Watch intro video on YouTube You’re an experienced trainer and facilitator: you know your adult students learn best when they co-create their learning experience alongside you.

Does your heart sink at the thought of online learning, as you imagine endless dull lectures-over-slides given by some grey professor, confusing “interactive platforms” and a conveyor-belt of box-ticking?

What if it didn’t have to be like that? What if you could make a human, face-to-face connection with students - but without having to travel?

What if you could find a way to explore nuanced issues in intimate groups, enable practice to get skills “into the muscle”, and help turn new learnings into concrete, real-world behaviour change - but online?

As work becomes more dispersed, whether distributed across the globe or scattered due to flexible working, you’re probably already under pressure to find ways to develop people remotely.

It can look like we’re going back to the bad old days when “training” was equated with “information delivery”, when all too often “online learning” means watching ten-minute videos and doing dull quizzes.

Whatever happened to the “flipped classroom”, where your valuable time was focussed on supporting exercises and discussions?

In this six-session course, you’ll discover how to flip the online learning environment, and how that can be done without compromising on standards - or style.

By learning how to adapt your existing workshop plans to the virtual world, you will be able to:

Create learning groups with people from multiple locations, saving the time and cost of travel and increasing group diversity
Use online meetings to complement in-person training (before, after or between classes)
Deliver more high-quality training without leaving yourself exhausted
Add variety to your day, as you can easily shift between several client groups and/or subject areas
Make online learning at least as engaging for your students as in-person classes.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you will be able to :

Evaluate the technology available to pick the one that best suits your course and style.
Be able to create an online environment to deliver workshops.
Compare the effect that different online environments have on participants.
Apply facilitation and training principles such as small group work, brainstorming and group discussions to the online environment.
Explore the limitations of current technology and be prepared to embrace future trends.
Have the confidence to deliver an interactive, video-based workshop online, where participants are also on video.

Who And How?

The course is for experienced trainers and facilitators who want to deliver their workshops (for adults) online, as live video sessions. It is best suited to facilitators and trainers who use a facilitative style to deliver their content.

(Please note, we will not be teaching you how to structure a course or how to create self-paced learning. However, we are currently designing a post-course mentoring option, to help you precisely with this challenge.)

You will need:

Stable broadband connection.
Webcam and headset.
A quiet space to work from.

The course will be delivered through online sessions and we will have an online space to communicate throughout the course period.

You will need to attend all six sessions and to undertake some homework (about an hour) between sessions, as well as preparing a short exercise to deliver to the group during the fifth session.

Monday 26th September 3pm - 4.30pm BST

Monday 3rd October 3pm - 4.30pm BST

Monday 10th October 3pm-4.30pm BST

Monday 31st October 3pm-4.30pm GMT

Monday 7th November 3pm-4.30pm GMT

Monday 14th November 3pm-4.30pm GMT

Flipping the Online Classroom - Delivering Your Workshops Online. Six 90-minute classes.