Tata Interactive Systems’ Story-based Learning Wins the Emerald Literati Award.

    MUMBAI, India, July 15 /EMWNews/ --



    - Former Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) Director Receives Commendation

for Outstanding Paper on Rediscovering the joy of Learning Through Stories.



    Jon Revelos, former Director - Story-based Learning at TIS has been

honored with an Emerald Literati Award for Excellence 2008, for his

outstanding paper titled 'Igniting instruction through a narrative spark.'

The Emerald Literati is a UK-based publisher of management journals and

databases.



    The paper takes up the debate of the analytical versus the anecdotal

schools of thought. It argues that the belief of conventional instructional

design (ID) that breaking down and organizing information piece by piece

helps build the learner's knowledge does not, in fact, support the learner

in connecting the disparate pieces of information, and therefore learn and

remember them.



    Jon, who has been instrumental in making story-based learning the forte

of instructional designers at TIS, has discussed in his paper the

thoughtful identification of what can be considered the most effective

mechanism for the delivery of instructional content - storytelling.



    According to TIS' Gajanan Kasbekar - Vice President, Corporate

Solutions, North America, "TIS has developed the Story-based Learning

Objects (StoBLs) methodology in and have found it to be an innovative and

effective instructional approach to deliver learning. A StoBL leverages a

variety of media elements and combines them into a potent instructional

form. The added element of interactivity increases the effectiveness of

this training technique; as everyone-including adults-loves the immersive

aspect of stories."



    "Stories facilitate the appreciation of inaccessible concepts by

lowering adult resistance to new ideas. They move content into a context

that is relevant and recognizable to the learner, which helps them

understand why the information is important and answer the ever-present

'what's in it for me?' question. Our ability to accommodate or reject new

data is intimately tied to similarities and differences to our personal

experiences, which are, themselves, stories," says Jon.



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    About Tata Interactive Systems (TIS)



    Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), a global leader in e-learning, is a

part of the $45bn Tata Group. Truly international, TIS has a presence

across the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, India,

and mainland Europe. TIS offers corporations, universities, schools,

publishers and government institutions a diversified and innovative bouquet

of learning and training solutions including Simulation-based Learning

Objects (SimBLs(R)), Story-based Learning Objects (StoBLs), courseware and

curriculum design, special-needs education, assessments, electronic

performance support systems (EPSS), mobile learning, game-based learning

along with other corporate training and consultancy services. Our

multi-disciplinary expertise and 17 years' experience across domains helps

us design e-learning programs that are unique to clients' requirements and

specifically crafted to boost knowledge retention and application.



    TIS is the only e-learning organization in the world to be assessed at

Level 5 in both the SEI-CMM and P-CMM frameworks. TIS's quest for

excellence is reflected in numerous prestigious industry awards, including

a Performance Centered Design Award, an ASTD Award, IT Training Awards,

Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards, APEX Awards of Excellence, BETT

Awards, and Business World-NID Design Excellence awards.



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    About the Emerald Literati Award for Excellence



    Every year Emerald invites each journal's Editor Team to nominate what

they believe has been the title's Outstanding Paper from the previous 12

months. Jon's paper entitles 'Igniting instruction through a narrative

spark', published in Training & Management Development methods has been

included among these and I am please to inform you that your article has

been chosen as a Highly Commended Paper at the Literati network Awards for

Excellence 2008.




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    Further information from:

    Gajanan Kasbekar

    Tata Interactive Systems

    [email protected]