Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When designing branching scenarios, it’s important to focus on specific behaviors and provide realistic feedback. Using AI tools can help generate ideas and alternative choices for branching scenarios, but human oversight and editing are necessary.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Proofing formats in Twine Proofing formats in Twine are designed to provide functionality to help with reviews. Several people who helped me test this were initially confused by this. However, it might be helpful to have a passage name visible on screen during reviews so the screenshots have a clear label.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 16, 2021

They started out fine: they provided some sort of realistic context and asked learners to make a decision. Then, instead of showing them the consequences of their decision, they just provided feedback as if it was any other multiple choice assessment. “Correct, that is the best decision.” ” Blah.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 22, 2023

” When to provide direct coaching or instructional feedback If your learners are novices, you may still need to provide coaching or instructional feedback about their choices. It’s also helpful to provide direct instructional feedback after the learner fails a scenario, before they restart it to try again.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 7, 2023

But, I want to try something new and see if it’s helpful for people to shadow my work. Finally, you’ll use the principle of “show, don’t tell” to improve your scenarios and provide the right level of detail. This streamlined process will help you save time and make the complexity of branching scenarios more manageable.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 30, 2023

A number of job seekers and transitioning teachers have asked about professional organizations to help people gain skills and network. The Learning Guild, ATD, TLDC, Training Magazine Network, and LDA all provide both free and paid resources for instructional designers and other learning and development professionals.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 19, 2024

Provide quiet time for reflection. Note that Hadiya isn’t talking about the “hero’s journey” or some other overarching classic structure here (which I often find more problematic than helpful for scenario-based learning, especially branching scenarios). Here are four ways chatbots optimize learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Scenarios and simulations Masters’ Q&A – Clark Quinn Clark Quinn answers 5 questions on simulations for training leaders and how they help provide practice opportunities. With the right choices, the scenario is engaging and provides meaningful practice, which leads to acquiring new abilities.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 11, 2021

I find it’s helpful for my own learning if I pull one or two key points out of those notes to help me remember the sessions. This would be useful for providing reinforcement after a training. Vince Han provided a demo of Mobile Coach , a tool to create chatbots. When I attend conferences, I take lots of notes.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

I find that this helps me keep everything straight, so it’s worth time time to set it up before working on the variables. You can use the Harlowe toolbar and variables options to help you generate the correct code. This is can be helpful, especially when you’re first learning how to work with variables.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 9, 2022

How do you create agreements that provide flexibility and security? This interview was more generally about how I transitioned from teaching to ID and gained recognition in the field, rather than specifically about freelancing, but will be helpful to those new to the field. Do you need an LLC to get started? How do you find clients?

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If your goal is to create 5 minute tutorials to help people solve a problem at the apply or solve moment of need , they’re already motivated and engaged. We often provide software training in advance of the need though. How helpful was it? Plus, this tutorial helped me finally understand layer masks!).

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 30, 2020

In his book Short Sims: A Game Changer , Clark Aldrich provides a system for creating engaging, interactive learning experiences quickly (in about 40 hours of work). Clark provides multiple examples so you can play through the Short Sims yourself to see the possibilities. What are Short Sims?

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Betty and I also talked about the process for creating branching scenarios, working with SMEs, and other helpful resources. I also talked about some elements to help craft narratives. In this podcast interview with Dr. Robin Sargent, I discuss how I transitioned from teaching to instructional design and provide tips for new IDs.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 28, 2022

This helps me remember what I learned, and helps share the ideas with those who couldn’t attend. Other than a few technical glitches like the clicker flaking out halfway through my presentation and my Slido polls not quite working on the provided laptop, I was fairly happy with how it went.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 28, 2020

It might help to think of the conclusion of your story in relation to your learning objectives. As an example, say one objective is for learners to “Provide reasonable accommodations for employees when requested, following company procedures and meeting legal requirements.” How will your scenario end? How will it conclude?

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 24, 2023

My client screening scenario is written in third person perspective, so the learners are helping the main character make decisions. A well-written scenario that is aligned to the learning objectives, has plausible distractors, and provides appropriate feedback is probably going to be effective regardless of the perspective.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 8, 2023

Even if you don’t use this tool (I haven’t tried it myself), reviewing other scenarios can be helpful for inspiration. She provides some lists of competences for L&D roles as examples of the kinds of talent stacking that might work.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Jill explains that the best pronunciation guides: Type it out phonetically, with capitals on emphasized syllable If possible, provide an audio link to the pronunciation of word. Please try to provide a link to someone reading it in the accent you’d like to have it.” While a table format isn’t necessary, it can be helpful.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 4, 2019

One measure of where you’ll learn more is whether or not the program helps you build a portfolio. A certificate program that provides opportunities to gain practical experience, creating realistic samples that could be used in a portfolio would be preferred to a theory-only masters program. Flexibility for a Masters Later.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 21, 2020

Setting the course up with a scenario helps learners understand why the policies matter. Let’s say you’re creating training for managers on providing reasonable accommodations for disabilities. If reading the policy is the only option, it’s helpful to include a plain language explanation.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

They provided an overview of the differences between an LMS and an LXP, including what features they expect in LXPs. That tells us that we both need to provide relevant content, and we need to help set expectations before people even start the video. Jeff provided free templates for creating xAPI wrappers for videos.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

SMEs will often start with general ideas like “provide quality customer service” or “improve communication.” Besides talking to the SMEs, it’s also helpful if you can talk to actual users (or people who have learned this skill recently). What isn’t happening currently that you want to happen?

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 23, 2021

This presentation introduces the why and how of scenario-based learning to help you get started. You’ll review criteria for deciding when branching scenarios provide enough benefit to justify the effort required to create them. Do you want to use scenarios, but you’re not sure how with limited time and resources?

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 12, 2022

Finally, version with dialogue-based choices (see screenshot above) was perceived as more personal and engaging, “lively” and helpful for making a selection (“made me feel like I was talking out loud in my head”).

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 24, 2022

7 Articles To Help You Improve Your eLearning Designs. Rounded corners on cards and buttons can be helpful to users for differentiating between items and recognizing what is clickable. This post includes links on UX, accessibility, branching scenarios, Twine, instructional design blogs, free/freemium tools, and systems thinking.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Her SME, Brian, provided this feedback after reviewing the prototype. In the first scenario with Jake, you help someone in cardiac arrest. Teach the skill without a timer first, then provide additional practice opportunities to build fluency and speed in the skill. Does a timer seem helpful in this situation?

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 10, 2021

The research supports giving learners specific “focusing objectives” to help them recognize what’s important. Provide hex codes for colors and get tints (lighter) and shades (darker) of that color. Useful for staying within a color scheme while still providing some variety. Tint and Shade Generator.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Especially when I’m swamped with work, I use daily goals to help me stay on top of all of my projects. I find it helpful to build some slack into the timeline. That revision time also provides me a little slack in the timeline, or a way to catch up if I’ve gotten behind. My daily goals spreadsheet.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 7, 2020

When you create branching scenarios, each decision point provides learners with multiple choices. How many options do you need to provide in a branching scenario? Reducing the number of options can help manage the complexity of branching scenarios, but reducing it too far may provide less realistic decision-making practice.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

That doesn’t mean some other skills wouldn’t benefit from high-fidelity simulations, but it does support the idea that the lower cost simulations can still provide positive results. This meta analysis didn’t find a significant advantage, at least in training for clinical and patient care skills.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Ultimately, this can help us create training that improves learner engagement and outcomes. Include the employees in the scenario because that helps provide realistic context. ” That option could provide an explanation of the rules. Worst case scenario. Next, identify the specific problems.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 19, 2020

These resources provide an overview of the LMS selection process and help identify what questions you should be asking. The problem is that these features are nearly ubiquitous, so it doesn’t help you narrow your choices. Their reviews from users may also be helpful as you narrow down your list. LMS Options.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2023

If you are moving beyond automatic captions to provide additional accessibility options in meetings and training with Zoom, read this article to find out what’s possible and what pitfalls to watch for. However, projecting even a few months in advance helps you see where you’re already booked solid and where you have gaps to fill.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I find it helpful to do one separate review of my scripts where I specifically focus on these pitfalls, usually after I’ve done any final editing for conversational style and flow. In the final post of the series, I provide a QA checklist of all the tips to help you with your reviews. That’s a whole other topic.).

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 2, 2022

While I didn’t mind the previous home page, this new layout provides more space for the stories, and puts the menus at the top in a more typical UI location. When you have a larger library of stories, this could be really helpful. The “bubbles” for the stories have a new look and feel too. Story layout.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 11, 2023

Kristin Torrence GitHub – doughahn/chat-souffle: A learning guild xAPI project helping learning designers practice prompt engineering. Twine project that reports to xAPI. This is way more technical than the projects I have done, but they definitely got Twine reporting to an LRS.

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