In publishing, for example, content experts are appropriate sources of accuracy review and end-user representatives are appropriate sources of usability review. While there may be value in an educator seeking help from other educators and professionals, as Jacob’s model suggests, there may be equal or greater value in seeking input from the learner him or herself—for it is ultimately the learner whom educators are seeking to change (that is, we want the learner to learn). Enter crowdsourcing.

SimCity’s failure as a simulator is exactly because there is an implicit game goal in the game – and the game goal does not necessarily match (in some cases, actually contradicts) the learning objective! The second half of my last statement is actually very interesting.... I am in a privileged position to be able to see many engaging role play simulations being prepared and delivered to hundreds of learners in a broad range of subject areas.

Tasks include: developing and managing a new Moodle VLE for attendees of our ILT courses (codey stuff, admin and process mapping) supporting and improving the learning experience of students on our foundation degree (nominally for elearning, but right now fundamental stuff like spelling, format and comprensibility) creating a series of short learning objects for guided learning hours for our NVQ candidates (actual elearning in the sense I am accustomed to) introducing and championing online working enviroments, Sharepoint and Basecamp creating quick video