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

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When designing branching scenarios, it’s important to focus on specific behaviors and provide realistic feedback. Key points from the podcast Scenario-based learning and branching scenarios can be effective in teaching complex skills that require critical thinking and decision-making.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Green: Good choices Yellow: OK choices Red: Bad choices Purple: Endings (Provide a choice of going back to the previous decision point or restarting from the beginning) Repetitive choices and text As I used the same basic prompt structure to continue building more choices and alternate paths , I noticed how repetitive ChatGPT’s responses were.

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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

MAY 30, 2023

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. Paid memberships at the national level provide additional premium resources such as a subscription to TD Magazine and archived webinars.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

ElevenLabs || Prime Voice AI This is another provider of an AI voice over tool (besides the more well-known WellSaid Labs and Murf.AI). Currently, you can use the free plan for short samples as long as you provide attribution. The voices in the short samples sound very realistic; this could work for at least short narration.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2024

Pay attention to the options provided and think about whether or not they show concrete actions. Dani Watkins and I co-teach the course, providing personalized feedback each week. Image generated with Playground AI Compare these two scenario question examples. Scenario intro This introduction is the same for both examples.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 7, 2023

Finally, you’ll use the principle of “show, don’t tell” to improve your scenarios and provide the right level of detail. Together, we’ll review several poorly written scenario examples, and then you’ll practice revising them to create more engaging scenarios. You’ll practice drafting conversational dialogue between two characters.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 24, 2023

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. I think providing good choices and feedback matter a lot more than the perspective. Your thoughts? What do you think?

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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

MAY 11, 2021

This would be useful for providing reinforcement after a training. Vince Han provided a demo of Mobile Coach , a tool to create chatbots. It’s a tool designed to be fully responsive and work on any device, but still provide more powerful customization and interactivity. You can use the free plan to try out the system.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 9, 2022

How do you create agreements that provide flexibility and security? Do you need an LLC to get started? How do you find clients? Should you use sites like Fiverr and Upwork? What do you look for in clients? How do you determine pricing? Transcript and show notes.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 4, 2020

Converting these questions to scenario-based questions can increase the level of difficulty, measure higher level thought, and provide relevant context. Let’s say you’re creating training for managers on how to provide reasonable accommodations for employees. This provides context. Provide two weeks unpaid time off.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 12, 2022

… The findings from this pilot questionnaire seem to indicate that providing framing in the options themselves has more effect on the learner than providing it in an introductory text.

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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. SMEs sometimes got confused between the multiple versions. The plain text export in Word makes tracking changes really easy, but my reviewers sometimes struggled to follow the story. I have tried some proofing formats in Twine.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 10, 2021

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. The basic plan is $99 for a lifetime license, with limited characters and templates. Tint and Shade Generator. Scenario-based learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You can use either a text prompt by itself or provide a starting image to animate. Pika Labs Text to video tool. This works like Midjourney where you add text prompts in a Discord channel on the Pika Labs server. This still feels like a tool in beta to me, and the results often have noticeable AI weirdness in them.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In this podcast interview with Dr. Robin Sargent, I discuss how I transitioned from teaching to instructional design and provide tips for new IDs. The conversation touched on a number of other topics, including providing information versus practicing skills and using tools that aren’t intended for learning. How I Became an ID.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 19, 2024

Provide quiet time for reflection. Here are four ways chatbots optimize learning. They: Offer an opportunity to practice without judgement. Promote mastery and retention of knowledge and skills. Reinforce complex concepts with probing questions.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 28, 2022

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. But Wendy Gates Corbett provided a list of very concrete, achievable actions to support belonging. I had a full room with good questions.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 4, 2019

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. Some certificate program provide the flexibility of continuing on for the masters later. Portfolios and Practical Experience.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 3, 2021

Collect data : Because it’s a survey tool, Google Forms automatically collects data on responses and provides charts. It’s fast, and it provides a functional, text-only prototype quickly to aid the revision process. Google Forms. Free : Google Forms is a free tool, and many educators are already familiar with it.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 21, 2020

Let’s say you’re creating training for managers on providing reasonable accommodations for disabilities. You might compare how the laws have evolved over time, define the terminology, and list some common reasonable accommodations you could provide. Typical compliance training: Push. “Pull” options.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 8, 2023

She provides some lists of competences for L&D roles as examples of the kinds of talent stacking that might work. Instructional design skills Talent Stacking For An Instructional Design Career Connie Malamed explains the concept of talent stacking, or building competence in multiple skills that work well together.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We often provide software training in advance of the need though. In those situations, with training in advance, a story might provide a organizational structure to help people remember and apply the training. Instead of simply giving people a set of steps to follow, the scenario provides some context. How helpful was it?

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 29, 2020

It provides a simple way to create functional prototypes. Rance Greene’s new book, Instructional Story Design: Develop Stories that Train, provides a systematic process for creating stories for training. The free open source tool Twine makes planning, writing, and creating branching scenarios easier.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 10, 2020

These two backgrounds provide very different contexts for scenarios. If sales associates often forget to provide a recommendation at a specific point in the sales process, include that point in the scenario. Your learners’ work environment should match this context. Your characters face challenges in the scenario. Your thoughts?

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Her SME, Brian, provided this feedback after reviewing the prototype. Teach the skill without a timer first, then provide additional practice opportunities to build fluency and speed in the skill. She has written a simulated conversation between a counselor and a client. Do Timers Improve Motivation?

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 28, 2020

As an example, say one objective is for learners to “Provide reasonable accommodations for employees when requested, following company procedures and meeting legal requirements.” A manager’s goal isn’t really to provide the reasonable accommodation for a disability. Think about the business need.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 4, 2021

The Harlowe story format for Twine provides a number of built-in features to make it easier to enhance your stories, even if you have no experience with HTML, CSS, or Javascript. The toolbar makes these features easier to access, providing simple ways to format text, set conditional states, or manage variables.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 1, 2018

When we provide feedback in branching scenarios, we have several questions to consider. Should we provide consequences (intrinsic feedback) or coaching (instructional feedback)? Should we provide immediate feedback or delayed feedback? Provide coaching before learners retry a scenario. Immediate and Delayed Feedback.

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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.” North American? Australian? Vivitrol [voice over: VIH-vih-trohl.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Expanding from outline to full scenario Writing dialog Ways to provide feedback Activity: Write your full scenario, play test your prototype. Branching structures Branch and bottleneck Cut scenes Ideal path Opportunities to correct mistakes Activity: Plot the overall structure for your branching scenario. Write Your Scenario.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 23, 2021

You’ll review criteria for deciding when branching scenarios provide enough benefit to justify the effort required to create them. In this podcast interview with Dr. Robin Sargent, I discuss how I transitioned from teaching to instructional design and provide tips for new IDs. How I Became an ID. How I Became an ID.

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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 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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