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Scenario-Based Learning for Learning Impact, with Christy Tucker

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This episode stands as a testament to the transformative potential of scenario-based learning in driving tangible impact within organizations, fostering engagement, skill acquisition, and behavior change.

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Expectations From eLearning Authoring Tools

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For example, a feature that lets users “import” existing PowerPoint presentations into the authoring tool is different from authoring and publishing eLearning content from within PowerPoint (using a plug-in toolbar). I’ve been wandering around the web to find the right authoring tool for specific use cases.

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A Learning Impact Process

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There may be times we need to change the behavior and aren’t measuring whether the behavior is impacting the business, or we just want to know learners are able to do new things at the end of the training. To be very clear, in many situations, we may well be needing to have an impact on other factors than performance.

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Four Steps to Deeper Learning

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Unfortunately, we’re not, and we don’t change behavior just on the basis of new information. If you see learning that’s focused on information, not on behaviors, you’re seeing learning that’s not sufficiently deep. A second critical form of content is examples. Which would be comprehensible if we were formally logical reasoners.

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Misconceptions?

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Superstitions are beliefs that don’t get explicit support, but manifest in the work we do – for example, that new information will lead to behavior change. This includes learning styles, attention span of a goldfish, millennials/generations, and more (references in this PDF, if you care). The last category is misconceptions.

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Tradeoffs in Scenarios-Based Learning: Costs and Impact

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It’s not a full solution, in and of itself; you still need models and examples, for instance, but it’s highly likely to be the necessary adjunct. The facts are that bullet point information dumps, even when augmented by knowledge tests, are extremely unlikely to lead to behavior change.

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Microlearning Case Study: Spaced Learning

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The basics Learning needs to have an initial emotional hook, followed up by some clear concepts, examples, and then sufficient practice. Too often, there appears to be a belief that information will achieve new behaviors, but the evidence is to the contrary. Spaced learning needs these as well.