Storyboard and Scenario Based e-Learning

Just like the first day of school, learning to create and analyze e-learning projects brings equal parts excitement and hesitation. The possibilities that come with learning new skills and exploring different tools, bring about that butterfly feeling, a whirlwind feeling that makes it hard to decide if it is pure joy, nerves, uncertainty, or all of the above. 

Stories are powerful, they can help us think through different scenarios and get in the hero’s head or imagine the villain’s plan. It is through stories that we learn how the world works. Little Red showed us to fear strangers, and a certain Little Pig instilled the value of hard work and planning ahead to millions of kids. 

I think this training is a great example of very good scenario based e-learning. Not only does the domain meet the criteria for it being scenario-based: compliance training, but it also features an opportunity to practice resolving hazards in the workplace in a controlled, risk free way while in a realistic setting. 

I’ve always loved a good story, as a student, history class was my favorite. What’s not to love! A never-ending story with twists and turns that not even the best storytellers can make up. Along with history, literature class was my happy place, and I kept that love of reading, or listening to a good tale well past my school days. 

1. Storyboarding - while it was relatively simple to back-engineer a storyboard for this training (after-all, the information was there, and visuals and interactions already done), the benefit of carefully planning and mapping a course are greater than the time that would take to storyboard, even from scratch.