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Where immersive and experiential learning succeeds is in replicating realistic environments and presenting complex problems that require deeper reflection and understanding than most content or concepts presented in traditional training. To design experientially, you have to design a mirror to reality.

1. Read what they gave you.

2. Involve them from the beginning

3. Ask them to help identify what people need to do<br> and why they aren’t doing it

4. Ask them to help brainstorm activities and limit information

<p>If your SME keeps suggesting fact checks instead of more realistic decision-making activities, you might try the following questions:</p> <ul> <li>If a person doesn’t know that fact, what do they do wrong on the job? How would that affect our goal?</li> <li>How could you tell by watching me do my job that I know that bit of information?</li> <li>What mistakes do new people make?</li> <li>What mistakes do people make when they get over-confident?</li></ul>

This helps remind the SME that the only information that should go into the material is the info that’s <strong>required to perform the activities</strong>