What thoughts run through your mind when you see the photo above? Some of us may shake our heads and say, “That guy’s too old to play.” Meanwhile, others may smile as a similar memory flashes through their mind’s eye.…
Tag: eLearning
Spur Learning Through ‘Curiosity Conversations’ – Tip #100
Have you seen the movies Apollo 13, Splash and A Beautiful Mind? How about the TV series Arrested Development, 24 and Empire? Do you know what ties them all together? What makes them all similar and somehow connected? Source: OWN…
Changing Behavior by Advancing Experience and Stories – Tip #99
A client from the U.S. Department of State once told me: I have never looked at learning this way. In many ways, I am guilty of focusing on the content to impart to learners and missing the crux of the…
Keep Learners Motivated Using Hyper-Stories – Tip #98
Click. Click. Click. Zzz. Let’s face it. Having learners go through numerous slides or pages to learn important work-related information – in fact, any new information – is definitely one surefire way to bore your learners to death. When learners…
Engaging New and Young Learners – Tip #97
Have you ever wondered what a young learner’s first impressions are of the learning industry? Joining me this week is guest blogger and Vignettes Learning research associate Francesca Jimenez, discussing her first-time experiences and insights that connect to her experience…
Adding Provocative Stories to Really Boring eLearning – Tip #95
Do you find it arduous and very challenging to identify stories that produce engaging content? Have you heard the saying, “the answer is just under your nose?” Believe me, stories abound. Abundance of Facts, Scarcity of Stories Factual and data content…
Do Your Learners Value or Throw Away Your Lesson References? – Tip #96
I’ve been often asked in my workshops: See more on must-learn and learn-on-need. Read more about references. Two Types of References: Must-Learn Support and Details There are two types of references: (a) must-learn support and (b) detailed references. Must-learn support…
How to Design Unobtrusive Test Questions – Tip #94
Have you experienced turbulence during your most recent air travel? Or when was the last time you drove into a city street where the speed bumps were so horrendous you had to have your car in full stop to avoid damage…
Expertise: Why The Odds are Stacked Against Novices – Tip #93
A Harvard Business Review article “What’s Lost When Experts Retire” reminded me about the dire need to rethink our roles as learning professionals and leaders: My sense is that our current of definitions and understanding of expertise may be at odds…
The SMEs’ Fault – They Think That All Content Is Important – Tip #92
When I asked leaders and instructional designers why their courses and eLearning are long, extensive and take hours to complete, they decry, “the SMEs say all content are important.” There are a number of reasons why we, as designers and…
3 Story Sources for Deeper Learning – Tip #91
Have you noticed in your learning sessions that learners tend to tell their own stories and sometimes it is hard to stop them? Some trainers think of this as wasting time and yet learners telling their stories is one of…
Be A Scientist – Set Up Your Own Learning Behavior Lab on Micro- Experiences and Stories – Tip #90
Do you like to ride a roller coaster or go skydiving? Have you tried scuba diving or deep cave hiking? For many of us, these might be extreme experiences. We could not even begin to fathom the feeling or the…
What Happens When New Becomes Old? – Tip #89
Have you ever experienced having mastered a web-based learning tool and then be informed that the tool was discontinued? Ning.com was new years back. Then Twitter.com and Prezi came. Then Pinterest.com followed. Now, there is Snapchat.com. Soon more will come…
Is your content out of context or in context? – Tip #86
We can learn from politicians. When they say “my comment was taken out of context”, what they mean is that the press reporter used their statements giving it a different meaning, which is not the original intent of the politician.…
Is it Curation or Co-Creation of Content? – Tip #85
The focus of most curation methods when applied to learning is in organizing, filtering, distilling, adding value, etc. to content. This is like serving food (content) in an improved way. There may be a risk in this trend. As…