The document discusses branching scenario techniques that can be used to create interactive online training courses. Branching scenarios allow learners to make choices that determine their path through a story-based training. The training is meant to help learners make better choices by simulating real-life situations. Sprout Labs helps clients develop branching scenario trainings using techniques like focusing on areas of ambiguity for novices, following a three-act story structure with positive, negative and neutral branches, and incorporating simple media like audio recordings to convey emotion. Providing feedback through continued interaction is recommended over adding it as an extra step. Allowing wrong choices can also aid the learning process.

1. Branching Scenarios
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2. I’ve got this online course
in mentoring skills to do.
How am I meant to be able
to do that?

3. It’s got to be self paced and
cheap to make.

5. Choose Your Own Adventure was one of the
most popular children's series during the
1980s and 1990s, selling over 250 million
copies between 1979 and 1998

6. Goal of training is to help us make
better choices to be more effective
employees
Kirstie Smith

7. Branching Scenorias
Text & Quiz 3D Worlds

9. http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/business-coaching-for-an-electrician/

10. This is great but I’ve got
300 choices and 300 pieces
of video to shoot.
Can you help me sort this
out?

11. Storyworlds
Who
Rules
Where
Events

12. Events
Learner Choice
Major Conflict
Behaviours - What the learners need to do

13. Events
Learner Choice
Major Conflict

14. Focus on where there is ambiguity
between what a novice and expert
might choose to do

15. The Hero’s Journey
Call to adventure
Return Supernatural aid
Threshold
Guardians
KNOWN
UNKOWN Threshold
(beginning of
Atonement transformation)
Helper Mentor
Challenges and Temptations
Transformation
Revelation
Helper
Abyss
Death & Rebirth

16. It’s getting better. But it’s
still really confusing.

17. The power of 3’s

18. 3 major branches Neutral
Positive
Negative

19. Minor branch Neutral
Minor branch
Positive
Negative

20. Neutral
Positive
Negative
Allow movement between the branches

21. http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/telephone-counselling-simulation-for-lifeline-using-audio/

22. This isn’t getting any better.
Now the client is rewriting it.

23. Read it out loud – roleplay it

24. Make feedback part of the interaction
not an added extra

25. Allow people to make the wrong choices

26. Ok now we just have 100
segments of video to shoot.

27. Simple media is OK

28. Sound = emotion

29. Media

30. Tools
http://www.klynt.net/ http://stem-builder.sproutlabs.com.au/

31. Wow, the learners love it
and we are getting great
results

32. http://stem-builder.sproutlabs.com.au/
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