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Action Mapping
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- Action mapping: A visual approach to training design
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Scenario Design
- Scenario-Based Learning 101: Examples & Tips (2023)
- Scenario design (Learning Technologies anti-handout)
- How to write training scenarios – style tips
- 13 scenario-based training examples (2023)
- Branching scenario example: Practice the handoff conversation
- AutoLoon ethics training
- Scenario example: Learning Zeko
- What is Twine?
- Our job is to design an experience
Blog
- 5 Best Instructional Design Books You Should Read This Year
- Should we narrate on-screen text?
- Can you answer these 6 questions about multiple-choice questions?
- Move over, stock photos. Poser’s here.
- Laugh, and your learners laugh with you. Maybe.
- Why do we create boring materials?
- How to find good stock photos
- Makeover: Teen body parts at risk!
- Makeover: Turn objectives into motivators
- 5 ways to make linear navigation more interesting
- How to recognize elearning bloat
- Be an elearning action hero!
- How to add emotional impact with evocative images
- Why you do not want to sound like a robot
- Less text, more learning
- Four ways to move your learners from clueless to confident
- Why you want to focus on actions, not learning objectives
- How to steer your client away from an information dump
- Why you want to use scenarios in your elearning
- How to convert the toughest SME
- Scenario based training example: Connect with Haji Kamal
- The big mistake in elearning
- Why you need to set limits
- Do we really need narration?
- Learning styles: Worth our time?
- Scenarios: the good, the bad, and the preachy
- Checklist for strong learning design
- Technical training: What do they need to DO?
- Are instructional designers doormats?
- Do they just know it, or can they USE it?
- Elearning scenario example: Have learners use the job aid
- Are learners idiots?
- How action mapping can change your design process
- How to rewrite a quiz question as scenario-based training
- What to do if they just want “awareness”
- Feedback in elearning scenarios: Let them think!
- Can we use training to motivate?
- Example of a realistic activity: Set up the laptop
- Learning & development people unite!
- Three simple but powerful ways to get love from your leaders
- 4 reasons to use a branching scenario
- 3 powerful ideas you should steal from marketing
- Why you want to put the activity first
- “Learning should be fun!” But what’s “fun?”
- Throw them in the deep end! (but keep a life preserver handy)
- 12 ways to use training scenarios – not just for elearning!
- 4 ideas you should steal from interactive fiction
- How to create a training goal in 2 quick steps
- Tips for webinars or virtual training
- How to kick off a project and avoid an info dump
- Branching scenarios: How many decision points?
- 5 quick ways to pull learners into a course
- Jettison the genies and let learners think
- Makeover: How to write challenging scenario questions
- Is it ever okay to be a control freak?
- 3 ways to save gobs of time when designing training
- How to be a learning mythbuster
- Write a strong goal: Sell it to Scrooge
- Myths vs. Facts: Navigating the Debate on Learning Styles
- 3 quick tips for strong scenarios
- Field guide to action-mapped materials
- Do you work in a course factory? Do you care?
- Let me tell you everything you need to know! Or not.
- Scenario mistakes to avoid #1: Eager-beaver feedback
- Scenario mistakes to avoid #2: “Eat! Eat! You need to eat!”
- Elearning scenario example: Chainsaw training!
- 7 ways to make dialog sound natural in your training scenario
- 5 ways to become an L&D hero
- What’s the real cost of eye candy?
- How to really involve learners
- How to respond to “Make one course for everyone”
- How to get everyone to write like Ernest Hemingway
- Action mapping book now available
- Can we use scenarios to teach concepts?
- How to design software training, part 1: Do everything except “train”
- How to design software training, part 2: Practice activities
- 4-step process for writing scenarios for training
- 3 ways to help people learn from mistakes in branching scenarios
- Mini-scenarios: How to help people recover from mistakes
- 2 types of elearning scenarios: branching and mini
- 3 branching scenario examples to give you ideas
- Two examples of interactive job aids
- How to make mandatory training relevant
- “It’s new, so everyone needs training on it.” Nope.
- Learning objectives: Our frenemy
- Burn your training request form
- Save your clients from themselves
- 5 new scenario-based training examples to inspire you
- 3 classic tips for writing training scenarios
- How to quickly find the cause of a performance problem
- “Show, don’t tell” — How do you do it?
- 7 things to check before you design training
- How to handle the handoff conversation
- Is training really the answer? Ask the flowchart.
- How goals affect training design
- How to become an instructional designer