Resources

This was a small ‘masterclass’ for the ILP Australia, focusing on virtual and hybrid engagement, including great discussion and questions from the audience.

Jo walks through some of the key highlights of the virtual and hybrid research report on the dominKnow webcast with Brent Schlenker and Chris Van Wingerden.

Learning Experience Design, LXD, is focused on ensuring learning through activities. On this Training Magazine Network webinar, sponsored by Adobe, Jo explores what LXD is and how to make the most of this for live online delivery (needs a free Training Magazine Network account).

Virtual instructor led training has come a long way since the Covid pandemic – but there are still many areas for organisations and teams to improve, with Jo sharing her input with Speexx, the personal language and business coaching people (register for free recording).

These are the recordings from of the hybrid Speexx Exchange conference, an event that was co-designed and co-hosted by Jo Cook and Laura Overton. Read more about their design and their case study (register for free recording).

Hybrid meetings, events and training sessions are becoming much more popular – but what is involved in planning an event where some people are physically together, and others are live online? Jo shares her insight on this webinar for the Boussias Project Management conference.

For so many people the virtual classroom feels like a barrier, as if they are talking at a computer screen and it can be easy to lack focus on the learners that are live and with you. For this Boussias L&D conference Jo shares different ways to be able to connect with your attendees live online.

The ‘new normal’ since the global pandemic has meant that virtual classrooms and digital learning offerings are more important than ever, and so is getting it right. What do our learners really think of the live online learning sessions we are offering? Jo shares research for this Learning Guild’s Learning Summit to gain insight into what we need to design and how we need to facilitate.

These are the recordings of the hybrid Speexx Exchange conference, an event that was co-designed and co-hosted by Jo Cook and Laura Overton and formed the basis of their case study.

There’s been a lot of change in live online learning in recent years, which Jo looks at for the CIPD Manchester Branch webinar. Also check out the great sketchnote of the webinar by Rachel Burnham.

Challenges with virtual classrooms include trying to directly replicate a physical classroom experience and our own approach in understanding how current training and learning skills convert to work well in the virtual classroom. Jo Cook shares strategies on how to make the most of your live online delivery in this Speexx webinar (register for free recording).

We know that facilitating a virtual classroom learning session is different from face-to-face training, but just what is it that works live online sessions and what needs a rethink? This World of Learning webinar focuses on five principles to make sure your virtual delivery is engaging for you, your attendees and the meets the needs of the business. Check out the accompanying visual summary drawn by Krystyna Gadd

This is a low key chat with a group of learning professionals about ensuring our virtual activities stay fresh – by exploring Padlet, Mural and more. Hosted by Shannon Tipton of Learning Rebels.

Rather than just using virtual platforms as the back-up plan, how can you really ‘learn to fly’ online? How can you rediscover your depth of expertise as a learning designer or facilitator in a virtual classroom and be as confident as you already are face-to-face? In this webinar with Breeio, Jo reflects on how to deal with remote audiences, digital body language and more. All Breeio first steps webinar resources here.

Reading the virtual room is a fundamental skill for facilitators. When we’re in the same physical space as other people, body language and visual cues are essential for understanding those around us. On this Breeio webinar Jo shares some straightforward features available in any virtual classroom platform and how to use ‘digital body language’ to help interpret participant responses more effectively. Webinar resources here and here.

How do you design content for live online events that engages and excites learners? Is it possible to make virtual classrooms just as effective as your face-to-face workshops? Jo shares how to do just that in this Breeio webinar. Resources here and here.

Using online platforms to deliver live learning sessions doesn’t have to be a headache for facilitators or boring for learners. In this Breeio webinar Jo shares how to pack a punch so that your participants really remember your core messages and keep attendees motivated. Resources here.

Designing for the virtual classroom is different from face-to-face training – what translates to live online sessions and what needs to be different? This webinar for the Adobe eLearning World Conference looks at best practice tips and techniques to ensure that your session meets the needs of the business, the learners and engages them throughout (needs a free account on the Adobe Community).

Your face-to-face sessions have been running really well, but the world has suddenly changed. Now Zoom learning sessions are the way forward so how can you make sure that the great sessions you used to deliver can still work but in a webinar or virtual classroom format? Find out in this webinar for the Institute of Employability Professionals.

Technology has enabled us to learn separately but together. How can a virtual classroom create the right learning environment, and how can we as trainers and facilitators work with people we can’t see, through a computer screen and still keep people engaged in their learning? In this webinar with the Institute of Employability Professionals Jo tells you how.

We all know that various theories, methods and approaches to instructional design make a difference to our e-learning components, materials and face-to-face sessions. But what learning theories and approaches work for virtual sessions and how does the technology get in the way, or even enable learning? Jo shares her insight in this Learning Network webinar.

Part of the Training Journal series of webinar discussions with professionals in their field, Jo hosts and contributes to the discussion about whether true facilitation works when a group is live online. Spoiler: she knows you can!

The Training Journal webinars series ran a number of different virtual Christmas parties and this is just one example of having festive fun live online!

A number of diverse L&D and HR topics with various experts are discussed in this long-term series for Training Journal, where Jo was Deputy Editor and webinar host.