Session 811 Immersive design for digital learning: Using
simulations to develop real world skills
Session 811
Immersive design for digital learning: Using simulations to
develop real world skillsKeith Quinn, Scottish Social Services
Council
Las Vegas, NV November 16 18, 2016
Excerpt from Ferris Bueller's Day Off
(https://youtu.be/uhiCFdWeQfA)
[Were still giving learners] information out of any context of
demand - big blocks of information that students cant tie to
experience (Foreman, Game-Based Learning How to Delight and
Instruct in the 21st Century 2004)
Retention of learning
Retention of learning
adding technology without altering pedagogy is not a
solution.
Diana Oblinger & Brian HawkinsThe Myth about No Significant
Difference EDUCAUSE 2006
and when we do, this is what happens
SITUATED LEARNINGThe ability to transfer learning to a
real-world situation enhances the application of knowledge and
leads to enduring understanding. Diana Oblinger & Brian
HawkinsThe Myth about No Significant Difference EDUCAUSE (2006)
(http://er.educause.edu/articles/2006/1/the-myth-about-no-significant-difference)situated
learning and situated cognition describe learning that takes place
within a culture of practice where the knowledge is deployed in the
same context as the learning
Peter Smith (Workplace Learning and Flexible Delivery, Review of
Educational Research Spring 2003, Vol. 73, 2003)Definition:
AUTHENTIC LEARNINGLearning delivered via activities which
reflect or simulate real work situations and which require learners
to use the same knowledge, skills, and attitudes that they need to
apply in real-life practice situations.Definition:the use of
authentic tasks encourages and supports immersion in self-directed
and independent learning HarringtonAuthentic E-Learning in higher
education: Design principles for authentic learning environments
and tasks (2006)
(http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/5247/)
Authentic learning exercises expose the messiness of real-life
decision making, where there may not be a right or a wrong answer
per se Such a nuanced understanding involves considerable
reflective judgment, a valuable lifelong skill that goes well
beyond the memorization of content
Marilyn Lombardi Authentic Learning for the 21st Century: An
Overview 2007
Learning from Game DesignersEmotional investmentIncentivising
learningFailure as a learning toolImmediacy of
applicationFeedback
3D Interactive Simulations
Virtual Heroes - Zero Hour
Digital Bridges - 3D Interactive Nursery
Constraints
Making learning accessible to the majority of end usersEquipment
available to the employers (and the public!)The "plug-in"
problemFinancial resources
the most successful learning environments employing authentic
tasks provide cognitive realism and assist with the necessary
suspension of disbelief that is sometimes required in such learning
environments
(Herrington and Oliver, An instructional design framework for
authentic learning environments" 2000)
WorkflowDetermine the pedogogical approachSituate task for the
learner in a model worldElaborate the details (write the
story)Build in the game design elements1234
Learner support
Salmon, G (2004) E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning
Online (Second Ed.)
Delivery of simulations on mobile devices in an episodic
formatWhere next?
Integrating push notifications/SMS messagingWhere next?
Microsoft Hololens AR/Oculus Rift VRWhere next?
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give
that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something
new
it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never
seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs
Keith Quinntel: 07468 702562
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