Tips for Effectively Converting Your Live Training to Virtual Training

While vaccine rollouts are continuing and many areas are working through re-opening processes, gathering in large groups is often discouraged. Since live, in-person training typically involved sizable classes, they continue to be less-than-ideal in the current landscape. As a result, companies increasingly need options for effectively converting live training into virtual training, ensuring their workforce can access crucial materials safely.

If your company has yet to finish the conversion process and hasn’t determined the best way to proceed, here are some tips that can help.

Align the Content with Core Learning Objectives

The in-person and online learning experiences differ in many ways. Often, it isn’t wise to take lengthy classroom presentations and simply digitize them. When transitioned to a virtual platform, long lectures don’t embrace active learning, causing engagement and knowledge retention to falter.

If you’re converting your training into virtual courses, it’s best to examine the content and align it with core learning objectives. Remove anything extraneous that doesn’t provide clear value, and focus the messaging based on the highest priority goals. This creates streamlined content, allowing you to reduce the length of the class, boost engagement, and enhance knowledge retention.

Use a Microlearning Approach to Make the Modules Bite-Sized

As mentioned above, engagement can be an issue. If you want to make the content more digestible and engaging, using a microlearning approach is often best.

With microlearning, you take longer courses and divide them into bite-sized modules. It allows learners to squeeze training into busy schedules, as well as take breaks whenever they feel their engagement is waning.

Create Clearly Defined Learning Paths

With well-defined learning paths, it’s easier to keep learners on target. They’ll have an outline of the courses and can easily monitor their progress.

Plus, clear roadmaps can boost motivation. Learners can see not just how far they’ve come but also what’s left to do. This helps them self-pace effectively, as they’ll be able to estimate what needs to be accomplished when to meet the timeline objective.

Integrate Interactive Elements

Interactive elements make learning more active, ensuring engagement remains high and that newly acquired information or skills can be applied during the training. There are numerous methods that can be highly effective.

From simple quizzes to virtual scenarios, these options ensure the learners have to interact with the content regularly. If you add in social features, such as forums or social media groups, learners can engage with each other, imbuing the program with an extra element.

Do You Need Support from L&D Pros to Convert Your Live Training to Virtual Training?

If you need support from learning and development (L&D) professionals to convert your live training into virtual training, the Clarity Consultants staff want to hear from you.

Clarity has30 years of experience in L&D, giving us the expertise you need to transition your training to a virtual platform quickly. Plus, if you’d like to augment your internal L&D team, Clarity can serve as your go-to candidate search resource, connecting you with highly skilled talent when it matters most.

If you are ready to partner with top-tier L&D professionals, Clarity Consultants is here. Contact us today.

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