Power E-Learning With Stories

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Humans are wired to remember stories. In fact, people are more—not less—likely to remember what they’ve learned if you teach knowledge, skills, and attitudes using a story structure. Further, e-learning is a hospitable host for stories because it can be an intimate experience between the learners and the content. In this issue of TD at Work, Hadiya Nuriddin details why storytelling is powerful in e-learning and explains:

Humans are wired to remember stories. In fact, people are more—not less—likely to remember what they’ve learned if you teach knowledge, skills, and attitudes using a story structure. Further, e-learning is a hospitable host for stories because it can be an intimate experience between the learners and the content. In this issue of TD at Work, Hadiya Nuriddin details why storytelling is powerful in e-learning and explains:

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  How to use adult learning theory to explain to stakeholders the reasons storytelling works

  How to use adult learning theory to explain to stakeholders the reasons storytelling works

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  A process for incorporating storytelling into e-learning

  A process for incorporating storytelling into e-learning

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  Best practices for designing transformative stories into e-learning courses

  Best practices for designing transformative stories into e-learning courses

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Tools & Resources in this issue are a story spine template and a building characters template.

Tools & Resources in this issue are a story spine template and a building characters template.