Focusing on post-secondary education, workplace training, and adult informal learning, the author describes the instructional value of digital storytelling and why using, viewing, participating in, or making a digital story helps adults learn, as well as how to design and use stories to support learning. She discusses the enduring concepts and traditions of storytelling and how they are manifested in the 21st century, including oral storytelling and traditions from around the world; instructional frameworks that involve the development of the learner as viewer/listener, designs based in storytelling, and delivery that facilitates learning in the moment, and how curriculum can be story-driven in different contexts; and applications in formal and informal education and community-based, corporate, and non-profit applications. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Although storytelling has been recognized as an effective instructional strategy for some time, most educators are not informed about how to communicate a story that supports learning—particularly when using digital media. The Instructional Value of Digital Storytelling provides a broad overview of the concepts and traditions of storytelling and prepares professors, workplace trainers, and instructional designers to tell stories through 21st century media platforms, providing the skills critical to communication, lifelong learning, and professional success.
Using clear and concise language, The Instructional Value of Digital Storytelling explains how and why storytelling can be used as a contemporary instructional method, particularly through social media, mobile technologies, and knowledge-based systems. Examples from different sectors and disciplines illustrate how and why effective digital stories are designed with learning theory in mind. Applications of storytelling in context are provided for diverse settings within higher education as well as both formal and informal adult learning contexts.
