Virtual classroom and webinar design, delivery and train the trainer blog
I was speaking with someone a while ago about live online learning. They were commenting on a webinar they had attended: there were some positives, which I love hearing, and some criticism, which is annoying as I want live online sessions to be received well. One point especially made me think. They said "the webinar... Continue Reading →
This is a great question posed to me ahead of the launch of Jolt's Business Education Steering Committee panel I'm speaking on. I asked on Twitter and LinkedIn for people's thoughts, and got over 30 amazing responses. I read through all of the comments and put them into categories (some had multiple points and therefore... Continue Reading →
In this post I'm going to focus on social media communication with regards our modern communications. I look at some free Twitter analysis and what changes this insight can help us with, as well as look at some other resources to help us with our approach to what we do on social media, either professionally... Continue Reading →
For reasons I won't bore you with, a client needed a Cisco WebEx Training Centre licence really quickly, within a couple of days, so that I could deliver some training for them. I always joke that there's no such thing as a training emergency... well this was more like training urgency! No problem, I thought,... Continue Reading →
As part of the Modern Learning Leader Programme, Stella Collins delivered a webinar on Adult Learning Theories. Stella opened with "androgogy vs pedagogy" asking why do they have to be "versus rather than and" and what the differences are. I stated in the webinar chat: I like pedagogy as there are so many different psychology and research... Continue Reading →
When using webinars and virtual classrooms, a natural area to focus on is the technology platform. People need time to learn how to show slides and whiteboards, to unmute microphones and more. After that a facilitator can move on to focus on the skills of just how to deliver an amazing live online session. ATD’s... Continue Reading →
OEB is an annual conference in Germany late every year. 2018 was my third year to this very different event - focused a lot more on academia, education and bringing corporate learning into all of that too. Also 2018 marked a difference in that Online Educa Berlin has been acquired by Closer Still Media, who... Continue Reading →
October 2018 was the Stimulearning L&D Talks conference in Brussels. I was honoured to be asked to be not only a keynote speaker but also to deliver a masterclass for select members. Firstly though, the night before the conference there was a panel discussion. L&D Teams in Belgium Lisa De Schrijver presented her research about... Continue Reading →
Research and statistics to give credibility to your work is excellent practice. But not when it's poorly researched and based on... well not much! Whilst scanning Twitter this evening, I saw this interesting tweet and took a look at the article: https://twitter.com/hootsuite/status/1058822407748751361 Author Joanna Lu writes in the article, "you’ve likely heard before that 65... Continue Reading →