James Cory-Wright and Caroline Freeman, Head of Learning Design and Senior Learning Designer, Brightwave
Story telling is generally accepted as being a fine way to help people learn. But what sort of stories should we be telling? In this interactive session Brightwave's James Cory-Wright and Caroline Freeman share examples of story telling in e-learning and discuss different narrative approaches:
The value of story telling
Scenario-led learning
Longer or shorter form?
What lessons can we learn from box-set binging?
Telling the big story - campaign based-learning
James Cory-Wright: Head of Learning Design
James has 25 years' experience as an interactive designer, including design of a 2010 award winning compliance course for PwC. He always endeavours to bring fresh thinking and creativity into our client offering, and encourages/facilitates innovative approaches amongst our learning designers, whom he manages and mentors. He regularly delivers workshops on instructional design and scriptwriting for clients such as the Tesco, Babcock and Bupa.
Caroline Freeman: Senior Learning Designer
Caroline had over 20 years' experience in interactive media and broadcast TV before moving into e-learning. At Brightwave she has worked as both a Project Manager and Designer for a broad range of public sector and private accounts. Her approach to solutions' design is to use her experience in the games industry and TV to create effective, creative learning courses / campaigns which incorporate learning portals, CMS's and social media.
