"Virtual Training is the definitive guide to delivering virtual training that engages learners and makes new skills and behavioral changes stick. Jeb Blount, one of the most celebrated trainers and authors of our generation, walks you step-by-step through the seven elements of effective, engaging virtual learning experiences." -- Amazon.com.

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Starting with a simple four-step process (get started, get ready, get buy-in, and get going), this complete guide helps you select the right technology, then offers detailed sections on how to design content, develop activities, and work with both facilitators and producers.

This playbook described the research- and evidence-based strategies teachers can employ to deliver high quality learning in an online, virtual, and distributed environment. It provided examples and templates that teachers can use in their own lesson planning. The companion web site includes reproducible forms and videos mentioned in the book. Effective teaching is effective teaching, no matter where it occurs The pandemic teaching of mid-2020 was...

The Virtual Training Guidebook, second edition, is a resource that will make the difference for beginners and veterans alike. It is a comprehensive and accessible manual for anyone who needs to create robust employee training solutions that solve real-world business challenges. Novices and experienced training professionals will find field-tested advice on choosing the right technology for their organization's training needs, designing and facilitating...

"As Google Apps and Chromebooks become the #1 school LMS and device, more and more teachers need support with integrating this complex suite of tools soundlessly with instruction. This book will help 6-8 classroom teachers become familiar with the suite of Google tools, and help them learn how to use these tools to support student learning, integrate 21st century skills, and design standards-based lessons that thoughtfully integrate technology. The...

The electronic Bible is here to stay packaged in software on personal computers, available as apps on tablets and cell phones. Increasingly, students look at glowing screens to consult the Bible in class, and congregants do the same in Bible study and worship. Jeffrey S. Siker asks, what difference does it make to our experience of Scripture if we no longer hold a book in our hands, if we again "scroll" through Scripture? How does the "flow" of electronic...

Virtual training gives learning professionals unprecedented flexibility, making it possible to reach participants globally and unite physically dispersed teams. But designers and facilitators must adapt their programs and delivery styles in order to be effective in this new medium. The Successful Virtual Classroom goes beyond introducing the technology, to offer trainers proven techniques tailored specifically to engage live online audiences.

"This edition includes 3 new chapters focused on evidence regarding signaling in e-Learning, video-based instruction, and immersive virtual reality platforms. The 21 chapters summarized in the table that follows are grouped into five sections. You may choose to read the chapters in order or if you have special interests such as evidence on online games or immersive virtual reality, you can jump to those chapters. Chapters 1-3 summarize foundational...