Are you making this mistake training online?
You’ve created a course that you present in the classroom. You’re entertaining, you get interaction, and you encourage lots of discussion. Good. So, what’s the problem? That teaching style doesn’t translate well to the online environment. Structuring and presenting an online course is different than designing a ‘live’ course. Here is a fatal mistake presenters make when attempting to adapt their classroom course to an online platform.
Mistake: Talking Through the Hour
[ctt template=”3″ link=”7bk4F” via=”yes” ]Talking through your course works to some extent in the classroom. So why doesn’t it work online?[/ctt]In the classroom, you have live bodies (including yours) to energize and exchange ideas. You probably love to hold discussions—and there are some lively ones in your class. It doesn’t bother you that the discussion gets off-topic because it’s interesting.
The online presentation is different. You don’t have those bodies to energize and be energized. You don’t have time to get off topic. You don’t have the audience there for discussion. So, how do you interact with your audience and keep them engaged (especially challenging with a real estate audience)?
Solution: Change the way you present to utilize the audience interaction tools available in your online platform. That means you must be able to ‘flex’ your teaching methods to adapt to the online environment.
There are at least 7 ways you can create meaningful audience interaction while teaching online. These include:
- Chats
- Whiteboard
- Questions
- Polls
- Surveys
- Small groups
- Rewards
Experts say you should get audience interaction about every 5-7 minutes. That means you’ll have to ‘choreograph’ your presentation much differently than you do when you’re live.
How much interaction are you adding to your presentation or course?
