Focuses on design principles and how-to techniques, and explains how to develop a control program for the disc.
BIO:
NICK IUPPA (M.A. Communication, Stanford University) has served as Vice President and Creative Director of the Paramount Pictures Simulation Group and Head of Instructional Design at Bank of America. He has also held similar positions at the Hewlett Packard Televisions Network and Apple Computer's Learning Technologies Group.
TRAINING AND EDUCATION FOR KIDS: Mr. Iuppa began his career as a full time staff writer for the Wonderful World of Disney and later wrote for MGM and Hanna Barbera Animation. As a freelance writer for Walt Disney Educational Media, he wrote over 30 films, filmstrips, comic books and games on subjects ranging from science and economics for kindergartners, to health and safety for tweens. He also designed and wrote consumer games for Worlds of Wonder, and Electronic Arts. In 2005 - 2006, Mr. Iuppa and his team designed a tween Interactive Game Package called Brain Candy for Leap Frog's FLY pentop computer. In 2007 he designed a game package to teach fire safety to Alaska native children (for the US Fire Service).
MILITARY SIMULATION TRAINING: In 1997 while working for Paramount Pictures, Mr. Iuppa became the principal designer on the StoryDrive Engine Project. This project sought to create a story-based simulation training system to bring the power of "Hollywood-style stories" to military simulations. The Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) chose "The Crisis Decision Exercise," of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, as a test bed for Paramount's system. In the test, the value of story and character in simulation training were judged a great success. Mr. Iuppa also served as the principle instructional designer for the US Army's Advanced Leadership Training Simulation (ALTSIM) in 2002 and was Paramount's project lead on the Army's LEADERS Simulation Training Program in 2004. Both projects were done as a collaboration between Paramount Pictures and the University of Southern California.
CORPORATE TRAINING: People Skills was a notable multimedia simulation systems designed to teach cognitive learning in a corporate environment. The Bank of America employed the simulation in their Teller Schools in the early 1980s. A team of instructional designers under Mr. Iuppa's direction performed the behavioral analysis on which the exercise was based. Iuppa's resulting instructional design was a landmark in the formulation of multimedia instruction in cognitive learning. It became the subject of a series of textbooks authored by Mr. Iuppa, which have been used at major universities throughout the world.
The basic designs of the People Skills simulation were adapted to management training by Mr. Iuppa who wrote, designed and produced a series of media enhanced, instructor lead seminars employed by Hewlett Packard throughout its worldwide installations. Iuppa's additional efforts in using simulation to teach cognitive skills include sales and management seminars for Apple, the Bell Telephone Company and the Eastman Kodak Company.
Read more about Nick at www.nickiuppa.com
