Theory ? – definitely needed. Translating this to real-life applications? – absolutely possible. How? This interactive presentation is a prelude to more upcoming tips to help you gain a fuller perspective and understanding of how interactivity impacts your course development…
Tag: story-based
How to Chunk Content into 3 Minutes – Part 3 – Tip #25
What are the elements that make 3-Minute elearning effective? Please watch the video on Elements for Effective Content Identify which content impacts performance Please click to view Only 5-10-20% of Content Really Impacts Performance How important are application points? Click…
How to Chunk Content into 3 Minutes – Part 2 – Tip #24
How do people learn online? What e-learning behaviors do they exhibit? Please watch the video on Spotting e-Learning Behaviors 3-Minute e-Learning enables faster learning Please click to view Useful Knowledge Now How does 3-Minute e-Learning contrast with other Learnings? Click…
How to Chunk Content into 3 Minutes – Part 1 – Tip #23
Do we really need full competencies to commence work? What do learners need to immediately perform – today and now Working competencies facilitate job performance. Focus on identifying critical learning needs. Divide them into small, rapid learning content. Click here to view Maria’s story…
The Conversationalist – Facilitate Rapid Webinar Discussions – Tip #22
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: …
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.…