Are you comfortable with online communication?
A lot of people feel awkward when communicating in a digital world which is an ever increasing problem considering our reliance on it. We have been letter writing since 500BC and had relative stability in the way we communicate for…
Are you really focusing on the human element of your virtual sessions?
We know that working in a new way can be a challenge, and the great pivot from face-to-face delivery to live online facilitation caused by the global pandemic is no exception. In our research people reported challenges with engagement in…
How we learn (spoiler: it’s not learning styles)
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…
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…
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…
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)…
Live online reflections
For the third year running I’ve hosted the live online presentations as part of the Learning Technologies Awards. It’s 60 presentations over two weeks, so that’s about 180 sessions I’ve hosted over the years. As I come to the end…
Digital body language and social media
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…
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