Converting to a Distance Learning Format
Summary - I chose to create a scenario where the trainer emphasizes the benefits of a blended course format where podcasts and trainings are viewed at the leisure of the trainee, where training materials are both in paper and on-line, with interactive tables of contents, and where facilitated collaborative discussions can assist in the communications between trainers and trainees and between trainees themselves.
v Preplanning Strategies
§ Determine Cost Effectiveness
§ Assess Trainee Learning Styles
§ Story Board
§ Select Technology to Use
§ Pre Plan Study Guides and Handouts
¨ Maintain Current Booklets and Study Guides
§ Scan into Course with Interactive Tables of Contents
§ Select a Course Management System
§ Create Syllabus and Calendar
¨ Maintain Current Face-to-Face Training Dates
¨ Blend Distance and Face-to-Face Syllabus
¨ Determine Assessment/Evaluations
v Create Training Areas to Enhance
§ Convert Existing Handouts
§ Discussion Forums
§ Use Podcasts
§ Use Interactive Training
§ Use Intreractive Evaluation
v New Distance Ed Trainer Roles
§ Facilitator
§ Evalutor
§ Discussion Leader
§ Occasional Face-to-Face Trainer
v Encourage Participants
§ Benefits of Interactive Training
§ Benefits of Use Archived Training
§ Benefits of Collaborative Learning
§ Benefits of Facilitated Discussions
