One of the easiest ways to engage your audience is to design exercises that incorporate virtual classroom tools like whiteboard, chat, and web browsing.
“Critics say there is no evidence that identifying an individual student's learning style produces better outcomes.” But why then, do so many e-Learning designers cite the importance of addressing learning styles in designs, and why do the collective ‘rest of us’ seem to buy into it?
BYOD is not just a trend – it’s happening all around us. For those in corporate education, it is becoming an expectation. Our audience wants to learn WHENEVER and WHEREVER they are. I started researching how other professionals were managing BYOD. Here is my short list of pros, cons, and best practices.
When faced with teaching in a virtual classroom for the first time, one of the principal concerns of even experienced face-to-face instructors is the loss of “cues” from the learner audience. When should you use live video in the virtual classroom? Be strategic about answering this question; remember, it needs to be about more than seeing a talking head.
The purpose of the producer is to make the 'talent', in this case the facilitator, look good. The person in the background that ensures success by anticipating problems, advocating for the participants, and managing the classroom
Virtual Classrooms? The time is NOW. The waiting period is over and the time to implement was yesterday. You may not realize it, but live virtual classrooms have been around since the mid 1990's. The technology isn’t new anymore, and if you are still waiting for the right time, then you may have waited too long.