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Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace

By : Alex Büchner
Book Image

Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace

By: Alex Büchner

Overview of this book

Moodle Workplace is a comprehensive extension to Standard Moodle, the world's most used learning management system (LMS) platform, empowering millions of learners worldwide. Moodle Workplace is suitable for businesses and organizations, from small enterprises to global corporations. Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace is a comprehensive introduction to this latest product from Moodle, which facilitates collaborative learning in enterprises and larger teams. Complete with detailed descriptions, a variety of diagrams, and real working examples, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you everything you need to know to manage a Moodle Workplace system. You’ll learn how to manage your users along reporting lines and organize them in to tenants, organizations, positions, job assignments, and teams, before setting up typical HR processes such as induction, compliance, and reporting. Filled with real-world examples, the book covers blended and offline scenarios, including appointments and the Moodle Workplace mobile app. By the end of this Moodle book, you’ll have learned how to fully manage a Moodle Workplace instance.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Chapter 7: Skills and Incentives

Modern talent management is aligned with skills and competency mapping. Skills and incentives are two key ingredients for any human resource strategy. Both concepts are closely tied to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The former is driven by internal rewards or self-fulfillment, while the latter is driven by external rewards or to avoid punishment.

Moodle Workplace provides several tools that support both intrinsically and extrinsically motivated tasks, namely certificates, competencies, and badges.

First, we are going to provide an overview of skills and incentives in Moodle Workplace, which includes an overview of the typical processes that occur once certain goals have been achieved. We are also going to differentiate between the covered tools in terms of related activities for formative and summative assessments.

The focus of this chapter is on certificates since they are unique to Moodle Workplace. You will learn how to manage certification...