How to combine e-course with live presentation?

Feb 26, 2014

Hello,

I am modifying an e-learning course to be presented live. I was thinking of replacing the interactions and quizzes in the course with live interactions with the course facilitator. However, I would like to retain some of the narration in the course (I can record this in powepoint instead of Articulate), because we will be using a rotating mix of facilitators and I want to make sure the content delivery is consistent.

Thanks in advance, I'm not sure if this the appropriate place to ask

7 Replies
Lena Cap

Hi, thanks for responding!

The objective is to train an audience (volunteers for one day of work) in person, and provide in-person demonstrations of the tasks they will have to complete. This is where the facilitator will take over for the online interactions/quizzes.  In some cases, the trainees do not have computer access and this is the only option.

The audience are volunteers for one day of work. But the tasks they are responsible for are fairly complex.

Some of them would have volunteered before, and they would have taken an in-person class. (there is an existing in-person powerpoint presentation curriculum, but because multiple trainers are used, the delivery is not always standard, hence trying to use pre-recorded narration in parts of the presentation)

Multiple facilitators (one per class) are used because they are temporary rotating staff members, so there is not a significant amount of time to train them in all aspects of the content. Also there are thousands of volunteers being trained, so multiple people are necessary.

My main question, I guess, is how can I record narration in a presentation that can be seamlessly stopped when it's time for the facilitator to lead a discussion/ask questions/etc? Thanks again!

Bob S

Hi Lena,

Have you considered...

  • A video (movie of your narration floated over images and graphics) with long "pause points" (ie transitions) between sections where your presenter would step in.
  • Plain old fashioned PowerPoint with the narration running over auto advanced slides. Can even use hyperlinks to break it into as many self-runnning chapters as you need for the spaces in between the live presentation stuff.
Condoleeza T.

I actually just had a situation where I converted an elearning program to a live session.  My topic was performance management with a few different scenarios and branched options.  I reinserted the audio directly into powerpoint where my characters were "talking".  When the audience had to make choices, I used links to take them to www.polleverywhere.com where they could text, tweet or login their choices.  We were then able to see the group choices and it was quite engaging.  It was a huge amount of work to rework the course into a live presentation from an elearning course but now I have a product that I can use as a webinar or live session.  

Lena Cap

Thanks for the responses! (I didn't get email notifications that there were responses, hence the late reply, sorry!!)

I think I will end up using a recorded PowerPoint narration and have the facilitator stop the replay for quizzes and such, and just use quizzes in PowerPoint that the facilitator can control with a remote.  It seems like that would work more seamlessly than if the facilitator ran the presentation in articulate.

Nick - I do understand your reservation about taking away from the live presenter if the content is pre-recorded. The reason I'm leaning toward this is that the presenters are temp staff with very little time to learn content, and often are not necessarily professional trainers/presenters.

I LOVE the polleeverywhere idea! I don't think it would work for us at this time because the audience is very varied in ability (highschoolers,  senior citizens,   people with limited reading/writing etc.) not everyone has a mobile device and we can't provide one. At this point we just do a poll by show of hands, but maybe we can incorporate this at some point. The seed has been planted!

I also really like all the engagement ideas. I'm sure there is a more engaging and efficient way to do what I'm doing.  I'm going to post separately about where to get resources/ideas.

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