Virtual classrooms in numbers
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…
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Engaging virtual audiences – the need for focused skills development
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…
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5 tips for maintaining your skills and confidence in webinars and virtual classrooms
For many people delivering a webinar or virtual classroom is something not done on a regular basis. Therefore it can be hard to stay confident with the tools and your own delivery skills, especially if you are a subject matter…
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Are webinar training sessions easy to deliver?
Whilst I really enjoy delivering classroom training and 1:1 coaching with individual clients, I can also see some great opportunities if I move into the world of webinar based training. I am used to designing and delivering classroom based training,…
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Virtual classroom session structure
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…
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Face to face communication and the virtual classroom
This blog post details research about how our brains react to different types of communication and what this means for how we design and deliver virtual classroom training sessions. Through examining research that highlights the special nature and importance of…
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Designing an intervention – some first steps
When you are new to learning and development or training, you may well have done some training in the past and got some positive results. This has probably piqued your interest and got you thinking about how you can do…
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Learning technologies – what do managers really think?
In November 2017 GoodPractice launched their third piece of research about what managers think and do. This piece of research specifically focused on the perceptions about technology from those managers, that their organisations provide them with for learning. This post has some…
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Free online courses – actual content or blatant sales?
I recently signed up for a live online webinar-based free course. It’s delivered over twelve sessions and boasted plenty of interaction. It states that you would walk away an expert after finishing. I’m not going to name and shame here,…
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What sUX about L&D design?
As part of the Modern Learning Leader Programme, Barbara Thompson delivered a webinar on UX. UX is “User Design” and encompases so many things, partly the visual elements, but in this case more about how things work, or can work better!…
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