Something missing from your webinars? E-Learning Queen alter ego Susan Smith Nash has some great advice about how you can make them more effective. You’ll want to read her entire post, but here’s the general idea.

  • Capture attention at the beginning.
  • Build a cognitive framework at the beginning.
  • Encourage interaction.
  • Connect to the audience experience.
  • Reward the learners.
  • Repurpose with a purpose.
  • Respect culture and language.

Susan makes the point that weak webinars put learning and information technologies in a negative light. So it’s doubly important to use these technologies to their best advantage–to enhance teaching and learning as well as to promote further use.

PS. You can also check out Elluminate’s recorded events for a wide variety of information about live eLearning and web collaboration, like Bob Pike’s presentation, “17 Ways to Make the Dullest Meeting Come Alive.”

- Beth, Elluminate’s Goddess of Communication