AgLearn | Cultivating Knowledge and Community

Service Description

AgLearn is USDA’s enterprise training and workforce development system. AgLearn is a full-service operation that provides comprehensive solutions to meet the highly diverse training requirement of USDA’s offices and agencies. As the official training data repository for USDA, AgLearn also provides a central source of reports and information to managers and executives on the status of training activities and the associated value of those activities.

AgLearn supports:

Mandated Training – to include the creation, delivery, and monitoring of mandatory training as dictated by law, regulation, or executive mandate.
Classroom Management – to include registration, provisioning, coaching, and delivering of online and offline training to over 25,000 participants each year.
External Training Management – including an online SF-182 form for automatically requesting, reviewing, and approving/disapproving external training.
Library of Common Work Resources for Federal employees – including thousands of in-house courses, and over 14,000 courses and videos from Skillsoft and LinkedIn Learning; 15,000+ books from Skillsoft, and the suite of Dmason Financial courses. AgLearn offers optional access to the Rosetta Stone portfolio of language learning resources. These resources are available across a wide spectrum of development activities and learning modes, including mobile.
Mission-specific Online Courses – which includes over 100 custom courses a year to support the training needs of the many programs, services, and systems in USDA.
Talent/Competency Management – to include individual development activities, leadership development initiatives, and workforce management planning.

How Does it Work?

As a Federal Agency, USDA does not enter into contracts with other Federal Organizations. Instead, we work via simple reimbursable agreements known as Inter-Agency Agreements (IAA). These agreements are more flexible than a contract and are easy to modify and cancel. Since USDA works under the Economy Act no contract competition is necessary. You can come straight to USDA for this service.

How We Charge

Financially AgLearn has two primary groups:

Federal employees – who have access to all of the assigned material in AgLearn to include licensed material from training vendors.
Non-Federal employees – who have access to all of the assigned material except for licensed material from training vendors.

These two groups are charged different rates to account for their different costs. Both groups are paid for by an internal USDA funding mechanism designed to pay for USDA-wide activities. AgLearn routinely analyzes the economic value-added and return-on-investment of its activities and adjusts its activities accordingly. In addition, AgLearn actively seeks structured user feedback on its activities and services and adjusts its training portfolio based on this feedback.

Contact Us

AgLearn has tracked and recorded completed training for 140,000+ USDA employees, contractors, interns, partners, and external customers. AgLearn is an award-winning LMS service used by other Federal organizations including the United States Agency for Global Media and the Equal Employment Opportunity. Working with AgLearn can save your organization significant funds, time, and effort.