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David Smith Global Director, Virtual Learning Solutions

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Motivating and engaging our Online Learners


Benjamin S Bloom (1913-99)

What signs do you recognize?

1. No-shows, learners not

attending

2. Lack of pre-work completed

3. Learners not responding to

questions

4. No (or very low number) of

volunteers


Provide a strong roadmap

Set the RIGHT expectations for your audience!

What can be done to motivate learners

Tips and techniques that encourage interaction and engagement

Design online learning that captures the learner's attention


Motivating ahead of the session

Address the WIIFM

Create strong messaging internally

Capture success stories

Create learning paths not events!


Do they do the pre-work?

Presentation Skills Workshop

View Don McMillan video

Pre-work Part 1

Pre-work part 2

Workshop Post

Session Post Session

Prepare 15 Minute

presentation for the workshop

Attend 90 minute

workshop Review presentation and submit Complete

session evaluation


Rename pre-work to get them to complete it!

Presentation Skills Learning Path

View Don McMillan video

Module 1

Module 2

Module 3 Module

4 Module 5

Prepare 15 Minute

presentation for the workshop

Attend 90 minute

workshop Review presentation and submit Complete

session evaluation


Use session guidelines – every session!


So what can be causing the distractions?

Outlook open? Mobiles switched on? Instant Messaging on? Documents Open? Calendar Alerts? Distracting colleagues?

Competing priorities? Did not want to be there?

So many options, in truth

WE DON’T KNOW


It could even by YOU!


John Medina – Brain Rules

Brain Rule #4 Attention – We don’t pay attention to boring things.


What does that mean for us


You should prevent me from multitasking


Put yourself in the room with them!


Create interaction

Facilitator and audience

Audience among one another Audience and technology


Keeping our audience engaged and connected


What in a virtual event engages YOU?

What in a virtual event disengages

YOU?

Keeping our audience engaged


Create engagement every 3 – 5 minutes

Breaks

Use Q&A

Chat

Reading Polls

Annotating

Reflection

Engage


10 tips to keeping our audiences engaged

Ensure maximum audio quality

Call on people using their names

Pace your sessions, provide breaks

Don’t read directly off the screen

Change your inflections

Use multiple voices

Minimize references to technology

Use open discussions

Create mental visuals

Have FUN!!!


Above all I’d like to hear from you directly, so please don’t hesitate to send any comments, questions or feedback to me at: [email protected]

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