Curating Training Content Efficiently
Curating content with regular improvement loops is key to preventing training materials from becoming stale and outdated. Without ongoing updates, your content may lose its relevance and effectiveness.
Even if you are assessing the success of your training modules regularly, you may still see the need for a refresh of your content to ensure your learners are remaining informed and engaged. And we know it can seem like such a huge task to undertake – a lot of our customers avoid it!
As such, we’ve developed the Tribal Habits 5 C’s of Curating Content for training, to guide you through the easy process of assessing your current content, breaking it down into useable and not-useable pieces, and easily refreshing your modules.
The 5 C’s
Follow these 5 steps to content curation success!
1 Contextulisation
Make it relevant and up-to-date by re-defining and knowing your target audience. An easy win for Admins when assessing outdated compliance training is to use the inbuilt Tribal Habits Compliance modules that will be presented in your company’s branding. These are assessed and approved by an Australian legal team, so using content from our existing Library just makes sense!
2 Categorisation
Siphon the most useful information into focused sections, ensuring the most important information is filtered and optimised for the learner. Ensure the complexity then increases with each new module or pathway, allowing for a sufficient learning curve, keeping learners engaged, and allowing for students to be enrolled in only the modules that correspond with their level of knowledge or job title.
3 Combination
Add new content from various sources to enhance the existing content and refresh the learner experience. We recommend that you supplement your existing content with content from our library, online resources and your own thoughts and experiences as an ‘expert’, ensuring varied and well-rounded sources of information. Include opportunities for learners to submit feedback to you on the effectiveness of the course in their eyes with any suggestions on changes you can be making to improve their enjoyment.
4 Circulation
Testing and receiving feedback from coworkers and superiors is encouraged at this point. Once your colleagues have weighed in, deploy your fresh new modules and pathways to your students and tailor each learner’s journey to their needs by filtering student enrolment into the courses that are relevant to them.
5 Checking and Confirmation
Refer to and report on the feedback tools that you included in your modules periodically to ensure your courses are being enjoyed and that content is resonating as intended. You can simply adjust your content and the feedback opportunities for learners accordingly, ensuring that continuous feedback loop!
Conclusion
Efficient content curation doesn’t have to be complicated. We aim to help you maintain strategies that effortlessly enhance your training delivery and make sure you always remain on top of your game!
FAQ’s
What is the 5 C’s framework for curating training content for?
The 5 C’s help organisations to assess and refresh their training content to keep it relevant, interesting and aligned to the needs of the learner.
What do the 5 C’s stand for?
Contextualisation, Categorisation, Combination, Circulation, Checking and Confirmation.
How does Contextualisation help training content?
Contextualisation keeps content relevant to the audience by updating to current industry standards, compliance requirements or organisational branding.
What’s the benefit of Categorisation in training content?
Categorisation puts information into focused, structured sections so learners can follow a logical sequence and get training tailored to their role or level of knowledge.
How does a Combination help training?
The combination adds richness to training by combining different content sources – like new library resources or expert insights – which adds depth and variety and improves engagement and learner experience.
What’s the purpose of Circulation in the 5 C’s?
Circulation is sharing the draft content with colleagues for feedback and testing to ensure the final content is complete, relevant and meets the needs of the learner before broad release.
How often should checking and Confirmation happen?
Checking and Confirmation should be ongoing with regular reviews of learner feedback and course performance data to allow continuous refinement of the training content.
Is the 5 C’s framework for all types of training content?
Yes, the 5 C’s can be applied to any training content – compliance modules to skill-based training – to keep it current, valuable and learner focused.
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