PROJECT SNAPSHOT

To overcome passive learning barriers in graduate-level psychological assessment education, this project developed a 65-slide interactive module featuring six AI-driven sequential escape rooms. Integrating Vyond, Synthesia, and Articulate Storyline 360, the design blends authentic digital avatars with dynamic narrative scenarios to foster deep engagement, critical thinking, and mastery of complex ethical and legal concepts.

ADDIE FRAMEWORK FOR THIS PROJECT

Analysis: Needs Assessment and Learning Objectives

• Target Audience & Context: Developed for graduate-level learners within Purdue University Global enrolled in advanced psychological assessment coursework.
• Core Instructional Challenge: The academic stakeholders identified a critical need to overcome learner disengagement and transition away from passive, lecture-heavy content delivery toward active, experiential learning.
• Theoretical Alignment: Grounded in contemporary adult learning theory (Andragogy) and gamification frameworks, establishing that interactive, scenario-based sequential escape rooms cultivate intrinsic motivation, analytical problem-solving, and active knowledge construction.
• Curriculum Focus: Targeted critical analysis and evaluation of ethical, legal, cultural, and historical implications, alongside underlying assumptions in psychological testing and clinical assessment.
  

Design: Instructional Architecture & Collaborative Prototyping

• Collaborative SME Partnership: Executed a comprehensive 6-week iterative design phase, collaborating closely with the Subject Matter Expert (SME) to translate complex theoretical paradigms into compelling, branching clinical narratives.
• Technology & Tool Selection: Delineated and architected a cohesive multi-tool tech stack—selecting Synthesia for photorealistic AI avatar narration, Vyond for dynamic scenario animation, and Articulate Storyline 360 for master interactivity and logic engine authoring.
• Iterative Stakeholder Alignment: Facilitated weekly agile milestone reviews with the broader academic project team, incorporating cross-functional feedback to refine learning pathways and narrative fidelity.
• Quality Assurance & Editorial Review: Subjected the full instructional blueprint and narrative copy to a rigorous editorial review process with a professional academic editor to ensure structural coherence, pedagogical rigor, and instructional clarity.
  

Development: Asset Production & Interactive Authoring

• Synthetic AI Media Generation: Generated a high-fidelity, photorealistic digital avatar in Synthesia to establish a consistent, authoritative guide and deliver project-wide orientations.
• Blended Visual Storytelling: Seamlessly integrated the Synthesia AI avatar into custom Vyond animated vignettes for each of the six escape rooms, producing a visually rich, blended-media learning environment (human-like AI narration paired with stylized scenario animation).
• Advanced Logic & Interactivity: Authored the core master courseware in Articulate Storyline 360, architecting intricate variables, condition-based triggers, feedback loops, and interactive decision-making challenges.
• Scale of Deliverable: Engineered a robust, 65-slide interactive learning simulation encompassing six fully realized, sequential scenario-based escape rooms.
  

Implementation: LMS Deployment & Course Rollout

• LMS Integration: Packaged and integrated the interactive module into the university’s Learning Management System (LMS), ensuring full technical compatibility, SCORM/xAPI compliance, and seamless tracking.
• Live Term Rollout: Successfully migrated the redesign into the live academic term, transitioning management to graduate course faculty.
• Faculty Enablement: Positioned the interactive escape rooms as a centerpiece instructional asset within the core curriculum, providing faculty with a turnkey, highly immersive active learning experience.

Evaluation: Formative Quality Control & Summative Impact

• Formative Evaluation: Conducted continuous quality assessments across all development sprints, evaluating visual assets, narrative scripting, user experience (UX), and interactive logic with the SME and project team, finalized through professional editorial sign-off.
• Summative Learner & Faculty Impact: Post-implementation feedback from graduate students and instructors demonstrated superior engagement levels and substantial gains in qualitative comprehension of complex assessment concepts compared to traditional formats.
• Academic Recognition & Scholarship: Demonstrating exemplary success, the project received exceptional SME acclaim, culminating in an invitation to co-author a scholarly journal publication and co-present the instructional framework at an academic conference.