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Tips for Storytelling in Learning

Experiencing eLearning

These are my live blogged notes from the InSync Training Byte session “Once Upon a Time, Storytelling WAS Learning” by Tom Campbell and Karin Rex. Why don’t we just give learners a book and command them to read and learn? Brains switch off when we see a slide full of bullet points. Support attention.

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Using Game Design To Create Accomplishment Based Learning, Julie Dirksen #astdtk13 @usablelearning

Learning Visions

In ID school, we learned about the A and the D-esign part is mostly -- then all this cool stuff happens in this black box. Raph Koster -- "in games learning is the drug" in A Theory of Fun. It's learning, but it doesn't feel effortful. Let's start with attention. How long is the avg attention span? I know, but."

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Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter

Nick Leffler

Attentions spans are shrinking, nobody can pay attention for more than a few seconds. Just to clear things up, an attention span is that thing that allows us to pay attention to something. You know, when something captures our attention because it’s so incredibly interesting and we can’t turn away.

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The Neurobiology of Why Your Learner’s Brain Responds to Great Storytelling

Maestro

When you think about the power of storytelling, your first thought might be of the movies—even as Hollywood continues to churn out stories that follow familiar arcs we’ve seen time and again, we keep showing up and finding ourselves drawn in, happily paying to see it play out in different forms on the big screen. The story loses us.

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Don’t Look Now, but We May Have Just Missed the Singularity

Learningtogo

Most of you know that I’m a learning consultant by trade and I apply the science of learning to real-world learning and performance improvement projects for my clients. It is merely a meta observation of how my unique brain changed the way it pays attention to these fields as they have developed over time.

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Effective Video Training – Breaking it down

Dashe & Thomson

It’s no surprise that the use of video in corporate training continues to gain in popularity among corporate Learning and Development departments. It catches our attention. A good training video can bring out a similar level of engagement as a good movie or television show. These two concepts seem to go hand in hand.

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Movie-based Learning to Increase Sales Reps’ Attention Span

CommLab India

A recent study by Microsoft showed that the attention span of most Gen-Y learners is 8 seconds, shorter than that of a goldfish. Being a sales training manager, how can you beat the short attention span of your sales force? That’s the reason we remember the characters’ name, story, scenes, and even famous dialogues from movies.

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