Transactional Learning 2'0

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Transactional Learning2.0 Innovative Learning
Across the Professions
Paul Maharg
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This Weekend

• This weekend we want to explore
• Your ideas on scenarios
• Thoughts on how you would/could assess your
  scenarios
• How you imagine using the visual representation
  of your scenarios (e.g. Ardcalloch Town)
• Conflicts and functionality arising from the use
  of TL Platform by subjects outside of Law.

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This Year

• Discovery Development of Transactional Learning
• Discussions this weekend
• Scenario development task
• Development of Transactional Learning Platform
• You will receive continuous updates on the
  project (via website)
• And a chance to play with versions as they
  become available, and provide us with feedback.
• Tool Development
• Produced in parallel with (2)
• A chance to use tools and provide usability
  feedback
• User Interface Design
• Developing a generic UI that supports
  Transactional Learning.
• We will work with you to extend the UI to your
  specific needs
• Scenario Development
• We will work with you to develop your projects to
  make best use of the TL method.

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Our goals

• Create a specification for Transactional
  Learning.
• Improve internal structure
• Improve scalability
• Support a range of back end platforms
• Linux/Nix
• Windows
• MacOS
• Support a range of database systems
• MySql
• PostGres
• Oracle
• MSSQL

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Our goals

• Improve robustness
• Allow extensibility
• User Created
• User Interfaces
• Visual Representations (e.g. map, directory, 3D)
• Improved usability
• Easier to create, manage and assess Transactional
  Learning Projects.

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Platform Features

• Customisable User Interfaces at a Project Level
• Provides a user experience appropriate to the
  tasks required by a project.
• Customisable Representation Layer
• Allows a representation of the projects entities
  in a form appropriate to the projects aims e.g.
• Map
• Phone Directory Listing
• 3D world
• Provides a mechanism that project independent
  information can be presented to Players e.g.
• History of Ardcalloch

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Platform Features

• File Format independence
• Ability to use Word Docs, PDFs, Images
• Extensible security system
• To allow integration with existing authentication
  systems.

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Other Goodies

• Project Creation Tool
• To aid in
• The collation preparation of materials
• Creation of a Project package that can be
  installed on to the server platform.