"We will learn no matter what! Learning is as natural as rest or play. With or without books, inspiring trainers, or classrooms, we will manage to learn. Educators can, however, make a difference in what people learn and how well they learn it. If we know why we are learning and if the reason fits our needs as we perceive them, we will learn quickly and deeply."
-Malcolm Knowles
Almost a year later, malpractice online abounds during the COVID era. Many have not learned a whole lot about learning and how the brain works online. Instead, we've seen a lot of practitioners repeating bad face-to-face practice over Zooms and tools with not enough districts, organizations, and universities thinking critically about how to change the paradigm.

Get inspired by the examples below from Setser Group to help reimagine what organizations and experiences online should be!
Truths
Great online facilitators spend 20% of the time talking and 80% of online learning time engaging learners.

Virtual prompts from our work at Setser Group include: stop and jot, chat storms, leave the Zoom or Loom briefly and return, watch a video and process with others offline over the phone, or round-robin reactions on an asynchronous Jamboard.

Learn more here about how Setser Group can help you leverage these strategies for your organization.

Tools
Create wow experiences for students and adults. Always activate learners as resources for one another. It does not make sense for someone to dominate virtual time with their expertise. You have a ton of expertise online and offline, make sure you use all of it. Build protocols and time for learning.

Here are some great tools to virtualize approaches from the National School Reform Faculty. 

Triumphs
Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Laboratory outlines the practical reasons we may be worn down from our virtual experiences and suggests some practical solutions like hiding your own video, extending the distance to the camera, and setting norms with project teams to take breaks off video.

Set your team up to experience triumphs this week and learn more about Stanford's work around this topic here.