Learn how QR codes can help take your training content from physical to digital and provide the on-demand learning opportunities that new age learners seek today.

1. How to Use QR Codes to Enhance
Training & Engage Modern Learners
By: Christine Karel, M.A.

2. 1. Understand How The
QR Code Works & Is
Used
2. Learn How to Use QR
Codes to Provide On-
demand Training
3. Discover QR Code Best
Practices

3. What Is A QR Code?
QR codes, or “Quick-
Response” codes, are easily
readable barcodes that when
scanned with a QR reader can
translate the code into a URL,
a telephone number, a bit of
text, or other data.
Scan to watch a video explaining
the QR code in more detail
http://bit.ly/1fnJPIf

4. • View a webpage of your
choice
• Watch YouTube videos of
your choice
• View your Facebook page
• Follow you on Twitter
• Automatically Tweet the
text you choose
• View your LinkedIn profile
• Instantly create a contact
in their address book
• View locations on Google
Maps
• Read text of your choice
• Call your phone number
• Call you via Skype
• Automatically email you
• View and download apps
you choose
You can create a QR that when
scanned can direct users to:

5. • Enhance reading material with relevant resources
• Highlight videos, tutorials, webinars, podcasts, and blog
articles that further explain the training topic
• Share audio copy of a lecture
• Link to quizzes, polls & evaluations
• Get answers to questions in class
• Provide reference/reading lists
• Link to important employee resource information in new
hire paperwork (benefits, employee networks, etc.)
On-demand Learning Ideas

6. • Link to automatic Twitter updates
& Facebook check-ins
• Organize and list sources
• Automatically add training dates or
upcoming events to the calendar
• Generate buzz & awareness for
upcoming events across the
organization
On-demand Learning Ideas
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7. Getting Started
Simple 4-step process:
1. Tell users how to download the QR
code reader app on their mobile,
tablet or PC devices.
2. Create QR codes through a free
web service.
3. Include the QR code images in
your training materials.
4. Explain how to use the new codes.

8. Best Practices
• Understand what you’re trying to accomplish
• Make the call to action really clear, and tell the user
what they’ll get
• Make it easy for the user to figure out how to use the
QR code
• Lead the user to a destination that’s mobile-friendly
• Keep the URL short
• Maintain a quiet zone around the tag
• Size and distance of the QR code matter
• Test that your QR codes scan properly

9. QR Code ResourcesHow to Scan QR Codes
http://bit.ly/1NeK8DT
How To Use QR Codes
http://bit.ly/1Pw40AJ
Tag My Doc
https://youtu.be/lj3O3xi2gpw
How to Create QR
Codes
http://bit.ly/1MuOm8L

10. Thank You
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