How long should a virtual classroom session be? Half an hour, all day? How many people, six? 15? It’s a challenge to know what is right. Often people ask me how many people should be in a virtual classroom. I recommend as few people as possible and the Lightbulb Moment virtual classroom courses I run …
A lot of us know about how to plan, design and deliver a face to face training session. But what about a virtual classroom session? Here’s a quick overview that might give you some ideas: Always teach the basic tools people need to interact, one at a time, as you need them. Usually this is …
I’m interested in how people communicate and connect when they aren’t face to face or even communicating in real time, perhaps through an asynchronous forum or community such as Slack or Yammer. Lori Niles-Hoffman, who is a Data Driven Learning Strategist, has experienced “the seismic shift from classroom to digital” in her career and …
**UPDATE** This document has been updated as of May 2020 to reflect my refreshed design. This is a free Lightbulb Moment resource – a blank facilitator guide, session plan, lesson plan (or whatever name you want to use!) that you may wish to use as a starting point for your live online sessions, virtual classrooms …
During the second hybrid conference for the Speexx Exchange I tweeted a picture of my setup for hosting the online portion – which got a lot of attention! What does it look like to host the live online portion of a #Hybrid event? This!#SpeexxExchange pic.twitter.com/ns6ZQZa2bk — Jo Cook (@LightbulbJo) November 23, 2022 So I thought …
There are more and more hybrid events being run by companies for meeting, working and learning. It’s great to bring people together no matter where they live or work, but the challenge is to make sure that everyone has a positive experience and no one feels left out. As with anything new, you don’t know …
Warning: hybrid events don’t work without virtual skills Read More »
During the great digital pivot of 2020 and beyond, a lot of people jumped into virtual instructor-led training to ensure that they could continue supporting their staff and clients. There was a lot of rapid learning and, for some it’s been a great adoption that continues to show success. For others there’s the challenge of …
The what, why and how of formative assessment in the virtual classroom Read More »
Lightbulb Moment are delighted to announce that we are partnering with Learning Technologies for the 7th year running to offer live online support for the Awards virtual presentations! Every year hundreds of people submit their learning technologies entries and hope to end up with a gold award at the gala dinner in London. We are …
Presenting live online – 5 areas you must get right! Read More »
This quick blog is to give some resources about how we learn. This will hopefully help with your learning intervention design and delivery. Lack of evidence for learning styles I know learning styles (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic and others) feels really intuitive. I used learning styles at one time too, as I know how much I …
How we learn (spoiler: it’s not learning styles) Read More »
I’ve been delivering virtual training for over a decade (yes, even before Covid), and over that time, and particularly since technology really took off around 2015, I’ve learnt a lot about how to use IT to present an engaging training course online. My top advice which I give to people trying to get to grips …
Recreating the face-to-face experience in virtual training Read More »
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