Training VirtuallyDesign and Facilitate Online Learning

Thanks everyone who joined us yesterday for a webinar on promoting edupreneurship amongst the training community.

Organised by the Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore, and hosted by Chris Quek, the session gave me the chance to share my experiences over the last few months teaching trainers how to migrate their in-person classroom-based training to virtual training. I meet a broad spectrum of trainers in my workshops and have gained insights from the questions I’m asked.

For sure Zoom fatigue is real and needs to be managed. More importantly, I am seeing a gradual but steadily increasing appreciation of how virtual training can be effective. With a strong understanding of human interaction and its impact, we can design and deliver engaging and powerful virtual learning experiences. Also, how we train online is to a large extent shaped by what we believe about online training. So perhaps a good start point is to consider our own beliefs and to be open to what virtual training can, when done well, offer us. Here’s a slide here that captures this.

Even with virtual training, or rather especially with virtual training, the targeted learning experience is first and foremost about meaningful and focused human connection and interaction. Technology’s role is only to support this. What do you think?

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