Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Instructional designers and training managers sometimes ask me, “How do I train SMEs to write better branching scenarios?” I believe SMEs shouldn’t write branching scenarios. Instead, I think we as instructional designers and LXDs should interview the SMEs as part of our analysis, and then we should write it.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2022

Some of these are my personal learning tools; others are what I use to create learning for others. These tools aren’t ranked, but they are categorized based on whether I use them to create learning for others or as a tool for my own personal development. The line between professional learning and personal learning is somewhat blurry.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 29, 2022

So with no further ado, here’s my personal knowledge management approach. First, Harold’s Personal Knowledge Management ( PKM ) model has three components: seek, sense, and share. I have a number of blogs I’m subscribed to. It may lead me to diagramming , or writing up something, frequently both (as here ).

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 12, 2022

I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes links on writing branching scenarios, free tools, content curation, xAPI, and getting started in Storyline. Writing branching scenarios. Does writing style change how learners perceive choices in a branched scenario? Learningworld Design.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 5, 2021

If it’s one person talking, they often use interviews, guests, or clips to break up the monotony of a single voice. Easier to write conversationally. This is the Personalization Principle for multimedia learning theory (Mayer, 2009). Is it a manager or a more experienced person in the same role? Remember more.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Blogging, presenting, and other forms of sharing expertise I spend a lot of time writing and speaking about scenario-based learning, instructional design, and other topics. Last year, I spent about 10 hours each month on my blog. In-person conferences are another venue; I present at a few conferences each year.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 26, 2021

I share these links periodically here on my blog. Share everything you know Chris Lema writes about the benefits of blogging and sharing your knowledge generously. And while this is about blogging, the same concepts apply to any other method of sharing: videos, podcasts, etc. Sometimes I write for future me.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I share these links periodically here on my blog. These aren’t learning or training games, but it’s useful to look at games outside of L&D for ideas on game mechanics, look and feel, choice writing, and other elements of games. The second person was less like a mirror and more like a costume. Leslie Jamison.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 4, 2023

Dialogue can be tricky to write. When I teach people how to write branching scenarios, writing dialogue is one of the places people get stuck. If you’re used to writing in a more formal style, writing dialogue can feel very unfamiliar. Tip #1: Use more contractions When you write dialogue, use contractions.

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Association eLearning

JANUARY 17, 2018

Last year I wrote a post about how to make a personal progress tracker. Here’s a look at what’s stayed the same and what’s changed: What Stayed the Same on My Personal Progress Tracker. What Changed on My Personal Progress Tracker. How the Updated Personal Progress Tracker Works. Future of the Personal Progress Tracker.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 21, 2022

Results from our experiment involving 118 undergraduate students showed that taking the perspective of LGBT individuals or racial minorities — by writing a few sentences imagining the distinct challenges a marginalized minority might face — can improve pro-diversity attitudes and behavioral intentions toward these groups. Further reading.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Read what past participants say about the course plus learn about the opportunities for practice and personalized feedback. Build Your Branching Scenario isn’t a course just about the theory behind writing scenarios. Personalized feedback. Why enroll in this course? What past participants have said.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 16, 2024

Joanie is just a delightful person who I truly enjoy speaking with. Read more on how to use AI As I experiment with using AI to create branching scenarios, I have been publishing blog posts about what I learn, what works, and what doesn’t work. We talked about the tools I actually use like Midjourney and Claude.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 9, 2024

These are my top blog posts from 2023 plus a review of a few other accomplishments and my goals for 2024. Top new blog posts of 2023 I would never have guessed that a post on learning objectives would be my top post for the year, but this turned out to be a surprisingly controversial topic. Read more about using AI to write scenarios.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

I share these links periodically here on my blog. A Twitter thread with tips for writing stories with internal and external conflict from narrative design in games. I don’t explicitly think of it this way for writing scenarios for learning, but I do think this concept could be applied to storytelling in training.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 9, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes benchmarks for speaker fees, some interesting AI tools, a source for L&D mentors, career tips, and resources for improving writing skills. The person who shared it said she got 80 images for $30…but only about 10 of them were usable.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 24, 2019

2019 was a big year for my blog. This year, I focused on writing new posts plus updating some older content. I started this blog in 2006 as a free wordpress.com blog. I was using my blog primarily as a tool for my own reflection and learning. This is post #1,115 on my blog. Starting out in 2006. 2020 Goals.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We need to do aanalysis, writing, working with SMEs, visual design, etc. Personally, I think the AI voices are OK for short content, especially didactic or instructional narration. Tech writing and software training While I don’t think ID is going to go away, I think jobs designing software training will be affected.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Are they learning for professional development or personal enjoyment? As an example, if you were teaching a course on organic gardening, you might write your course to appeal to a student who lives in the suburbs or a rural area with space for a garden and with a spouse and children living at home. Show others how to write poetry.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. AI is welcomed by those with dyslexia, and other learning issues, helping to mitigate some of the challenges associated with reading, writing, and processing information. Plus, how useful are talking head videos even when it’s a real person, let alone an AI talking head?

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2020

I share these links periodically here on my blog. This can be applied when people are making decisions that involve subjective judgment about a person. General Principles for Reducing Bias APA Style guide principles for reducing bias in writing. Licensed for commercial and personal use. Video conference tips and tools.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Here’s a topic we haven’t touched on much in this blog: your course website. Build your SEO with a blog or other long-form content. This is where a blog comes in. By keeping a blog in the public-facing portion of your website, where search engines can track it, you build your SEO strength and establish your brand authority.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2021

One of the major things I do is write: book, blog posts, articles, and more. So the first two tools I use are for writing: 1. Of course, that’s how I’m writing here. I also use it for writing for the HPT Treasures blog (I post once a month, third Friday. Still, it’s worth getting out there.

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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. Promote your course on your blog and social media. Maybe you can even offer to have some of your members publish their successes on your blog.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 30, 2024

I enjoyed seeing so many old friends, meeting people in person for the first time, and making new connections. The Power of Personal Narratives in Leadership Development Hadiya Nuriddin I always love hearing Hadiya speak; she has such a conversational presentation style. I can always use more photos of me presenting!

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Making Change

AUGUST 20, 2019

Need to write a scenario question? Get ideas from these three classic blog posts that you might have missed. Want personal feedback on your scenarios? You’ll get hands-on practice writing scenarios and get my personal feedback on your work. The same question three ways. See tip #2 for the solution.).

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If I had to guess, I would bet that most educators are better and writing good SEO content than otherwise. However, for some educators, their biggest hesitation is the fear that sharing too much of their content on their blog won’t leave anything left for their course. But to gain followers and readers, your blog needs to have value.

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Avilar

OCTOBER 24, 2024

They are what a person can (or cannot) do. Writing a blog is a skill. Competencies are how a person performs on the job. A person may be competent at managing customer relationships, building teams, and facilitating meetings – all of which require a range of skills, knowledge, and abilities.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 9, 2019

I loved being able to meet people in person who I had previously only met online and reconnecting with folks from past conferences. Cara North is such a lovely person to speak with, and I’m so glad I got to spend time with her and Sean Hickey. This is a larger topic than I can address here; it needs its own blog post.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 24, 2020

I normally plan out the topics for my blog a month or two ahead of time. As I write this, it’s Thursday, 3/19/20. When my husband and I need to talk to each other, we look at the other person’s computer to see if they’re in the middle of focused work or taking a break. How people work is changing.

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LearnDash

MAY 5, 2020

These are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It’s also the case that two are passive skills (listening and reading), while two are active skills (speaking and writing). Rather than devoting a lot of time to a study group, we picked a conversation theme and went around the table giving each person a chance to speak.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

My blog posts are written manually by me unless I post something like this; everything above is my own writing. ” Subly is on my personal list of tools to try out, since that sounds like a good fit for my somewhat irregular needs. It allows you to create a new line after punctuation through these settings too.

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LearnDash

JUNE 10, 2020

When I first started writing essays for school, the rule we were given was “no online sources allowed.” Imagine trying to write a guide for citing online sources in 1997, the year before Google was founded? If I am writing a paper, I can say that Russia is the largest country in the world without having to provide a source.

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Infopro Learning

JANUARY 14, 2025

This blog will explore the ways AI-driven content improves learning and corporate training. 1) Personalization: Learning That Fits Every Individual Specific needs, preferences, and abilities shape the path replicated by each person. AI tools can write materials at scale without sacrificing personalization or relevance.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Meanwhile, a lot of organic traffic will land on your site through some other page—a blog post or a product page, for instance. Write a piece of high-value content and give it away in exchange for email addresses. Begin a blog and include an email sign-up form. Industry events—whether in person or online—are one way to do this.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 18, 2020

Writing is arguably the top way I reflect. That’s where I write books and articles first. And, of course WordPress is how I write my blog (e.g. Writing is a way to sort out how I think about things. As I say, things that end up in presentations and books tend to show up on blog first.

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Making Change

JANUARY 18, 2018

To see what that might look like in activity design, we looked at a simple compliance activity and these two branching scenarios: Learning Zeko prototype: try the activity and then read the blog post describing what I was trying to do. You’re just plunged into each activity, as described in this blog post. Competence.

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