Do you want to make your virtual training more learner-focused?
Adopting new technology and creating a hybrid learning environment has great potential to engage the learners.
In this article, we will discuss the various techniques and methods to engage the learners with your virtual training session.
Engaging Virtual Training To The Learners
With the changing landscape of learning, many L&D professionals and online trainers have started Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) and video eLearning or lectures for the learners. Simply, developing virtual lectures or courses doesn’t pay off.
Your virtual training platform should be a hybrid model, or blend, of modern and traditional for providing training to the learners. Besides these, your L&D teams will be challenged to provide the tools and resources to improve both the digital training and online class experience.
Provide Flexibility To The Learners
Your virtual training platform should be as simple as a landing page with a list of resources and training courses that learners can easily access. Providing anytime and anywhere access to the learners delivers more flexibility to the learners to learn and increases the success of your virtual training. As your learners are remote, which means they might not always have an instant solution to the question and queries. So, provide flexibility to the learners with quick access to the answers as well as resources.
Collaborate Learners For Hybrid Learning
Virtual training and development of learners shouldn’t be limited to the onboarding and upskilling of the learners. Collaborating with learners with one another maximizes the effectiveness of your training. This helps the learners to interact with one another and share their views and ideas related to the training courses. Participation of learners in ongoing training and development courses enables continuous learning and builds a culture of learning among the learners.
Enable On-The-Go Learning With Micro Content
It takes more than adoption to learn a particular type of training. Today’s learners are more attracted to the technologies and want to access the training on the go whenever they want. The best practice a virtual instructor or L&D professional teams can make is to implement a microlearning training strategy to their training. Microlearning or small content can be easily digested by the learners and becomes easy to remember.
Ease Of Accessibility
An extra effort to increase the accessibility of your virtual training can easily engage the learners with your training. When learners will access your training easily while completing their learning goals then they can easily stay engaged with your courses.
Learning management system with gamification content and course library supports you in a variety of ways to provide an ease in accessibility to the learners. Suggesting courses on the basis of their skills or when they complete a course also helps learners in accessing your courses.
Build Community And Forums
Community and forums create a sense of effective learning among the learners. Within a community, you can share additional resources while collaborating with the learners. Learners can make use of learning resources and discuss their questions and queries so that it may help other learners to get their solutions. So discussion forums and communities act as a tool to enhance communication, increase connections, and build branding of your virtual training.
Conclusion
You can easily make your virtual training effective and engaging for the learners by keeping these little things in mind. In order to create effective virtual training for your learners, you have to start with gathering information to create a roadmap to an intentional redesign.
