Using Stories for Learning: Answers to Five Key Questions

Learning from stories is an effective and powerful toolfor learning design, because stories allow us to learn from the experience ofothers without having to face personal consequences. To paraphrase Fast Company writer Drake Baer, stories “letyou demo other peoples’ minds in the comfy confines of your own.”

In Using Stories forLearning: Answers to Five Key Questions, Karl Kapp, author of The Gamification of Learning andInstruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education,explores why stories are so valuable for learning, describes how to matchlearning objectives to four powerful learning story types, and offers guidanceon how to compose learning stories. He examines the elements of a good storyand provides a storytelling worksheet to make designing your own learningstories easier.