Learning Solutions - Interactive Film: Immersion in Learning

Editor's Notes

• #3: My background in tv and games great moment to be in the learning business as we’re being carried along by a huge slew of creative possibilities offered through technology
• #6: First the problem we’re trying to solve. This is the problem that as learning designers we’re constantly faced with. Organisations want performance improvements or behavioural change. Th
• #7: The only way to create real change is provide opportunities for your learners to practice the skills.
• #8: This quote is taken from a great book on Immersive learning by Koreen Pagano and captures the essence of what’s needed to create those opportunities for practice. Giving the learner opportunities to make decisions
• #9: When you speak about immersive learning you might immediately think about Virtual reality or 3D realistic environments - and these might be the techniques you choose to use, if the budget allows, they are not the only routes you could choose
• #10: Immersive learning is more about a design approach. Immersion is a way of deeply engaging the learner, embedding the exercise in a replica world where the learner can practice and fail safely and that doesn’t necessarily mean the most high end technological solution
• #11: As children we can make immersive learning environments from anything. We create make believe worlds in which we play out scenarios. And we’ll all remember just how immersive a cardboard box can be
• #12: Authenticity (not ‘realism’) consistent universe, fits with your experience Autonomy and control Acknowledgement/feedback - consequence
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• #19: Learn: Scrolling Video journeys A video journey under the control of the learner. As you scroll, the video takes you through an office in a single filmic tracking shot. Motion-pinned text appears beside people or objects, identifying key moments or events. Hotspots on the video allow you to find out more details. In this example the ‘journey’ represents the suggested order of events in the Appointment timeline. Linking concepts to visualisations aids memory and recall.
• #22: Exploratory guide Interactive timeline or process ‘Geography of space’ may aid retention
• #24: This technique immediately puts the learner in control and promotes higher levels of engagement than linear ‘talking head’ videos.
• #26: Let’s move on to look at how we can intenisfy the immersion by combining storytelling and gaming.
• #28: Learning through practice and failing safely. You see the consequences of your actions. But there is also something else we can take from gaming
• #29: Let’s go back to one of the three ‘A’s that I mentioned at the start – Acknowlegement. You feel acknowledged by the feedback you receive We all know that feedback is an important part of leanring, but perhaps Computer games give you more feedback than yourKnowing where you are and how your behaviour has impact on results is important to keep players in flow. Flow is one major reason why gamified learning is more motivating than non-gamified learning.
• #30: Take a few moments to look at flow and why its important for the design of interactive narratives or learning. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (mee hi CHEEK-sent-me-hi-ee) is a Hungarian psychologist and is one of the pioneers of the scientific study of happiness. According to Csikszentmihalyi, flow is completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate experience in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing and learning. In flow, the emotions are not just contained and channeled, but positive, energized, and aligned with the task at hand. According to Csikszentmihalyi (1975, 1988), flowis a "crucial component of enjoyment" and is "the holistic sensation that people feel when they act with totalinvolvement". In a flow state,
• #31: Flow is the experience of doing something just because you enjoy doing it. It's the feeling of being "in the zone" while enjoying overcoming challenges. In a flow state, time seems to fly by as attention focused on the activity.
• #33: Flow has been used in fields like sports, human–computer interactions, and education. But it has been particularly important in the deisgn of games as it maps so well against the process of immersion experienced by players during game-play. In this diagram there are two axis – challenge and skill – too much challenge and your audience become anxious, too little and they become bored The aim of designing a learning game is to create an interesting and fun experience so that it holds player’s attention as long and as intensely as possible. One of the problems with the recent focus on gamification in online leanring is that we try to motivate users with rewards external to the activity, such as points or achievement badges,. But this can backfire because it can make users feel like they are being controlled. We should instead be seeking to enhance their intrinsic motivation thorugh achieving that balance of challenge and skill – the flow state.
• #35: Most used structure in games, you complete challenges in one level in order to move onto another. In our example each level just has one challenge. If you get the wrong answer you are taken back to the decision point
• #36: Use the Techniques and Tools module. Intro Topic – FIRST 20 secs of intro - Explain the importance of the host / guide in the design – make the learner feel supported / helped at the start Click through Serving Techniques and Cocktail techniques – short instructional videos on the basics to give the learner a good grounding – note the responsive design – the whole course can be used on a mobile. Show straining clip – show comedy sequence at the end. Glasses – briefly show quiz and that tips are being earned. Say something about gamification. This could be a good time to highlight the quality of the video – mention that this was a three day shoot with a x person crew using x actors and x extras
• #39: We recently have created a course for a professional services firm aimed at new starters to take them through an example of a project from start to finish. The aims of the expereince were to allay any fears they may have about starting, give them a sense of what the company culture was like and to get them thinking about how their decisions needed to balance the impact on the client, the team and their own wellbeing. Their starters tend to be very bright and analytical people, so they wanted them to start thinking about interpersonal skills. Video works well in terms of telling the story as you can see the impact on people,
• #40: It was the first time we’d done a comples branching scenario so I did a bit of research online and found this great diagram of the narrative structure for the video game The walking dead
• #48: Linear narrative - ‘week in the life’ Moving hotspots on video Daz software from Outtakes Films (http://www.outtakes.co.uk/) Daz hotpsots - you need incidents every 10 seconds or so
• #49: PWC150
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• #63: What is your story arc? Does it have a beginning, middle and end
• #64: Authentic / conflict
• #71: the fact of interaction means you can break the rules and not throw the player out of the universe , you can combine these with text screens and it works - Branching - short scenes work best use whatever medium you need to keep the pace up
• #73: the fact of interaction means you can break the rules and not throw the player out of the universe , you can combine these with text screens and it works - Branching - short scenes work best use whatever medium you need to keep the pace up
• #74: Do not change the colour of these boxes! Or if you have to, please use a brand colour. (any of the ‘theme colours’ in the /shape fill/ dropdown.)