It was a Deliciously Fun Sunday!

Every year the IS program organizes a picnic lunch in the warm April weather, either in a beautiful park, or at a professor's house. This year, Dr. Shute hosted this event with delicious (international!) food, joyful chats and fun activities! Check out some of the great photos!

New Summer Course: Design of Learning Games

Dr. Fengfeng Ke will offer a new course online this summer. If you are into game based learning, this is the course for you!

EME5614 Design of Learning Games (2014 Summer, Online, Session C, currently listed as EME6635-0004 to 0007)

This course is designed to guide students to design and prototype learning games by understanding and applying the interdisciplinary principles of game design, psychology of play, education, and cognitive science. The course will review the design theories of educational gaming and examine how instructional designers can leverage digital culture to design a game-based instructional system. The course will also guide students to identify and implement  the foundational elements of game design (i.e., game setting, storytelling and narrative, character development, user experience, and gameplay), genres of games, and specific features of learning-game design (e.g., motivational analysis, instructional overlay), and exemplary web-based learning-game design and development tools (e.g., Unity 3D).

 

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

1.    Recognize the following elements of learning-game design: Integration between play and learning engagement, the balance between simplicity, efficiency, and playability against realism, and the balance between richness and complexity in learning game design.

2.    Describe basic game concepts, such as challenge, gameplay, setting, interaction model, perspective, players’ role, and game machines.

3.    Identify genres of games appropriate to various learners and learning contexts.

4.    Evaluate features of games appropriate for instruction and learning.

5.    Design a learning game by completing game world, storytelling, character development, user experience creation, and gameplay.

6.    Prototype a learning game using Unity3D.

7.  User-test the learning game prototype.

FSU IS App Now Available on the Apple App Store

Developed by one of our doctoral students - Taehyeong Lim, the first version of our FSU IS app is now available for free download on the Apple App Store. The current version features the IS news, people,  courses, links to IS networks, and additional helpful resources. We are still enriching the content, and an android version is also on its way.

Here are some related links to this app:

1. FSU IS APP's official website: http://fsuisapp.com

2. FSU IS APP's official Facebook page: http://facebook.com/fsuisapp

3. iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fsu-is-app/id838726778?mt=8

Instructional Systems 40th Reunion - Have You Registered Yet?

Click on the Venues and Lodging page for more information, maps, and directions.

Click on the Programs page to review our exciting program!

Click here to download our Conference Overview Power Point to review and share with your friends!

Do you have questions that our FAQ page doesn’t answer? Contact us here.

Who Is Already Coming?
Click here to go to our 'Look Who's Coming' page.

Registration Link.

Our Facebook Page: An Ongoing Conversation: Celebrating 40 Years of ISD at FSU

The FSU Alumni listserv (email Mary Kate McKee to get added)

Nole Connections on LinkedIn

Alumni Highlight: Gabrielle was on a Featured Article in the Tallahassee Democrat

Congratulations to Gabrielle, who was the focus of an article in the Tallahassee Democrat:

Gabrielli firm believer in importance of giving back -Consultant works to aid learning and performance

Graduated earlier from our program, Gabrielle has started her own consulting firm for over ten years focusing on improving motivation, performance and learning.

Way to go Gabrielle - you make us all look good!

Social Media for Active Learning - a MOOC Course You Won't Want to Miss

This semester the EME6635 Open Learning and MOOCs seminar, taught by Dr. Vanessa Dennen of the Instructional Systems program, has been designing a MOOC on Social Media for Active Learning. The MOOC will begin on March 24, led by Dr. Dennen with the assistance of the students in this class. It's a free professional development course for educators at all levels, designed in a flexible, modular format. Participants are welcome to complete one or all of the modules -- and it's fine if you want to sign up just to check it out.

We would love to have our COE colleagues and friends joining us for all or part of the course -- and feel free to pass the information along to any person or group that might be interested.

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Social Media for Active Learning: A professional development MOOC

http://bit.ly/smalmooc

Dates: Mar 24 – Apr 20

Instructor: Vanessa Dennen, Associate Professor of Instructional Systems, Florida State University and a team of FSU Instructional Systems graduate students

Informational Web Site

Direct Link to Enrollment Page

Course Description:

This professional development course was designed to help instructors, trainers, and instructional designers learn how to better use social media to support learning, whether in an informal networking sense or by embedding social media into more formal learning contexts. The four course module topics are (1) social media curation for education, (2) developing social media lessons, (3) developing and using personal learning networks, and (4) privacy and ethical issues related to using social media to support learning

Whether you’re a newcomer to social media tools or you’re quite familiar with them, this course can help you find new and better ways to reach and teach your students, connecting them with the rich network of online people and resources, and helping them become active users and contributors within this network.

Since this is a professional development course, it has been designed with flexibility in mind. Each week we will focus on a new topic and will have new learning materials, a live chat, discussions, and a small project. You may complete the projects for each week – or just those that interest you most or best fit your schedule. You can earn badges during the weeks you choose to complete the projects, and you’ll be able to get feedback from our community of learners and teaching assistants.

For More Information, Contact: smooc.2014@gmail.com

"Valerie J. Shute: A Significant Contributor to the Field of Educational Technology"

Our faculty member, Dr. Valerie Shute, was the focus of an article in Education Technology (January - February 2014) titled "Valerie J. Shute: A Significant Contributor to the Field of Educational Technology".

Congratulations Dr. Shute! We are all very proud of you!