Get Learners to Create Your Content – Quickly, Reliably and Accurately Learners learn through packets of information. Click here to view an excerpt from Tricks of the Lazy Trainer. Click here to download the handout. Key Ideas to help you: …
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11 Ways to Making HR Compliance Engaging – Live Demo – Tip #21
How does the traditional and lengthy PowerPoint slideshow lesson compare to the Story-Based eLearning Design shown here? Click here to see the live demo. 11 Ways to Making HR Compliance Engaging – Live Demo 1. Turn learning objectives into story-based…
Weaving Stories and Factual Content for Seamless Lessons – Tip #20
The fear that content is lost while using stories Combining stories and real-life incidents with technical or factual content is an art form and a science. It is easier to present a lesson as a continuous linear and factual presentation…
Incidents of errors as basis for technical learning design – Tip #19
It is common for technical training coverage to include software, process, systems, methods and others that are long screen motion captures done in Camptasia, Captivate, Storyline and others. They are lengthy, huge data dumps – forcing learners to learn features…
Anti-Bullying – How to Combine Story with a Compliance Lesson – Tip #18
How do you seamlessly combine a story with technical and compliance content? Whether you are a technical writer or one who creates stories or even both, you can follow the same basic approaches featured here to elevate your lessons’ engagement…
Converting Obscure eLearning Content into Usefulness – Tip #17
Ruth Clark in her book Building Expertise (1999) wrote about the failure of knowledge transfer from short term learning to on-the-job situations. Clark argued that for knowledge transfer to occur, there is the need for some kind of “hints.” From…
Avoid “Crisis of Emptiness” in eLearning – Tip #16
Studying in eLearning can be lonely. In fact, it can leave learners feeling empty and isolated. William Isaacs wrote in his book Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together (Doubleday, 1999), that many of us fail to…
How to Add Curiosity in eLearning Stories – Tip #15
Eric Schmidt is Executive Chairman of Google. Along with Jared Cohen, they penned The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business. In the book, Schmidt and Cohen emphasize the need to constantly inspire people to be…
How to Add Suspense to eLearning Stories – Tip #14
A great story is not only told and heard but should be felt by your learners – enough to elicit a response, a recall of a similar experience, a discovery or a solution to an unresolved event. Most of all…
Using Live Calls – Tip #13
Many times, designers and developers have tremendous in-house learning resources through their internal recordings of sales calls, customer support and troubleshooting incidents or even text, email and chat support. How do you interweave actual work scenarios for a highly interactive…
How to use the story-based approach in software training – Tip #12
Software training is a challenge because of the technical details that learners are expected to comprehend. As is often the case, the statistical information overwhelms the learners to such extent that they lose focus resulting in decreased understanding and retention.…
Minimalist Story-Based eLearning Lesson Grabs Learner – Tip #11
Learners struggle to keep focused on elearning lessons because of much competition for their time and attention. Keeping our elearning lessons snappy, direct to the point and with less accessories, lessons have better chances of grabbing learners’ attention. How do…
How to Teach Very Complex Ideas with Story-Based eLearning – Tip #10
Some scenarios are glorified memorization tests or branching multiple choice tests. Memorization branching exercises should not be confused with story-based scenarios which are specifically driven by motivational events to help learners discover learning experiences. How do story-based scenarios help learners…
Hangover Joe – Chainsaw Safety eLearning – Tip #9
Tip: Parody is a good method to use in content where it is both a reminder and refresher course. For example, we ask employees to go through annual compliance courses like safety, ethics and employment law. The parody might look like…
Show Proof that Stories Impact Learning – Tip #8
Small examples of stories in a lesson demonstrate to leaders, decision makers and bosses how stories impact learning. This is how you can persuade your leaders and bosses to use stories and experiences in eLearning – This is the proof…
