We, along with some colleagues implementing the same LMS at different organizations are having difficulty wrapping our heads around the term ROLES. We tried to no avail to get the term dropped or changed to something that makes more sense to our internal educational lingo.
I believe the term Roles is a common LMS term from some discussions I’ve had with various people, but it is not a common term within our hospital learning environment. I’m curious if someone can share a good definition or explanation that we could share with our learners, educators, and managers.
Our understanding of a Role is “a set of courses (that may include certificate(s) with one/many courses within them as well) that are required to be taken by the staff assigned the role”.
Is that true? Is there a better way to explain this terminology? We use the role synonymously with job title and this is perhaps where we need to redesign our thoughts. (previous post)
Typical roles (or perspectives of users) could be:
Learner
Classroom Instructor/Teacher
Administrator
Content Developer/Instructional Designer
Online/Virtual Teacher
Scheduler
External Content Developer
Thanks for the help Harold. Your outline is exactly the first place I would go when thinking about roles. They use it completely different
They do describe those positions as roles but those are the “various types of users”
They use the word role as….
a nurse in Emergency would have a role as:
1) annual curriculum role – has WHMIS, Occ Health, etc to do every year
2) RN Emergency role – has cpr, cardiac courses, triage courses, ER orientation, to do every year as an RN in ER
3) Leadership role – this same nurse might be identified as someone we want to groom for leadership down the road, so there are leadership courses she needs to take
and so and so on.
Role just doesn’t seem like the right word for me, but I haven’t been able to think of something else. I suppose they are similar to learning paths or plans?
Looking further I guess they actually term it as “Learner Roles”.