Why learning content is failing — and what Altia and Tridion are doing about it

What happens when universities and training providers invest in new learning platforms but overlook the most important part — the content?

The result is what many organisations are grappling with today: a patchwork of PDFs, SCORM files, videos, and outdated materials scattered across systems, impossible to search, update, or reuse efficiently. It’s a mess. And it’s holding educators back from delivering the modern, multilingual, personalised learning experiences that today’s learners expect.

Altia and RWS Tridion are coming together to fix that.

Altia: a digital transformation leader with a new focus on education

Altia isn’t new to digital transformation. With over 30 years of experience, a strong footprint across Spain and beyond, and a reputation for delivering future-proof digital solutions, they’ve been helping public and private sector clients rethink how they work for decades.

In 2024, they launched a dedicated Education business unit — bringing together a team of 50+ specialists focused on learning, training and development (LT&D) across higher education and corporate environments. Their goal? Help organisations modernise learning through integrated platforms, smart data, and streamlined digital ecosystems.

From LMS implementations and assessment tools to consulting and technical integrations, Altia can cover the entire LT&D stack. But like many in this space, they saw a recurring gap: content management.

The problem: learning content is all over the place

In conversations with universities and training departments, one theme keeps coming up: content is everywhere, and nowhere at the same time. And while LMS platforms are good at delivering content, they’re not designed to organise it.

Institutions often store learning content directly in the LMS — unstructured, unversioned, and siloed by course. It’s not uncommon to find three versions of the same file floating around with no clear owner. For organisations delivering content in multiple languages — as is common in Spain, where Spanish, Catalan and English are often used side by side — the complexity grows fast. There’s no visibility, no reuse, and no guarantee that updates in one language carry across to others.

It’s a risk. And it’s a drag on productivity.

The solution: structured content with Tridion

That’s where Tridion Docs comes in. It offers exactly what many of these institutions are missing: a robust, structured content management system that can sit behind their learning ecosystem and bring order to the chaos.

By introducing clear content architecture, versioning, multilingual workflows, and the ability to reuse and personalise content at scale, Tridion allows organisations to treat content like the strategic asset it is — not an afterthought buried in a course folder.

And it’s not just theory. In one representative scenario, a large Spanish university outlined a familiar set of challenges: content stored in multiple formats, no visibility across teams, and a pressing need to manage and localise learning materials across multiple languages. In a solution combining Altia with Tridion Docs, it’s clear how these issues could be solved with structured content and a centralised system of record. No more guessing which content is current. No more duplication. No more risks of inconsistencies across language versions. Just clean, organised, reliable learning content that works across platforms.

The takeaway? Many institutions know they have a content problem — they just don’t yet know there’s a fix.

Why the partnership works

Altia brings the infrastructure expertise, the relationships, and the integration muscle — with experience connecting learning tools via APIs, LTI standards, and custom development. Tridion brings the structured content foundation that turns LMS platforms into full-fledged, scalable learning environments.

Together, they can help organisations:

• Structure and govern their learning content from day one
• Enable efficient multilingual delivery and translation
• Reduce duplication and manual rework
• Make learning content searchable, versioned, and audit-ready
• Unlock insights via analytics to inform continuous improvement

And this goes beyond higher ed. Altia is already working with corporate clients investing in soft skills training, self-directed learning, and employee development. With Tridion as part of their toolkit, they can offer scalable content solutions to any organisation serious about learning.

A smarter future for learning

Whether in higher education or corporate training, one thing is clear: the future of learning is personalised, multilingual, and data-driven. But none of that is possible without content that’s well-managed, structured, and ready to scale.

Altia and Tridion are building the foundation that makes that future possible. And for institutions still stuck in content chaos, it couldn’t come at a better time.

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