This deck can be used as a template for your digital learning business case, process planning, staff development, all the good stuff. Courtesy of my colleagues at Intrepid by Vital Source.

1. Digital Learning Blueprint
Our blueprint to leverage modern digital learning methodologies.

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• What’s in this deck?
It’s a template with blank spaces for you to craft your own
vision and strategy for digital learning.
It was originally created by Intrepid for a 3-week course.
While the course is over, you can take the archived version
at your own pace here.

3. Digital Learning Blueprint
1 Business, performance and learning challenge
Business impact metrics2
Learning culture and digital learning vision3
Technology ecosystem4
5 Digital learning processes
Digital learning team6
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Part 1
Digital Learning Vision (The What)
Part 2
Digital Learning Strategy (The How)

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Our business, performance and
learning challenges

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Our most pressing business challenge: Summarize your business challenge in one sentence here.
Describe the challenge in detail in this space. Think about your stakeholders and include their perspectives as well as you describe
the challenge.
Business
Challenge
What is our most pressing business challenge? What will happen if this problem isn’t
addressed?

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Learning
Needs
Role Performance Challenge Learning Need
What roles are affected by this business challenge? What do they need to be able to do
differently (performance challenges) to solve this? What learning needs do we need to fill to
enable these roles to perform differently?
*Red highlight indicates the initiative we should focus on first.

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Current
Approaches
What current approaches are available to us? What resources do they provide that we
can use? Are there constraints we need to address in our future vision?
Approach Resources Constraints

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Business impact and success
measures
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Baseline
Data
Performance Gap Data Needed Plan to Collect Data
Looking back at the performance gaps we want to address, what sort of before and after data
can we collect that would show whether or not we moved the needle? How should we
collect this data?
*Red highlight indicates the most important metric we will want to focus on.

10. Success
Metrics
Now let's think about the success metrics we can track during the program to compare against our
baseline measures. What data do we want to collect to compare against the baseline, and how would
it manifest itself in what we measure as the course progresses?
Evidence of behavior change
How will we connect what learners do
in the course to their behavior on the
job? Some ideas include asking learners
to work on job deliverables or having
follow-up activities that ask them to
reflect on skills application.
Completion criteria for the initiative
How will learners know they are done in
this program? What completion criteria
should we communicate to them. E.g.
you’re done when you submit a group
assignment, or earn XX out of YY points
or earn so-and-so badge.
Engagement metrics
What learner behaviors would indicate
that they are truly engaged in the
initiative? For example, participating in
group assignments, being active in
discussion forums, reviewing content,
etc.
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11. Learning culture and digital learning
vision
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Audience
Readiness
How ready is our audience for truly digital, social and collaborative learning experiences?
What current attitudes do they
hold?
Enter your answer here
What digital approaches have
we tried that succeeded?
Enter your answer here
What have we tried in the past
that failed?
Enter your answer here
What should we do differently to
change attitudes?
Enter your answer here

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Our stakeholders
• Stakeholder 1
• Stakeholder 2
• Stakeholder 3
Describe ideas to market this change, involve them in it, and what support and commitment we will ask from them.
Leadership
Support
Stakeholder support is obviously important when trying to implement change so
let’s take some time to think through how we are going to market the change and
how we will gain the support of our stakeholders.

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What other aspects of our learning culture are strengths and which are challenges we need to
address?
Other
Aspects
• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 3
Strengths of our learning culture Things we will need to address

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Visioning
Exercise
What is the learning culture that we want to create? What will it look like for us, what will it
feel like for our learners, and what would need to change to get us there?
What it would look like What it would feel like What would need to change

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Our vision
Learning
Vision
What is our vision or our vision attributes for our new learning culture?

17. Technology ecosystem4

18. What should learners be able to do using our
learning technology?
What should we be able to track using our learning technology?
e.g. Learners should be able to ask a facilitator questions. e.g. We should be able to track learner feedback at the content
level.
e.g. System should allow for teams to work in groups. e.g. System should be able to release content based on a
schedule.
Our
Requirements
Looking back at our vision, what requirements should our technology ecosystem be
able to meet? What features and functionality do we want?
What data should the system be able to give us?
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Current
Ecosystem
Here is our current technology ecosystem.
Tell us about it.
Use this area to sketch out your current technology ecosystem.
You can use shapes in PowerPoint to map it out or upload an existing image you have.
You can also use one of the sample technology ecosystem maps we provided in the course.

20. Plan for
the Future
Here’s how our ecosystem will need to change to serve our business need and our
future learning vision.
How will we leverage what’s working?
List your ideas here.
How can we fix or phase out
what’s not working?
List your ideas here.
How can we add what’s missing and how
will we pilot it?
List your ideas here.
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Future
Ecosystem
What should our future learning ecosystem look like?
Tell us about it.
Use this area to sketch out your future learning ecosystem.
Something simplified that has elements of social and collaborative learning with a good balance of system of record
and engagement capabilities.
You can also use one of the sample technology ecosystem maps we provided in the course.

22. Digital learning processes5

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Current
Process
What does our current process look like for launching a learning initiative from concept
through completion?
Tell us about it.
Use this area to sketch out your current process.
You can use shapes in PowerPoint to map it out or upload an existing image you have.

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Future
Process
What should our future process look like if we are to be truly agile?
Tell us about it.
Use this area to sketch out your future process.
You can use shapes in PowerPoint to map it out or upload an existing image you have.

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What existing content can we take
online, either as blended or fully online
experiences?
Enter ideas here
Content
Strategy
Let’s talk about content, and how we will identify what we can build, buy, curate or blend for our
initiative. What sort of modalities do digital approaches afford that we want to include in our
strategy?
What can we curate from SMEs, learners
themselves and outside resources?
Enter ideas here
What modalities do we want to include
in our digital experience?
e.g. microlearning and short form
content, video based design etc.

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Current Delivery Focus
e.g. we have facilitators who can act as online coaches,
moderators or video talent
New Delivery Focus
e.g. we don’t have anyone who can send out regular
course related emails and address learner questions while
they are going through a time based experience
Delivery
Changes
What processes do we have in place related to delivery that will help our digital
transformation? What new processes should we think about adding?

27. Digital learning team6

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Rate your team on the current mindset
Team
Mindset
Think about the current mindset on our team. How would we rate our state of readiness for the
future of learning? What aspects would we like to address and which one is most critical?
Strengths of our team mindset
Talk about strengths here.
Team mindset that needs to change
Talk about the changes here.
Completely unprepared
Completely future ready
Move the
slider up
or down

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Skill
Changes
Which traditional learning roles are still needed, and which digital learning roles do we
need to build?
GOT IT NEED IT
Facilitator
SME
Instructional Designer
Delivery Manager
LMS Administrator
Video Instructor
Moderator
Technical Support
Platform Administrator
Visual Designer
Data Analyst
*Move the boxes to got it or need it columns.

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Change needed Plan for change
Plan for
Change
How will we meet the needs for change identified in the previous slide? Will we hire, train up
or outsource these roles?

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Knowledge Acquisition Strategy
For example:
• Conferences we will attend
• Courses we will sign up for
• New technology we will play with
• Books we will read
• Articles we will discuss
• Etc.
Plan for
Knowledge
What is our plan to keep ourselves current with the new thinking that goes with
digital learning approaches?

32. Congratulations on completing
your digital learning blueprint!
This is just the beginning, but it’s a great start. You’ve identified your vision and built a strategy for making it come true for your one key initiative.
You have all the makings of a terrific blueprint and we’re excited to see where you take it!
Keep in touch at intrepid@vitalsource.com and let us know how we can help.