Resources for Creating Branching Scenarios
While branching scenarios tend to be popular with designers, stakeholders, and learners, they can be challenging to put together. The context or story, the characters in that story, the challenges the encounter, the choices they have to make, and the consequences of those choices all need to be mapped out from an instructional standpoint, a storytelling standpoint, and a programmatic standpoint.
At DevLearn last month, I spent a day with a group of e-learning professionals working on how to do just that. I’ve compiled a set of resources (examples, templates, articles, and books) to help you with everything from the planning to the execution of branching scenarios.
Enjoy these resources to help you design and build branching scenarios for e-learning.
Examples
- Steer the Client in the Right Direction
- Angry Customer in a Call Center
- Spent
- Connect with Haji Kamal (requires Flash–better in Internet Explorer)
- Broken Co-Worker
- Make the Sale
Books
- Workforce Learning
- by Ruth C. Clark and Richard E. Mayer
- StoryTraining: Selecting and Shaping Stories That Connect
- by Hadiya Nuriddin
Blogs/Articles
- The Thinking Behind a Branching Scenario by E-Learning Uncovered
- Designing Predicaments, a Job Aid for Scenarios by light touch learning
- 3 Ways to Help People Learn From Mistakes in Branching Scenarios by Cathy Moore/Action@Work
- Managing the Complexity of Branching Scenarios by Christy Tucker
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Hi Diane! How’s life treating you?
Since we last spoke, I moved my office into a trailer.RV and have been working PT as I travel around the country taking video and images for Youtube… It makes life more interesting!
Thanks for the above resources!
Michael Fimian
Well doesn’t that sound like fun!! Thanks for reconnecting, and happy travels!
Many Thanks, Diane Elkins for the great resources and the comprehensive explanation