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...
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...
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...
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...
Situating online course design within a narrative framework serves as a powerful tool for creating an environment that supports experiential, student-centered learning. This presentation, given by Cathy Russell, Angela Gunder, and Jessica Knott, highlights how a structure that establishes a course as a “hero’s journey”...