21st Century Energy Transitions
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Energy systems are often "Black Boxes" to the average person—power goes in, light comes out, but the process is invisible. To teach Energy Transitions, we had to make a massive, invisible system perceivable.
ONLEA provided art direction and project management, filming and video production, multimedia design and animation, and quality assurance to deliver a high-quality course suited to both the University of Alberta’s learning management system and the Coursera platform.
This Massive Online Course (we call them MOOCs!) launched on Coursera on September 29th, 2022.
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Following Don Norman's principle of Natural Mapping, I worked to visualize the transition from fossil fuels to renewables as a logical progression rather than a chaotic shift.
Explainamations: I used video and motion graphics to "open the box," showing the causal relationships between policy, technology, and environmental impact.
Conceptual Clarity: By stripping away unnecessary "visual noise," I allowed the learner to focus on the core variables of the energy grid.
There were several stakeholders involved in this large MOOC:
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This is a large MOOC, and I produced 2/3 of the 28 modules.
As the Multimedia Designer on this project, my tasks included:
filming and set up in the studio, teleprompter, and direction
video editing for 2-camera set-up (colour correction and sound) with Premiere Pro,
audio correction,
sourcing stock photos, and
creating and animating graphics with After Effects.
"The hardest part of this project wasn't coming up with content; it was deciding what to leave out. Good design is as much about what you omit as what you include."
