SHORTSIMS

Within five years, a quarter of all new educational and assessment content produced will use variations of the Short Sims pedagogy. Interactive Short Sims are simple but revolutionarily effective, and make both learners and sponsors happy. Learn how to start your journ...

Topic:  How might schools teach Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis?  Can students have agency?  Clark and Peter discuss.  
Co-host:  Peter Shea   

Bio: Clark Aldrich - https://www.shortsims.com/aldrich  

Bio: Peter Shea is an ins...

Topic:  How might schools teach problem solving?  Why are portfolios better than transcripts?  What is the right ratio of successes to failures?  Clark and Peter discuss.  
Co-host:  Peter Shea   

Bio: Clark Aldrich - https://www....

Topic:  How might schools teach strategic thinking?  Clark and Peter discuss. 
Co-host:  Peter Shea  

Bio: Peter Shea is an instructional designer whose primary area of interest is emerging learning technologies. Currently, he serves as the Director...

Rob Alvarez Bucholska interviews Clark Aldrich on Short Sims.   

"Professor Game is a weekly podcast where we interview successful practitioners of games, gamification and game thinking that will bring us the best of their experiences to get ideas, insights and wil...

Topic:  Getting constructive feedback is necessary from sim sponsors, SMEs, and end users.  Yet the processes remain a complex and imprecise art.  Bert and Clark discuss best and worst practices. 
Guest:  Bert Snow
Recorded On:  3/14/2019

Bio: Bert S...

Topic:  The beginning of a Short Sim includes research, brainstorming, and planning.  We discuss these and more, and give a glimpse into how designers think about content.

Guest:  Konstantin Sinitsin

Bio: Konstantin Sinitsin is the co-founder & customer success man...

When I was at Xerox, I helped roll out the "Xerox: The Document Company" position.  One challenge was to raise the document literacy rate of employees, and also to be able to have something to share with customers.  We came up with a series of documents to teach people...