Author: Jennifer Hofmann
Published August 2005
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154 pages • $495
Going Live with Online Learning
The growing prevalence of Web conferencing
has led many trainers to look closer at the ideas behind live
online learning. Also referred to as virtual classrooms, synchronous
learning, or Webinars, all of these terms mean basically the
same thing: content delivered live over the Internet to geographically
dispersed participants.
It’s easy to see why more trainers
are turning to live online learning:
- It saves time and money.
- Trainers and experts are more accessible
online.
- The online classroom is always available.
- Classes can be small or large.
- You can pilot a course on short notice.
- Effective live online learning is highly
participant-centered and keeps participants involved.
- Live online learning courses may have
a higher rate of completion than self-paced training.
- Learning modules are reusable.
- Live online learning lends itself to
blending.
- You can readily design live online learning
to play back at a later time.
As these Web conferencing technologies become
even more engaging and pervasive, synchronous learning is
shaping up to be one of the smartest ways to train and learn.
Until now, there hasn’t been a real voice that offers
best practice examples and advice on how to set
up an effective and instructionally sound live online learning
initiative.
With this exciting new report, trainers
now have all of the information they need to go from tinkering
with the technology to becoming an expert at designing and
running live online learning initiatives. Created for real-world
usage, this report contains templates and formats to follow
for the four main types of live online learning events:
- Online meetings
- Presentations by subject matter experts
- Marketing Webinars
- Learning events
For each of these formats, this report provides
information about how to structure your events, how to assign
duties and manage collaboration among participants, how to
survey participants, what you need to have on hand for each
type of event, how to assess your success, and -- perhaps
most importantly -- what not to do.
The report even provides a minute-by-minute
format you can follow to avoid the dullness of a plain old
lecture and keep your sessions engaging and interesting.
In addition, the report delves into best
practice information. It shows you what can be taught via
live online learning and what can’t. It explains how
to go beyond interaction and into real collaboration. It shows
you how to create effective leader and participant guides
and delves into the wide array of options available –
whiteboards, PowerPoint, still images, audio, video, rich
media, animation, copyright concerns, synchronous tools, special
event formats, play-back options, multiple venue productions
– more information than has ever been collected in one
place on the subject of designing live online learning.
Plus, the report contains an expanded appendix,
with “Instructional Design 101,” a handy guide
that provides a strong background in the theories and philosophies
behind instructional design. You’ll not only be able
to walk the walk, you’ll be able to talk the talk with
this comprehensive primer on instructional design. It’s
everything you need to become a winning presenter and facilitator
of live online learning events.
It’s all told with wit and intelligence
by Jennifer Hofmann, with a focus on following tested, proven,
and instructionally sound practices. Weighing in at over 150
pages, it’s the most useful guide for trainers we’ve
ever compiled, and it’s only available from Brandon
Hall Research.
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