What do they have to say?
The Human Resource Perspective
From the desk of a HR professional – Whenever there is any migration such in practice, process and the like, the task for the Human resource team is (Read more)
Corporate Trainers view Point
E-learning touches the core heart of the Training Professionals as it comes as the leading medium to conduct trainings in the days (Read more)
What do the Teachers think
Teaching academics to students is easily the pinnacle of knowledge cascading process. The entire gamut of activities, such as teaching, conducting (Read more)
Migrate to Transform
by K.C.Madhan Matthew
Education and knowledge sharing industry has evolved through the history. Taking knowledge to the doorstep and ensuring easy access to information to everyone around the globe has been a dream for years now. E-Learning has certainly spearheaded that dream to become a reality. With the advancement of Internet being available to everyone, we are able to reach every door step and information is accessible to everyone.
The Human Resource Perspective
It’s always difficult to cope up with. In a recent article published by Meet colony we found few crucial perspectives from Human resource teams.
- Challenge in creating a digital company culture
- Migrating the HR processes
- Automating the Management processes
- Recruiting candidates who are tech savvy
- Unable to personalize employee experience due to digital migration
- Spreading awareness and training everyone in the organization to adapt to E-learning Migration
- Company Data confidentiality
- Technological infrastructure
These are some of the challenges from the HR Perspective, however all this can be easily mitigated by following a step by step migration plan.
MIgrate to Transform
by KC Madhan Matthew
At a time when the entire world, across sectors, is looking for ways to digitally transform, its impact on the E-Learning domain is still lagging. Even though digital transformation comes loaded with the promise of helping organizations evolve in real time, organizations have been slow in terms of adopting advanced learning and skill development practices. But with more and more businesses getting on the bandwagon of implementing digital transformation strategies, the time when the E- Learning domain will get transformed is drawing near.
“Migration to E-learning certainly promises a massive transformation to all knowledge sharing outlets across the Globe“
Hence whether we are individuals or we represent organizations, educational institutions or any other, it is crucial to speed up our E-learning migration. If not we will be left behind and all our initiatives would not be relevant in the current context.
Corporate trainers viewpoint
to come. Abie Kennie a Digital Transformation consultant in a recent article highlighted few of the concerns from a corporate trainers point of view.
- Spreading awareness and engaging everyone
- Quality – Even if migrated, how will the quality of the E-learning Sessions be
- Resources – Technology based infra structure, human resource, system which is compatible and latest
- Tools and hand holding – Tools which can make life easy, as well as handholding people to step into this new change is also critical.
Above are some genuine concerns, however all this can be sorted out by following a step by step implementation plan
E-Learning Tips to Trainers
by Cven Guest
- Have a stable technology
- Implement Virtual ice breakers
- Create impactful slides
- Encourage active participation
- Hold break out groups, like have team wise activities
- Optimum usage of the chat window
- Optimum usage of the polling feature
- Optimum usage of the whiteboard or jam board
- Learn new softwares to improve the Live video streaming to be creative
- Start and finish the training on time as per the schedule
- Do educate the participants regarding the platform
- Have training sessions that are short and to the point
Hold break out rooms to have team wise activities to promote engagement among learners
Hope the above 12 tips from Cven Guest enables you to be an effective online trainer in the corporate world. One underlying element which encompasses through all the 12 points is that, as corporate trainers, learning new technology never stops. Adding more creative means to your existing knowledge will surely help.
What do the teachers think
Assessments and accrediting them towards the next level is the fulcrum activity of any academic teacher.
Anu.V a popular online teaching strategist observes below points as few of the collective thoughts of present day teachers.
- Adaptability issue for both teacher, students as well as parents
- Limited technical awareness
- Time crunch due to the blend of personal and professional task as a result of taking class from home
- Distractions from the teachers end as well as the students end, again the reason being that the session is being conducted in the respective home, hence a calling bell, or a vendor coming etc cannot be avoided
- Unable to understand the response and modify the next approach accordingly.
The above 5 points are certainly a concern to the entire teaching fraternity globally. Together we can make the Migration to E-learning possible.
E-Learning Tips to academic teachers
by Kyungmee Lee
- Show up – Having a pleasant and well lit face in front of the camera is important for both live as well as recorded sessions.
- Keep your periods or recorded videos short
- Prepare and practice your slides prior to your class
- Be Interactive
- Use multiple resources, such as videos, PPT, images, flash cards, dashboards etc.
- Always give specific instructions with clarity
- Do not micro manage
- Do not be a control freak
- Maximize individual interactions, but cover everyone in a planned manner
- Repeat and reemphasize in creative ways.
Maximize individual interaction, be careful to cover everyone in the class in a planned manner
I hope the above 10 tips can be useful for any academic teacher to excel in his/her task to successfully transfer knowledge and at the same time to assess the efficacy of the learners as well.
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