Welcome to the ‘How to make non-boring virtual courses/ meetings’ mini-course! Here you’ll learn how to start a course or a meeting in an engaging way and how to support people work together and bring up the group intelligence! In this course, you will also find exercises that you can do with your groups in order to support them maximise their learning! Experiential learning and reflection are our guides! Let’s start!
How are we going to navigate this mini-course? We have got some interesting material for you! A variety of podcasts, downloadable exercises and practical tips! Have a look:
Start with a lengthy introduction and see everybody signing out. Offer people the opportunity to chit chat and get to know each other. Use breakout rooms in Zoom or offer a variety of engaging icebreakers in Glimpse (https://www.joinglimpse.com/).
The most common question in education is “What do you want to learn?”. It is so common to ask that we don’t question the question anymore. That’s unfortunate. Because people don’t know what they don’t know. So, let’s stop using this question and ask something else instead. Shall we?
We tend to think that our role is to transform knowledge. This lays on the assumption that ignorance is the problem and information is the solution. Wanna challenge this thought?