Continuous Improvement For Virtual Training In Today's Business Climate

What it's about

Key chapters

• Introduction

  L&D professionals who turned to virtual training in 2020 out of necessity want to know how to best leverage it moving forward. What follows are four thought-provoking essays with practical suggestions and best practices for continous improvement in virtual training, as well as extensive resources for learning professionals who want to dive deeper.

• Adapting to an accelerated development schedule

  Joanne Astorga, Chief LX Specialist, GEVC experienced two converse challenges: a slowdown with large organizations, and a warp-speed acceleration with post-secondary institutions. To continue to serve its students , it was crucial to adapt face-toface instructor-led courses to a virtual and online format in time for the spring-summer semester. How did we adapt to such an accelerated development schedule? By using a hybrid VILT model.

• There was little choice about going to VILT

  Jo Cook, Director, Lightbulb Moment felt that her clients had varying issues—some needed to convert their currently planned face-to-face sessions to deliver in a live online platform; others had new training initiatives that needed to be run, again in a different way from what they were used to. We offer a free live online learning facilitator guide template that helps people design interaction every few minutes with a variety of the platform tools.

• The live, online training trend is here to stay

  Melissa Grey Satterfield, Director/Master Trainer, Langevin Learning Services , shares four job aids that will assist in converting existing ILT workshops to performance-based virtual classroom training: Course Audit Worksheet, Critical Design Constraints Worksheet, Course Engagement Validation Checklist, and Establish a Delivery Plan Worksheet.

• The mainstreaming of online learning in a challenging year

  Mark Weingarten, eLearning Developer, Instructional Designer, and Consultant, Mindstream eLearning explains the difference between synchronous and asynchronous learning. As 2020 has pushed more employees and students online than ever before, the time has come for learning analytics to grow up, and the timing couldn’t be better. The new xAPI standard is starting to gain traction, and eLearning authoring tools are starting to incorporate xAPI statements into their software, minimizing the amount of coding required by an eLearning developer. This will allow a learner’s activities on a variety of platforms to be recorded and stored in a single repository