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Teaching Virtual Classes: Get People Talking

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Connecting with the instructor/facilitator and the other students/participants plays a huge role in online class engagement. When you are the virtual instructor, make sure you are fostering this connection in your classes. Ask them to help you teach the class! Would you like to get up here and teach the class?” 

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How To Handle Teaching Large Online Classes

eLearning Industry

Teaching online brings many challenges but these are further complicated when the class is large. How do you cope with hundreds of online students at once? Let's go over some tips. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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TEACHING ONLINE: Don't Let a Computer Crash During Class Cause Panic!

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I've been teaching live online classes for years. Even though I rebooted my machine in time for class, it froze again, and I couldn’t click anything. In this instance, other students in the class were using Captivate (it was a hands-on session) and I simply made a participant the presenter (or leader). Tell me how!

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TEACHING LIVE, ONLINE CLASSES: Asking Review Questions

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.   Over and over, as we teach our ICCOTP Certified Online Training Professional course on how to teach online , I see students use our techniques correctly—but on the wrong topics. For example, we teach a very specific technique—the overhead question.   Let me emphasize that last statement. Jennie has an M.A.

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TEACHING LIVE, ONLINE CLASSES: Pros & Cons

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I started teaching online a dozen years ago and I owe it all to a case of the flu. I was supposed to teach something to someone but I couldn’t wrap my thoughts around the specifics. Because I was under contract, I went to the client site and taught the class as expected. (I The class went fine, thanks for asking.

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How To Teach Classes Online

eLearning Industry

Here are 4 tips on how to teach online classes. Set up the plan. Prepare and master technology. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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TEACHING ONLINE CLASSES: Interactive Polls Help End Sucky Training

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When I start my classes, displaying a poll is a great way to break the ice and get my class started on the right foot.   One of the easiest ways to engage online students is by displaying quizzes and polls.   Most virtual training platforms (GoToTraining, WebEx, Connect, etc) allow you to create polls within the tool.

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