216 BYOL: AR2—The Augmented Reality Amazing Race
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Wednesday, October 25
Emerging Tech
Montego DE
You want your new-staff orientation to infuse some excitement into exploring and discovering the organization. But sometimes the only “budget” you have is the people in your department who can help with the creation and development. Wouldn’t you like to be able to leverage augmented reality to encourage staff to self-discover the organization and have a more engaging multimedia experience?
In this session, you’ll learn how a government organization with no budget leveraged the free version of the Aurasma AR web development software to create the Augmented Reality Amazing Race. You’ll see how new-employee teams of two traveled across a hospital using the Aurasma app on iPads to discover hidden treasures and learn more about the organization where they work! Aurasma says its tool and app can “turn everyday objects, images, and places into new opportunities for engagement” through AR. During this session, you will help build a mini-race to find out how easy it can be.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to define augmented reality
- How you can use AR in your organization for practical learning
- How to use the free version of Aurasma to create a simple AR experience
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, and project
managers.
Technology
discussed in this session:
Mobile devices and the Aurasma web platform and app.
Participant
technology requirements:
Participants should bring a laptop that they can
use to work with the Aurasma web development tool, and they should also download
the Aurasma app onto a mobile device (such as a smartphone, iPad, or Android
tablet).
Cindy Plunkett
Director, Learning Design & Development
PointClickCare
With over 20 years' experience in instructional design, development, and project management Cindy Plunkett is the Canadian eLearning Conference Executive Director, part-time professor in the faculty of education at Ontario Tech University, and co-creator of the Educational Technology for Health Practitioner Education course at the University of Toronto's department of Family and Community Medicine. Cindy has worked with three of the largest academic teaching hospitals in Canada on high profile projects like the SEME program, and has experience speaking and facilitating both nationally and internationally.
Faith Boutcher
Director, Centre for Education
Baycrest Health Sciences
Faith Boutcher is the director of academic education and interprofessional education in the Centre for Education at Baycrest Health Sciences. Faith is an experienced clinician and educator with expertise in knowledge mobilization, and her work focuses on the innovative and creative delivery of team training. She holds appointments with the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto and the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University. She is currently completing her doctoral studies in knowledge translation at the University of Toronto.