November 2015: Presented early stage interaction design research as part UAE Innovation Week, showcasing MadeFire MotionBook technology.
June 2016: Awarded Summer Research Institute Fellowship to the Harris Manchester College at Oxford; conducted design and curriculum research
July 2016: Digital Learning design research presentation delivered at the International Big History Association Conference in Amsterdam
Fall 2016: FTO Awarded, time is used to develop project pre-alpha, which is completed by December of 2016
April 2, 2017: Dr. Jonathan Markley, leading Big Historian, comes to AUD campus and speaks as part of Visual Forums Series. Topic: Innovating Visual Educational Multimedia. Partnership with the IBHA formed.
April 9, 2017: presented first live demo as part of Visual Forum Series to an audience in the VC Rotunda, showcasing key features in early stage.
May 17, 2017: Out of over 700 entries, the digital learning concept wins 5th place in the Dubai Smartpreneur 2.0 Competition, as part of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce Smart City Initiative.
Nov 7-9, 2017: Big History Adventures receives competitive invitation to exhibit live demo on the showroom floor of Web Summit 2017, the largest technology conference in the world, which will be the first live demo for an international audience.
Nov 15, 2017: Presented “worked example” digital media and learning research at EduTECH Middle East, Dubai.
March 28, 2018: Live hands-on demo on display as official selection to 2018 Step Conference.
November 2018: From stealth mode to soft launch..
Dec 12, 2018: History Adventures, Ch. III Conscribo, goes live on iTunes in 52 countries!
Feb 13, 2019: hands-on demo of v2.0, as official selection to the 2019 Step Conference.
Feb 22, 2019: First demo of History Adventures for Asian audience at Slush Tokyo, Japan
April 2019: Development of History Adventures version 2.0 begins, with new technology strategy intended for content scalability.
August 2019: Early prototype of version 2.0 completed.
September 1 – December 31, 2019: Intensive version 2.0 development cycle.
January 31, 2020: History Adventures, World of Characters, Book 3: 1750-1900 goes live with 5 fully interactive, animated, multimodal historical narrative chapters.
February 1 – May 1, 2020: Intensive development cycle of Empires & Interconnections, 1450 – 1750 commences.
