Engaging Learners
Britt Carr,Creative Director,
Advanced Authoring, LLCChapel Hill, NC
Agenda
• About Advanced Authoring
• Benefits to institutions and organizations
• Strategies
• Examples
• About Britt Carr
• Acknowledgments
• Advanced Authoring uses innovative technologies to create meaningful, learner-centered experiences for institutions, or organizations
• We create activities:
• designed to immerse and engage the learner
• designed to show learner’s mastery
• designed to provide quality learning experience
• Founded by Britt Carr, in response to requests from institutions and organizations
• To assist with increasing quality of instruction in an online format
• As a supplement to traditional classes,
• As well as completely online courses or programs
Strategies
Challenges facing institutions
• Enrollments are skyrocketing
• Instructional technology resources are tight or nonexistent
• Teaching loads are heavy on faculty and staff
• Classrooms are crowded
• Institutions need a better way of using online instruction to stay competitive
Solutions
• Invert classrooms
• Free up resources/facilities by shifting knowledge acquisition outside the classroom- but do so in a learner-centered fashion rather than a passive approach
• use face-to-face class time for meaningful discussion or facilitated group work
Solutions
• put the learners in charge of their own education
• allow students to demonstrate deeper knowledge or mastery of subjects
• allow learners to personalize their experiences
Solutions
• We design activities that challenge students to think rather than to memorize
• We create activities designed to build comprehensive knowledge
• We design to be reused vertically, within the discipline
• We architect interactions that can be repurposed horizontally, within the institution
Randomization
• We make activities that randomize challenges and their solutions
• We let the learner try and try and try again
• We remove the assumption that they know simply because the guessed the right choice
Customization/Personalization
• If available, we use information about the student to personalize
• We make the activity literally about them
• We allow the user to alter the outcomes, or preferences, perhaps several different ways
Interaction / Simulation
• We create activities that look and act as the real world would
• We design interactions to take advantage of multi-modal learning
• We allow the user to alter the outcomes, or preferences, perhaps several different ways
Examples
For a complete demonstration, please visit our poster session, or view the screencast demos at:http://www.advancedauthoring.com/sloan/
Miami University’s Sewing Tutorial
• Photorealistic, 3D machine
you can thread.
• Recycled for stage lighting safety tutorial
• Designed to help students learn sewing safety procedures
Art Institute’s Virtual Photo Studio
• 3D photorealistic environment
• Random, timed challenges
all using the same approach
• Designed for mastery of troubleshooting electrical
photography equipment in a studio situation
Miami University’s Virtual Audience
• Audience watches, listens, and
reacts to you!
• Random actions by audience designed
to distract the performer
• Designed to help students suffering from stage fright
Current Projects
MBA BusinessSim
• Simulated company where student
assumes various management positions
• Game play is aligned with each course’s
syllabus
• Designed to help students make business decisions
with outcomes that might affect them later in the sim
Stanford Microscope Tutorial
Stanford Microscope Tutorial
Contact US:
www.advancedauthoring.com
Screencasts of activities shown here, and many more:
www.advancedauthoring.com/sloan/
Who is This Britt Carr Anyway?
• ’92: producing forensic video for courtroom exhibits w/ 3D
• ’94: building online degree programs for NAU-Online and Arizona State Universities. Founded Advanced Authoring.
• ‘98-2001: Internet Strategist for Macromedia, Inc. Ed/eLearning/Govt. Group.
• Managed Macromedia’s eLearning Award Program until 2004
• Instructional Designer / Tech. Specialist for Miami University2001 - August 2010.
Accomplishments /Recognition
• Clute International Institute on Teaching and Learning; “Best of Show” 2008
• Invited to join Adobe Education Leaders Organization, 2008
• Miami University Pride Award / Delivering Value Winner 2009
• New Media Consortium, “Best of Conference”-- People’s Choice and Judges’ Choice,
2009.
• Ohio Learning Network, Invited Keynote Speaker, 2009
• Invited Presenter, Adobe On-Demand- Education Series, 2009
• Invited Presenter, Adobe MAX 2009/2010
• Invited Presenter, Adobe Summer Institute, 2009/2010
• Adobe Impact Award for contributions to education, July,2010
AcknowledgmentsRyan Davidson - Flash DeveloperMichele Gingras - Miami UniversityMeghan Petters - Miami University
Tim Rentler - Education Management CorporationMike Link - Education Management CorporationThe student workers at A.L.T. - Miami University