Animations
Comprehensible Calculations
the challenge
One of our client’s vILT courses had a signifiant section on calculating storage space in restaurant coolers. Learners did not like this part of the course, because the math made them nervous, and instructors did not like teaching this part of the course, because it was too easy for them to miss some of the concepts, and participants were getting lost. Overall, this led to low confidence in the learners’ ability to perform the calculations on the job.
the approach
I worked with the existing content (which was in a PDF Participant Guide), a SME who had taught this section of the course many times, and a videographer to storyboard the content and produce the animation in the video above.
the team
1 SME
1 videographer and animator
1 Instructional Designer (myself)
the learning solution
Putting the content in this video accomplished a number of things that improved participants’ ability to learn and retain the information:
the information is presented the same way, at every course delivery (and as such, approved by SMEs)
the information now includes a visual to make the content more tangible in the real world
participants can pause and re-watch the content, as well as download the video for future reference
my role
My direct contributions to this project included working with the SME to clarify the mathematical concepts covered in the examples, storyboarding the animation, writing the voiceover script, oversee the development of the animation, and obtain final approval of the animation from the SME.
An Immersive Experience
the challenge
One of our clients was teaching a course about evaluating restaurant plan reviews. They no longer had the capacity to bring their learners into a real restaurant for this course, and were looking for a way to make 2-dimensional paper blueprints feel like the real world.
the approach
We saw an opportunity to build an immersive, 3-dimensional space that learners could “walk” through.
the team
1 SME
1 architect
1 videographer
1 Instructional Designer (myself)
the software
H5P
the learning solution
We collaborated with an architect who had experience designing walk-through simulations of retail spaces. We gave her the existing 2-dimensional blueprints that had been a part of this learning activity’s course materials, and she used her software to create the 3-dimensional space. Then, we took her program and added “stops” using H5P, where learners could compare where they stood in the space to the blueprints, and answer the questions associated with the course’s learning objectives.
my role
My direct contributions to this project included working with the architect to clarify the needs we had for her walk-through, which included specific detail to the layout and the types of materials depicted in the restaurant walk through; I worked with our SME to confirm the accuracy of the finished architectural design; storyboarding the H5P stops and associated interactivity; integration of the activity into the course LMS platform.