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Creative Innovations in Storytelling & Learning
This session will explore how to effectively blend multiple learning topics together into a single storyline. The issues employees encounter in the workplace rarely happen in isolated silos. Nor should learning. Employees who mishandle issues often create additional issues, and building these realities into our courses can raise awareness in a meaningful way. Blended storylines show learners how different issues intersect and build on one another both positively and negatively. They also provide an opportunity to develop relatable characters who address issues that learners are likely to encounter. This session will explore strategies for providing multi-topic learning through effective blended…
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Understand and Implement xAPI Profiles
xAPI Profiles provide the context that allows xAPI statements to be understood across different systems. In this week’s session, we explore these Profiles and the role they play in your xAPI strategy.
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Reframe Scenario-based Learning with Good Storytelling
Once there was an eLearning designer who was handed a course request and a pile of content from a SME. What happened next? S/he: In the end, which choice led to happily ever after for the designer, the SME, and the learners? Which made the content stick? Find out in this interactive workshop and learn to make your courses sticky, too.
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Visual Storytelling: Tell Compelling Stories Without Words
Storytelling has been a natural form of communication for as long as human history has been recorded. From early cave drawings to watching a video on YouTube, visual storytelling is a powerful way to inform, educate, instruct, and communicate shared ideas. As instructional designers, we are always looking for opportunities to tell better stories with our content, so let’s explore ways to tell compelling stories without words. Implementing visual storytelling allows instructional designers to construct narratives that attract and hold attention and increase retention by making topics easier to understand. Visual stories or visual narratives are primarily told using visual…
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Don’t Be a Boring Explainer: Add Strategic Storytelling to Your Training Toolkit
Brain research suggests that most people forget more than 40% of the information you tell them by the very next day. After a week, they will likely have forgotten nearly all of what you said. The good news is that your message is many times more memorable when delivered in a story. Think of the implications of this for learners! Strategic storytelling is an emotionally intelligent, results-oriented approach that can help you connect relevant storytelling to curriculum so learners see, feel, and retain what you’re trying to teach. This begins with identifying appropriate source materials, and extends through design and…
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Finding the Thread: How to Create Learning Podcasts with a Narrative
Stories have the power to truly reach people and inspire action. They allow a storyteller to forge a personal connection with their audience and create situations where learners are likely to be actively engaged with the content, leading to higher levels of long-term information retention. As more organizations embrace the work-from-anywhere movement, the ability to provide low-investment/high-impact learning solutions that can be accessed on-demand will be key. One design solution tailor-made for the current moment is the use of narrative podcasting, for fiction and non-fiction audio stories. In this session we will discuss some reasons your organization should consider embracing…
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Level Up Your Scenarios
Writing scenarios and incorporating them into courses can be intimidating, regardless of how far along you are in your instructional design journey. Perhaps you’re unsure how much story detail to include to make scenarios feel realistic enough to trigger the type of response you want. Maybe you struggle with how much character backstory you need to add to ensure that the character serves its purpose. Relax! There’s a strategy you can use to determine the right level of detail based on the goal of each scenario. In the session, you’ll learn three levels of scenario detail and character development. The…
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The Power of Story in the New Jungle of Work
Do you feel it? That palpable dis-ease that something is still not quite right with the world. We got the memo; there’s no rolling back to life before Covid. On our cosmic Titanic, holding our breath as we collectively mask our fear, we lean across the fragile helm of provisional normalcy, straining to spot a ray of hope amidst the storm clouds of a looming recession, a great resignation, and a lingering pandemic hangover. As L&D professionals, we told our organizations a story that helped them re-imagine what learning could be in a lockdown—and then we made it happen. We…
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Learn to Send xAPI Data
The power of xAPI lives in the statements that are generated and shared based upon a learner’s activity and actions. In this week’s session, we go under the hood of xAPI statements, exploring how xAPI data is generated and sent through different platforms.
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How to Build an L&D Team that Supports xAPI
Putting xAPI into practice requires knowledge and skills that are new for many organizations. In this week’s session, we are joined by Amy Parent as she explores the skillsets and potential roles that may be required to support xAPI.
