Virtual classrooms have become a critical component of modern blended learning. They enable organizations to connect learners separated by time zones, geographical locations, and global circumstances. 

Despite the overwhelming benefits of this learning environment, practitioners often have questions about how to leverage it effectively.

Research shows that most training professionals strive to improve learner engagement in their programs - BUT only 15% actually work on pre-event promotion. 

Marketing, learning, and advertising expert Amy George shares three tricks learning can pull from Marketing's Magic Hat to improve learner interest before training even begins. 

Everyone will make important changes in their lives. Does the process of evolving have to be painful? 

Emotional Intelligence expert Monique DeMonaco believes that change can be transformative, not terrifying.

Understanding your employees should be prioritized in the same way as understanding your customers.

Your team helps your organization to grow in a positive way, which is why investing in localized training and learning programs is essential for maximizing employee engagement.

Competent virtual facilitators have quite a few enviable skills.

They’ve been trained on the nuances of how to teach virtually and have mastered their virtual classroom platform. (Zoom, WebEx, Adobe Connect, etc.)

The correct access enables effective and efficient, seamless and frictionless, agile and ubiquitous access to workflow assets.

A Point-of-Work Assessment (PWA) is used to define intentional design criteria for the 7 Right Things with access representing a key element. After all, what good are the best-designed resources/assets if they are not accessible when needed? 

As a facilitator, you have a great deal of control over environmental, intellectual and emotional engagement for learners.

The goal for any facilitator is to establish and maintain an environment where learners will engage with the learning experience by optimizing the development factor in each learner.

Every day L&D is being pressured more and more to show an ROI, or Return on Investment, for the dollars spent in “training.”

Designing for the 5 Moments of Need can help us move into the workflow and measure impact in ways training alone can never do.

When done well, blending virtual and in-person delivery has the potential to enhance accessibility and depth of understanding.

Done poorly, it can undermine effective learning.

Learning analytics begins by determining what questions we want to answer.

Discover which questions you should be asking in order to be able to show how your work is making an impact.