Experiencing eLearning

JULY 20, 2021

Visual Design for Scenarios with Twine : How to format Twine using the Harlowe story format How I Built a Chat Simulation in 2 Hours : Using Twine and the Trialogue story formats. Register for our free, twice-monthly calls. Twine Makes Branching Scenarios Easier : How to get started in Twine.

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Infopro Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

The answer is that the successful ones can create and relate unforgettable stories. Our brains process the storytelling mode of communication much more effectively and with an emotional connection, much more than they do for disseminating data sets. Important Components of a Story in Sales 1.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Our mission is simple yet powerfulto make financial education and financial services accessible and actionable to everyone. We love seeing successful customer stories! Our goal is for our LMS to stand out as an award-winning solution, recognized across various industries, including financial services, as demonstrated today.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 19, 2025

Application stories, confidence scores Alignment of behavior change with numbers Surveys, interviews, manager check-ins Report and Refine Summarize insights, identify trends, and adjust learning as needed. Manager feedback, peer observations, learner stories Learning Has this learning contributed to improved performance or business outcomes?

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 14, 2020

Rance Greene’s new book, Instructional Story Design: Develop Stories that Train , provides a systematic process for creating stories for training. Even if you don’t consider yourself a storyteller, you can create stories to support learning with this book. Example stories. The craft of writing stories.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 26, 2022

We do have limitations that we can’t necessarily change, but our beliefs about those limitations are within our control. I liked the ideas on how to organize stories, with movement from left to right signalling success. Hadiya made a great point about when stories are important for training: Stories add context.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Our conversation focused on storytelling for L&D. Continuum of storytelling Gamification in storytelling Story format Building transitions and call to actions Weaving stories and content together seamlessly. She launched this summer with Tim Slade as her first guest. Topics covered. Watch the webcast. Listen to the podcast.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 29, 2021

One of the themes of our conversation was how emotionally engaging content can improve learning outcomes. One quote they pulled from our conversation was, “I see increasing interest in doing more than just checking a box to say the training was done.” We talked broadly about trends in workplace training. Trends in learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 24, 2021

Our brains are wired for stories. Even when we sleep, our brains keep telling us stories all night in our dreams. We remember stories better than abstract content. Learning Guild research report: Using Stories for Learning ). Trigger memories: We remember failures.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Ask for Their Stories. SMEs frequently have a collection of good stories about their topic. The trick is figuring out how to get those stories out of their heads and into a format you can use in a course. A success story can become the outline for the correct path in your branching scenario.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

What advice would you give to our community of instructional designers who are just starting out or transitioning? What would you like to ask our next guest? Upcoming events Gathering SME Stories to Craft Relevant and Engaging Scenarios. Have you used Genially before? Tuesday, October 22, 3:00 PM ET.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 17, 2020

I gave examples of how to “hook” learners to draw them into a story right from the beginning. Our brains are wired for stories. Even when we sleep, our brains keep telling us stories all night in our dreams. We remember stories better than abstract content.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 18, 2023

The topics are always something that’s the opposite of the best practices and good points we all make in our real presentations. Wednesday David Kelly’s opening David Kelly always opens the conference with the logistical info and a story about his kids. Try to stay inside one story at a time.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This post includes research on stories and memory, games for learning, scenario-based learning, a definition of LXD, and a few AI image tools. They acknowledge that the research is mixed, but overall found a “robust” result that stories were easier to understand and remember. This was created in Playground.

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Upside Learning

MAY 28, 2025

In our previous phase of the Learning Impact Framework , we focused on creating learner pull by building anticipation and engagement before the learning experience even began. Now, as we move into Phase 4, we shift our attention to the launch itself, the pivotal moment when all the groundwork and pre-launch strategies come together.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Most of the time, our discussions related to scenario-based learning. We spent most of our time talking about tools for drafting and building branching scenarios: Twine, Google Forms, Miro, BranchTrack, ChatMapper. We talked about branching scenarios and Choose Your Own Adventure stories. MADE Podcast on Branching Scenarios.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Clark discusses how science is always improving, so our understanding can change over time. Still, we can be more effective in our work with evidence-informed practices. This isn’t a story about a relevant character the learners can identify with who uses the concepts in realistic situations (or even slightly exaggerated ones).

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Although this interview was for Animaker, our conversation didn’t focus on their tool or on animated videos. Our scenario-based learning 101 discussion also makes some connections and differentiation between scenarios, microlearning, and gamification. I also touched on AI in this segment.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live – Issue 75: Story – Nautilus How stories are critical to how humans understand the world (and how they can sometimes lead us to draw faulty conclusions). We are hardwired to need stories; science has storytelling buried deep in its nature. Storytelling Research.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2023

I’ve suggested that it’s an initial context or story, in which a situation precipitates the need for a decision. There’s also feedback, which is best as story-based consequences first, then actual conceptual feedback. So, first, let’s talk about the structure of a mini-scenario. There’s the right one, and then alternatives.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 8, 2022

Does learning science play a role in our work, and, just how much of an impact does it have on our profession? … We must be able to see the gaps in our instructional design, which learning science helps to support. The decisions we make determine our success. botscripten/README.md Games and branching scenarios.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 9, 2019

We construct our understanding in context, building and elaborating schema over time. Our schema are only partial representations though. Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games | These Heterogenous Tasks Patterns for branching stories and games. Repeated exposure and practice in varied contexts is important. tags: branching.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Overall, our research demonstrates the potential of an easy-to-implement online intervention in enhancing self-efficacy and classroom readiness and points towards the importance of combining feedback and reflection within online scenario-based learning activities. Free tools for VR stories and other multimedia. Free 360 photos.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 27, 2019

Our company has added a ton of specifics about this to our employee handbook, so it’s important everyone’s aware of the new policy. We’re spending a lot of money on travel for people to come to our main office too. What’s our next step?” It’s a course on pregnancy discrimination.

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Hurix Digital

MAY 31, 2025

When your content tells a story, it can emotionally engage your target audience. Our comprehensive digital content solutions and eLearning services encompass a spectrum of creative expertise, including stunning videos, captivating illustrations, and dynamic animations.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In our recent Learning Rebels Coffee Chat , we had a great discussion. You can view the video of our coffee chat here: Change Management Coffee Chat ). During our chat, the group discussed the importance of acknowledging these emotions, both in ourselves and others. Curious about how your peers are navigating these changes?

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 28, 2024

Our top 5 tips for PowerPoint presentations summarised Less is more To optimise student engagement and comprehension, use minimal text per slide and present examples before explanations. We’re using the story to convey a specific message, shift attitudes, or motivate people to change behavior.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In Harlowe (the default Twine story format) , variables have a $ at the beginning. However, it's our responsibility as professionals to be more than just order takers. In the first passage, I set the score to 0. That’s my default value. The code to create the variable $score and set it to 0 is: (set: $score to 0).

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The L&D field has a lot of folks who play D&D, or at least are interested in how D&D could inspire our work as instructional designers. A good character for scenario-based learning is one your learners can identify with and that draws them into the story. What Challenges Do Your Characters Face?

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“Learn to write a short story” is fine, but “join our writing community for writing goal check-ins and thoughtful critiques” is so much better. Spend enough time growing your membership package, and you’ll start to see the success stories roll in. Talk to your members about sharing their stories.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 30, 2021

Here’s a story about where performance support would’ve made a task much easier. So here’s a cognitive story about when and where a job aid would help. Our Bosch dishwasher stopped near the beginning of the cycle, and displayed an icon of a water tap. And, as always, the text. Of course, it didn’t exist.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

In our previous phase , we focused on helping learners retain and apply knowledge through thoughtful reinforcement strategies, nudges, recall activities, and peer interactions that keep learning alive long after the initial training. But even the best-designed reinforcement plans are incomplete without feedback. What helped the most?

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 4, 2022

Which 20% of our work are we prepared to do wrongly? I’ve previously contended that an assessment first philosophy renders the concept of a pass mark obsolete, but went on to state that such a radical idea is a story for another day. Depending on the domain, our people may never reach a score of 100%. Recursive feedback.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 2, 2024

We give juniors clear goals and concrete plans, instead of vague open-ended directions, and we should do the same for our agents too. Upcoming events Gathering SME Stories to Craft Relevant and Engaging Scenarios. You’ll leave this session with tactics to help you get the concrete examples and stories you need from SMEs.

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