Using New Media to Support Education
Two Bridges Instruction Technology develops instructional materials that incorporate modern media forms in innovative ways. As a wise Communications professor once observed, new media forms are often used in old ways: the first movies were filmed live plays, the first television shows were televised radio shows. Only when ways are found to apply a new medium does that medium shine.
To support traditional learning tools, we create digital narratives that support the mastery of key principles or that serve as case studies. Our ongoing work uses sandbox simulation and alternative reality games as elements to create more immersive case studies.
Our primary content domain of interest is business data analysis instruction on the post-secondary level.
Most recently, Two Bridges seeks to combine interactive fiction software with large language models to create frameworks for advanced business cases that have non-linear and multiple paths to case resolutions.
Recent Presentations
DSI Annual Conference November 22-24, 2025, In Orlando, Florida.
In a session, David advocating for reimagining the topical converage of business statistics textbooks. He noted that the continuing influence of the earliest business statistics textbooks, written at a time decades before modern applications and technology. David also served as a panel which discussed current issues and challenges for data-driven decision-making instruction.
DSI DASI SIG “Brown Bag” Session, July 31, 2025.
In the session “Storytelling Is Not Just for Data,” David discussed how non-linear storytelling and the tools of interactive fiction could be used to better present dense information and complex business cases.
DSI Annual Conference, November 23-25, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona.
In two DASI SIG sessions, David first suggested how introductory data analysis courses might be affected by the growing use of (limited memory) AI models. he then presented experiments with ChatGPT that represented a creative use of that tool as well being examplars of possible new types of problems.
DSI DASI SIG “Brown Bag” Session, September 25, 2024.
In the session “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About AI [but were afraid to ask (or didn’t know to ask)],” David introduced several observations and principles fundamental to understanding and properly use AI tools.
Even You Can Learn Statistics and Analytics, 4th edition, now available at InformIT.com.
Basic Business Statistics, 15th edition, now available from Pearson.
