abstract. the purpose of this paper is to show the relevance of storytelling for hrd. this paper, according to creswell’s thematic literature review (creswell, 2008), provides a literature based rationale for adopting organizational storytelling as a powerful and effective hrd tool in which stories can help hrd practitioners to achieve hrd purposes. in this paper, journal articles, written on s...

Visual storytelling is a task of creating short story based on photo streams. Different from visual captions, stories contain not only factual descriptions, but also imaginary concepts that do appear in the images. In this paper, we propose novel imagine-reason-write generation framework (IRW) for storytelling, inspired by logic humans when they write story. First, an imagine module leveraged t...

Within this chapter, the authors — all members of the Digital Storytelling group at ZGDV Darmstadt e.V. — provide an overview of the potential of storytelling-based edutainment applications and approaches for narrative learning applications. This covers not only online applications, but also off-line edutainment components, as well as hybrid scenarios combining both types. The chapter is struct...

Nowadays people got used to short text answers, likes and shares. Anyone can feel it by entering popular forums or social networks. Modern platforms such as Twitter or Facebook contribute to this situation with their symbols per message limitations. The quality of content produced in such conditions is not high. According to Knight and Burn (2005): “The rapid growth of the Internet and the lack...

Video Paragraph Captioning aims to generate a multi-sentence description of an untrimmed video with multiple temporal event locations in coherent storytelling. Following the human perception process, where scene is effectively understood by decomposing it into visual (e.g. human, animal) and non-visual components action, relations) under mutual influence vision language, we first propose visual...

Interest in digital storytelling in a multitude of settings has burgeoned in recent years. Although digital storytelling is not new in the world of educational technology, so far it has received little attention in the literature of adult learning. Our aim in this paper is to explore elements of a conceptual framework for the use of digital storytelling in adult education. Digital Storytelling ...

The application of zone of proximal development (ZPD), as a major tenet of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory (SCT, 1978), has recently been invited in the L2 learning/teaching profession. This study mainly examined whether Iranian EFL learners’ interactions in diverse ZPD-activated proximal contexts through the use of storytelling instruction could improve their oral (speaking) proficiency and at...