Experience the fully animated, interactive web app on desktop Chrome browser!
Introducing Global Pandemics: a cutting-edge, browser-based, digital learning experience—designed to enhance student understanding of the role of pandemics in world history.
Presenting Chapter 1: “To Do No Harm,” the story of Nikos of Athens, a physician during the Plague of Athens, 429 BCE, who struggles to treat the multitude who fall ill during this world-upending ordeal, causing him to question everything he holds dear, from his faith in Apollo, healer under the gods, to the meaning of his Hippocratic Oath, and what is truly at stake in medical ethics.
Interactive Digital Storytelling & Applied Educational Research
The Global Pandemics prototype consists of over 50 uniquely designed, animated web pages featuring over 2 hours of engaging, rewarding learning material for students to explore. The product combines digital storytelling with interactive learning design to craft a rich, complex pedagogical experience that immerses students in the power of story.
Global Pandemics provides historical context for students about the challenges COVID-19 has presented to people around the world. The design of Global Pandemics is positioned at the nexus of innovative pedagogical, theoretical, and technological practices—including narrative studies, multimodal literacies, and game-based learning research.
Chapter 1: “To Do No Harm” | Watch the Video Walkthrough on YouTube | Witness the Plague of Athens, 4th Century BCE
- 3D Motion Design to Recreate History
- Advanced Web Animation to Simulate Pathogens
- Immersive 360 Panoramas of Historical Locations
Building on a rich tradition of digital media and learning research, Global Pandemics immerses and engages students through meaningful choice and multimodal interaction design. Our browser-based digital learning experience, Plague of Athens for Chromebook, introduces multiple novel technologies:
- Animated Historical Timeline & Maps
- Choice-based Narrative Design
- Interactive Original Historical Documents
- Media-Rich Adaptive Assessments
