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
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…
Leverage eLearning Scenarios – “Wrong Send-Bad Message” Interactive Vignette
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,…
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…
Adding Tension to eLearning Stories to Engage Learners
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…
Microlearning Design Las Vegas ASTDTECH
I presented at ASTD TechKnowledge Conference in Las Vegas, January 28, 2010. The topic I spoke of: Using Micro-eLearning Design for Learning 2.0 and Traditional eLearning. Gist: 5 Step Process Be succinct Relate Interpret Apply Micro-Applications Microlearning instructional design is…
Quiz Maker in a Wiki? “Wow, what a paradox – sleepless night!”
Adding a Quiz Maker in a Wiki really causes me anguish. It brings me back to what I call the diseases of trainers, instructional designers, even parents, or anyone for that matter. CONTROL-ITIS – controlling what learners should learnCONTENT-ITIS –…
“Concrete and Vivid Stories Exert Extraordinary Influence”
Roger Heap from Psychological Associates (http://www.spq4.com/) was very nice to share these thoughts on story telling: I have been reading Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, by Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan, and Switzler. I thought you would enjoy this confirmation…
The Heart of a Good Story
The heart of a good story for e-Learning has these characteristics. One of the hearts of SBL is that of understanding what you call “organics.” 1. Human drama a. Concrete stories about human situations c. Felt and experienced d. Continuous…
Twitter # 23 – Face-to-Face with Marco Polo and Globalization
On the way to Medellin, Colombia from Los Angeles, I was seated beside a Chinese lady, around 25 years old, and her client or boss from Beijing. The elderly gentleman did not speak English nor Spanish. The lady spoke some…
Twitter # 11 – Look for failures that lead to impacts
Trends in technological success… Look for repeated attempts and failures. This suggests a persistent problem needing a solution. A solution eventually comes when a technology builds on top of the failures. For example, Second Life succeeds from the failures of…
Build a Story First Before Video Gaming
At the Salt Lake TrainingTech Solutions Conference, I met a trainer from a large retail chain who asked me: “What do I need to do to train 18 to 20 year olds? I want to develop video game-like learning to…
The iPod Video & e-Learning Looking Glass
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…
PDA-based e-Learning
Topics this issue: 1. PDA Learning: Some Design Concerns In today’s fast-paced world, we want to be able to maximize the seemingly little time we have and accomplish as many things as we can. We want to be in full…
Controlitis: How to Avoid this Debilitating Trainer’s Disease
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…