While Virtual Training Associates (VTA) does not specialize in diversity, equity and inclusion training, we do teach ethical coursework that is quite allied such as the prevention of sexual harassment, related societal issues such as pay parity, gender equality and ethical training. Can You Teach This? We are often asked if these topics can be
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Flying Eye Hospital By way of introduction, Orbis International is “A leading global non-governmental organization that has been a pioneer in the prevention and treatment of avoidable blindness for nearly four decades. Orbis transforms lives by delivering the skills, resources and knowledge needed to deliver accessible quality eye care.” As president of Virtual Training Associates,
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During the worst of the lockdown, it was determined that about 61 percent of all students were disengaged from virtual learning. Amazingly, 76 percent of the teachers/instructors felt unmotivated. Failures in learning were highest when all of the motivation to learn were essentially “bribes,” i.e. the extrinsic (“If you all turn in your assignments, I
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An Approach at Virtual Learning – Observations Made for Better or Worse We don’t talk enough about what Virtual Training Associates (VTA) calls the “Learning Journey,” so it behooves me to explore the point in this post. If lockdowns and partial lockdowns have taught us nothing else, it is that the learning journey is highly
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Virtual Fraud During COVID-19 In April 2021, the Federal Trade Commission issued a report entitled “Protecting Consumers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Year in Review.” Backed by law enforcement, the agency began its work in March 2020 to go after offenders. Before going any further, I need to say that every fraud perpetrated was done
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Every so often, Virtual Training Associates (VTA) likes to share virtual training goofs that we’ve seen over the years. We’re not doing this to make fun of anyone rather to point out that virtual training should be as serious and as dedicated as in-person interactions. On the surface, we will agree that some of these
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Some rather exciting news is emerging from the world of virtual training that has certainly sparked our interest at Virtual Training Associates (VTA). A research study was just concluded (May 20, 2021) in the healthcare industry. The study, about to appear in the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences has shown that using virtual techniques
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Isolated: Connect with Virtual Teams to Avoid Fraud In July 2021, the Salesforce company released the results of an important salesperson survey. More than 250 sales representatives were interviewed. The three main points of the study were: Many sales representatives will continue working remotely. Companies can do more to support hybrid teams with training. The
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It was about a year ago, as the first vaccines were in development (and we were mostly locked-down) that virtual training expert Dr. RK Prasad, made several bold predictions for the future of virtual training and eLearning in general. In view of what Virtual Training Associates (VTA) has learned in the past year, I feel
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Finding Confidence in a Challenging and Virtual Time For this week’s virtual training post, Virtual Training Associates wants to report on some exciting research that has just come out of Sweden’s Linköping University. According to the university’s research team: “Teacher training students who practiced teaching virtual pupils developed greater confidence in their teaching ability.” Furthermore:
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