Association eLearning

APRIL 5, 2017

So how can we apply this technique toward greater understanding in the eLearning arena? If you have the resources, you can take this step even further by utilizing online documents or discussion boards, like the ones we offer in KD LMS , thereby challenging learners to help each other process the new information and write things out.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Much of my work as an instructional designer involves writing–and we have a lot of research to guide us on how to write to support learning. Much of my work as an instructional designer involves writing–and we have a lot of research to guide us on how to write to support learning. Conversational tone.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 5, 2021

What is conversation-driven elearning? One strategy for creating a story for learning is delivering content with two narrators having a conversation. Easier to write conversationally. Easier to write conversationally. As you may already know, a conversational tone is better for elearning.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I had a great conversation with Betty Dannewitz on her If You Ask Betty podcast. Here’s the outline: Plan Your Branching Scenario Design Your Scenario Overview Draft Your First Decision Create Your Branching Structure Write Your Scenario Develop Your Scenario Enhance Your Scenario Review and Refine Your Scenario.

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Wizcabin

APRIL 20, 2023

As eLearning becomes more popular, it’s essential to create courses that are engaging and effective. One of the critical components of successful eLearning is the script. In this post, we’ll cover some scripting secrets for successful eLearning. What do you want learners to achieve by the end of the course?

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In my Twine scenario on stakeholder writing feedback, I show conditional feedback messages at the end based on the choices made. if:$score >= 8)[''Good job'' You did a good job advocating for your audience and using solid instructional writing techniques. I do this by scoring the decisions and adding to a total score each time.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Last week, an ID asked me about my writing process. Specifically, she wanted to know how I get from content like a SME “brain dump” to a finalized storyboard that’s ready for elearning development. Read content, note questions and ideas In my writing process, the first step is usually to read and take notes.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 3, 2021

Creating the branching structure: Twine is strongest at creating the branching structure and writing the decision paths. I write and prototype in Twine. Simple conversation: Rise. For a simple 2-person conversation simulation without extensive branching, I might use the Rise scenario block. It’s fast.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 23, 2021

Using scenarios can make your elearning more engaging and relevant. While branching scenarios are one effective strategy, a range of options beyond branching are available for incorporating storytelling and scenarios in elearning. Presentations on scenario-based learning. Scenario-Based Learning (General Overview).

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Instructional designers often need to write voice over scripts, but many of us have never received any formal training on how writing for voice over is different from other writing. In this post, I’m focusing on writing style. Conversational style and flow. Conversational Style and Flow. Contractions.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 7, 2023

Learning Solutions Conference BYOD: Writing Scenarios: Compelling Characters and Distinctive Dialogue Thursday, April 13 2:30 PM-3:30 PM ET In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to create compelling characters and distinctive dialogue for scenarios for learning. You’ll practice drafting conversational dialogue between two characters.

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Limestone Learning

MARCH 29, 2022

PT: Getting Started with JavaScript in Adobe Captivate Tools such as Adobe Captivate are great for quickly developing elearning. Phil Cowcill, Senior Elearning Specialist at the Department of National Defence, Canada, will give you a quick introduction on how to write your own JavaScript that’s geared for Adobe Captivate.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 17, 2021

Most of the elearning content I build for clients is created in Articulate Storyline, part of the Articulate 360 suite. After struggling to write them and make them work in linear tools, it’s amazing how much faster I can develop multiple connected paths in Twine. You can vote for your top 10 tools for learning until August 26.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 20, 2021

I built the sample below in a little less than 2 hours, almost all of which was actually writing the conversation and choices. That took almost 90 minutes to write. The post How I Built a Chat Simulation in 2 Hours appeared first on Experiencing eLearning. Try it yourself to get an idea of what’s possible.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Russell Sweep recently interviewed me for the L&D Hot Seat podcast for a conversation on scenario-based learning. That means you can hear a bit of some sample conversations for how I would handle objections in my conversations with clients, stakeholders, and SMEs. How do you avoid scope creep with your scenarios?

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 21, 2023

A lot of elearning starts with a list of formal learning objectives. “By the end of this course, you will be able to…” But should we really start our elearning this way? This was his first tip: Clear Learning Objectives : Your eLearning should have clear learning objectives that are communicated to your employees.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 29, 2023

In a previous blog post, I explained how to start writing branching scenarios with AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard. Coming up with alternate paths and plausible wrong answers is always one of the most challenging tasks in writing branching scenarios. I usually start writing the “ideal path” first.

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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

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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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2020

Someone asked me in last week’s eLearning Freelancer Bootcamp Q&A about how I maintain my blogging momentum. That’s a lot of writing. Block time to write. Along with planning the publishing time, I block time on Thursday mornings to write blog posts. It helps to have a consistent time.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 24, 2023

In my recent webinar for the Learning Guild , someone asked if it’s better to write in second or third person perspective for scenarios. Second person (you) Second person perspective means writing the scenario so “you” are doing the action and making the decisions. appeared first on Experiencing eLearning.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In this post, I share links on writing better dialogue, sample projects for inspiration, and useful tools for different kinds of learning. Writing dialogue. How to Write Natural Dialogue in 11 Steps, With Examples! Tips for writing dialogue, with examples from novels. 19 Ways to Write Better Dialogue — Well-Storied.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A text-based scenario that is visually clean and easy to use might get better results because you can focus more on writing realistic challenges. In that case, we wanted them to both listen to the conversation and look at the environment. A reader asked, “Should you include voice over and video in branching scenarios?”

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

After I have completed my analysis for a branching scenario , I spend time planning before I start actually writing the content. My design document includes this summary, so the client and SME approve it before I start writing. My design document includes this summary, so the client and SME approve it before I start writing.

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Limestone Learning

JANUARY 26, 2021

It’s important that you’ve prepared for those conversations and are ready to also receive feedback from your team. There are some gems, though, so it’s worth checking out and spending a strategic hour or two learning something new! Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 8 a.m.–9 Employees get to learn and grow, which boosts their morale.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 14, 2020

You learn alongside Dayna through her conversations with her mentor and her examples at each step along the way. The craft of writing stories. These 3 chapters show the process of writing the story. I think that our industry as a whole doesn’t focus enough on good writing. Example stories. Develop in any tool.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Writing branching scenarios can be intimidating or overwhelming. Unlike a linear course, it’s not as easy to know where to start writing. Do you write the endings first? Should you write all the mistakes first? Do you start at the beginning and then flesh out each path as you write those choices?

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2022

Most of the elearning content I build for clients is created in Articulate Storyline, part of the Articulate 360 suite. After struggling to write them and make them work in linear tools, it’s amazing how much faster I can develop multiple connected paths in Twine. I use Affinity Designer nearly every week to edit images for elearning.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 16, 2024

We did run a little longer in our conversation than her target episode length, so this is almost an hour long. Check those pages for links to resources mentioned in our conversation. The post AI Right Now: Mindset to Learn Podcast appeared first on Experiencing Elearning. We had waaay too much fun chatting together.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

You can use this list of questions to ask SMEs to gather the information you need to write branching scenarios. What would it sound like in a conversation? 3 Tricks for Working with SMEs on Branching Scenarios How to Get Started Writing a Branching Scenario for Learning Planning a Branching Scenario. .”

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 25, 2022

h/t Sarah Mercier) While this isn’t about learning, it’s about usability–and that is important in how people perceive and interact with elearning. Guy Wallace and Billy Wilson had an hour-long conversation about adaptive learning. I got a mention near the end for some of my writing about Twine.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 18, 2020

A colleague asked me, “Once you and your client have agreed on a branching scenario approach, how do you get started writing it? ” In this post, I’ll walk you through my process for analysis and preparation before writing a scenario. ” The short answer is to “begin with the end in mind.”

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 31, 2023

We had a lively conversation for about an hour about Bruno, Abuela, the Encanto movie, storytelling, and how it relates to learning and development. We had a lively conversation for about an hour about Bruno, Abuela, the Encanto movie, storytelling, and how it relates to learning and development. or Spotify.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 21, 2022

This makes sense, as DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is both a popular topic for a lot of training right now, and a topic that often involves nuanced conversations. In the pilot of my Build Your Branching Scenario course, several participants picked DEI topics as the focus for their branching scenarios. What works in DEI training.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 6, 2010

Tracy Hamilton writes Discovery through eLearning. Judy Unrein writes onehundredfortywords , short posts on instructional and e-learning design. Brent Schlenker of the eLearning Guild writes at Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development. E-learning. MinuteBio is by e-learning designer Jeffery Goldman.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

While I do see some possibilities for using ChatGPT for writing scenarios, this experience has reiterated how important it is to have an actual human reviewing the content. Write 3-4 lines of dialogue between Rita and Oliver struggling to collaborate on a solution. Note that this is a prototype.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 25, 2023

How can you use AI to write scenarios for learning? So far, I have found these tools helpful in generating ideas, writing first drafts, and summarizing. This post isn’t going to give you “5 magical prompts to instantly write scenarios for you” or anything like that. I’m using the free ChatGPT 3.5

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