Best Practice Guide for Distance Learning

This week I was presented a learning need and asked to develop a Best Practice Guide for converting to a distance education format. The scenario presented is as follows:

A training manager has been frustrated with the quality of communication among trainees in his face-to-face training sessions and wants to try something new. With his supervisor’s permission, the trainer plans to convert all current training modules to a blended learning format, which would provide trainees and trainers the opportunity to interact with each other and learn the material in both a face-to-face and online environment. In addition, he is considering putting all of his training materials on a server so that the trainees have access to resources and assignments at all times.

Attached you will find a document that will serve as a best practices guide for converting to a distance education format for this training. Topics addressed include: Pre-planning strategies; Aspects of the original training that can be enhanced in the distance education program; Changes to the Trainers Role; and, Steps to encourage trainees to communicate online.
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