One LRS or Learning Record Store is a database for collecting and then analyzing learners' data to boost their commitment to training and improving. The LRS can be a database at the service of an LMS or a LXP. As a reminder, the LMS administers educational activities while allowing the dissemination of training activities to learners. The LRS works independently of the LMS, which allows all learner data to be retained in the event of a modification of the LMS.
Thus, it perpetuates the company's digital capital. Faced with the rise of new technologies and the desire to collect and maintain data, the LRS is a necessary tool. It can be the complement of a LMS to improve and innovate learning. The LRS can be a simple technical component or be the tool for monitoring your training, the choice is yours!
Analyze the performance of your training courses with an LRS
How does it work?
The Learning Record Store is the equivalent of big data in training. It records the traces of learning, analyzes them to then allow administrators to improve their educational service to employees.. The LRS records all learning activities from which all reports can be generated. It is the central piece of digital learning. The LRS also allows data to be automatically transferred to other systems using the xAPI standard.
Analyzing training performance using xAPI content
xAPI is the format for following all training courses thanks to data migration. This format makes it possible to innovate in several aspects:
- Traditional training activities are mapped out in great detail. For example, it is possible to know when the learner pressed pause and go back by watching a video.
- xAPI allows you to insert completely varied formats, even including interactions (which was previously impossible). It is therefore possible to do social learning.
LRS are becoming “Learning Analytics” to increase the performance of your training courses
The LRS records, centralizes, analyzes and returns activity traces, activity profiles, activity profiles, document sharing, the status of completion of training activities, and user preferences in order to conduct learning analytics or adaptive learning. It is possible to base alerts or reports so that the LRS becomes a complete monitoring tool for trainers, in order to optimize the performance of training for companies.. The LRS makes it possible to analyze informal content and therefore to cross-reference learning data and measure the impact of digital learning on learners' skills and soft skills. Evaluating training makes it possible to effectively measure the systems put in place at the service of employees. The analysis of these data makes it possible to locate the training objectives according to the results obtained. So, the company can determine the relevance and profitability of the training activities it has set up.
Finally, the data extracted from training activities can become a real lever to better support your employees and improve training, but also the employer brand and the company's performance. The LRS gives new indicators that are very useful to managers and allows artificial intelligence to be perfected in the service of training. Thus, analyzing the performance of your training courses with an LRS makes it possible to boost learners' training and their engagement.
