Jo Cook
Director of Research, Lightbulb Moment Limited
Jo Cook is a speaker, instructional designer, and classroom facilitator who specializes in virtual classrooms, webinars, and live online learning technology. Jo’s passion is in helping and supporting teams, professionals, and organizations embrace the benefits of the virtual classroom. Jo’s background includes further and higher education, the charity sector, and small and large organizations, including CNN News and Bupa International. Through her company, Lightbulb Moment, Jo has specialized in training learning professionals about virtual classroom design and delivery since 2013 and has spoken at conferences such as Learning Technologies, Online Educa Berlin, and keynoted for Colleges Wales and E-learning Fusion.
Latest from Jo Cook
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Give Learners What They Really Want in Online Learning
Rapidly pivoting to live online learning sessions early in the pandemic was a great solution for many organizations. Now we need to move toward turning these virtual sessions into great learning interventions. To do so, we need to know what our attendees need and how they feel during our sessions. Using recent research, this interactive session highlights how we can design and deliver virtual classroom training to ensure engagement, learning, and performance at work. We look at themes from the research, including learner preferences, webcam use, barriers to virtual learning, and what enhances virtual learning. We will also make recommendations…
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Panel: How to Enhance Collaboration in Virtual Learning
When the world shut down and all work suddenly went remote, virtual learning stepped into the spotlight. Supporting remote workers will continue to be a larger part of the L&D landscape as we move past the pandemic, and it will be critical for us to engage and support these remote workers as well as those that are back in the office. In this panel discussion, our panel of experts will explore how we can enhance engagement and collaboration within our virtual learning strategies.