16 Sep 2021
Why SAP Enable Now Is Important for Blended Learning
By Nayan Kurup Blended Learning over the years has evolved as an organic and meaningful tool of learning and development that helps both L&D Professionals and learners alike.
Companies today are likely to have workforces that include millennials who prefer digital learning and traditional learners and Blended learning provides learners with the best of both worlds.
One should not look beyond Blended learning when it comes to Digital Adoption of learning & development, especially in today's pandemic.
Blended learning has many advantages by offering an integrated learning environment.
Companies today are likely to have workforces that include millennials who prefer digital learning and traditional learners and Blended learning provides learners with the best of both worlds.
One should not look beyond Blended learning when it comes to Digital Adoption of learning & development, especially in today's pandemic.
Blended learning has many advantages by offering an integrated learning environment.
What is Blended Learning?
Blended learning is also referred to as Hybrid learning combines the best of two training formats – traditional face-to-face training and online e-learning in a way that compliments each other. Blended Learning caters to the needs of all types of learners.
Classroom Training gives learners opportunities with role-playing and immediate face-to-face feedback and better interaction. On the other hand, online learning enables personalized learning that is self-paced through e-learning or mobile learning.
- Instructor Learning use webinars allowing remote learners to engage better.
- Online Learning enables learners to manage the pace at which they learn.
Advantages of Blended Learning
Blended Learning goes beyond just providing an augmented learning experience to learners. Here is a list of benefits that Blended Learning offers.
Cost-Effective
The cost to develop blended learning content may seem substantial but when weighed against the cost of face-to-face sessions that includes, travel and accommodation costs, trainer expenses, the productivity loss due to employees being away from work, the benefits outweighs the cost.
Blended learning content can be used multiple times which is not true with traditional learning as the whole procedure needs to be repeated every time face-to-face training is arranged.
Digital Adoption Platforms like SAP Enable Now allows creating multiple content outputs from a single recording.
Documentation, Simulations, Performance Support, Test plans & Scripts, Offline Demo, Contextual Knowledge Base are some of the different outputs that one can generate with the same content.
Instant Producer tool in SAP Enable Now helps with screen recording and IT Content creation. Producer on the other hand is an extended authoring tool that helps with content creation for both IT & non-IT course material.
Better Engagement
Blended Learning is highly interactive and takes learners of all types into account. Whether one prefers classroom training or online learning or a combination of both, blended learning offers learning experiences based on an individual’s preference.
With a variety of content media, learners can reinforce the offline lessons they learn and apply the acquired knowledge on the job easily. The content makes it fun to learn and promotes community learning and thereby increased engagement.
Increased Personalization & Reach
One of the many challenges that organizations face when it comes to training is making learning content that is localized. One cannot stress enough the importance of Personalized learning content when it comes to Learning.
While Blended learning promotes fun and engagement it is also very handy to train the workforce across all demographics.
Diverse locations also mean diverse individual needs which Blended learning addresses by providing options to create content in multiple languages.
Continuous Improvement
Blended learning uses online and offline technologies that work in tandem enabling trainers to continuously improve the learning content with the latest learning trends, modalities. With tools to track and analyze the progress of each learner, trainers can help learners to learn at a better pace and perform well in their jobs.
Learners can also utilize some of the unique opportunities to discuss, practice, and implement new skills more easily at work.
The Manager tool in SAP Enable Now helps with Tracking, Reporting of learners, and learning content performance, and LMS Collaboration.
Desktop and Web Assistants help users through live-system Push and Pull Help in the IT system (Performance Support) promoting better knowledge retention.
How SAP Enable Now Promotes Blended Learning
SAP Enable Now can support your move to a blended learning approach with a wide variety of flexible online performance support that is better than its competitors. The Four important components of SAP Enable Now are Manager, Instant Producer, Producer and Desktop, Web Assistants.
Using SAP Enable Now Trainers can translate and localize content in no time and also generate template-based content.
Formal learning
With a wide range of tools SAP Enable Now provides an end-to-end solution to collaboratively create, manage and deliver Formal training. Some of the formal training modalities that SAP Enable Now support are Courseware for LMS, Classroom Training, Assessment, Quizzes, etc.
Informal learning
With both on-premise and cloud-based solutions, SAP Enable Now allows L&D professionals to create User Generated Content, Videos in addition to a dedicated knowledge portal.
Online performance support
SAP Enable Now with its Guided Tours, In-App Push notifications, and reference materials help users retain knowledge better without hindering productivity.
With SAP Enable Now L&D professionals can accelerate Digital Transformation of Learning & Development through Fast User Onboarding, Robust Analytics and Reporting, Simple integration and Quick Deployment, Universal Accessibility, Easy Course Creation & off-the-shelf content that promotes blended learning.
Why Cassini?
As experts in SAP Enable Now Cassini helps with Blended Learning through simplified processes that help in rapid content creation and deployment that is not only effective but also efficient. Talk to us today.
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