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Anne Derryberry
Market Analyst, Sage Road Solutions
Anne Derryberry is a learning architect for serious games, simulations and virtual worlds. She works with learning organizations, game developers, tools developers, and analysts as learning architect, advisor, consultant, and industry observer. She is particularly fascinated with: group experience and how groups learn in virtual environments, especially through games; user-generated content; assessment, especially how it relates to LMSs; analysis; and how to make learning and meaningful play into profitable and sustainable business.
Latest from Anne Derryberry
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: Insights From and About Generation Z
Just when instructional designers thought they had figured out how to make eLearning that Gen Y would use, here comes Gen Z, the Digital Generation. Think mobile. Think social. Think mashup. And that’s just the beginning. Anne gives you the rundown on what you really need to be planning as your delivery strategy.
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: Imagining a Badge System for e-Learning
Badges, those little icons so loved by gamers, have some surprising uses in e-Learning. These uses go beyond providing superficial rewards, including improving recall, increasing motivation, and supporting social interaction. Here’s what we’re learning about this element of gamification.
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: Experience Matters
The great challenge for instructional design is to generate the same experience for the majority of learners. Anne explores a key task: creation of a common emotional experience among those who use our products and programs, whether the context is a classroom, a traditional e-Learning program, or an immersive simulation.
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: Working the Numbers Game
Metrics matter, especially when it comes to improving our product. We in e-Learning can learn a lot from the success of our brethren in Marketing, but we need to adapt their methods to our world. Anne shows you where to start: defining our terms.
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: Digital Dust Bunnies
Curation – the aggregation, synthesis, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of content – is a growing role in e-Learning. Anne offers her thoughts on the expansion of data, and what it means for us and for our learners.
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: This Crazy Gamification Craze
Gamification – adding game elements to applications for business and education – is a hot trend. But does this dumb down the transformative nature of games? Anne examines the question.
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: Engagement and the Dopamine Squirt
Learning can literally be addictive, thanks to the effects of dopamine on the brain. A well-tuned game heightens these effects. Anne explains the principles that will help you leverage the learners’ physiological responses.
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: Games as Meaning Makers
Stories have been the basis for teaching for thousands of years. Today, online and computer games are based on a “backstory,” and this makes these games compelling. Why not use this to facilitate learning?
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: Can Games Save Journalism?
Journalism and education have much in common, besides the fact that both are in dire straits. Journalism intends to inform us about the world, and education aims to help us succeed in that same world. Could games be the nexus between these two pursuits that are so vital to democracy?
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: School’s Out – What Did We Learn? (Part 5)
Anne summarizes her experience in creating an environment and platform for social networking by college-bound 9th-graders. As always, the lessons learned weren’t just for the students, and they apply equally to learners of all ages and circumstances.