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Engaging New and Young Learners – Tip #97

June 7, 2016August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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…

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Adding Provocative Stories to Really Boring eLearning – Tip #95

April 21, 2016October 30, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized2 Comments on Adding Provocative Stories to Really Boring eLearning – Tip #95
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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…

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Do Your Learners Value or Throw Away Your Lesson References? – Tip #96

April 6, 2016August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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…

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How to Design Unobtrusive Test Questions – Tip #94

April 5, 2016August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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…

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Expertise: Why The Odds are Stacked Against Novices – Tip #93

April 4, 2016August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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…

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The SMEs’ Fault – They Think That All Content Is Important – Tip #92

March 29, 2016August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized1 Comment on The SMEs’ Fault – They Think That All Content Is Important – Tip #92
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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…

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3 Story Sources for Deeper Learning – Tip #91

March 23, 2016August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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…

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Be A Scientist – Set Up Your Own Learning Behavior Lab on Micro- Experiences and Stories – Tip #90

March 1, 2016August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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…

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What Happens When New Becomes Old? – Tip #89

February 24, 2016August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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…

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Is your content out of context or in context? – Tip #86

December 28, 2015August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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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.…

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Is it Curation or Co-Creation of Content? – Tip #85

November 9, 2015August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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  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…

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Remove the Sting of Compliance Courses: Make Them Short, Succinct, Easy to Learn – Tip #84

October 17, 2015August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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More often than not, compliance courses have received a bad rap and reputation. The main complaint is that compliance courses are just “clicking boxes to meet lawyers’ needs.” As the perception persists, part of the blame is caused by designers,…

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How to Implement a Corporate Wide Story-Based Learning – Tip #83

October 15, 2015August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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   In the workshops that I conducted on Story-based eLearning Design, participants constantly ask: How do we implement Story-Based Learning in our entire company or in various forms of our learning?  There is no one sure-fire answer to accomplish this.…

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Role of Stories in Learning – A Map – Tip #82

September 21, 2015August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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Thanks to Clark Quinn  for allowing me to use this chart. It summarizes what Roger Schank presented at the LearnTechAsia, where according to him, “Roger gave his passioned, opinionated, irreverent, and spot-on talk to kick off LearnTechAsia. He covered the…

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Adding Magical Powers to Otherwise Boring Videos and Webinar Recordings – Tip #81

September 20, 2015August 26, 2020 Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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Studies have shown that more and more companies are using videos and webinar recordings to support learning. The challenge however, is that most videos can be boring, tedious and limits the learner from following their own interests. Most videos and…

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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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