ABSTRACT
This chapter examines foundations of effective storytelling for learning, macro instructional strategies and micro digital storytelling strategies. Understanding the elements and principles of effective storytelling and how people align with principles for learning is a key to the design and development of instructional storytelling, whether stories are to be transmitted to students or storytelling is a part of the learner's acquisition of knowledge. ONeills descriptive stories have low color and low need fulfillment, and can offer much useful detailed information for the learner or employee. Each story type gets the learners attention because of the structural elements or the details that provide direction to the listener and thus are stories in action. As historically enduring as storytelling has been, there is limited empirical evidence in a Story's ability to support learning. Storytelling has proven to be effective when framed within macro frameworks such as case- learning, narrative- learning, or problem-based learning.
