Best practice seminars - slides

We held two seminars this year, hosted by our learning design and solutions experts.

• Smooth blends: how to add virtual classrooms to the learning mix
• Design innovation: 10 ways to improve the learner experience

Smooth blends: how to add virtual classrooms to the learning mix

Charles Gould, Managing Director, Brightwave and Matt Turner, Managing Director, LiveTime Learning (Brightwave)

Nine out of ten organisations report that live online learning will help them tackle their skills shortfall now or in the future. It's hard to ignore stats like this. There is an increasingly compelling case to use virtual classrooms to support better workplace performance. But how? The best solution is often not a wholesale transfer from face-to-face training. With a bit of thought you can play to the strengths of each medium and devise a winning formula. Matt Turner and Charles Gould, Brightwave - winners of the 'Best use of synchronous e-learning' at the E-Learning Awards 2011 - share good practice:

• Communicate the business case for virtual classrooms
• Understand the strengths of each medium - e-learning, virtual classrooms, face-to-face
• Create the right blend
• Plan a successful implementation
• 5 ways to overcome the biggest challenges

You might also like:

• Networking lunch: Effective Virtual Classrooms for Business Skills
• Practical guide: Smooth blends: How to add live online training to the e-learning mix
• Service: LiveTime Learning - Brightwave's award-winning interactive learning channel

Design innovation: 10 ways to improve the learner experience

James Cory-Wright, Head of Learning Design, Brightwave

Slides from this event will be published soon

New technologies open up different possibilities and challenge existing paradigms. Of course, it's essential that we leverage their capabilities to create ever better learning and performance support environments. However, innovation is not always about major technological advancements that disrupt the status quo.

James Cory-Wright, Head of Learning Design at Brightwave, demonstrates how it's often the butterfly moments, the little design innovations, that make the biggest difference. 10 design innovations that have built unstoppable momentum include:

• the rise of the portal and the impact on personalised learning
• when video goes viral
• resources not courses - performance support made easy
• how a campaign approach can beat the forgetting curve
• mobile - reach out to the people.

You might also like:

• Networking lunch: e-mosaics: agile learning for the workplace in 2012
• Blog post: Those butterfly moment: modest design innovations that make a big impact
• Webinar recording: Continuous design innovation - 10 ways to improve the learner experience

Slides from this event will be published soon

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