The Virtual Classroom: How to Create Engaging Online Learning
The Complete Guide
Updated on Sep, 2023
Language - English
Course Description
This course is designed to give you the confidence to deliver confident and professional teaching or training sessions using virtual classroom and video conferencing tools. It will guide you through a series of practical steps where you can simulate the facilitator and participant interfaces. You will be able to download a presentation template that you can use to plan all of your future online teaching and training sessions.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify the key elements of a high quality virtual classroom session.
- Explore the core features of common virtual classroom tools (Zoom, Teams and Meet)
- Plan the structure of an online teaching session
- Recognise design standards using presentation software
- Prepare interactive collaboration and communication activities
Why this Course is for You
Teaching online using virtual classroom and video conferencing technology has become a requirement for educators and trainers around the globe, but how many have had any professional development training. Many of you will have trained to teach and deliver training in a face-to-face environment which requires a different skill set to the online environment. I have been teaching and training for over 30 years. In the last 10 I have specialised in remote teaching for the world’s biggest EdTech companies. I will bring my depth of experience and research evidence to bear to provide you with a roadmap to success. And a little more - I will add another layer - I have curated some of the best freely available tools to give your live teaching sessions that extra polish!
Who is this course for?
- Educators in Higher Education
- Corporate Training Professionals
- Educators in High School Education
Course Materials
You only need a PC, Mac or Chromebook or even a mobile device to complete this course. I will recommend the use of a variety of tools, all of which you can try and experiment with, without incurring a cost.
I will provide you with a presentation template that you can use to develop a plan for your future virtual classroom sessions
Goals
What will you learn in this course:
Identify the core features and use cases of Nearpod for online training, teaching and instruction.
Plan the the use of your slide presentations to integrate with Nearpod interactive tools
Practise the skills required to simulate audience interaction in a web-conferencing tools (Zoom)
Identify the optimal screen set up for participants in your Nearepod sessions.
Explore the most impactful content and activity types
Prerequisites
What are the prerequisites for this course?
You only need a PC, Mac or Chromebook or even a mobile device to complete this course. I will recommend the use of a variety of tools, all of which you can try and experiment with, without incurring a cost. I will provide you with a presentation template that you can use to develop a plan for your future virtual classroom sessions.
Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Part 1: Introduction
2 Lectures
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About this class
01:54
01:54
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Session Planning Part 1
03:32
03:32
Interactive Tools
7 Lectures
Presentation Planning
2 Lectures
Technical Set-up
4 Lectures
The Main Event
1 Lectures
Instructor Details
Mike Highfield
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