The document discusses Dr. Glearning, a platform that creates educational mobile games. It allows professors to design courses using various activity types on a web-based editor. Students can then access these courses through a mobile app to learn through gameplay. The goal is to address differences in how professors and students view learning by utilizing popular digital tools students already use for a new teaching experience.

1. How much do you know about...?
Javier de la Rosa <verse@gmail.com>
Juan Luis Suárez <jsuarez@uwo.ca>
Elika Ortega <eortegag@uwo.ca>

2. Introduction
Platonic Academy: circa. 387 BC, Athens, Greece
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3. Introduction
Alma Mater Studiorum, 1088, Bologna, Italy
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4. Introduction
Western University,
1878, Ontario,
Canada
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5. Introduction
What do they all have in common?
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6. Introduction
What do they all have in common?
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7. Introduction
What do they all have in common?
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8. Introduction
What do they all have in common?
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9. But what has been changing?
● Internet: communication everywhere, anytime
● Devices: laptops, tablets, e-readers, smartphones, etc.
● Media: MP3, e-books, video on-demand, apps, etc.
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10. The Professor ~ Student Gap
Professors’ POV Students’ POV
● Students won't read ● Prof's think we don't pay
● They waste all the time online attention
and playing stupid games ● They hate computers and
● They won't take their eyes off Internet
a (any) screen ● They don't even know how to
● They are lazy use the coffee maker
● They want to do everything off ● They think we can do only
the Internet one thing at a time
● They are always stuck to their ● They think we don't want to
smartphones learn
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11. A new teaching + learning experience
● Come up with a common ground
● Use the tools and devices already adopted by the students
● Speak the language and exploit the digital skills they acquire
in their everyday life
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13. So, what is Dr. Glearning?
● It is a platform that addresses the need for (higher)
educational applications that reach the students
● It provides a flexible framework to create mobile games for a
new teaching+learning experience.
In fewer words:
Mobile games with educational content
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14. And what is NOT Dr. Glearning?
● It is not a substitute for homework, notebooks, lecture(r)s, etc.
○ Although it complements them very well
● It is not a replacement for careful monitoring
○ Even if your students are hard gamers, they still need to
pass the final
● It is not a content platform (WebCT, Moodle, Sakai, etc.)
○ But you still choose the content and deliver it in a different
medium
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15. Why higher education?
● Why not?
○ Games have proved successful at other levels of learning
(pre-school, primary, etc.)
○ Just browse the application stores
● Students already have a variety
of skills that are easy to tap into
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16. What do we mean by flexible?
● Content taught at the university is both specific and
comprehensive
● No app suits all the needs of a given course
● We aim to give professors a versatile tool to build their own
activities with whatever sort and level of content
● Dr. Glearning can still be used for basic education
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17. How do we do it?
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18. How do we do it?
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19. Which is what?
● Dr. Glearning Editor is a web application to create and edit
your content
● Dr. Glearning App is an application to install in your phone
and play with
● Content is whatever anyone may want to teach and test
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20. Dr. Glearning Editor:
How to create a course
Log into the Editor administration
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21. Dr. Glearning Editor:
How to create a course
Create a Course
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22. Dr. Glearning Editor:
How to create a course
Activity types
● Geospatial
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23. Dr. Glearning Editor:
How to create a course
Activity types
● Relational
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24. Dr. Glearning Editor:
How to create a course
Activity types
● Temporal
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25. Dr. Glearning Editor:
How to create a course
Activity types
● Linguistic
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26. Dr. Glearning Editor:
How to create a course
Activity types
● Visual
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27. Dr. Glearning Editor:
How to create a course
Activity types
● Quizz
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28. Dr. Glearning App:
How to play a course
Install the Dr. Glearning App
● Apple AppStore
● Google Play (old Android Market)
In the near
future...
● Nokia Ovi Store
● Blackberry App World
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29. Dr. Glearning App:
How to play a course
Install the Dr. Glearning App
For the time being, the testing version, sorry :(
http://bit.ly/androiddrglearning http://bit.
ly/blackberrydrglearning
http://bit.ly/iosdrglearning http://bit.ly/symbiandrglearning
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30. Dr. Glearning App:
How to play a course
Install the Dr. Glearning App
Or use an emulator like Ripple for
Google Chrome
http://ripple.tinyhippos.com/download
And browse to
http://beta.drglearning.com/client/
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31. Dr. Glearning App:
How to play a course
Add your previously created courses
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32. Dr. Glearning App:
How to play a course
Select your Degree of level of difficulty
Illetratum Primary Secondary High School College
Master PhD Postdoc Professor Emeritus
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33. Dr. Glearning App:
How to play a course
Start playing through the different kinds of activities
● Geospatial
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34. Dr. Glearning App:
How to play a course
Start playing through the different kinds of activities
● Relational
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35. Dr. Glearning App:
How to play a course
Start playing through the different kinds of activities
● Temporal
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36. Dr. Glearning App:
How to play a course
Start playing through the different kinds of activities
● Linguistic
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37. Dr. Glearning App:
How to play a course
Start playing through the different kinds of activities
● Visual
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38. Dr. Glearning App:
How to play a course
Start playing through the different kinds of activities
● Quiz
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39. Thanks
Questions?
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