Interact and Engage!: 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars

6Lessen the Lecture: Engaging Virtual Training

Virtual classroom training, virtual instructor-led training, synchronous online training—these are all names for live online training events that deliver interactive, collaborative, and impactful learning, either as a complement or substitute for traditional in-person classroom training or self-paced (asynchronous) e-learning courses. To fully define live online training events, let’s contrast them with webinars, which were covered in the previous chapter.

Webinars are events for large audiences, usually more than 20 people, though they can grow to sometimes hundreds or even more than a thousand. They are commonly used for sales and marketing purposes, but they can be very effective learning events ...