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Day 4: In-Person and Virtual Classroom Design

Virtual and in-person classrooms don’t need fundamentally different designs — what matters is how well practice is structured and supported.

 

What this day focuses on

This day looks at the design of live learning experiences — both in-person and virtual — through a single, unifying lens.

Rather than treating these as fundamentally different environments, the focus is on:

  • what people need to do during a live session
  • how practice, feedback, and reflection are structured, and
  • how facilitation choices support learning transfer

The medium matters — but far less than most people think.

 

Why this day?

Many live learning sessions still default to familiar patterns:

  • content-heavy slides

  • extended explanations, and

  • limited, low-quality practice.

This is true in both physical and virtual classrooms — even though the environments themselves are different.

This day exists to challenge the assumption that delivery is the hard part, and to refocus attention on designing for meaningful activity.

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A shared design challenge - not two separate ones

Although in-person and virtual classrooms look different on the surface, the underlying design challenge is the same. How do you design your learning so that people can:

  • practise what matters

  • make decisions

  • receive feedback, and

  • reflect and adjust.

During this day, you’ll work with a simple three-phase design approach that applies to any live learning environment, with adaptations for each context.

For people who feel virtual delivery requires an entirely new design philosophy, this comes as a relief.

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What you'll work with on the day

This day looks at the design of live learning experiences (in-person and virtual) through a single, unifying lens. Rather than treating these as fundamentally different environments, the focus is on:

  • what people need to do during any live session.

  • how practice, feedback, and reflection are structured.

  • how facilitation choices support learning transfer.

The medium matters — but far less than most people think.

Work on the Day

What this day covers

Across this day, we’ll work through three modules from our Learning Re-Framed in-house programme.

You can see the descriptions of each of the modules listed below in the in-house programme section of the website (opens in a new window):

 

VC02: Virtual classroom fundamentals
Successfully include a meaningful focus on skills practice in your virtual classroom sessions.

VC03: Keeping it interactive
Exploring the best approaches to building meaningful interactions and collaborative activities.

FFC01: A flexible blueprint for classroom design
Introducing a highly adaptable design flow for both the in-person and virtual classrooms.

 

Who's it for?

This day often resonates with people who:

  • feel their live sessions rely too heavily on explanation

  • want more confidence designing practice-led sessions, or

  • are unsure how much virtual delivery really needs to change.

Many leave with a clearer sense of what doesn’t need reinventing — and what genuinely does.

 

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How this day fits into the wider programme

This day builds naturally on the earlier programme sessions.

  • Day 2 focuses on what kind of learning is needed.
  • Day 3 explores what e-learning can realistically support.
  • Day 4 looks at what live learning does best — when designed intentionally.

Together, they create a coherent picture of how different learning approaches support successful application of learning in different ways.

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Want to explore some of this thinking before the programme?

 

Learning Re-Framed is a weekly Substack-published newsletter exploring how learning connects to day-to-day work — without hype, blame or simplistic answers. If you’re interested in:

  • re-visiting traditional in-person and virtual classroom approaches

  • thinking more deeply about practice, application and transfer,

  • going beyond chasing the latest platforms, tools and trends

you’re very welcome to subscribe here:

 

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Practical details

In-Person and Virtual Classroom Design is a full-day session within the Learning Re-Framed public programme.

You can attend this day on its own or as part of the full programme. No prior attendance is required.

To see programme dates, pricing, practical details and to make a booking, use the link or button below to go to the Practical Info and Bookings page:

 

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If you are ready to book you can do this on our Practical Info and Booking page.

This page provides:

  • upcoming programme dates

  • practical information, and

  • the facility to book your place by card or by requesting an invoice.
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