Create interactive training using classroom collaboration tools
In addition to PowerPoint and Sway, Microsoft offers tools and features that promote interactivity among learners to encourage real-world problem-solving and collaboration. Some examples are:
- Microsoft Teams: Teams allows for real-time collaboration, making it perfect for group projects and discussions. Features like breakout rooms are used to facilitate small group discussions or team-based problem-solving activities.
- Microsoft Whiteboard: Whiteboard is a freeform digital canvas where people, content, and ideas come together. It assists with collaborative brainstorming sessions, problem-solving, and more.
- Microsoft Forms: Forms is used to create quizzes, polls, and surveys, to check understanding, gather feedback, or stimulate discussion.
- OneNote Class Notebook: OneNote Class Notebook provides a personal workspace for every learner, a content library for handouts, and a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities. It promotes organization, collaboration, and personalized learning.
Exercise – Project plans
A group of adult learners are enrolled in a course on project management. The trainer wants to help them develop the skills and knowledge needed to plan, execute, and evaluate a project.
The trainer would like to design a variety of learning activities that involve active participation, collaboration, and problem-solving. For example, activities that allow the learners to work in small groups to create a project charter, a Gantt chart, and a budget for a hypothetical project.
At the end of the training, the trainer would like the learners to write a self-assessment report on their strengths as project managers and to identify one action plan that they'll implement in their next project.
Which tools do you recommend the trainer use when designing these activities?