Course Introduction

Welcome to 'Developing Effective Webinar Training.' This course will help you create effective instruction using webinar best practices, interactive tools for engaging learners, and instructional design principles. As much as possible, the instruction uses little jargon and teaches practical techniques you should find easy to apply. After all, the goal of the course is to help you share your technical expertise by training others, not to make you an instructional design expert.

This course is comprised of the five lessons listed below. The expected time to complete each lesson is indicated in parenthesis.

1. Overview of Effective Webinar Training (1 hour) 
2. Enhancing Webinar Participant Engagement (2 hours) 
3. Planning Webinar Instruction (2 hours) 
4. Developing an Instructional Strategy (2 hours) 
5. Developing Instructional Materials (1 hour) 

Each lesson builds on the previous one, so you should take them in the order listed.

Relevant examples, worksheets, and templates are provided throughout the instruction.