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Blended Learning Basics: Using Asynchronous and Synchronous Training Activities

Convergence Training

One of them is to think of when the learners will benefit from an asynchronous learning experience and when they’ll benefit from a synchronous learning experience. Now let’s learn a little more about when to best use asynchronous and synchronous learning events. What Is Synchronous? Writing Learning Objectives .

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Transformers

E-Learning Provocateur

Our typical response to the changing circumstances appears to have been to lift and shift our classroom sessions over to webinars. So-called “bite sized” pieces of content have the dual benefit of not only being easier to process from a cognitive load perspective, but also more responsive to the busy working week.

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Kadenze ACADEMY : Modes of Delivery and the ‘new normal’

Kadenze

Given Plato’s long shadow, it is not surprising that live classroom interaction remains the preferred mode of delivery and engagement for many teachers. The live classroom is superb when students are ‘in flow’, energetically and collaboratively making meaning together. We have known this for a while now.

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Are You Zoom-Fatigued or Are You Just Fatigue-Fatigued?

KnowledgeOne

The Case for Human Imperfection in Synchronous eLearning. If an instructor makes eye contact with a student in a classroom setting, it’s almost impossible for the student not to acknowledge them with a nod or any number of gestures that communicate, “I’m here, and I’m listening.” You’re in a Zoom meeting. We’ve all been there.

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What is the role of a moderator in a VILT session?

Creativ Technologies

The companies were looking forward to changing to the virtual training method due to the excessive costs of classroom-based training. Gen Z also cannot concentrate in-classroom training sessions and prefers VILT sessions where they can log in at a preferred time. But the change has been expedited by the pandemic.

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From novice to expert

Learning with e's

Lave''s argument is that most traditional classroom learning is based on abstract knowledge that can be difficult to apply within meaningful contexts. a student cohort) can be extended by encouraging them to scaffold weaker, or less expert learners, to encourage and lead, in a kind of cognitive apprenticeship. Reference Lave, J.

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The next normal

E-Learning Provocateur

While many of us had been offering online courses and other alternatives to in-person training for years, suddenly nothing could be run in a traditional classroom setting; and so as a collective we’ve been forced to shift learning and development online.