As part of the Online Learning
Conference, we invited 12 teams to compete against each other
to create a guided-practice, e-learning simulation with multiple
interactions and feedback. All teams had the same task –
teaching a learner how to add someone’s name to an Outlook
contact list (requiring both clicking and typing). Each vendor
team used its own simulation product to build the tutorial
according to a storyboard given to them all before the competition.
We ran the event in three rounds, with four new teams competing
in each round. All teams built their simulations from scratch,
simultaneously, with more than 200 attendees watching as they
went through the entire development process from start to
finish. Each team’s efforts were displayed on large
screens on the Expo floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
As each team finished its simulation, team members were allowed
to make a five-minute presentation to the audience demonstrating
the robustness of the simulation.
The audience then rated each simulation development tool
in the following four areas:
- Ease of use
- Speed of development
- Robustness of simulation (feedback, guidance, etc.)
- Overall rating
Beyond the top three finishers (listed below), this page
contains more statistical information and links for the companies
that participated in the shootout event. |
