Need an e-Learning Agency to develop content?
Are you searching for an eLearning content provider or e-learning agency to create unique and inspiring courses for your LMS e-learning platform?
Then you’re going to have to take a breath and compare a host of different factors before making your final decision!
At the moment, there are countless e-Learning agencies to be found on the online marketplace, which often makes it a challenge for organisations to actually find and pick the right fit.
That’s where we step in; this article spells out some of the all-important factors to consider when choosing an eLearning agency provider, so your organisation comes out of the process with a top-notch LMS e-Learning platform Learners truly benefit from. Your e-Learning provider should offer everything needed for the idea to come to life as a successful eLearning course.
Have we piqued your interest? Keep reading!
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Are you searching for an e-Learning agency content provider who can create unique and inspiring courses for your LMS e-learning platform?
Then you need to know they are up to the task!
Have the potential e-Learning agency showcase some of their previous work, give you access to a demo version, or otherwise show you how they will be able to provide great content. After all, the courses to be created must be relevant, engaging, interesting, and optimised for your target audience, so never settle for mediocre! Users are unique in different ways and the courses must be created to meet their individual needs, which requires flexibility and skill on the part of the agency involved.
Besides, the quantity and type of users whom the the courses are created for must be put into consideration. You should be looking at factors such as the amount of content to be created, your target users' knowledge level, possible varying entre levels for employees within your corporate hierarchy, and the company's aims ors goal when it comes to creating eLearning content in the first place.
Your aim: Select a Creative e-learning Agency
You should clearly state the skills that you want your e-Learners to come away from the course with, and how competent they can become within a specific role after the digital training.
The agency you choose needs to have the right creative skills to bring all the information together in a way which will engage your Learners, and, crucially, they need to be COMMUNICATIVE GENIUSES.
One crucial factor that most organisations tend to forget about when choosing an e-Learning agency and content provider is the level of communication and interactiveness it is capable of sewing into the fabric of the course.
It is vital to ensure that the courses are engaging enough to hold the user's attention all the way through, meaning that they need to contain varied and cleverly designed materials that encourage the Learned to become genuinely interested in participating in their own e-learning process.
Some of these materials could e.g. be in the form of gamification, interactive videos, PowerPoint presentations, podcasts or scenario-based learning. You won’t want to take on an agency whose view of eLearning is copy-pasting textbook content on a slide and calling it a course! This bring also the question of the LMS e-learning platform.
Keep in mind: the LMS e-learning platform is crucial
The LMS platform used to deliver your eLearning content is one of the biggest decisions you’ll make, and it needs to be a major part of the decision-making process when it comes to selecting the e-learning agency that’s right for you.
An otherwise fantastic and creative e-learning agency may only give you the option to use their proprietary platform, and then it turns out it doesn’t quite offer the features you wanted. Others have no dedicated platform and use services such as Moodle, which can be fantastic if their skills are developed enough.
Ensuring that you know what the LMS e-learning platform can do and what the types of content can be developed for it goes a long way towards figuring out how effective it is.
To sum it all up, before opting for a specific e-Learning agency, you must take the time to analyse these 5 critical points:
Type of content users want - can the agency provide it?
Company objectives for creating such courses - can the agency help meet these objectives?
LMS software to be used in the training process - can their LMS support all your needs?
User demographics (age, job role, level) - can the agency cater to all Learners?
Learning experience - can they offer the interactive experience your Learners deserve?
Finding an eLearning agency isn’t easy; there’s a lot to consider and a lot to test out and ask about.
It all starts with checking out the agency portfolios, narrowing it down to the most creative agencies, and then further narrowing it down to video-first options.
Not sure why?
Explore the Learning Management Systems they work with, and choose the one that offers you the flexibility, speed, interactivity, and options you want. Then jump into the thick of it all and get talking openly and honestly about BUDGETS AND EXPECTATIONS.
Transparency about the costs is the best favour you can do yourself, as you avoid the risk of losing funding halfway through development, or having to settle for a mediocre option.
Do your research carefully and pick the agency you know is the right fit for your project.
Here at TheLearning LAB we have over 15 years of experience in the field, and our international team of graphic designers, 3D motion designers, video editors, creative content strategists and front-end and backend developers offer every aspect of the course design in-house. We’ve worked with international sports federations such as World Athletics, the International Volleyball Federation, and the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme.