each discrete learning objective.
- Analytics Packages: Ensure stakeholders have easy access to the key metrics most closely associated with performance outcomes.
