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... Continue Reading →
Recreating the face-to-face experience in virtual training
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... Continue Reading →
Passion, L&D and the global pandemic
I asked a survey question about what makes us passionate about our job in the field of learning and development and got some great answers some time ago. So I decided to repeat the survey, ask a few more questions, and see what difference a global pandemic might have made too! If you want to... Continue Reading →
Virtual classrooms – it’s all about the human connection!
In the last year and a half, pretty much the whole working world went virtual during the Coronavirus pandemic. Whether it was meetings or conferences, the use of Zoom, Teams and so on sky rocketed, “Zoom fatigue” became a thing and we often felt the disconnect when were previously used to so much face-to-face contact.... Continue Reading →
Facilitation in the virtual world – 5 key changes and what they mean for you
By anyone’s measure, 2020 was quite the year for digital learning! In early 2020, as lockdowns started, more and more of us went live online. The eLearning Guild survey in March 2020 found that 86% of respondents had at least one or more events moving to an online format. We’ve all seen the stats about... Continue Reading →
Live online learning design: interactions and activities
An interaction is about two or more people communication. It’s all about a response from or discussion with attendees. In live online learning sessions this would be via the platform you are using to connect (Zoom, Webex, Teams, Connect etc) and using the tools available to you. This could be a closed question with a... Continue Reading →