ImagiLearning: Creating The Future of Learning
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What Is ImagiLearning, Inc?
ImagiLearning, Inc.
John B. Jamison, MS.Ed., PhD.
The mission: To Create the Future of Learning
Where we are from:
20+ years experience teaching in higher education
15 years experience teaching at a distance
30 years of instructional design experience
25 years experience in game design & development
35+ years experience in project leadership
What we believe:
The immergence of digital technology and digital games has changed the way people communicate, are entertained, and the way they prefer to learn. The specific merging of games and learning creates unique challenges for traditional educators, who are familiar with more instructor-led environments. Our extensive experience in both games and formal learning put us in a unique position to speak both languages, and to see new ways to create a meaningful synergy for today’s learners. We highly respect traditional education, and yet strongly believe that change is necessary.
What we do:
Because of our living in both the digital and traditional worlds of education, we have the ability to interpret the changes taking place in a meaningful way. We can provide faculty development experiences to introduce traditional educators to the digital culture. This includes keynote addresses, half and full-day seminars and workshops, as well as online coaching and consulting.
Because of our experience in the culture of digital games, we have the ability to provide instructional design guidance for incorporating the engaging characteristics of the digital culture into the traditional learning experience, and to create more meaningful assessment strategies.
Because of our experience in creating and directing distance learning programs, and our years of teaching in the distance environments, we have the ability to provide guidance and support in incorporating the elements of the digital culture in your distance program, to create higher levels of engagement, satisfaction and retention.
And because of our specific work in the new field of virtual world technology, we can provide guidance and support to help you understand and consider implementing environments such as Second Life to add new levels of engagement in learning, as well as in your administrative and day-to-day communication activities.
How we work:
We are prepared to work with you at your location, through the use of communication tools such as Skype or Elluminate, or to provide you with our full range of services on our three islands in the virtual world of Second Life.
Contact us:
jjamison at imagilearning.com
John B. Jamison, MS.Ed., PhD.
The mission: To Create the Future of Learning
Where we are from:
20+ years experience teaching in higher education
15 years experience teaching at a distance
30 years of instructional design experience
25 years experience in game design & development
35+ years experience in project leadership
What we believe:
The immergence of digital technology and digital games has changed the way people communicate, are entertained, and the way they prefer to learn. The specific merging of games and learning creates unique challenges for traditional educators, who are familiar with more instructor-led environments. Our extensive experience in both games and formal learning put us in a unique position to speak both languages, and to see new ways to create a meaningful synergy for today’s learners. We highly respect traditional education, and yet strongly believe that change is necessary.
What we do:
Because of our living in both the digital and traditional worlds of education, we have the ability to interpret the changes taking place in a meaningful way. We can provide faculty development experiences to introduce traditional educators to the digital culture. This includes keynote addresses, half and full-day seminars and workshops, as well as online coaching and consulting.
Because of our experience in the culture of digital games, we have the ability to provide instructional design guidance for incorporating the engaging characteristics of the digital culture into the traditional learning experience, and to create more meaningful assessment strategies.
Because of our experience in creating and directing distance learning programs, and our years of teaching in the distance environments, we have the ability to provide guidance and support in incorporating the elements of the digital culture in your distance program, to create higher levels of engagement, satisfaction and retention.
And because of our specific work in the new field of virtual world technology, we can provide guidance and support to help you understand and consider implementing environments such as Second Life to add new levels of engagement in learning, as well as in your administrative and day-to-day communication activities.
How we work:
We are prepared to work with you at your location, through the use of communication tools such as Skype or Elluminate, or to provide you with our full range of services on our three islands in the virtual world of Second Life.
Contact us:
jjamison at imagilearning.com
Blog Posts
Dissertation Coaching
For those out there enjoying the dissertation process right now...I wanted to announce that I have a few new openings for dissertation coaching beginning this month. I went through the process of completing formal dissertation research in SL...with all the questions, explanations, justifications...and have been working with several others going through that same path now. The coaching is a 50 minute "focused" phone or SL conversation each week,...with the simple goal of helping you get that thin… Continue
Posted by John Jamison on May 27, 2009 at 8:16pm
Updating my Vocabulary
Over the past couple of months I've found myself having to explain and re-explain some of the words I've been using...sometimes even to myself. As I continue my study of the changes coming with the emerging digital culture, my use of language is reflecting some of the internal and very real changes taking place within me. Let me just give you two examples here.
First, I almost daily find myself discussing with someone the word "real". It usually begins by having someone stress that, while the w… Continue
First, I almost daily find myself discussing with someone the word "real". It usually begins by having someone stress that, while the w… Continue
Posted by John Jamison on May 6, 2009 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment
IMPORTANT EMAIL CHANGE - PLEASE NOTE!
My "jjamison@imagilearning.com" email address was offline for a brief time while we moved and updated our servers. If you did send me an email between Friday evening and 2pm Sunday...that message most likely went into that great digital zeroes and ones pergatory....never to be heard from again.
The accounts are all working again as of Sunday morning....but if you did email me during the outage and have not heard back from me...please try once again.
With our new servers now in place, watch for… Continue
The accounts are all working again as of Sunday morning....but if you did email me during the outage and have not heard back from me...please try once again.
With our new servers now in place, watch for… Continue
Posted by John Jamison on May 3, 2009 at 2:30pm
A SLemester by Any Other Name....
What is in a name? Apparently a trademark infringement for one thing.
We are in the process of finding a new name for our successful SLemester programs, after being notified by Linden Labs that the "SL" is an infringement of their trademark for Second Life. It was a very friendly and polite note, and it provides us with the opportunity to rethink...refocus...and re-brand the work we are doing.
The primary goal of ImagiLearning, Inc. has been to provide resources, training and support for indiv… Continue
We are in the process of finding a new name for our successful SLemester programs, after being notified by Linden Labs that the "SL" is an infringement of their trademark for Second Life. It was a very friendly and polite note, and it provides us with the opportunity to rethink...refocus...and re-brand the work we are doing.
The primary goal of ImagiLearning, Inc. has been to provide resources, training and support for indiv… Continue
Posted by John Jamison on April 14, 2009 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments
Group SLemester Learning Community Now Available
We are excited to announce the opening of our newest Learning Community experience at ImagiLearning, Inc. Along with offering the SLemester four-month learning community for individuals as we have done for the past two years, we are now offering a fully customized Group SLemester for educators or business persons attending from one institution. This session runs for either a full quarter or semester, based on the decision with the institution, and provides a structure… Continue
Posted by John Jamison on April 11, 2009 at 4:21pm
Things We're Exploring At the Moment
- Creating our own channel on Mogulus.com. Check us out during our pre-broadcast tests: ImagiLearning
- Updating the Summer 2009 SLemester to include multiple tracks based up on participant needs. This includes a full structured curriculum for those who want the "tell me what to do" approach, as well as a new collection of tools and activities for those who want the "just point me in the right direction" approach.
- Taking registrations for the Summer 2009 SLemester session. This 4 month learning community gets underway the week of May 11. See the blog for more details.
-Looking at how to effectively create failure activities in course design. Games are designed using nested feedback loops that put the player in positions of practice and limited failure, to reinforce the specific learning that is needed and to provide the emotional "flow" experience of the game. Why can't we do the same in learning activities? Game-based learning does not have to mean "playing games", but can mean using those design principles of games in creative, new ways in traditional learning.
- Updating the Summer 2009 SLemester to include multiple tracks based up on participant needs. This includes a full structured curriculum for those who want the "tell me what to do" approach, as well as a new collection of tools and activities for those who want the "just point me in the right direction" approach.
- Taking registrations for the Summer 2009 SLemester session. This 4 month learning community gets underway the week of May 11. See the blog for more details.
-Looking at how to effectively create failure activities in course design. Games are designed using nested feedback loops that put the player in positions of practice and limited failure, to reinforce the specific learning that is needed and to provide the emotional "flow" experience of the game. Why can't we do the same in learning activities? Game-based learning does not have to mean "playing games", but can mean using those design principles of games in creative, new ways in traditional learning.
What I'm Reading Now
Droidmaker, by Michael Rubin. Subtitled: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution, this is not just another attempt at a bio of Lucas. This in-depth walk through the life Pixar, and all the side-technologies that grew from it is a walk I am enjoying.
The Non-Designer's Design Book, by Robin Williams. I've studied and used all the normal instructional design things, but never spent much time on the visual design issues...those 'artsy' things like fonts, colors and tones...things like that. I'm finding this small book a good introduction to those things that make things look soooo much better.
Make Magazine from O'Reilly Press and makezine.com. I've seen this little thing sitting on the shelf at Barnes and Noble, and finally decided to pick one up. A great read of ideas and creations...some serious and some pure wacky. Want to know how to build the Incredible Steampunkish Wimshurst Spark Generator? Grab the edition on the shelf right now.
The Non-Designer's Design Book, by Robin Williams. I've studied and used all the normal instructional design things, but never spent much time on the visual design issues...those 'artsy' things like fonts, colors and tones...things like that. I'm finding this small book a good introduction to those things that make things look soooo much better.
Make Magazine from O'Reilly Press and makezine.com. I've seen this little thing sitting on the shelf at Barnes and Noble, and finally decided to pick one up. A great read of ideas and creations...some serious and some pure wacky. Want to know how to build the Incredible Steampunkish Wimshurst Spark Generator? Grab the edition on the shelf right now.
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Good introduction to the experience.
I like the shift from "hands-on" ---> "hands-in"
"Real" is created uniquely for each person.
Is a phone conversation "real" because you are not physically seeing the other person but relying on electronics to bring a sound vibrations to you?
Ema...
For those out there enjoying the dissertation process right now...I wanted to announce that I have a few new openings for dissertation coaching beginning this month. I went through the process of completing formal dissertation research in SL...wit...
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