This episode has been way too long waiting for publishing and I am apologizing publicly to Ken Spero and to those who are following my podcasting and blogging. 2014 was a year of great change for me. I have been transitioning from a full time position as a Learning Designer with the University of Adelaide […]
Simulations
Articulate13: Hello Boys I’m Back!
In 2005-6 I introduced Articulate Studio Pro software to the teaching staff at the University of Adelaide and for years it was used to develop what I call Interactive Learning Modules (ILMs). Then the iPad revolution happened with the need for HTML5 and not Flash to run on the tablets and Studio Pro became […]
Immersive Learning Targets Engagement
“The new version of the Padagogy Wheel tackles a major question that is lurking in the back of everyone’s mind. If it’s not … it should be. It’s about the problem of motivation in education. How do we motivate students, teachers, parents, and everyone else to get excited about learning? How do you stay motivated? What works and what doesn’t?” Jeff Dunn: Editor […]
Do it then teach it
[google-translator]The more I share with Ken Spero about immersive learning and building e-simulations, the more I am convinced that the creative hard work end of building these powerful learning objects happens before anyone starts using any sort of software. This is the second of three podcast episodes we are doing to lay the pedagogical foundations […]
Articulate Storyline is An Ecosystem
[google-translator]I have been instrumental over the last 4 years in introducing many of the teaching faculty at the University of Adelaide to Articulate Studio Pro. It is three software tools that used together can create rapid access elearning. I called their output Interactive Learning Modules or ILM’s. When in May 2012 Articulate released a new […]
Simulations … the New Instructional Design
As a kid, my ultimate Christmas present was a Davy Crockett coonskin hat, the ones with the tails, remember? 🙂 At the end of 2012 when I leant about a conference being held in a hotel across the road from the Alamo in Texas I have to confess I thought it was the coolest location […]
Immersive Learning … a Nine-Year Journey
[google-translator] “Learning (and teaching, such as it is) is not a process of communication, but rather, a process of immersion. Put loosely, it suggests the idea of teaching not by telling or even demonstrating but rather through the creation (or identification) of an environment into which a learner is immersed”. Stephen Downes (July 1 2006) […]