#Virtual learning how to#

There is a business scenario written out on the screen – How do you think the supervisor could have handled the employee issue more successfully?.

Look at the chart on the screen: With the information given, what conclusions can you make?.

Review the picture on the screen – what mistakes do you see?.

What would be the first step you would take if a customer has become non-responsive to your emails?.

The key to engaging conversation is to provoke thought, and to do this in a virtual setting the questions must be open-ended and specific. If all you are doing is talking through your slides, they don’t need you – record the webinar and email the slides out and be done with it.įor the most part, create slides to be mini-activities. Having tons of text on a slide creates cognitive overload and BOOM zombies. Less is more! For any PowerPoint presentation, you should use more visuals and less text. You are setting the tone that it won’t just be a talking head webinar.Ģ) Create slides that are mini-activities by asking thought-provoking, open-ended questions This activity is setting the expectation that interaction will be the name of the game. “In the chat area, type your response.” Repeat the instructions every few minutes as the people trickle in. Then, be specific about how you want the attendees to respond. Ask the question aloud, type it in the chat, and be sure you have a welcome slide with the question on it. Ask people about their bucket list vacation destination or guilty pleasure. Not your typical boring, “How was your weekend” type of stuff. Secondly, this is your sly way of checking for possible technical issues. First, to get everyone in the groove of practicing with the webinar tools. Telling people when to show, and what the expectations. If this is the first classroom-based webinar, tell people! This way when bugs happen (and they will) the participants will be more patient.

In a separate communication piece, send out webinar expectations.

#Virtual learning how to#

Send out information on how to test their system. This is to be sure everyone knows how to access your virtual classroom and their systems are compatible.

One person to handle tech issues allowing the facilitator to do their thing. Have a producer! This is key, especially if you are new to the virtual game.Do you have a favorite webinar activity that keeps engagement alive? Please share those tips in the comments. I’m sure I’ll leave something out and this is where you come in. How to make this happen? Not to worry – I’ve got you covered! Let’s dig into a bag of virtual tricks and tips. The key is to develop a space that promotes the exchange of knowledge, and be able to apply that knowledge after they depart the webinar – we all know when a session is engaging and interactive the odds are greater people will learn something. Planning for engagement is the secret sauce. What was the difference? How do we get from zombies to buzzing? We’ve all participated in webinars that were killers and those that were buzzing with activity. Say No to Virtual ZombiesĬreating engagement activities for your virtual audience is very different than planning those for the live classroom. That is the surest way to lose people and create virtual zombies. It’s not just getting someone to go on screen and say EXACTLY what is on the PowerPoint slide at the moment. The key is helping others understand that as an educational tool, webinars must be created to address the adult learning needs. It’s time to dust off the webex and put it better use. So here we are.īecause of the circumstances, some businesses are now turning their heads toward delivering their traditional training in a virtual setting. We all knew virtual and self-directed training were appropriate methods of delivery and could be just as successful as any F2F event, but change can be slow until your hand is forced. (This post was originally created for Litmos, and has been updated) There is understandable concern about travel and traditional instructor-led training and virtual learning is again a topic of conversation.

Time to think differently about your virtual learning applications.ĬOVID-19 has taken over all aspects of our lives and has created a new normal.