About Us
Overview
What We Do
WisdomTools is a leader in developing immersive, story-based, and context-aware (e.g., location, environmental conditions, skill level) mobile, desktop, and Internet based eLearning technologies.
Together with parent company IIPI's diverse array of powerful technological capabilities, WisdomTools is now able to expand beyond its original story-based offerings Scenarios™ and eScenes™ to offer increasingly customized and customizable immersive learning solutions, including:
- virtual world simulations,
- serious games,
- microgames,
- mobile learning platforms,
- augmented reality, and,
- blended solutions that incorporate any or all of the above.
These new blended learning solutions can be adapted for use by individual learners, for use in computer labs, or even as hybrid eLearning/instructor-led courses.
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Services
WisdomTools offers an experienced team of serious game designers, instructional designers, interface/interaction designers, modelers, learning scientists, writers, and programmers to develop your training solution. Over the past ten years, WisdomTools has developed expertise in a range of areas in training, serious games, and simulation. Based on these methodologies and frameworks, we offer clients full lifecycle management, from concept to ongoing support and evaluation.
Our services include:
- Serious game concept development
- Game design and prototyping (e.g., storyboards)
- Cognitive task analysis /task analysis for identification of expert processes
- Courseware development
- Story-based training approaches (i.e, Scenarios, eScenes)
- Problem-based training approaches
- Instructional design and content mapping using the WT Authoring Studio™
- Interface design and usability testing
- Universal design to address needs of people with physical and learning disabilities
- Research/evaluation on learning objectives, motivation, and other variables
- Identification of commercial off-the-shelf games
Types of Games:
- Serious games and microgames (training, education, behavior, health)
- Simulations
- Mobile & location-based games
- Augmented reality/mixed reality games
- Machinima for training
Our History
WisdomTools LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Information In Place, Inc. (IIPI).
WisdomTools Inc. was founded in 1998 as a spinout of Indiana University's Center for Excellence in Education by Dr. Martin Siegel, a pioneer in computer-based education. The mission was simple--to harness the power of story to teach more effectively. Over the next ten years, Wisdomtools Inc. became well known in the eLearning industry as a leader in story-based and contextualized learning technologies and developed an impressive roster of clients, including IBM, Eli Lilly, AT&T, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and many others.
In 1999, Information In Place, Inc. was co-founded by Dr. Sonny Kirkley, Chairman and CEO, and Chris Borland, President and CTO. IIPI was also a spinout from the Indiana University Center for Excellence in Education, and was conceived with a similar, but distinct mission: to develop immersive and augmented reality training and performance support solutions that result in dramatic improvements on performance. In 2008, IIPI acquired WisdomTools Inc. and merged it with IIPI's training division to form WisdomTools LLC.
WisdomTools LLC is an eLearning software and services firm that specializes in using the power of immersive learning technologies to deliver contextual and engaging learning experiences that encourage maximum information retention. For over a decade, WisdomTools has worked with corporate, educational, and government institutions to develop engaging story-based learning.
Our Location
501 North Morton Street, Suite 206
Indiana University Research Park
Bloomington, IN 47404
Telephone: (812) 856-4202
Fax: (810) 454-6969
Directions & Parking
Building Maps:- From Your Custom Location
- From Indianapolis International Airport
- From Indiana University (Memorial Union)