E-learning and LMSs for local government and the public sector

Complex organisational structures and the need for training to address this.  E-learning solutions are designed to make the complex simple.  Powerful automation tools can be used to trigger specific learning pathways for different groups of your employees from a single, centralised platform.

Government organisations have a diversity of other training needs such as onboarding, competency, CPD etc.  An LMS enables learning at the point of need. Create and curate custom content and situational training to suit specific roles, and let employees search, discover, and engage in multimodal courses, video assignments, interactive role-playing, and game-based learning.  In short, a market-leading LMS will make learning more accessible and inclusive for everyone.

A need to distribute training in a wider variety of subjects than almost any other sector.  An LMS for the government sector streamlines the training process by consolidating the data and making an endless variety of course material easily accessible to the learner from one single platform.

An essential need for robust compliance training to meet legal obligations is a critical element of Public Sector e-learning.  With a robust LMS, it’s significantly easier to certify competency in specific areas, complete with a reportable audit trail. Mismanagement in and around compliance can result in significant financial or legal penalties, even if only a single member of staff slips through the net.

A need for robust and consistent measurement and reporting to monitor training efficacy is critical across public sector organisations. A quality LMS comes with the necessary tools to track and analyse the performance of the employees on a regular basis. Powerful performance tracking and analytical tools help government departments ensure that the employees are on the right track and are progressing as needed.  

Government organisations often have sensitive and extremely important data, a public sector LMS and its provider must have the highest data security measures and all the necessary security compliances to ensure that the data is secure from any risk of cyberattacks or threats.

The explosion in remote working (and therefore training), has been amplified by the Covid pandemic.  Employees in the public sector may be spread across a number of different locations. Your LMS should incorporate features such as mobile and offline learning, enabling your teams to access the training courses they need, when they need them, from any location and from any device.  

Increasingly constricted budgets and a need for any new training solutions to be cost-effective. Switching to online learning can stretch tight budgets, enabling more to be done with less.  And with today’s LMS automation tools, an LMS can help public sector organisations save money in terms of easing the training administration costs.