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Boring Technical eLearning Can be Engaging

December 14, 2011August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized3 Comments on Boring Technical eLearning Can be Engaging
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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…

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Sparks Learning Design – Igniting Learners to Think; Washing Hands Vignettes

December 1, 2011August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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…

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eLearning Micro-Scenario – What to Do When Employees Pump Up Resumes

November 9, 2011August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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…

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Leverage eLearning Scenarios – “Wrong Send-Bad Message” Interactive Vignette

October 12, 2011August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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,…

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Surgical Insertion of Micro-Scenarios that Beautify and Fire Up Your eLearning

June 29, 2011August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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…

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“How to Ask for a Raise” Scenario Plus 10 Reasons Why Scenarios Work

June 23, 2011August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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…

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The Battle of Stories – Instructional Design Approach

June 16, 2011August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized1 Comment on The Battle of Stories – Instructional Design Approach
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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…

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Adding Tension to eLearning Stories to Engage Learners

June 2, 2011August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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Synthesis Using eLearning stories with varied elements of tension is an effective way of helping learners focus their attention on learning what they need to learn. Events that stimulate certain tension levels are more likely to imprint in the minds…

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DIYEL #10 Learners recall stories, not facts.

November 11, 2009August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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Introduction Table of Posts People learn best when they can relate information to real-life situations. They do not remember facts easily. The good classroom trainer (i.e., not boring) knows that stories – anecdotes, illustrations, demos, applications, metaphors, examples, etc. –…

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Do You Tell Stories, Rumors or Controversies?

July 7, 2008August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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Jakob Nielsen: E-Learning: An Oxymoron? Story Telling, Narrative and Web Reading, and Social Learning Jakob Nielsen Alert Box, June 9, 2008, compares Writing Style for Print vs. Web. ————————————————————- Application Points: Participants in social learning are ALL engaged but differ…

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“Teaching Machines” – How People can Use Web 2.0 and Social Networking

November 19, 2007August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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I love storytelling and media. The video from Michael Walsh of Kansas State University touched me because it brought another view, often times missed, about the potential of what people can do with Web 2.0, Social Networking and other technologies.…

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The iPod Video & e-Learning Looking Glass

October 24, 2005July 15, 2022 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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The holidays are coming and I must find a justification for buying (as a gift to myself) the iPod Video. Currently, I am enjoying my 40 Gig iPod for music and have downloaded hundreds of my favorite songs. The cool…

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Controlitis: How to Avoid this Debilitating Trainer’s Disease

September 13, 2004July 8, 2022 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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Topics this issue: 1. Loosen up control to muscle up e-learning effectiveness? Because instructors ultimately control the flow of e-learning information, many of them develop a debilitating disease: “Control-itis.”- “Control-itis” arises when the trainer comes to believe wrong-headedly that he…

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Ray Jimenez, PhD
Chief Learning Architect
Recipient of “Innovations Award” from Training Magazine Founder: TrainingMagNetwork with 170,000 members, Situation Expert, Excite Webinars, Vignettes Learning Author: 3-Minute eLearning (2011), Story Impacts (2012), Scenario-Based Learning (2015), Do-it-Yourself eLearning, (2017), Workflow Learning (2019), and Transforming Learning Design with A.I. ChatGPT (2023).

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