At NexLearn, Halloween is a company holiday. When we’re not creating custom courseware and building the e-Learning industry’s most advanced, feature-packed immersive learning development tool, we’re planning trips to costume shops and finding the optimal location for the office fog machine. What? Your office doesn’t have a fog machine?

As a departure from our regularly formatted monthly treatise on e-Learning, we submit to you something a little different. Be warned. We’re giving our e-Learning love a little Halloween soul. This issue is not for the faint of heart because, as you might have already supposed, there’s a sign-post up ahead and we all know what the next stop is.

Once upon a midday rainy, while I stared at clip art grainy
Speed reading stuff I’d written in a slideshow deck of yore.
Juxtaposing words like Yoda, chugging caffeinated soda,
I wished I’d had a mode of changing click-through text to more
“Is there a way,” I muttered, “to make courseware something more?
Click-through content’s such a bore.”

Ah, ‘twas then I recollected, seeing learning so injected
With scenarios connected to make learning much more fun.
Characters and image themes - learning points and scoring schemes
Storylines with great extremes - memory-worthy not a chore -
Could I build a training module that was fun and not a chore -
Writing click-throughs nevermore?

Gravely searching, low I found – a program flexible and sound
With thrilling features that abound – and do with LMS comply.
Raindrops dried, the clouds went brighter as I read the name SimWriter
And my burden felt much lighter whilst I figured ROI,
“I’ll train my people better and improve my ROI.
This SimWriter’s one great buy!”

Six months later, business thriving, while new training I’m contriving
And my bottom line is driving higher than it has before
With scenario-based learning, we now find ourselves deserving
Of our great success in serving clients rapping at our door,
Quoth I to happy workers who reside within our door,
“We’ll use SimWriter – evermore!”