Learners tend to pay attention to extremes – the absurd, ridiculous, incredulous – some form of exaggeration. The entertainment certainly helps. However, what works in our brain is something like this. “The Flirtation“ – a very short story suited for Call…
Author: Ray Jimenez, PhD
Use ERRORS in making technical eLearning engaging and embedding objectives in error discovery and resolution – Tip #1
There is an old saying that says “people learn the hard way.” There is a lot of truth to that in eLearning design. Behind errors are skill gaps that can cause worker failure and high costs to the company. Errors…
What matters is the question not the content: “One Idea + One Learning” = “Contexsual Learning”
Synthesis: Contexsual Learning involves experts’, learning facilitators’ and learners’ participation to address technical learning issues. It allows the asking of questions by leaders and the sharing of stories by learners all of which contribute to a comprehensive learning experience. I…
An Exuberant discovery for Lonely and Stressed-out eLearners
Synthesis: Loneliness is inherent in traditional eLearning. The use of the story-based approach allows learners the opportunity to have a stress-free and comfortable learning environment that promotes independent discovery. __________________________________________________________________________ There is a certain degree of “Learner Loneliness” inherent in…
Avoid a Fatal Error: Lack of Specificity in eLearning Interactive Stories
Synthesis: In eLearning design and development, the lack of specificity is fatal. Know the value of adding details to eLearning stories. Details help learners understand and relate to the content’s meaning and lessons. ___________________________________________________________ Sometimes in classroom training sessions we…
Ruth Clark a super hero.. Technical training design
Who is your hero in learning design? Mine is Ruth Clark and her associate Ann Kwinn. I picked up again Ruth’s book Developing Technical Training and it was like climbing the mountain to visit the monastery of the great philosopher…
Series of questions… Aids in context setting
A Southwest Airline napkin shows how a simple to-do list encourages the reader to interact and connect the topics to his or her own meaning. This I call triggers to instant learning…short thought-provoking moments. Furthermore, this is a way to…
Are you guilty of interrupting the learners learning?
Synthesis:Provide learners the ability to interpret and form their own discoveries from the content via self-reflection. A story-based learning material that is free of a designer’s explanations of the events allows learners to learn faster. I just concluded an extensive…
Great to be a kid watching things in motion. Cleveland Airport.
Making Technical & Compliance Learning Engaging & Fun
Synthesis:Develop fun and engaging technical and compliance elearning programs through approaches such as unbundling content adapted to the learner’s perspective, finding instant context and weaving context and facts through real-life stories. Identify “must learn” from “learn on need” content and…
War Horse …. Waiting for it start. This is a great story.
real genius
Chaotic, Yet Effective
Creating Great Stories for eLearning
Synthesis: Create great stories for learning by exploring sources and methods like business artifacts, business practices or memes, personal tips, workarounds, how-to’s, self-help solutions and even people’s backgrounds. Systematically collected stories can become a reference library for elearning programs. …
Learning Facts and Foundational Knowledge with Stories
Synthesis: Facts – whether foundational or advance – can be related to real-life occurrences to engage learners and help them find context while gaining required knowledge. ______________________________________________________________ Does story-based learning only apply to experienced learners? What is common among these…