“Catch Me if You Can”: A Reflection on the Design and Delivery Transition from Brick & Mortar to Online Synchronous Classrooms across Global Corporations

This session illustrates the challenges in transitioning design and delivery teams to build and deliver online-centric materials in online synchronous classrooms across corporations. From instructional design to classroom instruction, a rapid leap was made to switch from one system to another system. With dozens of countries and languages, transitioning online at a rapid pace presented extensive challenges to learning and development teams. From a corporate perspective, this session reveals insights into learning and development and also details lessons learned about the interplay between design and delivery teams and the interconnections among them. The session also depicts future insight into emerging learning and design trends among corporations.