The Virtual Facilitative Designer

By the end of this workshop participants will:

• Understand the five most common design challenges of the virtual environment and identify strategies to overcome each challenge
• Commit to an adult learning approach that strives to teach through asking and engaging rather than through excessive telling of content
• Learn best practices in deciding which content to include and what to relegate to asynchronous teaching such as pre-reading, video and quizzes
• Have clarity around how to structure and sequence workshop topics for maximum learning
• Design enhanced openings for their workshops, using a checklist of context-building elements/options and strategies for focusing participant attention
• Design training to reduce learner’s cognitive load
• Use five powerful strategies to overcome the challenge of making technical or content-heavy training engaging for participants
• Design visuals that support engaging delivery
• Create appropriate competition to illustrate key learning points

• Any team leader, internal designer, trainer or subject matter expert who creates or revises virtual learning sessions.
• Anyone who needs to convert face-to-face training designs to virtual training

A digital participant workbook filled with templates, reminders and methods you can refer to when transitioning new skills to your next training session.