Text of IELS Design Conversation - with Dr. Badrul Khan and Mays Nakashima ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * IELS -- Interactive Engaging Learning System Khan: Hi Mays, how ya doin Nakashima: Oh, Great Khan: Very good. Well, looks like you are the chief architect of this learning design from the information technology standpoint can you tell us about the program. Khan: How do you like it and what's in it. Nakashima: Yes, It's a very exciting process to build systems that are using the latest technologies to build multimedia applications in a learning environment so that students can find it easy to use and fun to use as well. Khan: Great. So you think one can use this program without going through a lot of instruction manuals. Is it easy to use? Nakashima: Right, It's specially designed to that it comes naturally. We use drag and drop interface and a lot of videos and a lot of the normal gaming technologies which people find fun to use and that makes them more engaged and more likely to learn and we are finding it to be very effective. Khan: Excellent. Thank you Nakashima: You're welcome