What Can
Learning Professionals
Learn From Hollywood?
Hollywood has spent decades learning how to turn a script into an experience. That same thinking can offer learning professionals another way to approach eLearning—from how a story unfolds to how an experience guides what the learner sees, hears, feels, and does.
Cinematic experiences are shaped by deliberate choices.
What if we looked at eLearning the same way?
The Questions Behind the Work
That same thinking provides the foundation for the Learning From Hollywood™ signature presentation. The presentation examines Hollywood best practices—including story, sound, visual design, setting, perspective, episodic structure, and plot twists—and then walks through how those ideas can be applied to eLearning design using real-world eLearning examples.
It explores questions such as:
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What gives an audience a reason to pay attention?
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How can story give content greater context and meaning?
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What happens when learners become part of the experience?
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How can visual, auditory, emotional, and interactive elements work together?
Real-World Applications.
The session draws from actual eLearning projects built around story, first-person perspective, immersive environments, maps, episodic structure, and interactive decision-making.
These examples show how cinematic choices can shape the learner experience while providing insight into the design thinking behind them.
Learning From Hollywood
A one-hour presentation for learning professionals.
Bobby Brooks, M.A., brings more than 30 years of experience in learning and development.
He spent a decade developing eLearning for a Fortune 50 company, where he developed the Learning From Hollywood™ approach.