Instructional Story Design: Develop Stories That Train

Good layout

As a hopeful Instructional Designer I found this book to be crafted seamlessly! True to story telling form, you follow Dayna, an instructional designer that is learning about the world of crafting corporate training through storytelling. The book comes with valuable graphic organizers you can download and reference in the back of the book for the built in practice activities. Rance was crafty when writing the plot of Dayna's story and the content to sync with each other. Not only do you get the nitty gritty valuable content, but you see it applied with Dayna's story as an example, and your given practice and thoughtful reflection with each new portion of content. The book itself is a prime example of learning through story. I am SO excited to learn more about the art of storytelling and using the methods described in Instructional Story Design.

Helpful scenarios, useful tasks/practice, nice resources for future use.

This is a great book for anyone who wants to take their learning material to the next level. Learning development professionals often struggle to ensure their materials are engaging and the participants retain the material beyond the course. Rance Greene's approach encourages instructional designers to understand who their learners are, beyond their professional expectations and the identified gaps for which the learning is targeted to correct, and then to use stories with characters with whom your participants can relate. Rance clearly understands instructional design and is a skilled storyteller in his own right.

Instructional Story Design is a fantastic book! Not only is it an interesting read that explains how to create great stories- it also allows the reader to readily start applying the process right away. I would highly recommend this to anyone in the Instructional design field who is interested in using more story telling in their projects.

Good Information in a nice easy read. Very actionable with liberal practie throughout

Rance sees Instructional Stories as a component of Performance Based Training - and provides you with sound, proven guidance, plus many templates and tools to help you craft more effective instructional stories to help Learners become more Performance Competent back on the job. I highly recommend his book.

Instructional Story Design by Rance Greene was an awesome book and I was able to learn so much from it. One of the great things about the book is that Rance provides examples so that you are able to practice Story Design while reading through each step of the model. This book also features tons of extra resources that you can adopt to start utilizing Story Design in your current role. Rance is a captivating author which made this book easy to read and follow along. Instructional Story Design is needed literature for the Talent Development field and I'm excited to see others adopt Story Design.