Lesson 4: Developing an Instructional Strategy

3.9. Enhancing Retention and Transfer

Just because your webinar is over, you shouldn't think your job of instructing is over. Students need to practice what they were taught to learn it. Short practices during the webinar are not enough. This event, enhancing retention and transfer, addresses actions you can take to help your students retain what they learned and transfer it to their work environment.

Methods for enhancing retention and transfer include:

• Summarizing lesson content. (Always do this)
• Providing references they can use to further their study of the topic.
• Providing practice exercises with solutions they can complete afterward.
• Providing how-to guides, links to documents.
• Offering post-webinar Q&A to answer questions they may have after they have had a chance to apply what you taught.
• Providing a recording of the webinar.