Slides from a PechaKucha presentation completed by our Instructional Designer, Scott Wallace at an eLearning Association event in Melbourne. A YouTube video of the presentation can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o95Ns9XiIwk

1. 16 Ideas for Scenario-based E-learning

2. The health sector and scenario-
based e-learning

3. Story: time, place, character,
emotion

4. Idea 1: Read the work of
Melanie C. Green and Timothy C.
Brock on narrative

5. Idea 2: Narrative has more power
to engage than non-narrative
communication.

6. Idea 3: Narrative transportation can
influence an audience’s beliefs without
them knowing it.

7. Idea 4: Subconscious influence via
narrative transportation is effective in
‘sneaking around’ resistance to a
message.

8. Idea 5: Narrative can create a
sense of self-efficacy.

9. Idea 6: Narrative can create
para-social relationships.

10. Idea 7: Narrative makes attitude change
more persistent by engaging at the
cognitive and affective level.

11. Idea 8: Narrative may not be as
suitable for clear, unambiguous
information transfer.

12. Idea 9: Read Ruth C. Clark’s
work on scenario-based
e-learning.
Scenario-based e-learning is a pre-planned guided
inductive learning environment designed to accelerate
expertise in which the learner assumes the role of an
actor responding to a work-realistic assignment or
challenge, which in turn responds to reflect the learner’s
choices (Clark, 2013, p. 5).

13. Idea 10: ‘Fake branching’
scenarios can save money.

14. Idea 11: Users still feel in control
in ‘fake branching’ scenarios.

15. Idea 12: Most current e-learning
scenarios lack the freedom of choice:
‘Choose my own adventure’.

16. Idea 13: True role plays let you
see the world through other
people’s eyes.

17. Idea 14: Making wrong or bad
decisions in character is educationally
useful.

18. Idea 15: RPGs are a modern
version of ‘mask work’.

19. Idea 16: RPGs let you explore
your own ‘personalities’.

20. Summary