BRANCHING SCENARIOS DEVELOPMENT
An individual’s ability to learn and translate that learning into a practical perspective is what gives him the ultimate competitive advantage.
Are you able to add the value of experience and application to your learning solutions? Are your learners sufficiently engaged with the learning content?
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Branching scenarios are a good add the element of experience into your learning solutions and make them more engaging and productive for your learners. Branching scenarios offer an interactive narrative built around various relevant challenges to the learner, providing them with probable choices to make decisions and presents consequences for each decision in the form of newer challenges and opportunities. Scenario-Based learning offers the learner with an adaptive set of logically arranged challenges that relies entirely on the chosen reaction of the learner to the realistic-scenario presented. Undoubtedly, this method allows learners to quickly identify their skills and knowledge gaps while offering them a way to improve their learning outcomes in subsequent attempts.
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Understandably, such a learning style carries its own engagement and fun quotient that can get better learning results for your solution as it offers a more experiential learning environment.
​HOW SCENARIO-BASED LEARNING HELPS?
Scenario-based learning has been growing in areas like soft-skills training, especially in the corporate learning space. These areas need team members to have more hands-on experience in managing various situations such as inter-departmental group dynamics, cultural differences, negotiations with suppliers, managing angry customers and in areas such as marketing, cyber-security and human resource management.
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Such branching scenarios provide learners with the opportunity to:
learn by attempting structured learning activities that present real world-like challenges
apply acquired knowledge and practise skills relevant to the given scenario without any real risks
identify and analyze issues, formulate strategies and solve the problems through their learnings from past mistakes.
BUILDING BRANCHING SCENARIOS WITH CONSCIENCE
Over the years, at Conscience, we have dealt with client training requirements that pose training complexities such as the introduction of a complex problem, training learners on skills that involve a culturally diverse group of learners, etc. And, a sure-fire way to address such complex learning situations have been through the introduction of branching scenarios into traditional digital courseware.
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At Conscience, our Instructional Design team excels in the art of creating realistic branching scenarios across various areas to help bring a sense of simplicity to a complex learning problem. Bearing an in-depth understanding of the learner psyche has helped us understand that creating a branching scenario is a serious task that requires not only time and imagination but can be a complex and costly process as well, especially the first time.
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Our Instructional Specialists usually analyze every learning requirement carefully, and we recommend the use of these scenario-based learning components generally in situations that may need:
Lab-based learning that involves chain-reaction processes
Situations that involve culturally diverse groups
Situations involving inter-group dynamics
Process-related training such as security management, enforcement personnel, etc.
Soft-skills training
Diversity training
Our teams, therefore, follow a structured approach to ideating and developing meaningful learning scenarios that follow the Challenge- Choices -Outcome approach that breaks down each event into a challenge, the concomitant choices that one has in the face of these challenges and the outcome attached to each of the options. This provides a logical platform for our Instructional Designers to plan and create a meaningful layout for a well-stitched story with clear action paths. With this approach as a template for ideating the scenario, our designers specialized scenario-building tools such as Twine, Draw IO or BranchTrack to visually build-up these scenarios.
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Our Content teams use this blueprint to create and integrate the creative branching scenarios within the courseware to transform them into highly engaging learning modules.
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Accelerate your solutions learning curve and ensure better learner, engagement, tangible learning results and a better on-the-job performance.
