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Post by HaroldM on Mar 22, 2021 9:24:48 GMT -8
eLearnChat 366: Anthony Altieri, Ajay Pangarkar: xAPI For Tangible Learning Value & Business Results
We brought Anthony Altieri onto eLearnChat to share his knowledge of xAPI, and how you can use it with your LMS to deliver actual, tangible results.
Some of the questions we asked were: why haven't we switched to xAPI from protocols like SCORM 1.2?
We put forth some of our ideas on this, and posit how learning professionals can use xAPI to our advantage, and get business buy-in for its use.
Later on, the discussion moves to what you need in order to really start using xAPI to its full potential, and why you should see L&D as a renaissance space.
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Post by aaltieri on Mar 25, 2021 9:39:38 GMT -8
This was a great experience. I really enjoyed the chat. Thanks for having me, Harold!
There were a lot of good points raised around ways that Training departments can start to realize our contributions to (or cost to) revenue to help grow our organizations. And that can manifest in a lot of ways. Sometimes, just doing the math to see how much you actually COST your organization can be absolutely shocking. It's probably a lot more than you realize. I remember the first time I looked at my actual COST to be employed and it was staggering compared to my hourly rate. That was the first time I seriously considered how many billable hours I had to charge customers just for my employer to break even in keeping me around. I learned how I contribute to (or cost) my organization. Once I knew that... I started getting very creative in how to cover my cost! As a result, I got promoted and rewarded on multiple occasions.
But these are things that set the professionals apart from the practitioners. And if we want the C-suite suits to see us professionals... well...
--anthony
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Post by HaroldM on Mar 25, 2021 16:34:50 GMT -8
This was a great experience. I really enjoyed the chat. Thanks for having me, Harold! There were a lot of good points raised around ways that Training departments can start to realize our contributions to (or cost to) revenue to help grow our organizations. And that can manifest in a lot of ways. Sometimes, just doing the math to see how much you actually COST your organization can be absolutely shocking. It's probably a lot more than you realize. I remember the first time I looked at my actual COST to be employed and it was staggering compared to my hourly rate. That was the first time I seriously considered how many billable hours I had to charge customers just for my employer to break even in keeping me around. I learned how I contribute to (or cost) my organization. Once I knew that... I started getting very creative in how to cover my cost! As a result, I got promoted and rewarded on multiple occasions. But these are things that set the professionals apart from the practitioners. And if we want the C-suite suits to see us professionals... well... --anthony That's a good point, Anthony, and an excellent step in figuring out how to operate in a way that is efficient in terms of actual cost (and, by extension, how to justify the value of your projects and department as a whole).
Actually, maybe just tangentially related, but that reminds me of something that Artisan E-Learning's Amy Morrisey demonstrated for us on an episode of eLearnChat: a meeting calculator which estimates, based on the salary of every person involved, the meeting length, and meeting frequency, how much a particular type of meeting is costing your company per year.
When we (or people in any industry, really) get a little too abstract about ideas, it can cause a loss of focus and creates a real disconnect from the meat of training: a service that ultimately needs to deliver value.
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