In a recent blog, we talked about how COVID is causing more and more training companies to migrate from solely delivering content in person to delivering content on-line. Doing so, however, doesn't mean that you need to take your highly-personalized, in-person courses and turn them into one-hour death-by-PowerPoint sessions.
When thinking of on-line training, many of us think of sitting by ourselves watching videos and taking quizzes in order to prove that we have been properly trained. Such an approach can actually be very useful if done right, but it doesn't have to be the only way people learn online. And, it is not the only way to translate an engaging day- or week-long course into a digital learning format.
Obviously, more and more training is being done via webinar, where an instructor can interact directly with learners, either in a group setting or one-on-one. This is a step in the right direction.. By interspersing self-paced training with instructor led training, you can increase the impact of the training by reinforcing key concepts, clearing up misconceptions, and by tailoring the content to individual learners.
Another way to build interactivity into on-line courses is to foster interaction between the learners themselves. For example, think of giving the students a project to be done in a small group that they can then present to the rest of the people in the course? By combining multiple in-person sessions over time with a number of self-paced modules, you can allow learners to learn, to practice the lessons in their real environment, and then to come back to refine what they have learned and to move forward.
We'd love to hear how you have successfully integrated group and instructor-led activities into your own on-line courses. Please send us a note at digitallearning@dhxsoftware.com.
Or, if you'd like to talk to us about how you can make the transition from in-person to on-line learning, please schedule a time to chat: