The current coronavirus crisis has caused a lot of damage to the business world. The epidemic has completely changed the habits, forms of work and procedures of operation in all companies. In the Learning & Development industry companies and trainers suffering from stationary training, e.g. for managers and sales teams, suffered the most. The trainers were out of work overnight.
What is the best solution for training companies?
The solution to their ills can be… e-learning, webinars and online training. Earlier, the ATD report “Virtual Classrooms Now” said that 86% of companies use virtual training or intend to implement it. Coronavirus has caused massive online traffic and interest in online education and training platforms for companies, as well as e-textbooks and e-manuals for schools and colleges. This form of training can significantly increase your range of operations and the scalability of your business. In addition, it will improve the efficiency of your clients’ employees who will gain new knowledge directly at their workplace. How to use an epidemic to transform your teaching business into an e-learning company?
How long does it take to go from offline to online business?
Many people on the web and freelancers argue that it can take several days to successfully transfer training and learning from the offline world to online. Is it true?
How to transfer stationary training to the internet?
It certainly can’t be done one-to-one. Of course, group work and interaction with other participants should be implemented differently than in the training room. It is worth rewriting the scenarios of stationary training, based on those that we have used so far. However, it is a myth that they cannot be used online. The slogan “this training cannot be done online” is no longer valid.
Do you have too little time for e-learning?
Transferring stationary training to online training platforms is certainly not a process for the proverbial quarter, as many internal trainers and freelancers claim. Let the motto of such a transformation be “do good and it will be better”. We are rightly concerned that in the era of crisis there are quasi-experts who can very badly influence opinions on e-learning solutions in the world, following the motto “do fast and cheap, and it will be…”.
How to implement e-learning in the company?
Working with people is a very delicate matter, requiring time for observation and analysis. If you really want to achieve your business goals and convince your clients (training companies) or employees (HR departments) to e-learning, you need to compare different suppliers, choose the best one, have time to test and fix e-learning solutions before implementing an online training strategy & LMS platform.
E-learning priorities
In online training, focus on the most important competences, knowledge, attitudes and skills. Keep the basic issues to a minimum and describe them in more detail in additional materials to emphasize the importance of priority training elements.
Set specific educational e-learning goals.
When you create them, remember about the best learning experience (LX) and answer the following questions: what do students need and what can they know at the end of the session? What skills or attitudes are they supposed to acquire? Verify them and ask potential students about their learning goals. Maybe they prefer discussing specific case studies, or maybe they prefer video-based learning?
How to keep listeners’ attention during e-learning training?
You only have the first few minutes to attract their attention, so choose the right and effective forms of e-learning. Which functionalities of online learning tools will help you achieve these goals? Chat, games, contests, surveys, whiteboard, screen sharing or brainstorming discussion forums? The choice is yours.
3 typical fails when you transfer offline learning to online learning
- Online training is not just a lecture. It requires the trainer to prepare interesting tasks, activities and interactions to increase the involvement of participants.
- Eight-hour stationary training is not the same as an eight-hour online learning session. A typical webinar should last between 60 and 90 minutes. If you have more material, divide it into parts, blocks or several training sessions. Put additional knowledge in the materials attached to the webinar for volunteers.
- You usually have 10-25 people in the training room, and you want to train online for hundreds of participants. The fact that LMS platforms and webinar tools provide such possibilities does not mean that they should be used immediately. You will easily create tasks and tests for such a large group. However, you will lose the opportunity to analyze individual cases and honestly hear the needs and doubts of each participant.
How to save a company with stationary training against the fall in crisis and epidemia?
Organize webinars
The fastest form of transformation from a training room to an online room. Remember, however, not to transfer 1:1 training scenarios from offline to online. Follow others before your first webinar, take care of the appropriate content plan and prepare appropriate additional materials. Remember the 10 commandments of a good webinar.
Record online courses in video or audio
A more difficult, more cost effective, less time consuming and better scalable form of online training. Once you record reliably prepared material and sell it to other customers or show it to subsequent groups of employees. If necessary, we will gladly provide you with our video content studio at the GroMar headquarters to create your own online video or audio course.
Prepare full training or knowledge pills in the popular SCORM format for corporations
Still popular standard of online training on online platforms of large corporations. You can easily transfer your stationary training to the SCORM format using the LearnWay LMS E-Course Editor. We will gladly prepare such dedicated SCORM training for you. Based on hundreds of completed projects, we know how to build an online training system in a company, based on really valuable, attractive courses for employees.
Create a ready, complete training platform and sell it in a SaaS model
The most time-consuming of these four proposals, but also the most profitable for training companies in the long run is to create their own LMS platform, based on the LearnWay engine, with a base of ready-made video, audio and SCORM training, and then sell it to B2B customers in the SaaS model.
How to start in online training?
If you want to conduct training during a home office, you will first need a laptop (with a working webcam and microphone) and the basic version of the LMS platform with a widget for webinars and access to a virtual disk (“cloud”) with educational content.
Who can the GroMar e-learning expert with digital transformation of stationary training for online courses help?
- Coaches who have not worked in the online world so far and have not implemented webinars
- Company owners organizing stationary trainings
- HR Directors in large corporations
- L&D and e-learning specialists
How can GroMar e-learning experts help you?
- Tips for designing and creating online training and e-learning brief
- Creating a dedicated online training platform based on LearnWay LMS or Moodle
- Designing and producing ready-made trainings for your clients in SCORM format
- Choosing the right tool for webinars and online meetings, tests, surveys, chat
- Implementation of video training in our video content studio
- Technical support (selection of equipment: microphones, cameras, online platform and webinar support step by step, gathering knowledge base and archiving materials)