Social Distancing is not Behaving Distantly
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This document discusses strategies for effectively delivering training remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. It outlines lessons learned from initial attempts at virtual training, including that it is difficult to engage students and maintain focus without in-person interaction. It recommends adopting a combined approach using multiple instructors, flexible scheduling of material, and specialized online tools to help facilitate collaborative learning and make remote training feel more personal.
Social Distancing is not Behaving Distantly
- 1. © Instil Software 2020 Social Distancing ≠ Behaving Distantly growing the team & training clients remotely
- 7. The Classroom is Closed…
- 8. – Extending existing capabilities – Retraining across platforms – Graduate induction programs Training Is Still Required Your Staff Still Need To Grow
- 9. Different Kinds of Training
- 10. – Cheap, accessible and repeatable – Typically won't adapt to the learner – The learner tries to adapt to it – Very good for – Picking up a fixed process – Adding to existing skills E-Learning Taking Courses Online
- 11. – Tailored, focused and adaptable – Teaching the same thing ten different ways – Transferring knowledge via individual coaching – Acquiring the why as well as the what and how – But not without downsides – Expensive in both time and money – Difficult to fit around project work Classroom Training Attending In Person
- 12. – We need to deliver training in a virtual format – Whilst preserving what is special about the classroom – This is a big ask (especially outside the IT industry) The Big Ask Teaching in a Pandemic
- 13. – It’s hard graft even for experienced trainers – Hard to engage the students and keep focus – Very little ‘audience energy’ to bounce off The Lessons Being Learned 1: It’s damn hard work
- 14. ‘Whatever you do boy,’ said Terry, ‘just keep looking straight into the camera. It doesn't matter what you say or what else is going wrong … just look into that lens.’ Terry Megan's advice to Andrew Marr
- 15. – People prefer to work together – Work hard to grow collaboration – Insist that video remain on The Lessons Being Learned 2: Create co-working spaces
- 16. – The future is probably asynchronous and multi-modal – Lecture-type material doesn't stick (esp. at present) – Let students do as much as possible whilst off-line The Lessons Being Learned 3: Slice up the material finely
- 18. – There's no seat at the back on a Zoom call – You have novel teaching tools available: – Assign research assignments and ‘quests’ – Randomly cold-call students with questions – Regularly broadcast polls via Zoom etc. The Lessons Being Learned 4: Exploit the Virtual Landscape
- 19. – In the classroom you can ‘bounce around’ – Fixing setup and configuration issues on the fly – If someone missed a step it’s easily corrected – In Virtual Training this is much harder – So enable students to ‘be their own sysadmin’ – When in doubt document clearly and share publicly The Lessons Being Learned 5: Be Public and Explicit
- 20. – Keep the tech as simple as possible – It's the learning that's important – Informal and personable wins – Formal and remote doesn't work on video – Be rigid in your schedules – So students can rejoin if necessary The Lessons Being Learned 6: KISS and YAGNI
- 21. Online you aren’t necessarily the one delivering the knowledge. Rather, your role now is that of a facilitator. Your students are adults. Facilitate their learning. Jeff Vallance https://twitter.com/jeffvallance/status/1237730531011223552
- 22. Our Combined ApproachOur Combined Approach
- 23. – Multiple Instructors – Specialized Tools – Flexible Hours The Three Key Components To Make Online Training Personal
- 24. – The instructor works with the group – By teaching, live coding etc… – They proceed at the average pace – The coach responds to queries – Working with students at the extremes – They ensure that no one is left behind Multiple Trainers Acting as Instructor and Coach
- 25. – We partitioned our material into 60 min blocks – Allowing us to deliver a course to your timeline – A delivery could take place over: – A week's worth of mornings – One day a week for six weeks – Afternoon and evening sessions Flexible Hours Fitting Material Into Your Day
- 26. – Distributed teams already build software – We can take advantage of their tooling – For us this means – Zoom for power features like rooms and polling – JetBrains Space for distributed code review Specialized Tools We Have The Technology
- 28. – A White Paper is available on our site – Within a section devoted to Virtual Training Want More Info? www.instil.co