1. Craig Goodman
Greg walker
Scenarios Based Learning

2. Why SBL?
Too much instructional delivery still focuses on the most elementary level of learning. in Blooms terms: Knowledge and Comprehension
This often places the learner in a passive role sponge!
In the classroom this looks like traditional lecture: I tell, I ask, then you answer until it is hammered in!
3. Why SLB
Effective learning environments should
Be problem-based (scenarios)
Actively engage students in learning
Collaborative mirroring work environments
Make knowledge applicable to real world
Demonstrating knowledge - TELL and SHOW
Applying skills ASK andDO
Transferring skills USE and MODIFY
4. SBL in Tech Writing 107
Course is equivalent to English 101
Writing assignments business oriented: letters, overviews, reports, analysis
Course seems a natural for SBL as it has a very real world take on the purpose and necessity of writing.
Course challenging as it is online, making collaboration at times problematic.
5. SBL in Tech Writing 107
Implementation: The Scenario
Established that students were working for a business that produces a product. In effect, they were employees.
Students got to select the product they would be producing and selling during the semester.

Students allowed to select an area of interest (department) to work in the for the semester: marketing, research, or engineering

6. Tasks presented came in forms of individual assignments and group assignments.