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Effectively Curate Content to Enable Employee Learning

Use third-party content solutions to deliver an effective learning experience.

  • In today’s digital age, organizations are inundated with a vast array of external content. With so much information to sift through, curating high-quality, relevant content requires significant time and careful planning, turning what should be an advantage into a potential challenge. Ineffectively curated content leads to high quantity but not a high-quality experience, causing learner confusion and disengagement.
  • Dedicating valuable HR time and resources to content curation that remains unused by learners diminishes the impact of learning and development initiatives.

Executive Summary

Critical Insight

Curating content isn't just about making content available to learners – it's about knowing why it's there and how it serves them. Intentional content curation ensures that each piece of content is relevant and tailored to both the learner and organizational needs.

Impact & Result

  • Organizations must adopt a strategic approach to finding, filtering, designing, and delivering curated content to better meet the needs of the organization and the learner.
  • Beyond curating content effectively, organizations must also regularly assess the content's relevance and alignment with the broader organizational objectives to ensure it remains current and impactful.

Research & Tools

1. Prepare for content curation

Prioritize content gaps, evaluate available resources, identify who is involved, formulate learning objectives, and create learner profiles for target learner groups.

2. Find and filter sources and content

Identify content requirements, find sources, and filter the content.

3. Design curated content

Adapt and organize the curated content.

4. Share the curated content

Set metrics and goals to track impact, select the delivery media, and share the curated content with the target learner group(s).

5. Evaluate curated content

Review metrics to evaluate effectiveness and plan for regular updates to the curated content.

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