EI Design

JUNE 19, 2018

In this article, I’ll highlight 9 golden rules to follow when creating eLearning branching scenarios. Best Tips To Follow When Developing eLearning Branching Scenarios. Decision-making branching scenarios expose online learners to challenges and situations they encounter in their everyday lives.

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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. If you’re interested in all of my highlights from this paper, check out my annotated version instead. Do you then invoke practice X, or do action Y? This was created in Playground.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 30, 2024

Kortney Ross and I in front of the LHRCon sign Morning Buzz: Designing and Developing Scenarios I led a Morning Buzz session on the first day about scenarios. I always start these conversations by asking about challenges people are experiencing with scenarios. I could use that for characters in scenarios sometimes.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 19, 2018

and 2) What learning strategies should be adopted to ensure that the learning and business mandates are met? Did you know? As you see from this diagram featuring the “Forgetting Curve”, we forget 80% of what we learned in 30 days! Use Decision-making branching simulations. Use Scenario based learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In branching scenarios, we can use a combination of immediate and delayed consequences and feedback. ” Learners have to perceive and understand the cues in the scenario. Immediate consequences that simulate real-world cues can also be more engaging than the omniscient narrator dictating what you did right or wrong.

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Brilliant Teams

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

To help you create effective eLearning content that sticks, here are some common eLearning design mistakes to avoid. Poorly Structured Navigation Are you looking for eLearning Solutions? Simplicity: Avoid overusing colours and animations, which can distract rather than engage.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 18, 2021

These are my week 2 highlights; you can also read my summary from LSDX week 1. You can view the resources from this presentation, including a number of tools shared, at bit.ly/wwww2lscon21. While you might pay a little more initially, you can edit the images and repurpose them more easily. wwww2lscon21.

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eFront

MAY 16, 2017

This will help you improve knowledge retention and your corporate eLearning ROI. You can provide your employees with all the information they need but are they really absorbing and assimilating the main takeaways? Avoid Bulky Text Blocks. For this reason, you should break text blocks into bullet lists, subheaders or timelines.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Scenarios offer learners an opportunity to practice responses in a controlled environment. When educators are working with learners in person, this practice may come in the form of coaching, shadowing, or role playing. Read More: How to use Branching Scenarios in E-Learning. Customer service training.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Writing a branching scenario can be intimidating or overwhelming. Do you write the endings first? Do you write all the mistakes first? Do you start at the beginning and then flesh out each path as you write those choices? In my last post, I explained how I create an outline of the steps in the scenario.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 13, 2021

We all probably know we should use easier to understand language in instructional writing, but this article provides more specifics on how to actually do that. Scenario Writing: Top 5 Pitfalls | Scissortail Creative Services, LLC. Common mistakes and pitfalls for writing scenario-based learning. Avoiding the gray areas.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

ScenariNos In addition to what we should do to leverage the power of scenario-based learning, there are also steps we should avoid. The ‘nos’ are things that commonly are seen in ineffective scenarios, or that can hinder successful implementation. Another is to have loops, so you can try again.

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Spark Your Interest

MARCH 26, 2020

If you’ve been guilty of this in the past you have no excuses now. By focusing on activities where the learner is thinking about their choices, you’ll create e-learning activities that don’t suck! Avoid the “Info Dump”. If you want to offer something engaging, then embrace quizzing as an instructional strategy.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In branching scenarios, we can use a combination of immediate and delayed consequences and feedback. ” Learners have to perceive and understand the cues in the scenario. Immediate consequences that simulate real-world cues can also be more engaging than the omniscient narrator dictating what you did right or wrong.

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Making Change

JULY 12, 2011

Branching scenarios can be a pain to design. Happily, you can use a simple tool called Twine to easily draft the scenario and produce it. In this post we’ll look at a scenario that I wrote to demonstrate Twine’s basic features and to make a point about teaching through stories. Visual design.

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Making Change

JULY 12, 2011

Branching scenarios can be a pain to design. Happily, you can use a simple tool called Twine to easily draft the scenario and produce it. In this post we’ll look at a scenario that I wrote to demonstrate Twine’s basic features and to make a point about teaching through stories. Visual design.

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Making Change

MARCH 27, 2018

I’m kicking off a series of posts about scenario-based training. Many people start writing a scenario too soon. Use the steps below to make sure you’re writing a challenging scenario and going in a direction everyone will like. Make sure you understand why the task is hard to do properly.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As we’ve talked about before on this blog, there are two parts to designing any course: There is the content itself (the subject matter you are an expert in), and then there’s the instructional design, or how that matter is taught. Many instructors start out in online education because they know their subject matter very well.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 20, 2017

” Have you heard any of these objections? Maybe you’ve even raised some of these objections yourself. ” Imagine you’re on the phone with someone explaining a bad day and everything went wrong. .” ” Imagine you’re on the phone with someone explaining a bad day and everything went wrong.

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The Learning Rooms

APRIL 11, 2025

Whether you’re exploring innovative online teaching methods, embracing new ways to learn, or simply curious about eLearning and educational technology, this resource will help you understand the language that shapes digital learning. Branched Scenario. A Accessibility. Artificial Intelligence. B Blended Learning.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

APRIL 15, 2011

Research has shown improvement in learning outcomes when avatars are used. One should expect to find them everywhere. Why, then, do several course designers avoid using avatars? Make the avatar instructionally relevant – it should fulfill the interactivity needs of a learner. It should augment content, not be the content.

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Making Change

APRIL 14, 2014

Do you feel like you’re an assembly line worker in a course factory, expected to crank out training on demand? Break free of the assembly line with a strong kickoff meeting that puts you in charge of the design. Who should be included in the meeting? ” Two hours is usually enough. What’s the format?

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Infopro Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Whether you’re a project manager, instructional designer, learning experience expert, graphic designer, or content creator, understanding and implementing storyboarding best practices can significantly enhance your project’s quality and efficiency. This will help in determining the information you need on your storyboard.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

You can also read my recap of week one , including more info about the platform and structure of the online event. You can pilot and test. When you review, you have evidence of how well your solutions worked to solve the business problem. After Hours Buzz on Scenarios. I led a discussion on scenarios.

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SweetRush

MARCH 17, 2023

We also share what you can expect to pay for 60 minutes of SweetRush custom eLearning as well as how much time it takes to develop You heard that right. Why would we do this, I hear you ask. While you might be tempted to jump straight ahead to look at the pricing (hey, we get it, we even hooked you up with a hyperlink!),

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Have you heard any of these objections to stories for learning? ” Maybe you’ve even raised some of these objections yourself. ” Imagine you’re on the phone with someone explaining a bad day and everything went wrong. .” What did you do about it? How did you feel?

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Raptivity

MARCH 13, 2014

This blog highlights some valuable nuggets of information from an ID’s perspective to help you build and deliver high-quality eLearning material. Select a tool that is suitable for your target audience (Choose a user friendly tool if you are dealing with beginners). Make sure you are fully aware about budgets.

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Infopro Learning

APRIL 17, 2018

When we think of online training simulations, we think of virtual scenarios that mimic real life. Branch Things Out. Similarly, encourage corporate learners to define related skills by brainstorming a branching scenario. This should be done before the actual online training simulation.

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Making Change

APRIL 10, 2018

In a previous post , we looked at some ways to help people learn from their mistakes in branching scenarios. How can we do the same thing in the much more limited world of the mini-scenario? A mini-scenario is a one-scene story in which the player makes a choice, sees the consequence, and that’s it.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 16, 2013

So though I know it’s impossible to generalize, are you able to speak to what kind of value there is placed on creativity as a designer, both in higher education, and in working with companies or organizations? Are there jobs I should lean toward to which are more open than others? With companies, it varies quite a bit.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

While instructional design can be an intimidatingly broad subject , there are a few principles you can easily grasp and incorporate into your courses right away. So, if you’re having trouble organizing your online course in an intuitive way, here’s a few ideas to help you out. Avoid confusion by putting your inner editor to work.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Scenario Design: Go to Whoa If scenarios are a powerful learning solution, how do you go about designing them? As with all learning design, you need appropriate initial information gathering, then aligned design, implementation in appropriate technologies, and evaluation to test and finalize the design.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If you care about learning outcomes (and you should), you definitely should know about scenario-based learning. With meaningful practice set in relevant contexts, scenarios are one of the most powerful approaches to make learning work.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 3, 2015

If you’re looking for some reading to improve your skills or get started in the field of instructional design, check out these books. It makes research about learning accessible in ways you can apply immediately. It makes research about learning accessible in ways you can apply immediately.

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Spark Your Interest

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We discuss the benefits of using Articulate Storyline, when to use it, and when not to. And while anyone with enough time, knowledge, and money can make an outstanding online course, can you do it on a budget? To create an online course, you need to develop and publish the content and host the course on a technology platform.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

But beware… You will find empirical evidence reported in the academic literature that supports these tips, and no doubt you can find just as much evidence that refutes them. If you have your own theory-informed design tips, I’d love you to share them with me! • Employ real-world examples and scenarios.

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Capytech

APRIL 14, 2021

E-learning can help whether you have a customer service department, or you want to improve the abilities of all customer-facing employees. Customer service training should be an ongoing programme as it offers a range of benefits to your organisation. The following steps will help make the course you create as good as possible.

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