Five projects beyond the rapid authoring toolbox for instructional designers to begin with 1-2 months of 1 developer's time.

1. @fugu13
russell.duhon@saltbox.com
Russell Duhon, CTO of Saltbox, Makers of WaxLRS

2. “xAPI is awesome!”

3. “Time to create new
learning experiences!
But…

4. …what do I do?”

5. “No, no, I see the nifty stuff that’s
possible, I’ve read all the blog
posts and watched all the
presentations, but…

6. …what everyone’s doing
looks really daunting.”

7. Five Projects
from outside the rapid authoring box

8. These Projects Are
• Completely feasible with none-to-modest dev assist
• Aligned with serious learning research
• Fun!

9. These Projects Aren’t
• In your comfort zone
• Trying to be for more than a single situation
• Ends (think Beginnings)

10. Phishing Trial by Fire
When they receive a plausible looking internal email, do
people click the link? Do they attempt to sign in?

11. Phishing Trial by Fire
• Technical involvement:
• Needs: Mail merge, email and webpage design
• What to report: Lists.
• Feedback loop: Followups for just clicking and for
signing in.

12. Interactive Performance
Support in Twine
People make choices in a hypertext branching scenario that
loads instantaneously and can be easily embedded anywhere.

13. Interactive Performance
Support in Twine
• Technical involvement:
• Needs: Twine, ability to include HTML+JS+CSS.
• What to report: Final states, successes and
failures, and notable choices along the way.
• Feedback loop: reinforce what’s seen in the
interface via decision support or realistic example
scenario.

14. Spaced Repetition Learning
by SMS
After an initial experience, people receive, reinforce, and
verify knowledge retention and skill acquisition.

15. Spaced Repetition Learning
by SMS
• Technical involvement:
• Needs: Twilio, server-side development.
• What to report: Lists. Drop-off points.
• Feedback loop: Boosts long term retention of
knowledge and skills.

16. Hone Skills Punchcard
People choose a set of skills to practice in a week or a month
then mark practice, with descriptions.

17. Hone Skills Punchcard
• Technical involvement:
• Needs: HTML+JS+CSS, possibly server side dev.
• What to report: Skill choice trends. Textual
analysis of practice descriptions.
• Feedback loop: Instant visual feedback.
Completable. Further rewards can be attached.
Fancy: surface decisions of others when choosing/
looking at skills.

18. Crowdsourced
Demonstration Videos
People shoot videos demonstrating a sales technique in
varying situations, pushed out for others to view.

19. Crowdsourced
Demonstration Videos
• Technical involvement:
• Needs: Server side dev, xAPI attachments.
• What to report: Manual review is best here.
• Feedback loop: Show viewing counts. Make
sharing easy. Reuse and draw ideas from videos in
other contexts.

20. –Russell Duhon, September 29th 2015
“I’m going to put up working prototypes for all
of these projects next week.”

21. Russell Duhon, CTO of Saltbox, Makers of WaxLRS
@fugu13
russell.duhon@saltbox.com
Resources: http://resources.saltbox.com/five-projects/

22. Questions?
Icon used for technical difficulty is “technical assistance” by Mon Aguilar from the Noun Project