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Jo and I recently chatted a whole ton about how we changed our content during covid and especially now going forward. We identified that the whole virtual learning landscape had shifted with many learners in different positions.
This got me t
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Found this research article -Ā Does the early bird catch the worm? A large-scale examination of the effects of early participation in online learning
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01587919.2022.2088476?journalCode=cdie20
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Read moreā¦What do you think about hybrid events? Avoid them at all costs, or they are the way of the future?
Laura Overton and I had to decide our stance last year when we were asked to desgin and host a hybrid conference together. Some of the hybrid events we
Read moreā¦I'mĀ very excited to tell you that we are launching a research report!Ā
We teamed up with research and behavioural expert Jane Daly at PeopleStar to find out more from learners and L&D professionals about their virtual and hybrid learning experiences.
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I get emails from Learning Science Weekly which always has something relevant and interesting.
This week it was about creativity and virtual communication. The finding was that pairs of people coming up with ideas virtually generated le
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Does anyone have some excellent advice or links for best practice when having to use breakout rooms in Teams with guests? I have a new challenge up my sleeve ...
So far, I have found out that participants disconnect from the chat in the main room,
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In last week's Adobe Connect Office Hour, we discussed various ideas for lobby layouts. Using the new InFrame Pod for Adobe Connect, you can now add interactivity to either waiting times before a session starts or to breaks.
I offered to w
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When I begin my sessions I always make sure to explain to people how to use the particular software we are using, such as how to open chat in Zoom and so on. I feel it's important to explain this at the beginning.
I had some feedback
Read moreā¦We have a guest blogger, Neil Shorney, who writes about how to make the most of live online learning compared to our physical classroom experiences: https://lightbulbmoment.info/2022/03/08/recreating-the-face-to-face-experience-in-virtual-training/
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Read moreā¦How should we use text on our slides and images to help people learn? How much text should be on the slide and what should we say in a live session?
Learning Science Weekly shared about research on just this topic, highlighting that:
"Research suppo
Read moreā¦What good reflection questions are there for the end of a session?Thanks!!
Read moreā¦A bit of a fun post as I recently heard the song "Who's Zoomin' Who?" by Aretha Franklin.
What other virtual classroom or webinar songs are there?
Read moreā¦Some research has been released by the Institute for Corporate Productivity in the US, about virtual classroom training.
A write up by Tom Stone (co-author of Interact & Engage!: 50 Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars) highlights
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Cindy Huggett's brilliant annual virtual training research has been released! You can read about it here and look at the infographic here.Ā
A couple of highlights:
Hi All.
I have a session coming up where our guest speaker is not able to join us live, but instead we will have to use a recording of a presentation made a few hours earlier. Like many of us here, I would normally advocate watching the recording in a
Read moreā¦The move to virtual classrooms and digital learning and working as a whole has meant that a lot of companies are really investing development time into platforms, applications and integrations.Ā
Rather than a new post every time I see something inter
Read moreā¦Take a look at the new Zoom whiteboard!Ā
https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-whiteboard/
What are you looking forward to?
And if you aren't using Zoom, what do you do instead?
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Mike and I thought that our next podcastĀ could be all about the engagement fails we've seen or experienced recently!
We were just chatting about a friend's four-hour virtual classroom this week that included:
When Adobe Connect ran a poll asking āWhat is your biggest pet peeve as a virtual trainer?ā the results came in as:
I added my vote to āOtherā by
Read moreā¦Jo chatted to Lightbulber and BBC Global News Training Manager Cath Addis in our latest live online learning podcast ā listen to the podcast HERE.Ā
In it they discuss an infographic that Cath put together, which you can download from this post, and h
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