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…
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“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…
“Can you tell me if my job is safe?” A Provocative Learning Vignette
The Little Secret presents the story of Maria, a dutiful office manager. Maria’s management capability is put to the test when she is caught in between adhering to office policy and addressing employee needs. What should Maria do? Can you…
What is shared between Compliance eLearning and Captain America and Anime Comics?
Synthesis Cartoons and caricatures are affordable and easy to use graphical elements to enhance eLearning. However, they are only as good as the story you are trying to tell. Without stories, they are as weak as any other medium. Comic-Con…
Diagnose and Eliminate Workplace Bullying / Example Flash Stories
The article http://bit.ly/ojB7qT reminded me of a course I developed on Dealing With Bullying Managers. A bully boss http://vftlps.com/vft/programs/P0000441/html/media/m01l07p02_f01.htm How to stand up to a bully boss http://vftlps.com/vft/programs/P0000441/html/media/m02l01p02_f01.htm Let me know if you want to see more of these stories.
Vague Stories Help Learners to Discover
Synthesis: Uncovering parallel tracks is essential in contextual learning – where the need is to help learners find applications of an idea in a story or feedback. Precision oftentimes kills the ability of the learner to discover multiple real-life…
Micro-Scenarios and Interactive Stories – List of References
This is listing of Micro-Scenarios and Interactive Stories – List of References and More Examples 1. Asking for a Raise Ray Jimenez, PhD 3Minute Worlds – Learning Community Social Learning, Work and Performance 3Minute eLearning Games “Helping Learners Learn Their…
Surgical Insertion of Micro-Scenarios that Beautify and Fire Up Your eLearning
Synthesis: The points of insertion of micro-scenarios in your eLearning program will boost learning effectiveness. The insertion points are important since it is best to use micro-scenarios sparingly and at the appropriate areas. When properly done, you can save on…
“How to Ask for a Raise” Scenario Plus 10 Reasons Why Scenarios Work
Synthesis:All learning approaches point toward imparting relevant content . But scenario- based learning possesses a distinct advantage ,tremendous value and the power to alter views, practices , accepted norms and even culture . Find out the 10 reasons why scenarios…
The Battle of Stories – Instructional Design Approach
SynthesisFor stories to really be effective and serve their purposes, of imparting lessons that the learners need to learn, we also need to identify the strongest ideas or stories that we want to change or “battle” with. Finding the impact…
How to keep your sanity in the “Learning Vortex”?
SynthesisThe learning industry is in turmoil – like in a twister. There is constant push and pull which results to changes and adjustments. The “Learning Vortex” is an effective way of maintaining focus and keeping one’s “sanity” in the midst…