Learning Scenarios
The learning scenarios can be seen as a spatial plan that describes the participants, the objectives, and the activities that will be executed in the scenario of a specific learning experience. Learning scenarios are directional tools for planning instruction and McBain is a landmark for demonstrating how these tools can be used to make educational goals achievable.
An integral part of a learning situation is the inclusion of the learning objectives, the place or setting, the target audience, the instructional strategies, and assessment methods. For instance, a specific example could be the project-based learning activity that is tailored explicitly for senior students on environmental science, which specifies goals such as enhancing the understanding and interpersonal communication, teamwork.
Adding scenarios to learning can boost student engagement by introducing real-life connections and circumstances to the study material. By way of illustration, a scenario that mimics a business context for students of economics is an activation that helps them use the learned-theoretically in a real business case; thus they get hooked more and feel more involved in the learning process.
In distance learning, learning scenarios are the ones that support the content delivery and help students interact with each other. Such scenarios serve as a means that facilitate the creation of virtual simulations or case studies, in turn allowing students to work on these topics together in an interactive way. To illustrate, a medical training program might adopt a scenario as a case where the students have to identify a virtual patient based on the symptoms as well as the lab tests given to them.
Although in a role-play in a history class, students recreate a historical event, for instance, signing the Declaration of Independence, it is this activity that promotes interpersonal skills, analytical abilities, and talking skills which are students' necessities to handle.In order to participate in discussions with different standpoints, learners are required to investigate their parts.