John Ryan - thanks for the reply. I was speaking to someone about this after leaving my comment, and his observations were very much in line with yours. I do know colleagues who are very reticent in remote training - e.g. even when going to breakout rooms it is very hard to get any sort of input from them. I never understand that, as then I can't believe they are getting much/anything from the session, but I guess we are all different.

Interesting article, as ever. Whilst I get that the idea of the article is to do more in-person training/education, there were a couple of things I didn't really agree with: 1) that you can't come out of the presentation and "whiteboard" for online training/education - I don't see why you can't be sharing your screen and switch to some app to effectively whiteboard there. Or even switch to your camera with a whiteboard in the room you are training/educating from, and physically use that whiteboard. 2) I'm surprised that people don't contribute with questions/anecdotes/whatever when they are online, as social media tells us people are generally very keen to do that sort of thing"! I always make the effort to try to ask things in training/education, whether in person or remote, as generally you get more out of these experiences if you are prepared to put something in, rather than if you just sit back and hope you will absorb everything.