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Rodney Tamblyn, CEO and Founder

Currently he leads the team behind the development and commercialisation of OB3, working with clients at the Universities of Otago, Sydney and Melbourne and Washington. Rodney’s prior experience includes 10 years in various e-learning roles within the University of Otago.

Stuart Barson, Business Development

Stuart helps to set our strategy and find new partnering opportunities. He has an extensive background in health and education as a university commercial manager, tertiary teacher and policy analyst. In the 1990s, he worked in the New Zealand Parliament for three Ministers of Health, putting his MA in Political Studies from the University of Otago to good use. He loves to bodyboard in the cold waters of Dunedin.

 

Dr Gloria Gomez, Interaction and Educational Design

Dr Gomez has significant international experience in Australia, the United States and Colombia, including award-winning international projects.  She was the visual designer for CmapTools, used in over 70 countries. She has a PhD in Interaction Design from the Swinburne University of Technology. 

Michael Mitchell, Lead Developer

Michael’s prior experience includes many large scale commercial web projects, including Splash Monitoring, a sophisticated web monitoring solution. Michael’s previous projects with OceanBrowser include HealthSearch. He is Zend certified.

Mikhail Medvedev, Front-end

Mikhail seems to be finally winning his 8-year-long war with Internet Explorer, if only due to his naturally-longer lifespan. When not playing with colours and shapes, he enjoys nature and the noise pollution of said nature with the sounds of his guitar. Past projects include www.snapper.co.nz

We expected the project to require programmers and designers, but with OB3 it can be completed by teachersMichael J Lew, University of Melbourne

Our project requires integration of pre-existing resources (presentations, animation and LiveCode simulation widgets) and fully standalone computer-based learning modules. We selected OB3 because of its capacity to freely combine such material within a textual narrative. Its support of Livecode web objects is crucial. We expected the project to require a concerted effort with contracted programmers and designers, but with OB3 it will become one that can be completed by the academic teachers.

Michael J LewSenior Lecturer
Department of Pharmacology
University of Melbourne
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OB3 beta 4 released

We're excited to announce the release of OB3 beta 4, the web application for online study. OB3 is the result of over 3 years of research and development, we're ...

OB3 beta 4 released

We're excited to announce the release of OB3 beta 4, the web application for online study. OB3 is the result of over 3 years of research and development, we're committed to improving the way graduate and professional education is delivered online.

Significant features of this release include:

  • Document sharing: share OB3 files or folders with colleagues, or publish to groups & courses with options to control what people can do within your content.
  • Discussions: all  OB3 documents now support discussions which are attached to any element within a document.
  • OB3 Powerpoint (PPT) converter (Windows) - Migrate your PPT content into OB3 with a single click converter. Supports multimedia presentations with video, audio, annotated images. Flexible options control how your presentation is converted. Perfect for converting Medical PPT presentations to OB3.
  • Export/Import: backup your OB3 documents for an offline copy of your work (saves as XML).
  • Document history: all changes to documents are recorded. Use the history menu to review changes or undo mistakes. History is available on each element within a document (e.g. a paragraph) as well as the whole document.
  • In-browser audio recording. From the element control bar select More -> Audio, then click the Microphone tab. Record audio and upload directly into OB3 without any additional software (other than Flash).
  • Many minor enhancements (such as support for superscript and subscript), layout improments, help message improvements, printing, linking between OB3 documents.
  • Support for Chrome Frame for older Internet Explorer browsers.

Earlier releases of OB3 provided:

  • A fully featured multimedia document authoring editor.
  • Intuitive editing features: click on anything in your document to edit, your changes are saved as you work.
  • Copy and paste compatability between web pages, MS Word documents and OB3. Use copy and paste to import text with ease.
  • Support for a wide variety of modern web browsers.
  • Drag and drop integration between the desktop and OB3 in your browser: add files, images, videos etc to your documents via drag and drop.

Rodney Tamblyn | CEO & Founder | oceanbrowser.com  email: rodney at oceanbrowser.com
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