The document discusses branching scenario techniques that can be used to create interactive online training courses. Branching scenarios allow learners to make choices that determine their path through a story-based training. The training is meant to help learners make better choices by simulating real-life situations. Sprout Labs helps clients develop branching scenario trainings using techniques like focusing on areas of ambiguity for novices, following a three-act story structure with positive, negative and neutral branches, and incorporating simple media like audio recordings to convey emotion. Providing feedback through continued interaction is recommended over adding it as an extra step. Allowing wrong choices can also aid the learning process.
5. Choose Your Own Adventure was one of the
most popular children's series during the
1980s and 1990s, selling over 250 million
copies between 1979 and 1998
6. Goal of training is to help us make
better choices to be more effective
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14. Focus on where there is ambiguity
between what a novice and expert
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