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Virtual Training Best Practices – Small Group Activities

When facilitating virtual classrooms, be sure that your small group activities are well planned and clear and concise for virtual participants. First, remember to keep small group activities to no more than 3 – 5 students per group, utilizing online “breakout rooms” for students to gather in to complete the activity. When you develop […]

Virtual Training Best Practices – Facilitating Discussions

Facilitating discussions requires the instructors to be very engaged to enable virtual students to communicate effectively with each other. In a face-to-face classroom setting it is easier to get students involved in a discussion; in a virtual classroom – it takes stronger facilitation skills.

For example, in a face-to-face classroom, an instructor might ask […]

Virtual Training Best Practices – Ground Rules

Treat the Training the Same as if You are Leading a Classroom Workshop

This will be the first in a number of articles on best practices for virtual training which will be shared over the next couple of weeks.

When leading virtual training sessions, treat the training the same as if you are leading […]

Updating Training Programs?

Be sure to review current specs with the project sponsor

When you need to update training programs, set up time to meet with the sponsor (the individual(s) who asked that the training program be developed initially) to determine if any changes need to be made to the training program based on a number of […]

Best Practices for Evaluating Pilot Training Programs

When developing training programs, be sure to include a plan for evaluating the program after the initial pilot run to be sure it is meeting the participants’ needs and accomplishing the objectives it was created to accomplish.

As a best practice, develop a plan for evaluation immediately following the pilot program:

Define the objectives of […]