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What gives an audience a reason to pay attention?
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What Can Learning Professionals Learn From Hollywood?
Hollywood has spent decades creating experiences that capture attention, create emotional connection, and keep audiences invested in what happens next.
The Learning From Hollywood™ presentation brings those ideas into the world of eLearning, drawing from real productions and the thinking behind them.
The signature presentation examines the relationship between content and experience. It explores what learning professionals can discover by looking at how Hollywood conceives, creates, and sustains audience experiences—and what that thinking can reveal about eLearning design.
It begins with a simple question:
What can an industry built around audience engagement teach us about creating learning experiences?
From there, the conversation moves into real examples of cinematic eLearning—showing how ideas from film and television can inform the way learning is conceived, designed, and produced.
The examples come from actual productions, including experiences built around story, first-person perspective, immersive environments, maps, episodic structure, and interactive decision-making.
The Conversation
The Questions Behind the Work
At its core, the presentation considers questions such as:
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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?
These ideas are grounded in the actual examples, decisions, and experiences behind the work.
The Question
Why Should the Learner Care?
At the center of the presentation is a question that applies whether the experience is a film, a television episode, or an eLearning production:
Story, context, emotion, anticipation, and learner agency can all influence how people invest their attention in an experience.
Speaking
Bring Learning From Hollywood™ to Your Audience.
Bobby is available to speak at conferences, professional events, and organizational programs focused on learning, learning experience design, and related fields.
The signature presentation provides the foundation, with speaking engagements adaptable to the needs of the audience and event.
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