Lesson 4: Developing an Instructional Strategy
4. Webinar Lesson Plan
4.2. Plan Pre-instructional Activities
The first three of Gagné's nine events are pre-instructional activities. They occur before you present the main content of your instruction. Review the previous sections describing these events for ideas on the type of activities you might use for your webinar.
An Example
Below are the pre-instructional activities for our example topic: Using Interactivity to Engage Webinar Participants.
PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES
1. Gain Attention: The instructor begins the webinar by presenting an image depicting an ‘information dump.’ Then describes how some training webinars follow the same pattern - the instructor talks non-stop the entire session allowing questions at the end if time allows. The instructor then asks participants to use the webinar hand-raising tool to indicate if they have ever had a similar webinar experience.
2: Inform learner of the objectives: The instructor explains the learning objectives and how participants will not only learn how to use interactive tools, but will also experience their use from the learner’s viewpoint.
3: Stimulating Recall of Prior Learning: Nothing specific will be provided for this event. It is somewhat combined with gaining attention.
Enter your webinar's pre-instructional activities into your Webinar Lesson Plan.