Learning Designer
Overview
This project was designed as part of my Master's Degree coursework at Bowling Green State University. The request was to teach Robert Gagne's Nine Events of Learning . The content was to be engaging, informative, and a quick introduction to a complex topic without diving too deep into each of the events.
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To meet the goals of this project, I chose to go with an explainer video, under 5 minutes, and developed in Vyond. The characters and animation capabilities in Vyond allow for immediately engaging content, and the length of the video was meant to present the information in a succinct format that could be easily viewed by the intended audience.
Process
For this project, there was no subject matter expert support. This resulted in my taking on the role of researcher in order to gather the appropriate information to be included in the content. When researching a project, I stick to only well vetted, preferably scholarly, sources for information as they tend to include better quality information. Once I had the information I needed to proceed, I organized the information into a visual storyboard to more easily map out what I hoped to create in the end product. Once the storyboard was in place, I wrote the script for the video. Having mapped out both the storyboard and the script ahead of development of the video, this saved me quite a bit of time when it came time to create the actual video. Once in Vyond, I was able to choose from the premade assets already included in the software to visually tell the story of the evolution of money. Once the images were in place, I recorded the voice over and mapped that to the visuals to render the final product video.
Visual Mockups
Results and Takeaways
This project challenged not only my design skills, but allowed me to also better understand one of the foremost theories in Adult Learning. By immersing myself in the content, I was not only able to present the information for the learner, but the video is designed to also use some of Gagne's events throughout. ​
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If I were to do this project again, I would like to present the information with not only video, but also further interactivity. Gagne's events could be further driven home by utilizing all nine in the presentation of the information itself. In order to do so, this would need to be expanded to more of a course format that allowed for interactivity, check ins, and practice scenarios.