SIMPLE at IMS Learning Impact Awards 2009
SIMPLE is a finalist at the IMS Learning Impact Awards 2009 (http://www.imsglobal.org/learningimpact2009/). Michael Hughes will be there ready to answer any questions about the SIMPLE platform and tools.
SIMPLE Demonstration @ CELTS
Michael Hughes will be running a demonstration of the SIMPLE at the CELTS conference on Monday 29th March at 1200.
SIMPLE @ College of Law, England & Wales
Michael and Paul spent the day with Scott Slorach and designers at the College of Law yesterday, training the curriculum designers in the use of SIMPLE. We discussed resource-building, simulation design, and started the process of sim building on the NED (narrative event diagram). The College is using SIMPLE in two simulations on a pilot […]
SIMPLE @ ANU
This past week Michael Hughes and I have been in Canberra, at the Legal Workshop, College of Law in the Australian National University, Canberra. We’ve been working with them on pilot simulations, helping them to build the sims, showing them how to resource them, run them and discussing the general educational and technological background to […]
SIMPLE through to the final of the IMS Global Learning Consortium, Learning Impact Awards 2009
SIMPLE is in the final of this global learning competition — see http://www.imsglobal.org/learningimpact2009/awards.html. The final is in early May — fingers crossed…
SIMPLE @ LILAC 2009
Patricia McKellar and Karen Barton presented SIMPLE to the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2009 at the University of Warwick — for blog posting see http://zeugma.typepad.com/zeugma/2009/01/pa.html.
SIMPLE @ Serious Games Institute and LILAC…
SIMPLE will be presented at the Second Wednesday January event, Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry, on Wednesday 14 January. Seminar slides at Slideshare, here. Later in the month Karen Barton and Patricia McKellar will be presenting the SIMPLE project at the LILAC conference, University of Warwick. It’s hosted by the UK Centre for Legal […]
SIMPLE @ JISC Learning & Teaching Practice Expert Group Meeting
Last week the SIMPLE project was given its final presentation at the JISC Pedagogy Expert Group meeting at Aston University, Birmingham — http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elearningexperts.aspx. Slides up on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/paulmaharg/simple-presentation-presentation. Back in 2006 project members Brian Henderson, Helyn Gould & Paul Maharg presented the two-year project to the group, explaining aims & methods. This time Paul […]
When did you last get excited about curriculum?
Great session today with Philip Plowden, Dean of Northumbria U. Law School, and around 16 members of staff from Northumbria U. At his invitation Michael Hughes and I travelled down to Newcastle and spent most of the day with staff from the Law School, Built Environment and Business School demonstrating the SIMPLE platform, showing the […]
SIMPLE @ Newcastle, part 1
SIMPLE was given an airing in Newcastle this week when Patricia McKellar demonstrated it to a Work-Related Learning workshop on Wednesday 1 October, organised by NetSkills for the JISC/HEA Collaboration Initiative. The workshop explored a variety of technological resources and investigated their pedagogic value in terms of work based and work related learning. Lots of […]
