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Miami University Orientation

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Road Trip to Miami – Interactive CD-R for accepted students with orientation information.

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Developed online training for all new hires, globally, for P&G (HP was P&G’s IT Provider).
Case Study: Be Fit(2006)- Hewlett-Packard Education Services administers information technology (IT) at Proctor & Gamble (P&G). An online training program known as be fIT (“be fluent in IT”) introduces new hires to basic technology used at their P&G workstations and explains [...]

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Critical Media

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Created award-winning DVD with critical perspectives on new media.
IMS class creates DVD, wins award- Written by: Samantha Pisciotta Posted 10/10/06
Media-related issues were the subject of an award-winning project created by Miami University Interactive Media Studies (IMS) students, which recently earned the Grand Prize Faculty/Student Collaboration Award at the Fair Use and Free Speech Film Contest.
IMS [...]

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Cardinal Health

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Developed online training for new employees.

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Atom Project (P&G)

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Armstrong Interactive (AI), is a client-based consulting experience and is the capstone course of the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies. AI contracts with corporate and non-profit clients to develop digital solutions to their operational problems. Over the course of one semester, a team of students, from disciplines as diverse as marketing, computer science, graphic [...]

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MU Development Office

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Developed Java app which creates customized interactive CDs for potential donors.
Case Study: For Love and Honor (2005) – The office of University Advancement at Miami University had launched For Love and Honor, a comprehensive campaign aimed at directing Miami toward new heights of excellence. Mindful of the unique persuasive power of video, University Advancement requested [...]

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Petters New Product

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Developed new business concept and product for Health space. (done in Shanghai).

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Gensler

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

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Cintas

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Developed realtime dashboard with key IT Administration metrics.

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uBid

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Conducted rigorous usability and eye-tracking study. Redesigned customer experience.

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Computing: The Next Greatest Liberal Art
3 responses - Posted 04.30.13
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Mathematics and Minecraft
no responses - Posted 04.22.13
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Is it Synthetic?
2 responses - Posted 04.08.13
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Chase Doors Web Development Internship
no responses - Posted 04.03.13
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Games Program Ranked in Top 30!
no responses - Posted 03.26.13
For the third year in a row, Miami University’s digital game studies program, part of the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies (AIMS), is recognized as one of the top in the country by The Princeton Review and GamePro magazine. The program has been named to the "Top Undergraduate Schools to Study Video Game Design" and is now considered a ... continue

MOOCS — DIY?
no responses - Posted 03.01.13
Here is an obvious question: Why don’t universities host their own MOOCs rather than outsource hosting to third parties like Udacity and Coursera? As we clearly see with edX — the partnership between Harvard and MIT — many universities already possess considerable marketing power through their own branding, identity, and prestige. Why should the University of Michigan, for instance, offer MOOCs ... continue

MOOCs, Outsourcing, and Restrictive IP Licensing
no responses - Posted 02.26.13
MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, are here — The Next Big Thing in higher education technology development. They appeared rapidly and unexpectedly on the education scene in 2012. The 2012 Horizon Report (Higher Education Edition) did not even mention MOOCs. But just a year later the 2013 Horizon Report identified MOOCs as one of the two most important emerging ... continue

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