Training is over – and now? With online support, your participants can successfully transfer their learning into practice, which often gets lost otherwise. Find out now how blink.it can support you in achieving your goal of ensuring more learning transfer and sustainability!
The Challenge: Lack of Transfer in Training
We live in a society and an era of nearly unlimited possibilities for personal education. The demand for professional training and workshops, therefore, does not cease – on the contrary. HR developers in all industries are looking for training that keeps their employees sustainably fit for future tasks.
Yet even in 2018, training often still lacks active transfer into daily work life. After three to four weeks at the latest, many participants can hardly recall a large part of what they have learned. They lack the personal support, which is often too expensive or too time-consuming.
At the same time, working time is a precious resource, and multi-day training sessions are often not welcomed in many companies. Can't this be done more effectively?
Yes, it can! Watch the following video – you might recognize this situation:
The Solution: Offering Online Courses as a Supplement (Blended Learning)
Purely in-person events are only really worthwhile in exceptional cases. Instead, a combination of traditional training and online support – ideally before and after the training – is helpful.
In an in-person event, the participant must be in a specific place at a specific time; with online support, they can freely choose where and when to continue their training. By combining both methods, you benefit from the advantages of both worlds. This combination of online and offline is called Blended Learning.
Different Models in Blended Learning
To create higher training transfer, you should primarily focus on the phase after the in-person training at the beginning. Accompany and support your participant for several weeks or even months after the last event with online impulses. This means reminding them regularly of important lessons from your training and giving them small exercises that they can incorporate into their daily lives.
The model described above is referred to as the “Heron”: Here you start with in-person events and follow up with an online phase for the transfer.
In other models, you might start online and conclude online (the “Sandwich” model). We have prepared an overview of the most popular models in Blended Learning for you to download:
Advantages for Trainers with Blended Learning
What specific advantages you gain from the combination of in-person and online, we present to you in our advantage series for trainers in our blog. You might discover one or two additional benefits for yourself, but these are, in our experience, the biggest advantages for trainers using Blended Learning:
You gain a unique selling proposition
You gain a new source of income
You gain new customer groups
You gain measurability
You gain reusability
You gain flexibility
You gain media diversity
Is blink.it only suitable for Blended Learning?
No! It is important to us to clarify that you can achieve the greatest effect with the combination of online and offline. Our software is also ideal for pure e-learning.
In practice, we often encounter trainers and coaches who have successfully been working with traditional in-person events for several years. Here, supplementing with online courses offers not only the most effective solution but also the simplest.
This is how blink.it works – a brief FAQ
Changing the world of training and workshops sustainably – that is no less a goal we have set for blink.it. Through simple online support, we aim to enable trainers, coaches, and companies to educate their participants sustainably. And simply for all sides!
How exactly does blink.it work?
With the blink.it software, you can easily create your own online courses, upload content, or create new content directly in the course. Invite your participants and set up individual learning units as you wish, so that your participant, for example, doesn't see everything at once but receives new content weekly as an impulse.
And the pricing model?
As a self-employed trainer or coach, you receive a special trainer model from blink.it that is affordable and tailored to your needs. This is a pricing model with monthly billing, allowing you to test your new training concept calmly and at low cost. You only pay more once you are actually successful with your online courses.
Do you also offer an app?
Yes and no! We hear this question more often, but the answer is not that simple: blink.it is a Progressive Web App. So you can't purchase the app in the app store; instead, you install and use it via the browser. Otherwise, blink.it works like a "regular" app on smartphones – you can create an icon on your home screen and quickly access all your courses!
Can I just test blink.it?
Yes! You can either view a sample course from a participant's perspective or directly create content and test all functions with our admin demo. In the demo, you first schedule an appointment with one of our staff members, and then you will be guided through the course view in a personal conversation.
With the blink.it software, you as a course creator and your participants can access the online course anytime from anywhere.
Your Benefits as a Trainer or Coach with blink.it
We have three fundamental guiding principles that accompany us in the development and optimization of the blink.it app:
As simple as possible
As practical as possible
As flexible as possible
What does that mean exactly?
1. Guiding Principle: As simple as possible
Well, for one, working with online courses should not be work at all but ideally be fun. You, as the course creator, can create, fill, and moderate content and entire courses as simply as possible... – and thus guide your participants to their goals. Therefore, with blink.it as a course creator, you immediately have the same view as your participant.
2. Guiding Principle: As practical as possible
Secondly, it is particularly important to us that trainers and coaches can definitely achieve their essential goals with blink.it. Therefore, we are in regular exchange with customers and interested trainers: Learning together and from each other is one of our most important principles. Only this way can we offer software for e-learning and blended learning that functions as practically as possible.
3. Guiding Principle: As flexible as possible
An online course with blink.it is not just an empty container where you can only upload finished content. No, you can work directly with it and create new formats within the platform – for example, a quiz, a survey, or an exam. This allows trainers and coaches especially to flexibly create, change, or supplement their courses.
Features, Characteristics, and the Service of blink.it
With the guiding principles mentioned above, we have developed a product that is now being successfully used by several hundred trainers and companies. Here is an overview of the essential functions of the software, its specific features, and the service offerings from blink.it:
| Functions | Features | Service || ----------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- || Comments | device-independent use | Corporate Design || Statistics | secure data | Special payment model only for trainers and coaches || Notifications | clear layout | Trial phase to get to know || Show/hide chapters | diverse learning content | Support in customer success || Search | quick access | Help in customer support || Individually time learning units | role system | || Easily copy learning units and entire courses | independent of the operating system | || Sell courses with Digistore24 | | |
Clear focus on content and intuitive editing – that has been and is most important to us in developing the blink.it software. Use the advantages of blended learning and extend your in-person training with online support!
Now test the blink.it software and receive a free, personal introduction to the platform. Following the conversation, you can calmly continue testing your newly created online course and the features of blink.it.
