Lesson 4: Developing an Instructional Strategy
4. Webinar Lesson Plan
4.3. Plan Content Presentation and Learner Participation
In this next part of our lesson plan, we combine multiple events into two sections - Content Presentation and Learner Participation. These sections include information for the following events:
CONTENT PRESENTATION
- Presenting the stimulus materials
- Providing learning guidance
LEARNER PARTICIPATION
- Eliciting the performance
- Providing feedback
One reason for this is the need to repeat these sections for each of your objectives or cluster of objectives so it makes organization easier. More importantly though, it is because they are intricately tied together. This is where you help your learners process the information to enable deep learning. First, you present the information and then you help learners understand it using demonstrations and examples. After that, your role changes from being an instructor to being a guide. Your job is now to provide assistance as learners practice by attempting to recall, use, or apply the information you have presented.
Remember that at this point, you are just describing the activities you will conduct, not writing your content.
An Example
Below is the Content Presentation and Learner Participation section of our example lesson plan:
CONTENT PRESENTATION AND LEARNER PARTICIPATION
Objective 1: Recognize the benefits of interactivity in webinar training.
4. Presenting the Stimulus Material: A list of benefits for using interactivity in webinar training will be given and each one described.
5. Learner Guidance: The listed benefits will be presented and discussed one bullet point at a time.
6. Eliciting the Performance: Only part of the list will be displayed and discussed at first so students can have the opportunity to provide input. Students will be asked to enter additional benefits in the chat window enabling them to experience the benefits of interaction. The instructor will provide feedback to this input. Once the chat session has ended, the instructor will display the remaining benefits they had previously identified for content presentation.
7. Providing Feedback: A Q&A session will be offered to allow participants to share their experiences with interaction during a webinar and ask for further instructor feedback.
Objective 2: Describe ways common interactive tools can be used to promote engagement
4. Presenting the Stimulus Material: A list of interactive webinar tools will be given, and each item described.
5. Learner Guidance: The instructor will show how a webinar presenter will use the tool.
6. Eliciting the Performance: If the audience is small, the instructor will pass presenter control to an audience member so they can practice as an instructor. If the audience is large, only demonstrations will be given but participants will be invited to engage with each tool as a student.
7. Providing Feedback: A Q&A session will be offered to allow participants to share their experiences with the tools and ask questions about them.
Objective 3: Identify ways interactive tools can be used in different scenarios.
4. Presenting the Stimulus Material: Three presentation scenarios will be described that could benefit from using interactive tools.
5. Learner Guidance: For each scenario, an example will be given showing one way to use an interactive tool to benefit the scenario. Additional suggestions will be given after learner participation activity.
6. Eliciting the Performance: Students will be asked to contribute suggestions (using chat) for additional ways interactive tools could be used in each scenario.
7. Providing Feedback: A Q&A session will be offered to allow participants to share other scenarios and how they would use interactive tools to support them.
Enter your webinar's content presentation and learner participation activities into your Webinar Lesson Plan.