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May 23, 2019

I oversee a nurse assistant training program in which the students must perform particular skills for their final exam.  Although we have each skill video taped and the practice each while in the lab, I was hoping that I would be able to use storyline to create a sort of interactive simulation that they could access outside of class to further "practice" each skill prior to the exam.  Any ideas?

4 Replies
Andrea Mandal

It sounds like a really cool idea - and might even be useful for midyear, particularly on skills they may not use every single day. Really what it entails is up to you and what resources you have at your disposal. It could be static images with a story and scenarios, and decision points for the nurse assistant to choose the correct option, or it could be an animated simulation, clicking on the patient's equipment and body in order to go through the steps of performing the skill, or anything in between. A well-written story is your starting point in either case. Time, expertise of the designers/developers working on it, number of tasks/complexity are your constraints. Figure out what you can do (don't promise a fully-animated course if you don't have someone who can already do that) and then pitch it to stakeholders and see what they think!

Did you see that absolutely beautiful course on Power of Attorney that was showcased this past week? https://community.articulate.com/e-learning-examples/storyline-360-scenario-based-medical-course Do check it out if you haven't. And look at the behind the scenes too, to see how much planning went into it!

Ned Whiteley

Hi Marcy,

If you want to use video for part of your course, one option may be to have a video of the correct procedure (as you already do) and another video of the same procedure with some incorrect aspects in it. The user then has to watch both videos and determine which one is correct. Once they have submitted their answer, a third video (or a re-run of the incorrect video) is shown in the feedback layer with the incorrect procedures highlighted, including the reasons why they are incorrect. Showing people what is wrong and why is often a good way of making it stick.

Phil Mayor

I would chop the skills up into the process involved add overlay questions over each section to question their knowledge or a what would you do next, I would only allow correct branching, I would show implications of what would happen if they did it wrong, reinforce why the correct step is right and then move onto the show them the step performed correctly. Score them at the end based on them following the correct procedure.

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