Your flow of content will evolve over time, but if you don’t have any great ideas for how to restructure the course, use your ILT curriculum as the starting point.īut engagement is a little tougher: if you aren’t in the room with your audience, how will you keep them engaged? What are the tools and techniques you need?įirst, you’ll want some sort of webinar or training delivery software like GoToWebinar, GoToTraining or Zoom. If you’ve presented on this topic live before, it’s not a stretch to do it virtually, especially under the current circumstances.
You likely have learning objectives in place already. How do you turn ILT into vILT? Start with what you know: between the instructor and one or more subject-matter experts (SMEs), you probably have the expertise and the domain knowledge. Although not everyone is comfortable developing or facilitating vILT courses, it’s often the modality that lets you most quickly bring a live course online. Many programs are taking their ILT (instructor-led training) courses and converting them to vILT (Virtual Instructor-Led Training). The key here is to ensure that you’re meeting the needs of your customers at the right time, which in this case is right now.Ĭontent has to be repurposed fast. You’ll be able to add some polish, organize it neatly, and voila! Long-lasting, scalable content. You can do the above without a lot of instructional design work, and you’ll go back and do the deeper instructional design work later. What is stopping you from taking that hour-long recording and breaking it up into shorter, 3-5 minute modules?.What is stopping you from recording an imperfect version of your live training?.in six months?įirst, ask yourself a couple of key questions about the short-term: With a sudden, dramatic shift like this, we would benefit by looking at progress, not perfection. Do I know what I’m going to talk about? Yes.” Instead of getting it perfect, you’ll now be saying, “Okay, I’m going to run a class. Many instructional designers are perfectionists, and the idea of rapidly transitioning to online content goes against conventional wisdom to build methodically using ADDIE and similar frameworks.īut timing is critical.
Trainers find that virtual training isn’t quite the same and demands new skills and somewhat different approaches. It took a pandemic to significantly disrupt a common practice of many businesses: In-person training. Please check it out on the Thought Industries blog and read on for a summary. Thought Industries also published a blog we wrote on this topic as a companion for this episode. In dark days of a global pandemic, how can Customer Education Professionals shine a little light? Join us as we share how the same strategies we use to reach a wide audience through online technologies can help you, your business, and maybe even your friends connect when in-person options aren’t an option! In March 2020, we are experiencing the world’s largest work from home “experiment”.