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Some scenarios are glorified memorization tests or branching multiple choice tests.

Learners struggle to keep focused on elearning lessons because of much competition for their time and attention.

Software training is a challenge because of the technical details that learners are expected to comprehend.

Many times, designers and developers have tremendous in-house learning resources through their internal recordings of sales calls, customer support and troubleshooting incidents or even text, email and chat support.

A great story is not only told and heard but should be felt by your learners - enough to elicit a response, a recall of a similar experience, a discovery or a solution to an unresolved event.

Eric Schmidt is Executive Chairman of Google. Along with Jared Cohen, they penned The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business.

William Isaacs wrote in his book Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together (Doubleday, 1999), that many of us fail to have satisfying conversations.

Ruth Clark in her book Building Expertise (1999) wrote about the failure of knowledge transfer from short term learning to on-the-job situations.

How do you seamlessly combine a story with technical and compliance content?

It is common for technical training coverage to include software, process, systems, methods and others that are long screen motion captures done in Camptasia, Captivate, Storyline and others.

Combining stories and real-life incidents with technical or factual content is an art form and a science. It is easier to present a lesson as a continuous linear and factual presentation and not bother with a story.

How does the traditional and lengthy PowerPoint slideshow lesson compare to the Story-Based eLearning Design shown here?

Get Learners to Create Your Content - Quickly, Reliably and Accurately Learners learn through packets of information. Keywords: Story-based Design Story Storytelling Microlearning Micro-learning Micro learning Small bites