Instructional Design Competition sponsored by Pacificorp

Three graduate student finalist teams made their pitch for an instructional design plan to meet the needs of Odin Trucking as part of the competition. This is the fifth annual competition sponsored by Pacificorp, AECT & the Design & Development Division.

Click here to read more about this year's problem that the teams tackled. The three finalist teams included (1) Purdue/Middle East Technical University (Turkey), (2) Florida State, and (3) Indiana State.

Dr. Ana Donaldson (UNI) was a mentor for the Flordia State team members Izzy and Jennifer. All teams had a creative approach for designing instruction to meet the needs of the Odin Trucking Corporation. Stay tuned... I'll post an update after the winning team is announced later at the conference!

Institute for Simulation and Training

Wednesday morning featured a tour of the Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) based at the University of Central Florida here in Orlando. This facility dates back to 1982, IST is considered one of the leading centers for simulation, training modeling, virtual, augmented and mixed reality research for defense and commerical interests.

Examples of some their projects include endoscopic surgery simulator and human patient simulator for medical training, robtics with defense applications and more. To see a list of highlighted projects visit their research project list