Establishing Epic Heroes is a Storytelling Card Game for Online Learning Practitioners to play and consider their work and experiences through the lens of the Hero's Journey. Holding a handful of cards, players are challenged to develop narratives describing their online learning experiences to share...
In this reflection, instructional designer Angela shares her experience developing two educational leadership courses with faculty from the Leadership Center at The University of Arizona built in the spirit of the Monomyth Online framework....
Learning Experience Design is the intersection of user experience design, service design, and learning theory. In the quest to understand how students learn, and to design courses that help them maximize that learning, techniques such as persona creation, journey mapping, and user experience research are...
Cathy reflects on the design and development of her first course using the Monomyth Online framework, ESOC 300 - Digital Storytelling and Culture....
Angela reflects on a beloved game from her past, and shares the process of building an original game to teach the concept of paths within the Monomyth Online framework. She also shares the game pieces so that you can make a copy of The Online...
As part of a presentation at OLC Innovate 2018 in Nashville, TN, Jess Knott, Breana Yaklin, Nick Lepeschkin-Noel, and Caroline White created a game to teach people about the different people associated with the Monomyth Online Framework....
Methods are imperfect. But what is? There is no single, definitive answer to the questions asked when crafting a story or learning experience. There is no right, there is no wrong. The methods we share here offer tools for thinking about the people you encounter...
Whether or not we acknowledge it, each of us is on a highly specialized learning journey every day. To think about your path in the physical sense, think about the routes you take to get to the places you go every day. Have you ever...
Through building connections and facilitating conversations, people are at the core of the Monomyth Online Framework. Without people there is no one to forge a path, and nothing to methodologically design. Think of the people in your courses as characters in a story you are...
This presentation explored the role of Joseph Campbell’s “hero’s journey” in establishing students as the “epic heroes” of online courses. Participants played three original games inspired by old favorites Dungeons and Dragons, The Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego, and reflected on narrative in the...