COMPARE HOWSPACE TO CORNERSTONE

Why teams switch from Cornerstone to Howspace

What do you do when your current LMS is not enough? When “check the box” learning programs and compliance management isn’t getting the impact you need? You should check out Howspace: the collaborative learning platform that:

  • Fosters greater collaboration and reflection together
  • Boosts active participation and engagement rates
  • Gives you the tools you need to adapt your business critical programs in real-time to ensure greater impact

Howspace is used to train teams at organizations like these

UN Women
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HOWSPACE: AN ALTERNATIVE TO CORNERSTONE


What’s the difference between
Cornerstone and Howspace?

Cornerstone is a learning management platform

As an LMS, Cornerstone supports companies in delivering a variety of content-first training programs, from onboarding to compliance to company-wide initiatives.

This makes Cornerstone a great solution for organizations that need to quickly upskill employees and maintain organizational standards through “check box” style training programs and certifications.

Howspace is a collaborative
learning platform

Like Cornerstone, you can also deliver employee training and development programs through Howspace. However, Howspace goes beyond practical skills development that is usually delivered through a traditional LMS or LXP. 

Howspace delivers learning truly embedded in the employees’ flow of work — combining social learning, collaboration and teamwork, and personal reflection, to help employees learn, make sense, and ultimately take action together.

Howspace is a great fit for organizations such as

Corporate Companies

Consulting & Training Services

Associations & Trade Unions

Compare Howspace and Cornerstone


Cornerstone

Howspace

What it isLearning management platform that focuses on personalized, skill-based learning paths, upskilling, and reskilling.Collaborative learning platform for facilitated learning and training journeys for all employees — with a focus on driving long-term behavioral, cultural, and organizational change

Types of learning supportedSupports self-paced, asynchronous learningSupports and effortlessly blends synchronous facilitated learning, collaborative and community learning, and self-paced, async learning
Types of training formats you can deliver
  • Self-paced learning
  • Group self-paced learning
  • Asynchronous learning cohort lectures

  • Real-time dynamic collaboration and deep group interactions
  • Self-paced learning
  • Group and cohort learning
  • Asynchronous collaborative learning
  • Interactive meetings, workshops, and seminars
Learning goals and outcomes supported
  • Short-term, knowledge-based learning and upskilling/reskilling
  • Skill standardization
    Employee development
  • Executive and leadership development
  • Short-term, knowledge-based learning and upskilling/reskilling
  • Skill standardization
  • Employee development
    Executive and leadership development
  • Behavioral changes
  • Culture changes
  • Business transformation
  • Organizational transformation
  • Community and network building
How employees learn through the platform
Learning happens at designated times outside of employees’ natural flow of workLearning is embedded in employees’ natural flow of work
Types of content supported
  • Video and written content
  • Long-form content
  • Static social share features
  • Content aggregation and personalization from static internal and external sources
  • Video and written content
  • Short-form content embedded in employees’ flow of work
  • Open discussion forums
    Quizzes, polls, and interactive exercises
  • Individual and group collaboration and reflection in real-time or asynchronously
  • Content aggregation and personalization from static internal and external sources but also from live group dynamics

How it incorporates AI
Uses AI to help you create content and personalized learning pathways. It also assists in VR training role-play.Uses AI to summarize conversations and discussions, highlighting key insights and learning points. It also uses participant responses to inform the facilitator’s next steps to adapt the learning programs in real time to ensure learning outcomes are met.

3 Reasons why 500K+ users choose Howspace for learning and training

Howspace helps boost engagement and participation rates

Without peer interaction, feedback loops, or collaborative exercises, participants lose motivation — and miss out on the “aha” moments that come from shared insights.

Integrated into participants’ flow of work, Howspace enables meaningful change to take place over multiple touchpoints, over a longer period of time — from anywhere and all within the same platform.

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5 out of 5

Ensures participants stay active

“We love the ability to “force” users to respond to a question before they can proceed to the next page. This eliminates social loafing and prevents imposter syndrome users from engaging.”

Lucy D, review via G2

Howspace makes the ROI of collaborative learning measurable

Collaborative learning doesn’t need to rely on costly live sessions that are difficult to measure. 

Through a blend of live and async collaboration, combined with powerful built-in analytics tools, Howspace allows you to assess and adjust your programs and engagement in real-time — making the impact truly measurable.

Roffey Park Institute

Shows the impact of your learning programs

“ROI is difficult to measure because every client is different, but showing the impact on individual participants has been a huge benefit for us. We want to base decisions on data that guides us in the right direction, and Howspace makes it easy to collect that data.”

Leigh Morris, Head of Instructional Design

Howspace scales programs without compromising engagement 

Often traditional e-learning programs are built with limited participant input, especially as they scale. With interactive exercises, peer communities, and AI-powered collaboration tools, Howspace provides everything you need to build scalable, results-driven training and learning programs.

We would argue that the more people actively engaged in and contributing to the learning journey, the more our platform shines!

Xonetic

Makes things so much more engaging and interactive

“Before Howspace, gaining insights from conversations was a time-intensive and manual process. Howspace’s AI has streamlined the process, giving us visually rich representations of word cloud-related data, while accurately capturing the themes and sentiments —  providing a powerful tool for organizational playback.”

Scott Rigler, Director

Get a closer look
at Howspace

Book a demo today and one of our friendly product specialists will happily walk you through how Howspace works.

“People feel that Howspace improves their ability to be heard and seen more effectively than in the face-to-face meetings of the past, where often only the loudest voices were truly heard.”

– Pilvi Pellikka, Head of Development at the Finnish Ministry of Finance

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