QUT 360 Learning Experience

This project was created at QUT as part of a research-linked learning and assessment initiative for emergency department nurses in rural, regional and remote areas. The digital component used 360 media and structured online interaction to create a more situated learning experience than a conventional written module.

My role was to design and implement the digital learning component: the interface, user flow and guided experience that allowed learners to move through the scenario, observe the environment and engage with assessment prompts.

Emergency department nursing involves situated judgement, context and professional decision-making. For nurses in rural, regional and remote areas, access to in-person training can be more difficult, so online learning needs to do more than present information on a page.

The challenge was to create a digital learning experience that could support professional learning and assessment online while still giving learners a sense of context. The experience needed to help learners observe, interpret and respond within a realistic environment.

The learning experience placed the learner inside a 360 environment. Instead of reading about a scenario from the outside, the learner could look around the space, move through guided prompts and engage with assessment moments connected to what they were seeing.

The design aimed to make the learning feel more concrete and situated, while still being accessible through a browser-based online experience.

This project shows how digital experience design can support learning when the goal is not just to deliver content, but to place the learner closer to a professional context. The 360 environment gave learners a way to observe and respond within a more realistic setting than a standard online module.

The QUT 360 Learning Experience showed another form of digital layering: using 360 media, guided prompts and browser-based interaction to place learners closer to a professional context. The technology mattered because it helped support situated judgement, observation and assessment.

It also shows how my work sits between UX, learning design and implementation: structuring the learner journey, designing the interface and building the digital component that made the experience usable.

This work is associated with a manuscript submitted to Nurse Education Today titled Designing online assessment to support professional learning for ED nurses in rural, regional, and remote areas.

The public portfolio page should not list the manuscript as published unless it is later accepted and publicly available.

This project connects directly to my current practice because it shows how guided digital experiences can help people understand and respond to complex situations. The learner is not only reading information; they are moving through a structured digital environment that gives context to the decisions being made.

The same principle carries into my wider work: using interaction, structure and context to make complex places, services and ideas easier to understand.