Power E-Learning with Stories

Humans are wired to remember stories. In fact, people are more—not less—likely to remember what they’ve learned if you teach knowledge, skills, and attitudes using a story structure. Further, e-learning is a hospitable host for stories because it can be an intimate experience between the learners and the content. In this issue of TD at Work, Hadiya Nuriddin details why storytelling is powerful in e-learning and explains:

• How to use adult learning theory to explain to stakeholders the reasons storytelling works
• A process for incorporating storytelling into e-learning
• Best practices for designing transformative stories into e-learning courses

Tools & Resources in this issue are a story spine template and a building characters template.

About the Author

Hadiya Nuriddin is an accomplished learning and development professional with 20 years of experience in learning strategy, instructional design, e-learning development, and learning facilitation.