Synthesis: Learners learn by connecting old stories from their experiences to new stories that help them to learn and discover. __________________________________________________________________________ Learning professionals who have had the opportunity to view examples of micro-scenarios, scenarios or what are also called vignettes…
Author: Ray Jimenez, PhD
Boring Technical eLearning Can be Engaging
Synthesis The challenge in designing technical learning content is how to make it more engaging. Technical information can come alive with the right approach that grabs learners’ attention and keep them focused while learning its value and impacts on their…
Sparks Learning Design – Igniting Learners to Think; Washing Hands Vignettes
Roger Schank , author of “Tell Me a Story” says People’s brain have incomplete stories and the brain wants to complete stories, hence, it is always story searching, making, sorting, creating, matching, adding, etc. Jürgen Schmidhuber also essays a similar…
eLearning Micro-Scenario – What to Do When Employees Pump Up Resumes
Here’s another dose of our weekly vignette, free, as always, for you to use. These vignettes are short, real- life depictions that learners can readily relate to. Vignettes are proven effective and worthy additions to your learning programs. They not…
Learners are in a State of Readiness – Avoid Rigid Learning Objectives
Synthesis:Keeping to a rigid sequence in the implementation of the learning process is not a guarantee of a learner’s full attention or comprehension. Learners’ minds constantly wander to seek out discovery points that hold meaning for them in the real…
Leverage eLearning Scenarios – “Wrong Send-Bad Message” Interactive Vignette
We deliver to you another weekly vignette, still absolutely free for you to use. These short, succinct , highly effective presentations create the high-impact approach needed in your learning programs and enhance the contextual dimension of each session. The vignette,…
Policies in eLearning – “Too Much Break Time” Interactive Vignette
Here again, as promised, are the free weekly vignettes, and still absolutely free for you to use. These short but straight-to-the point presentations depict real-life scenarios. Vignettes are effective additions to your learning programs – adding a deeper contextual dimension…
Making Facts Stick With Stories – Jiggling Atoms
Synthesis:Even technical, software and scientific information can be made engaging and fun for learners because everything and everyone carries a story within themselves. Crafting story development is crucial to the success of emotionally fertilized content integral to learning.————————————————————————————-Oftentimes, I hear…
“I Paid More!” – Dealing with Preferential Treatment
This weekly goal to create short, captivating and provocative vignettes is our answer to the challenge of providing you with a focused and effective learning approach and experience shared between learning professionals and learners, alike. Better still – it’s free…
Context is King
Imagine this:• 288,355 books published in 2009 in the US alone, as compared to 51,000 books 25 years ago.• 3-8 years is the average length of time a person stays on the job.• 320 million Google searches are done each…
“Do You Booze in eLearning?” – Taste this Complimentary Presentation
Our weekly thought –provoking vignettes are high-impact , revolutionary , and totally engaging real-life scenarios that highly enhance your learning programs. Moreover, these vignettes are available for your use, for free. Find out how you can use them. This week’s…
“Your Product is Under Recall” – Help learners handle disappointing calls
We continue with our weekly serving of vignettes which offer short but precise and provocative micro-scenarios that ignite interaction and enhance learning. This is a tool you can use for free. These real-life scenarios elevate learning to a higher level…
“Is Age a Problem?” A Provocative Vignette About Age Discrimination
The Vignettes series shows you a brief, concise, yet provocative and reflective learning approach. Your learners are taken through the “relate-interpret-apply process” within real-life scenarios to fire up reflection and interaction that generates deeper learning through experience sharing. This week,…
Igniting Learning with a Story: Compliment – Can’t a person compliment a woman anymore?!
We continue to create Vignettes – short, succinct, micro-scenarios – to help you with an example on how you can use stories to ignite and provoke learners to interact and learn. The Vignette “Compliment” revolves around officemates, Roxanne and Tim.…
How Do You Handle a Star? – Provocative Learning Vignette 2
This week’s vignette , The Star, is a story of John who is a star performer, but who causes problems as he repeatedly refuses to cooperate with his team members. How do you deal with a person like John? If…