SKILLABLE CHALLENGES
Help your learners build confidence and skills that translate to on-the-job success.
Skillable Challenges enable learners to explore, practice and “learn while doing” instead of simply following a list of tasks to complete a lab.
Skillable enables you to create scored hands-on labs for your software, but often your learners also need skilling on popular industry topics and technologies.
Skillable Challenges can be used throughout your learners’ skilling journeys, giving your learners additional skills to help them use your software effectively.
As your learner completes scenarios, the Skillable platform checks their live lab environment to see if the scenario was completed correctly. As learners prove mastery, the next Challenge in the series increases in complexity so that the learner is continually growing in their skills mastery.
If a learner struggles, more guidance is provided, ranging from hints and tips to relevant documentation, depending on the skills level of the lab.
Best Practices for Using Skillable Challenges.
Since 2020, nearly 2 million learners have completed 25 million hours of training with Skillable Challenges.
More than 1,000 labs across a variety of topics and technologies, such as Cybersecurity, AWS, Azure, IT Operations, Programming and Data Science, are available now for your learners with more to come!
Wondering how Skillable Challenges might fit into your learners’ skilling journeys? Here are three popular use cases:
complement learning plans
extend vendor labs
by putting your learners into the real-world environments they're already studying.
exam preparation
The Skillable approach to challenge-centric learning.
Skillable Challenges leverage a learning methodology we call “challenge-centric learning.” Put simply, we believe people learn best while doing. Learners must have real-world, hands-on learning experiences to master new skills and have confidence working in production environments. For more on this concept, read our whitepaper, A Case for Challenge-Centric Learning.
While labs are part of many traditional classes and online courses, all too often learners finish a lab then ask “ok, I’m finished, but what did I just do? And when would I need to do that?”
Following step-by-step procedures doesn’t result in solidifying new concepts. Technologists must have the opportunity to genuinely do the work. To struggle with new constructs and determine new methods to solve problems, with guidance and remediation at the appropriate times.
Without realistic hands-on experience in a safe environment, newly learned skills fade and learners fail to reach the level of skills and confidence necessary to reach their potential. The journey is as important as the outcome and these truths drive us to continually innovate our platform through Skillable Challenges.
Delivering hands-on labs at scale is extremely complex. So complex that lab hosting companies are so focused on providing “labs that work,” that they rarely get a chance to consider ways to provide “labs that teach.”
Traditional labs give learners a place to try things following a step-by-step procedure. Skillable Challenges increase the pace of skilling and user confidence through a scored hands-on environment that drives an “assess > guide > validate” cycle based on the outcomes of their performance.
Learners acquire new skills and confidence faster, resulting in faster adoption, better utilization and stronger loyalty to your organization or products.
Build learners' skills
with skillable challenges.
Skillable Challenges enable you to complement and extend your learners’ skilling journeys with content that’s ready to go when you are.
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