CHAPTER 10

DOES SCENARIO-BASED e-LEARNING WORK?

Like most professional fields, workforce learning is no stranger to fads and fables. Take learning styles, for example. Millions of dollars have been spent on various learning style inventories, classes, books, and other resources. Yet there is no evidence for the validity of audio, visual, or kinesthetic learning styles (Clark, 2010). Before you make a significant investment in any new training method, product, or design, there are several questions worth asking. In this chapter I’ll summarize the evidence on several key questions regarding scenario-based e-learning.

DOES IT WORK?

The first question is Does it work? This question can be parsed into several related questions. First, Does it work ...

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