Improve Engagement with O’Reilly Content Using Watershed

Use O’Reilly data in Watershed to get insights into your training content usage. Use those insights to present the best content to learners and improve engagement.

Do you know what content works, and who is using it? Integrate your O’Reilly data with  Watershed for detailed content usage reports at organizational, departmental, team, or individual levels. You can identify popular training content to promote, and also spot scrap learning opportunities, where content should be improved or removed.

By turning your data into easy-to-understand reports, Watershed empowers L&D and line managers to make data-driven decisions. This lets you maximize the impact your content has on your learners.

And once you’ve connected Watershed with O’Reilly, you can add other data sources to understand your learner behavior and program performance across your entire ecosystem.

Get the most value from your O’Reilly content.

Watershed reports give you the insights to get the most out of your O’Reilly content. They enable you to identify and promote popular content to learners, find and remove scrap content, and highlight trending topics in order to see what skills learners are developing.

Tackle scrap learning.

Content that has fallen out of date or is less relevant is likely to be less popular with learners. You can use Watershed dashboards to identify this content so you can remove it, ensuring learners only access useful training content.

Promote popular titles to learners.

Use Watershed to identify popular content amongst learners, whether they are accessing a few parts of the content as a reference or working through all the content to get a complete view.

Tackle scrap learning.

Content that has fallen out of date or is less relevant is likely to be less popular with learners. You can use Watershed dashboards to identify this content so you can remove it, ensuring learners only access useful training content.

Highlight trending topics for skills planning.

All O’Reilly content is tagged by topic, which means you can report on the amount of content used on a per-topic basis. Identifying popular topics is helpful for skills planning because it helps you understand the topics your people are developing in.

Empower managers to track their team, powered by HRIS integrations.

In Watershed, data from O'Reilly publications is enriched with HRIS information so you can report on your data by department or another organizational unit. This also means managers can be given access to dashboards to report on their teams' use of O'Reilly content.

As a result, managers can see how their team members develop and ensure everybody benefits from the content. You can automatically set up manager permissions and access via HRIS import based on managers' positions in the organizational hierarchy.

Broaden your perspective on learning platform integrations.

Watershed is a learning record store for L&D data from all your platforms—including LMSs like Cornerstone, LXPs like Degreed, and video platforms like Kaltura, alongside your O’Reilly data. This means you can get a comprehensive view of the learning happening across your organization while eliminating any blind spots or the need to manually collate the data.

How do I convince my stakeholders?

Insights from your O’Reilly data in Watershed can inform what content you promote to learners, ensuring you’re putting the best content in front of them first. But how do you convince stakeholders of that value? This helpful guide explains how to get buy-in from stakeholders by building a business case for Watershed:

Is It Working? The Business Case for Learning Content Analytics

How does O’Reilly content work with Watershed?

Watershed has developed a connector for the O’Reilly API that automatically pulls data about learner activity through to your reports and dashboards. We’ll handle the whole process for you, so you can enjoy your data without the drama.

What data is included?

Watershed imports data about when learners access O’Reilly content. This includes:

  • Books
  • Video
  • Live online training
  • Scenarios
  • Learning paths

Our implementation team takes care of the details when connecting your O’Reilly data to Watershed.

You can also download our guide, which covers all areas of the learning ecosystem, including your LMS data requirements: How to get meaningful insights from your learning ecosystem: A complete guide to L&D data requirements

How do I get started?

Reach out to your Watershed account manager to get started. There’s no development required, and the connection process is quick. Or if you’re not already a Watershed customer, contact us for a demo.

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