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…
Creating Learning Peaks with Scenarios
Synthesis: Creating thought-provoking scenarios stretch the learner’s imagination and help them journey through varied emotions until they reach their learning peaks. ______________________________________________________________ When and how are learning peaks achieved? When ideas become actual experiences for learners then it triggers a…
Learning Liberation Continues – Hurray!
Is this the new SME? “Guardians of training/learning decency” may not like this – but it is real life
An Invocation for Beginnings Is this the new SME (Subject Matter Expert)? Maybe so. But not in the closets of corporate training or learning and academic settings. This person is an SME in the real world, the underworld, the out-of-this-world.…
My never ending curiosity might be filled with Google Glasses
I found this video from a post by Gina Trapani. Now, I can follow my curiosity and never-ending search for answers. I have a very curious mind just like many of you. Oftentimes, when I see something like a billboard,…