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Protagonists Should Be Like Your Learners

Experiencing eLearning

When you write a story for learning, you need a few essential elements: a protagonist (the main character), the protagonist’s goal , and the challenges the protagonist faces. The protagonist should be someone your learners identify with. Example protagonist selection.

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5 Tips for Scenario-Based Learning: Podcast Interview

Experiencing eLearning

Develop relatable protagonists to connect with your learners. Narrow Your Focus for Branching Scenarios Questions to Ask SMEs for Branching Scenarios What Challenges Do Your Characters Face? Thats the question learners often ask when taking training or elearning. Training 2025 Conference & Expo.

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Protagonists Should Be Like Your Learners

Experiencing eLearning

When you write a story for learning, you need a few essential elements such as a protagonist (the main character), the protagonist’s goal, and the challenges the protagonist faces. The protagonist should be someone your learners identify with. Example Protagonist Selection.

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What’s Your Character’s Goal?

Experiencing eLearning

This is one of the critical elements I mentioned in Protagonists Should Be Like Your Learners : Protagonist or main character That character’s goal The challenges that character faces. How will your scenario end? What do you want the character to do at the end of your story?

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Scenarios: the good, the bad, and the preachy

Making Change

We’re not asking the learner to make a challenging decision like the ones they make on the job. We’re checking the learner’s short-term memory: Can they still recognize “Customer Misvetting,&# which we defined three screens ago? It doesn’t test whether the learner can correct the problem.

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Scenarios: the good, the bad, and the preachy

Making Change

We’re not asking the learner to make a challenging decision like the ones they make on the job. We’re checking the learner’s short-term memory: Can they still recognize “Customer Misvetting,&# which we defined three screens ago? It doesn’t test whether the learner can correct the problem.

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How AI Will Affect Instructional Design: My Thoughts Right Now

Experiencing eLearning

Instructional designers who learn to adapt their practices and processes to use AI will likely be more successful. Instead of setting a single speed on your cruise control and manually adjusting when you need to slow down, adaptive cruise control adjusts the speed for you. Take adaptive cruise control , for example.