Interact and Engage!: 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars - Softcover

LaBorie, Kassy; Stone, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1562869361 ISBN 13: 9781562869366

Publisher: ATD Press, 2015

Synopsis

Convince your online participants to tune in―and get them to interact and engage.

Virtual classroom training is here to stay, and web and video conferencing is close to ubiquitous. Interact and Engage! offers proven strategies for captivating your live online audience. With more than 50 activities ranging from openers and icebreakers to closers, instructional design experts Kassy LaBorie and Thomas Stone present a framework for igniting online training programs, meetings, and webinars. Engaging online audiences can be difficult. This is true for novice instructional designers and facilitators―and for experienced ones. Learn how to break the mold of static lecture-style online training that drives participants to multitask or, worse, tune out. LaBorie and Stone cover all the steps necessary to remedy poor online training experiences and ensure that what you teach sticks.

In this book you will:

• Explore the popular delivery platforms (Adobe Connect and WebEx Training Center) inside and out, backwards and forwards, and upside down.
• Discover how to start events off right and bring them to a fitting end, while achieving the event’s goals in the middle.
• Delve into what facilitators and producers need to do before, during, and after an activity.

About this title

About the Author

Kassy LaBorie is an online synchronous facilitator, producer, instructional designer, and virtual training platform expert. She is also a frequent and popular speaker at ATD and other learning and development conferences and events.In her role as director of live online training for Dale Carnegie Digital, Kassy leads the development of the live online training events focusing on program design, trainer and producer development, and overall participant experience. Prior to joining Dale Carnegie, Kassy held positions as a master trainer for InSync Training, where she delivered online programs using the many platforms available, and as a senior trainer at WebEx helping to build the WebEx University. She started her training career as a software trainer for ExecuTrain, which allowed her to develop the necessary technical agility to effortlessly run online events.

Tom Stone has been in the learning and development field now for more than 15 years. He currently serves as director of content strategy for Dale Carnegie Digital where he manages the Digital instructional design team, and sets the product roadmap and strategy for their live online and self-paced programs. Prior to joining Dale Carnegie, he was with e-learning provider Element K and talent management software provider Taleo in roles such as senior instructional designer, manager of content development, and senior research analyst. He is a frequent and popular speaker at ATD and other learning and development and broader human resources conferences and events. He has delivered more than 100 presentations, workshops, and panels on topics such as live online and self-paced e-learning, social learning, mobile learning, industry trends, and other talent management subjects.

Edition details

• Publisher: ATD Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1562869361
• ISBN 13: 9781562869366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232