Anyone who has set out on the path to train their employees online will soon realize that simply offering online courses is not enough. It requires strategic preparation, psychologically sound e-learning tools, and professional execution to ensure an LMS is used – and that the investment pays off in the long term. Here, we introduce five tools and tricks that contribute to sustainable learning success.

Tip 1: Relationship – Eye Contact Paradox

Have you ever noticed? When a trainer looks directly at their participants on the screen – they actually aren't. The person must look into the camera so that the employees have the impression that they are being looked at directly. Knowing such specific conditions and difficulties in online training and resolving them through adapted behavior is important if training employees online is to be successful.

Tip 2: Concentration – Short Training Sessions

Anyone who has previously only prepared and conducted in-person training plans like this: they have a half or full day available to convey as much knowledge as possible to the participants. Anyone who wants to train employees online must rethink this, because: concentration at the screen cannot be maintained for as long as in a live session. Here, formats like microlearning can be used to distribute knowledge over a longer period in smaller portions.

Tip 3: Exchange – Breakout Rooms

A popular format in in-person training is group work. What is not possible in larger training groups with several dozen participants works much better in small groups of up to five people. The exchange is more direct, more personal, and group tasks can be worked on more intensively. Anyone who wants to train employees online uses the breakout room function for this.

Tip 4: Collaboration – Whiteboard Function

It is sometimes very tiring in online training to look exclusively at the trainer's face for several hours. Passive participation inhibits our attention, thoughts wander – learning effect equals zero. With the whiteboard function, you invite everyone to participate actively.

On the screen, a whiteboard can be seen on which people can work together, pin ideas, and make processes and structures visible. Collaborative cooperation activates all participants, and trainers ensure that knowledge and techniques are better anchored in memory.

Tip 5: Motivation – Quiz Battle

If important knowledge is to be conveyed over a longer period and refreshed again and again, then gamification is the right means. To be able to train employees online here, motivation is required.

Especially when it comes to recurring annual training content, employees must be convinced through a special format. With a quiz app, learners have fun competing and comparing themselves – and quite incidentally, they practice the knowledge they need for their daily work.

Get to know the keelearning Quiz App and find out how you can train employees online with little effort and a lot of fun.

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