Virtual Classroom Trainer

I always try to use learners’ names when responding to them.  This increases the sense of community into the group. Whilst we’re on the topic of calling learners by name, I want to highlight where I differ from what is written in some of the books about facilitating in the online classroom. Most of the [...]

Almost any purposeful human activity can be said to fall into the pattern of: Decide on your aims – what do you want to achieve? Plan the action – how best can you achieve your aims? Action – carry out the plan Evaluate the action – did you achieve your aims? Do you need to [...]

Many of the people that attend our Introducing the Live Online Classroom webinars first come to the session with the view that the skills needed to facilitate a live online session are the same as a classroom trainer. I guess that is probably the view of most classroom trainers. So I thought I would outline [...]

Visuals are one of the major tools used to engage learners, communicate content, convey instruction, and promote active learning in the virtual classroom. We must never underestimate the power of visuals. Research shows that people learn better from pictures and words than from words alone – which is not surprising considering that the majority of [...]