by Jo Cook, Training Journal
Colin Steed, chief executive of the Learning Performance Institute, independently hosts two online conferences a year. Steed says, “I think people will say you can’t be online all day long. Conventional wisdom tells you a whole day of live online learning is too much, so I always resisted doing a whole conference for that reason. But I had second thoughts in 2013 for, through experience, I found that if you are absorbed in learning things that are valuable to you then you can concentrate for that long – providing there are sufficient breaks of a reasonable length. The key is having 30 minute breaks between the sessions. The feedback for the first and second Virtual Learning Show amazed me. People said that they were ‘absorbed for the whole day’ and that showed me that if you pick the right content and speakers who know how to deliver live online learning properly then a whole day online, with breaks, can work.”
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