Objections to Stories for Learning
My response to three common objections to using stories for learning, including “Not everyone can be a storyteller.”
My response to three common objections to using stories for learning, including “Not everyone can be a storyteller.”
How do you come up with scenarios for boring training topics? Shift your focus to the people who have to make decisions or take actions.
Ruth Clark identifies 8 domains where scenario-based learning works, tied to strategic decision-making rather than simple procedures.
Instead of boring “click next” compliance training, engage learners and give them a reason to seek out and understand the policies.
What if you could create compliance training that learners actually cared about? Use a worst case scenario to show the “why” behind the rules.
In stories for learning, the protagonist should be someone your learners identify with, a person with similar goals and challenges.
A prospective client called asking to convert some training to online. This is our (fictionalized) conversation about using a scenario-based approach to the course.
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