COURSE OVERVIEW:

Welcome to the Organise & Conduct Active Training course. This program will equip you with the techniques, strategies, and instructional design skills required to deliver highly engaging learning experiences. You will explore what makes training “active,” how to design learning environments that encourage participation, and how to use practical tools that support understanding, retention, and learner involvement. This course also examines creative facilitation methods—both in-person and online—that help trainers energise groups, maintain momentum, and support meaningful skill development.

This course begins by examining what active training and active learning are, and what distinguishes active methods from traditional, passive instruction. You will explore the characteristics that make training active, including learner participation, problem-solving, collaboration, and experiential methods. This section also introduces the best layouts for a training room, techniques for learning participants’ names, and the key questions that help uncover participant expectations. You will examine methods for obtaining participation, effective assignments for learning partners, and appropriate occasions to use response cards to stimulate engagement. This section concludes with multiple ways to make learning visual and techniques for activating a lecture to transform it from a one-way presentation into a dynamic learning experience.

The next learning area focuses on enhancing comprehension, retention, and involvement during instruction. You will explore how to build learner interest, maximise understanding, and reinforce lecture content through interaction, repetition, and demonstration. You will also learn strategies for involving participants during the lecture and examine common games used by trainers to energise the room. This section includes techniques for waking up or relaxing a group, methods for forming groups, and strategies for selecting group leaders or assigning roles within team-based learning activities. You will also explore facilitation techniques that support constructive discussion and effective communication within groups.

A further part of the program examines experiential and scenario-based training methods. You will explore options for role-playing—including scripting, staging, and debriefing—and the steps required to facilitate experiential activities safely and successfully. This section also provides timesaver strategies for using active techniques when time is limited, helping trainers maintain engagement while staying on schedule. You will also learn the best techniques for calling participants to order, the use of props to dramatise key concepts, and effective interventions for regaining control of a group when distractions arise.

The final learning area focuses on active learning in online environments. You will explore how to establish clear expectations for participation, provide etiquette guidelines for virtual communication, and create an effective teaching environment using digital tools. This section also covers how to get online participants involved through breakout groups, polls, collaborative documents, multimedia resources, and structured interaction strategies that mirror the benefits of in-person training.

By the end of this course you will be able to design and conduct active training sessions, manage group dynamics confidently, use a wide range of interactive techniques, reinforce learning effectively, and engage participants in both physical and virtual environments—resulting in training that is memorable, energising, and impactful.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

• What is active training and active learning?
• What makes training “active”?
• The best layouts for setting up a training room
• The techniques for learning participants’ names
• The questions to ask for obtaining participant expectations
• The methods for obtaining participation
• The best assignments to give learning partners
• The occasions to use response cards
• The ways to make learning visual
• The ways to activate a lecture
• How to build interest?
• How to maximise understanding and retention?
• How to involve participants during the lecture?
• How to reinforce the lecture?
• The common games trainers play
• The best techniques to wake up or relax a group
• The strategies for forming groups
• The strategies for selecting group leaders and filling other jobs
• The techniques to facilitate discussion
• The options for role playing including; scripting and staging
• The steps to use when facilitating experiential activities
• Timesaver strategies when active training takes time
• The best techniques for calling participants to order
• The props that dramatise learning
• The effective interventions for regaining control of the group
• Online active learning
• How to establish clear expectations for participation?
• How to provide etiquette guidelines for online communications?
• How to create an effective teaching environment?
• How to get participants involved?

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.