There are many benefits of eLearning these days. One of them is making the employees compliant. However, you have to show returns on compliance-based training also.

You have to show the senior management reports of how e-learning is helping them achieve their goals. 

It is also important to show reports to understand how learners are faring.

There are a lot of LMSs and you can easily choose from one. Covid-19 has made things worse for the learners. The learners need to have their performance reported.

When the benefits of learning and development are explained to the learners, they understand what they need to learn to perform their functions better.

These are the modern-day features of an LMS.

LMSs need to provide content to the learners which is important. But some of the LMSs don’t provide reporting facilities for the learners.

SUSs are more useful to learners. SUS refers to a sustainable upskilling solution. The SUS is configured through cloud-based solutions, which implies that the vendor takes care of them. This implies the customer gets all the data required from them. The customers i.e. companies also enjoy benefits like easy accessibility, scalability, and better security. 

The SUS has certain new features which were not present in an LMS. This leads to a better learning experience for the learners. It implies increasing the skills of employees by giving them more education. There has been a survey that shows that upskilling has led to better productivity in the workforce. Such CEOs can work harder towards talent retention and better engagement of employees. Such upskilling is necessary because people’s skills are getting obsolete. This is due to the impact of automation. 77% of the people included in this survey said that better skills are needed from preventing them from becoming obsolete.

A large percentage of them were optimistic that the new skills would lead to higher employability for them, i.e. make them contribute more to the workforce.

There is a requirement for upskilling. Different solutions have to be created for organizations that are local and at different levels. There can’t be single solutions for organizations at all levels. There has to be a lot of collaboration between different partners of organizations like the business leaders and government to attain the results.

The government must ensure that the citizens must have all the information to take part in the digital economy and that no one lags. The government should act as a spokesperson to be at the forefront of the debate about how policy and technology are going to shape up.

The educators also need to change themselves to get make society prepared for the skills needed by them. Why SUSs are a better option than LMSs: 

• Easy distribution of information

Organizations need to question why they need eLearning. These platforms give organizations a tool to train the complete organization. There need to be video lessons and the organizations can measure their impact. The SUSs evaluate the worth of training which is developed on distinct evaluation models such as the Kirkpatrick training evaluation model.

On the other hand, LMSs save costs and there is a simple reduction in costs. There is consistency and simple distribution of electronic content.

LMSs can be configured through the self-deployed servers or cloud-based servers located at different places. When such LMS’ are configured on remote servers, there can be increased deployment time. But when LMSs are configured on local servers the company is responsible for taking care. If their access includes setup, security, and access this can be a headache for companies. On the other hand, SUSs are deployed through SaaS-based models due to which the learners can open up them through a URL. 

• Different ways in which the LMSs and SUSs are built

The main percentage of LMSs is created in the form of content containers such as AICC and SCORM. These content containers are built with the aid of authoring tools. The authoring tools have some disadvantages such as their cost, the users don’t get a full-fledged experience and there is a lack of reports.

On the other hand, SUS provides content containers apart from meeting content standards such as Microsoft Word, MP4 video, and Youtube so, so content authoring becomes quite easy with them. The users get a better experience through these tools because they use the same technology to deliver content such as that used by Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon prime video.

• Reporting differences

LMS doesn’t provide reporting from the point of view of legislative reporting. The LMSs have report generators that the users can utilize. 

The reporting is also better with the SUSs which provide the user with the benefit of custom reporting. The users can create reports from all kinds of data present on the platform. Data can be integrated from systems such as CRM to create reports.

So, these varied reports are genuine and can help in reporting for legislation. 

• Other differences

There are many differences between an LMS and a SUS. The latter has a lot of gamification choices for the learners. There are also audit functions for the learners whereby their performance can be assessed. There can also be learner affinity measurement parameters telling the content creators which content is getting enjoyed the most by them. The learners can also provide feedback to the SUSs.

Microlearning is also an essential part of SUS, where the learners can learn through short-byte-sized modules.

So, these are some major differences between LMSs and SUSs.