Purpose

We want to collect & share all kinds of experience regarding virtual remote learning & training: methods; tools & sources in the SAP ecosystem and beyond as well as examples.  
Noone is so smart that our collective wisdom - thats why we take a Wiki approach so everyone can contribute.

Tips for learning remote & virtual

Place

• Ensure the right furniture to avoid back-pain. To stand up sometimes you might put your laptop on a box or window board
• Ensure propper equipment (Headset. Laptop) if not possible BYOD bring your own device - everyone has smartphones!
• Connectivity, stable internet connection incl. access to company network via VPN
• Discuss with the ones you live which spaces are used by whom for work

Health & body

• Ensure breaks (stand up), 
• Exercise - from yoga to stepper - there are many great apps for guidance. Free e.g. and extensive is e.g. the Nike Training Team (NTC)
• Time to relax and calm-down: practice a daily mindfulness or meditation session via guided apps - a good list is here - Spotify find guidance in the Genre Meditation

Values & Mindset

• Remote learning & working needs trust in self-organization as everyone has another context (family, space, equippment etc.) and needs to organize the own productivity
• Clear goals & tasks and regular communication help to keep on track and be motivated
• Self discipline is important as you do not have the drivers of colleagues or managers meeting you in person- online-sessions for parallel work can help (like a virtual co-working space)
• Respect, appreciation & empathy if others are not reachable, or work focused on their learnings/ tasks without interruption
• Some find it helpful if they use similar clothes like at work to be more in a "work" mode

Learning Methods / LearnHacks

• Set goals & timeslots (via your calendar) for learning. 
• Develop a learning plan on how to achieve your goals 
• Also use a daily plan e.g. via a Kanban Board with your family (joint breaks, school support etc.)
• Break up your learning goal into many small steps & plan regular tasks to achieve it - plan it like a project
• You can use a timer, an app or the pomodoro technique (25 min) to learn focused
• Don´t forget to plan self-reflection & hands-on-practice 
• To focus and avoid distraction/ procrastination it might help to listen to chill-music like in brain.fm or e.g. Genre "Focus" on Spotify 
• Ensure social support like via a learning buddy, mentor or coach 
• Think of energizer tasks - e.g. find a red thing in your room and show it in the webcam, change location (e.g. outside, stand-up)
• Document your progress - for your self e.g. in blogs, mindmaps, whiteboards, wikis, digital-notes like evernote/ one-note - also collaborative with your team and network
• Develop routines like daily standup meeting with team, but also your family
• Ensure to meet via video to create social interaction & emotional rapport
• Find examples how others learn remote and learn from them 
• Retrospective in the evening or end of the week
• Create virtual private sessions with NO work talk
• Leverage personal productivity methods from time management or GTD (Getting Things Done)
• A virtual LernOS Circle combines many elements (guidance, social support...) → https://cogneon.github.io/lernos-core/
• Leverage further LearnHacks: Collection of Tips & Tricks for effective learning via the SAP Community or templates for download

Learning Content Sources 

• SAP Live Class offers all SAP Training remote via Zoom a virtual Classroom
• For everyone interested in SAP Training: there is an info page around Covid-19 measures, e.g. with SAP Live-Class Demos
  
• SAP Learning Hub to access learning content around SAP products - incl. trainer-moderated learning communities, expert-led live webinars, thousands of e-learning and handbooks as well as training systems (Trial, live demo, Web).
• openSAP - free SAP & IT related online courses
• Remote Readiness & Effectivity Academy - free online courses from SAP Litmos on remote work, hygiene etc,
  
• Podcasts: see a collection here on SAP Community

• Class Central - search engine & reviews site for free online courses popularly known as MOOCs

• Swoot - social Podcast App (social Podcast recomendations)
• There are many further free sources like Duolingo for free language training, Khan Academy for free school courses also listed under Online Educational Ressources
  

Tools for Learning & Collaboration

• Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) like MS Teams or SAP Jam help employees to collaborate & connect
• RUUM, SAPs leigthweight projectmanagement & collaboration tool incl. templates from the center of disease control
• Remote Work Pulse Check by Qualtrix to understand how employees are doing
• Atlassian offers the well known social collaboration tools like Jira (Project & issue tracking), Trello (Kanban based task management) or the Confluence Wiki (which we use here for joint documentation)
  
• ZOOM a popular video conferencing tool
  
• Google Hangouts Meet: Online-Video-Conferencing & Desktop sharing
• Microsoft offers with Teams incl. video & VoIP telephony, collaboration, task management (via planner & todo), Wiki & integration many further apps.
• Beekeeper is a mobile employee communication app based in sitzerland (=secure data) https://www.beekeeper.io/en/ - another one is Threema https://threema.ch/ and of course Slack
• Mural or Conceptboard are tools for visual collaboration like remote brainstorming, sketching etc.
• Cuckoo is a productivity timer for remote teams to work on tasks using timeboxing/ pomodoro technique: https://cuckoo.team/ (and make breaks afterwards)
• Online Co-Working Apps: work on your own online next to each other, not alone: Focusmate
• SAP Enable Now to develop learning content, e-learning or documentation or enhance SAP help 
  
  

I use Zoom for Videokonferences, Teams for collaboration & telephony, Jam & MSTeams as Enterprise social Network, Mural for Brainstorming - however check out what is best for you and your business + check out further lists if you need further guidance: 

• Tool-List for virtual teaching (german - e-teaching.org),
• List from Cogneon on virtual events & meetings (german) 
• Very good list from Switzerland: Learning in coronatimes for schools (german) 

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