Synthesis:Even technical, software and scientific information can be made engaging and fun for learners because everything and everyone carries a story within themselves. Crafting story development is crucial to the success of emotionally fertilized content integral to learning.————————————————————————————-Oftentimes, I hear…
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Igniting Learning with a Story: Compliment – Can’t a person compliment a woman anymore?!
We continue to create Vignettes – short, succinct, micro-scenarios – to help you with an example on how you can use stories to ignite and provoke learners to interact and learn. The Vignette “Compliment” revolves around officemates, Roxanne and Tim.…
How Do You Handle a Star? – Provocative Learning Vignette 2
This week’s vignette , The Star, is a story of John who is a star performer, but who causes problems as he repeatedly refuses to cooperate with his team members. How do you deal with a person like John? If…
“Can you tell me if my job is safe?” A Provocative Learning Vignette
The Little Secret presents the story of Maria, a dutiful office manager. Maria’s management capability is put to the test when she is caught in between adhering to office policy and addressing employee needs. What should Maria do? Can you…
“How to Ask for a Raise” Scenario Plus 10 Reasons Why Scenarios Work
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…
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…
How to keep your sanity in the “Learning Vortex”?
SynthesisThe learning industry is in turmoil – like in a twister. There is constant push and pull which results to changes and adjustments. The “Learning Vortex” is an effective way of maintaining focus and keeping one’s “sanity” in the midst…
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…
Transforming Minds – Using Metaphors in eLearning
SynthesisUsing metaphors in eLearning makes learners more receptive to ideas and information that are otherwise complex to figure out. These metaphors in presentation mode or self-contemplative mode make learners easily grasp needed knowledge and immediately adapt concepts thereby prompting a…
Engaging Technical eLearning – Tips on Design and Delivery
[Please add your comments below] Engineer’s and Technical Writer’s View Oftentimes, my development team works to help clients convert technical training into eLearning. An example is the Oracle HRIS and hardware training. The initial challenge is, “How do we make…
Instant Learning: How it works and how to make it happen?
Synthesis: The brain has the ability to replicate or imagine real life experiences. This allows us to share instant learning experiences in our eLearning programs. The Instant Experience Loop occurs at the moment learners share and connect stories with the…
My Encounter with the Galactic Minds: Feynman TEDX Caltech and Stephen Hawkings
This week is very exciting for me. I will be attending Caltech’s TEDx event on January 14, 2011 “Feynman’s Vision: The Next 50 Years”. I am also attending a Caltech lecture by Stephen Hawking. TEDx CALTECH This will be a…
New Territories and Innovations in Learning Solutions
Happy New Year! May 2011 bring you and your loved ones peace, good health and more wealth. Thank you for all your support in 2010. My 2010 was a year of discovery and innovation. My team had an abundance of…
How to Embed Learning Goals in Stories
Gist: convert learning goals into stories by allowing the characters to show and tell the desired outcomes. I just read Roger Schank’s article in eLearn Magazine on Learning through Storytelling, Not Documents. A couple of points struck me: People love…
DIYEL #13 How to avoid impersonal programs and encourage conversations.
IntroductionTable of Posts When was the last time you had a face-to-face conversation with someone and that person was not really present with you? He or she was “not really there”? How did you feel? You were probably annoyed or…