Should I do it? What am I missing?
Sep 15, 2016
Hey everyone, wondering if you think this would be a good idea....hole myself up in a remote cabin for a while and knock out something spectacular? What's missing?
Have a rough outline for "Designing e-Learning Scenarios" Course
Will teach you how to (no specific order, just key ideas)
- Come up with realistic options for a scenario
- Keep scenario focused on what people actually need to do
- Figure out what business problem you need to have to solve
- Connect your scenario to a business goal or problem
- Stop the guessing game of what people will find engaging
- Get everyone on your team ready to develop scenarios with the right mindset
- Make your scenarios relevant and useful to employees
- Work with your SME to extract good scenario content
- Get good at scenarios without overwhelm
- Introduce scenarios to your organization
- How to use emotions and story to create learning that sticks
I will deconstruct scenario's that are already out there to connect each step to a real life example (e.g. Broken Co-Worker)
Lesson Plan - proposed flow of actionables and micro lessons
Module 1: Introduction
Figure out the business problem.
Decide how a scenario will solve this problem.
Module 2: How are you going to assess success?
Draft Solid Goals
Write out the process of acquiring this skill.
Decide on assessment and performance metrics
Bonus: How to use Spaced Learning with scenarios to get 5X the ROI
Module 3: How to draft good, bad and neutral paths?
Draft your first scenario
Add context and challenge
Revisit scenario and double down on consequences
Amp up emotion - integrate storytelling components
Module 4: Build and Test
Build out a scenario for test users to work through
Decide the minimum amount of content needed
How to manage supplementary resources (PDF’s, etc.)
Launch & Gather Feedback and Results
Anything else - specific topics or ideas that need more consideration?
Let me know what you think! Thanks very much for checking this out :)
Anna
8 Replies
I too think you should do it... Also, what is this Broken Co-worker you speak of... sounds interesting :P
Cool. Sounds like a good start. I'm also working on a book on building scenarios for elearning; thanks for helping with my outline :)
Actually, mine's a bit different.
Thanks and you're welcome Tom, anytime :)
There needs to be more comprehensive resources on the topic and from different perspectives: a good deconstruction I think is the way to go here. Looking forward to the read!
Cool idea! If I can be so bold, you may want to add....
Regarding the first two above, the reality is that scenarios require more investment so knowing the best ways to invest is key.
Bob - so helpful. Thank you!
These are great suggestions and I will incorporate them. In my world Bold = Honest = Helpful :)
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Too funny, Ryan!
Two evergreen dilemmas:
1) Voice/Narration vs. Text vs. 508
2) Engagement vs. Effectiveness (re: Evidence-Based Training Methods, 2nd Edition)
Broken Coworker is like Pokemon Go. Just different.
Thanks Zsolt - I appreciate this.
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