Synthesis: Leaders/trainers tend to assume that learners lack knowledge and therefore it is imperative that they must be taught everything. To the surprise of non-believers, learners are able to discover learning on their own if they are allowed to. __________________________________________________________________________ …
Tag: eLearning
Embedding Learning in Stories –“Lost Package” Vignette Featured
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…