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title: Day 4 - Practice-Based Learning | Learning Re-Framed Public Programme
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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.
### 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.
### 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.
## 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](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk/virtual-classroom-modules)** 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.
### 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.
### 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](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk/practical-information-learning-re-framed-public-programme)** page:
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