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...
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....
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...
In addition to an exploration of the use of digital storytelling for assessment practices, this session covered practical methods for applying a narrative framework to establish online learners as “epic heroes” on a journey through their online course. This presentation was given by Angela Gunder and...