Continuing Professional Development: Grow Professionalism by Switching Online [WEBINAR]
Discover how to increase your reach by switching your continuing professional development content online. Our speakers for this webinar are Sara Drury from Redback Connect and Lloyd Grosse, a professional development specialist at Pointsbuild Pty Ltd. a company that provides compliance-based training for builders.
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This webinar aims at discussing online CPD and how you can adapt your physical training to make it into an online format. You will get practical tips and ideas on how to get your CPD online. First, our presenters will discuss on to adapt your CPD for the online environment and channels, the difference between live CPD and On-demand, how you can adapt accreditation, the difference between paid CPD and free CPD as well as tips for presenters.
The COVID outbreak has pushed most organisations to push towards online programs to adapt. A lot of organisations want to start creating online CPD without knowing exactly what to do. You need to look at your organisation and it’s capacities to get the content online but also at how you planned to do the physical training. You need to think about how you are doing your presentation and how you can use technology to help your CPD programs go online.
How can you adapt your CPD online? You need to create consistency with your physical event by also adapting the content you have to the online format. You need to think about what you can stream by considering your audience. You can pre record some content in order to save time and to offer content across different time zones. You can also make content accessible on demand for your CPD students to learn at their own pace. The best is to think like an attendee to organise your best online CPD.
The trend toward on-demand content is strong, and it can be used positively for CPD programs. Continuing Professional Development can be proposed to a great range of customers from different generations and every generation will want to consume content differently. When presenting live you can keep your speaker to record extra content to build a bridge to your on-demand content. You can also record promo videos with the speakers in order to promote your sessions before the event. The decision between live and on-demand also depends on your needs in terms of interactivity. How interactive do you want your CPD to be?
In a live online continuing professional development session, you can interact and engage easily with your audience. Thanks to live private or open chat you can interact directly with your attendees. Before the event, videos can be submitted in order to create a virtual Q&A with the questions from the attendees. Polls can be used to get feedback from your audience during your CPD.
How can you create accreditation with your online CPD? You need to plan how you will integrate accreditation before you start your event. You need to plan exactly what key learnings people need to acquire when doing your CPD. Certifications are also important in order for some trainees to be certified for what they learned.
Doing CPD online enables you to get more data from your attendees and adapt to your audience. If you see that the majority of your attendees are on mobile, you might want to adapt the format of your CPD. Transitioning to online CPD can make your program more engaging than the traditional format.
You also need to ask yourself if your CPD will be a free or a paid event. You need to know that people are willing to pay for valuable content especially when it comes to CPD content. When deciding to have paid CPD, you need to make sure that presenters are engaging and that you can run webinars without glitches.
Our expert Lloyd Grosse predicts that short face-to-face meetings will be replaced by long, in-depth face-to-face webinar for training purposes. These formats will trend because normal CPD conferences are expensive, and they are not that educational. CPD trainees may have more value from in-depth face-to-face meetings.
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