Training From the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn

Wake ‘Em Up!

Ten Tips for Interactive e-Learning

If they like it, they will play.

Clark Quinn

Engaging Learning, 2005, p. 17

 

 

Many trainers consider interactive electronic learning (e-learning) to be an oxymoron, in that the words “interactive e-learning” cancel each other out. e-Learning can’t be interactive, they say. After all, most training done via computers or phones usually consists of lectures or self-study manuals, sometimes combined with PowerPoint® slides and maybe a question-and-answer period or test at the end of the program. Even though there are now many computer software programs available for training that include interactive features—whiteboards, chat rooms, breakout areas, polling and signaling features, and the like—most ...