Speaker 1: Fia asks, what are some best practices in designing interactive scenario based e-learning that requires software simulations? Any recommendations on applications? Maria, I have like four answers to this question and I was trying to think about this before recording the video of what do I give first or what do I, so here is a brain dump of all things that I want to, um, give and share with you. But the first thing though is that you mentioned specifically about, uh, required e-learning and software simulation for scenario based learning. And I'm not sure if that's because that is your preference or perhaps that's the organization's way of doing things. But I did want to at least mention and preface everything before I go into all this is that you don't need software or simulations or anything else when it comes to scenario based learning. I have designed a ton of different types of SBL problems where it's just having a prompt and then a open response assessment type of item. And that's it. And I can still tie everything back into the real world. I can still show clarity and transparency for what skills the students are really learning about. And then of course, how they're going to take this knowledge and then go out and use it in the real world. So you don't need software, but from the way that you worded your question, I think that you do, and you are looking for recommendations. So the first thing I would say is that rise is definitely a great platform. If you haven't used that one before, we highly recommend you to check that out because it's so easy and user friendly to build inside of, but they've also made an update. And I don't know when this update came out, it's a update, but it's new to me where they did make their own scenario based, uh, branching and ways for you to go about with doing that. So I don't know if that's a new feature, but at least for, I know some of you listening, you're going to be like, Oh, wow. I didn't know that that was the thing. So that is definitely one recommendation. If you did want to go ahead and use a type of software. No, never recommendation. I wanted to say is that for some of my courses I have used Harvard business publishing education. They make a ton of different amazing simulations for just about anything from accounting to leadership strategies, marketing economics. They have, um, a ton, but you can use, and these are really engaging. They're interactive. They're just different, but not the typical run of the mill type of a simulation that you might think about. So the courses that I use them for, we use one that's called a change management simulation. And what this does is that it puts the student inside the shoes of somebody within an organization, but it's trying to lead a change initiative throughout this entire org. And then on the backend within the scenario, you can actually pick and choose what level of responsibility they have. Are they coming in from like the CEO, like the top down, or are they coming in from somebody just starting off within the organization? And it becomes a much tougher sell, a tougher climb as they are then trying to tell the people about this idea. Now within the simulation itself, which is really neat is that you can actually then see how the relationships are forming as you slowly begin to take action and you have to decide to what action item you're going to take. Are you going to be hosting a town hall meeting? Are you going to be sending out an email? Are you going to walk the talk? Are you going to be conducting a training? And what are you really going to do to make somebody buy into your new idea? You can see in real time too, that some people are going to love the idea. They think it's great. And other times people are like, no, not so much. I don't believe you. I don't get why you're trying to make me do this. And just like in the real world, you can accidentally step on people's toes and them actually having a bit of a uninterest in what you were going to say for going forward. So you can kind of rub them the wrong way. So it's just really fascinating because this all comes from real research too, within organizations and how change was a successful thing. So I would certainly recommend to check out Harvard Business Publishing Education, see what simulations they have, just from the past testimonies from students. They will go in and they will play some of these simulations again and again, and again, and again, like to them, it's a real game. It's not something you're forcing them to do. They really want to be able to compete with their fellow colleagues and share what they were able to do in a period of time, how many points they got, things of that nature. So it's just really neat. And because you also asked about e-learning specifically and for simulations, I'm not sure if you knew, but there's actually a podcast that is all about e-learning and scenario based learning. And this was made by Anna Sabramowicz. And this is a really interesting podcast because for some of the podcasts on instructional design, people will cover all different, different types of topics. But for Anna in particular, she really just like keeps on diving into SBO and it's really cool. So I would highly recommend to check out her podcast. I know she has a few things too on LinkedIn and YouTube. So I would definitely recommend to check out her material. Now, if you're looking to learn more about SBO without using more of the software approach within Instructional Design Institute, there is actually an entire course on scenario based learning. I try to cover it more from the learning experience design side of things. So talking about the purpose, talking about conducting the research, the follow through how to really build things successfully. So there's an entire course where I would walk you through how to go ahead and to do all of those things. And then finally, my last answer for you is that I am hosting a workshop all about scenario-based learning soon. And this is from Dr. Barbie Honeycutt's Lecture Breakers podcast. She has a virtual conference that she is hosting in June. So on June 8th to June 10th, there's going to be a slew of amazing guests talking about everything you could possibly think about from the online learning perspectives. And on June 9th around noon is when my session is going to begin. So if you're really want to go and dive into the learning nerd weeds with me about scenario-based learning, that's a perfect opportunity to do so.