Our Approach

People learn best when they are pursuing goals that they really care about and when what they learn helps them attain their goals. The best means of learning has always been experience.

- Roger Schank -

Socratic Arts specializes in producing classroom-based, virtual-classroom-based, web-mentored, and pure e-learning simulations. The leaders of our team helped develop this approach to training in the early 1990s at The Institute for the Learning Sciences, at Northwestern University, where we developed e-learning simulations.

We have continued our work developing simulations for a variety of clients, to teach a range of skills, both hard and soft. We now call our simulations “Story-Centered Curricula” because each simulation centers on a rich, engaging story which is closely analogous to situations the learners experience or will soon experience in their real-world work. The learners play a central role in the story, where they work to achieve one or more significant objectives over a series of tasks.