Virtual Training
Synchronous learning enabling learners to interact with geographically remote instructors takes many formats, from webinars and live-streamed classes, to blended solutions.
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Reimagining the Virtual Classroom
Flipping the virtual classroom to move away from lectures and add collaborative activities can reinvigorate eLearning while blending asynchronous with synchronous sessions.
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Course Merchant Launches Course Marketing and Publishing Service
Course Merchant has launched a new version of CourseIndex.com, its course search engine, which brings three new services to vendors: content marketing/advertising, a revenue partnership, and an eCommerce platform. CourseIndex.com aims to become an integral part of course vendors’ link-building and content marketing strategies.
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Blue Sky eLearn Debuts New “Engagement+” Webinars
Blue Sky eLearn’s Engagement+ webinars include features such as customized breakout rooms, managed engagement breaks, and attention checks to ensure your audience is paying attention. Blue Sky has also formed partnerships with instructional designers and speaker coaches.
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Four Tips for Creating Effective Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
Although in theory a virtual classroom should duplicate the environment of a physical classroom, that is not the most effective way to think about virtual instructor-led training (VILT). In fact, the VILT environment can be even better and foster greater participation. Here are four tips to help you make that happen!
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New Flipgrid Launch Fuels Active, Social Learning in Classrooms and Enterprises
A video discussion platform is updated to offer a more accessible and connected environment. Flipgrid fuels active, social learning among co-workers and the leadership team. Because Flipgrid is accessible on a variety of digital platforms (desktop, iOS, and Android), educators, companies, and HR managers use it to host MOOCs and train their workforces from virtually anywhere.
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Be Smart When Taking Instructor-led Training Virtual!
What if you want to convert some of your instructor-led classroom training for delivery in a virtual venue such as live web conferencing? Not all classroom programs are ideal candidates for this, and you must take care to ensure the virtual delivery is effective. Here are tips to guide you in selecting content for conversion, and in making the necessary adjustments.
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Up in the Air on Faculty Evaluation
Technology changes job assessment and online teaching and learning practices in higher education (and other organizations as well). This includes the empowerment of new groups of stakeholders, including students, leading in some institutions to political pressure to implement new assessments to improve teaching and learning. Here is how these forces are playing out at one university.
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Doug Engelbart: More Than the Inventor of the Mouse
Douglas Engelbart (1925 – 2013) is a key figure in the development of the technologies we use today to “boost our collective ability to solve complex, urgent problems on a global scale.” The devices and systems for which he is best known were only the minimal infrastructure necessary to realize that vision. Comprehending that vision can bring clarity to our own work in facilitating learning.
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Nuts and Bolts: How to Rock Your Virtual Classroom with Participant Chat
Participant chat is a tool included in most virtual classroom products, yet it is underutilized. If you think of it as just a place for participants to chat, offer commentary, or ask questions, you are missing a golden opportunity to engage your audience! Here are seven incredibly productive ways to encourage the reluctant and avoid the “Anyone? Anyone?” moments.
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Nuts and Bolts: Rocking the Virtual Classroom—What About That Whiteboard?
How many issues do you face in delivering training to your organization? People widely dispersed geographically? Lack of learner availability? Employees who have to be covered across work shifts? No travel funds? If you aren’t using virtual meeting software to meet these challenges, maybe you should. Drop “webinar” from your vocabulary, and learn to use the virtual whiteboard! Here’s how!