⏱️ The Essentials in 3 Minutes |
🧠 Understand the Pedagogical Value of Collective Facilitation
Even though your Didask modules were designed for individual remote learning, practical cases are an excellent support for facilitating an in-person training session or a webinar.
📌 Why it works: practical cases prompt learners to question themselves, challenge each other's views, and debate. It is through confrontation that preconceived ideas are dismantled and learning takes root durably.
💡 A module that takes 15 minutes individually can fuel 1 hour of discussion as a group, including debates and sharing of perspectives.
🎯 Prepare the Session: 4 Points to Anticipate
Point to prepare | Why? |
📝 A facilitation guide | Note the key message, explanation, and targeted misconception for each practical case, so you don't forget anything live. |
🎥 A suitable video conferencing tool (if remote) | Choose a system that allows participants to raise their hand, speak, and write. |
👀 Preview mode | Use Preview mode rather than learner mode: it lets you navigate freely between practical cases without having to wait for the correct answer to move on. |
🖥️ Screen sharing | Project or share your screen so all learners see the module at the same time. |
🗺️ Follow a 9-Step Flow
1. Introduce the module in your own words
Do not read the introduction screen. Rephrase it in your own words to create direct contact with learners.
2. Do not linger on the resource
If there is a resource (video, document), do not comment on it at length: that is the individual learning phase. The in-person session is for bringing practical cases to life.
3. Read the practical case scenario
For each practical case, first read the scenario. When appropriate, ask participants: 💬 "Have you ever been in this situation?"
4. Go through each answer option
Read the question, then go through the answer options one by one, asking each time: 💬 "Who would have chosen this answer?"
From those who raise their hands, choose one person and ask them to explain their choice.
5. Create the debate
Do this for all answer options. Do not hesitate to spark debates when participants' arguments strongly contradict each other.
6. Reveal the feedback (wrong answers first)
Once all answers have been discussed, click on the answers to reveal the feedback.
📌 Best practice:
Start with the wrong answers: that is where the misconceptions to dismantle are hiding.
Read the feedback aloud.
Then ask: "Who disagrees? Why?"
💡 Revealing wrong answers first unravels biases before presenting the correct reasoning.
7. Reveal the key message
Display the key message of the practical case. Add important clarifications verbally, without reading the Explanation section word for word.
8. Move from one practical case to the next
Proceed case by case until you reach the Recap screen.
9. Reflect collectively on the Recap
Give participants a few minutes to re-read the key messages on the Recap screen, then open a final reflection moment:
Which messages surprised them?
Which ones do they disagree with?
Which ones seem easy or difficult to apply in their day-to-day work?
Any other element you find worth discussing.
💡 This collective reflection anchors learning and allows everyone to connect the takeaways to their own professional context.
✨ Key Facilitation Principles
Principle | How to apply it |
Let them speak before revealing | Always let learners debate before revealing the feedback. |
Start with the wrong answers | To dismantle misconceptions before anchoring the correct one. |
Rephrase in your own words | Never read screens word for word: use them as a support, not a script. |
Provoke the debate | Contradictions between participants are the main driver of learning. |
Keywords: in-person, webinar, facilitation, practical case, Preview mode, debate, collective feedback, deconstruction, Recap screen, blended learning.