COURSE OVERVIEW:

Engaging your audience during training is critical to the success of your training. When participants go back to their jobs, are they applying what you taught? If participants are passively listening while you’re reviewing power point slides, chances are they’re minds are drifting.

So what exactly is Active Training? Simply put, it is “instructional use of small groups so participants work together to maximise their own and each other’s learning”.

And what is Active Learning? it is any learning activity in which the audience participates or interacts with the learning process, as opposed to passively taking in the information.

When given the opportunity to actively engage with the information they’re learning, students/participants perform better. It nurtures the brain, giving it an extended opportunity to connect new and old information, correct previous misconceptions, and reconsider existing thoughts or opinions.

There is a whole lot more to training than telling! Learning is not an automatic consequence of pouring information into another person’s head. It requires the learner’s own mental and physical involvement. Lecturing and demonstrating, by themselves, will never lead to real, lasting learning. Only training that is active will.

What makes training “active”? When training is active, the participants do most of the work. They use their brains—studying ideas, solving problems, and applying what they learn. Active training is fast-paced, fun, supportive, and personally engaging. Often, participants are out of their seats, moving about and thinking aloud.

Why is it necessary to make training active? In order to learn something well, it helps to hear it, see it, ask questions about it, and discuss it with others. Above all else, we need to “do it.” That includes figuring out things by ourselves, coming up with examples, rehearsing skills, and doing tasks that depend on the knowledge we have.

In this course, you will find a large number of techniques and tips on how to organise and conduct active training. Included are ways to form groups, obtain participation, create classroom layouts, facilitate discussion, and many more suggestions for enhancing the effectiveness of your training efforts. These tips and techniques form the principles of active training. You will find many top lists on active training, these lists summarise how to build more quality, activity, variety, and direction into training programmes from beginning to end. The lists help trainers identify, at a glance, the top choices available to them at different points in the course of doing active training; they will function as useful “building blocks” for the strategies.

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 dramatize 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.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

You must have access to a computer or any mobile device with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free PDF Viewer) installed, to complete this course.

COURSE DELIVERY:

Purchase and download course content.

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”.