Interact and Engage!: 75+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars

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Lessen the Lecture: Engaging Virtual Training

After the COVID-19 pandemic and new social distancing mandates significantly decreased the use of traditional, in-person instructor-led training in the spring of 2020, organizations were forced to quickly switch many in-person programs to the virtual classroom. Those who lacked experience in this area struggled at first, only learning later the level of intentional program redesign, as well as trainer and producer development, that it takes to create truly effective virtual training.

Unlike webinars, virtual classroom training programs should be robust learning events—the opposite of the boring, lecture-style live online training of the early 2000s. It would be a mistake to run a webinar for a large ...