Version 1.1.94 stable of the SIMPLE:tools can be downloaded below.

This updated version should address issues running the tools under Windows Vista & Windows 7.

The SIMPLE:tools are made available under the terms of the "Non-Profit Open Software License version 3.0".

If you are having problems running SIMPLE tools under Windows Vista, please try the following steps:

The University of Strathclyde's Law School received funding to create a series of on-line videos introducing SIMPLE and how to get started with SIMPLE. These videos are available online at http://www.law.strath.ac.uk/ltdu/simple/gettingstarted/

We hope that additional episodes covering more of SIMPLE's features and functionality will be added in the future.

This resource has been developed as part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC Collaboration initiative to support practitioners in further and higher education in their use of technology to enhance learning, teaching and assessment.

Here in Glasgow, as I type, it's stair-rods outside my window. By now, though, my colleagues Karen Barton and Michael Hughes will be in Boulder, Colorado, attending the CALI conference, and giving workshops on SIMPLE to folk from six US law schools who are keen to use SIMPLE.

SIMPLE, the SIMulated Professional Learning Environment (http://simplecommunity.org/), missed out on a medal at the 2009 IMS Learning Consortium's annual Learning Impact Awards but did receive a Leadership Award for Best Simulation Toolkit. SIMPLE was only one of handful of JISC supported projects that successfully made it through to the finalists showcase in Barcelona in May 2009.

SIMPLE is a finalist at the IMS Learning Impact Awards 2009 (http://www.imsglobal.org/learningimpact2009/).

Michael Hughes will be there ready to answer any questions about the SIMPLE platform and tools.

Michael Hughes will be running a demonstration of the SIMPLE at the CELTS conference on Monday 29th March at 1200.

Michael and Paul spent the day with Scott Slorach and designers at the College of Law yesterday, training the curriculum designers in the use of SIMPLE. We discussed resource-building, simulation design, and started the process of sim building on the NED (narrative event diagram). The College is using SIMPLE in two simulations on a pilot basis, and if this goes well they will be creating and extending simulations on other programmes in the future. Interesting conversations with the designers about curriculum design and the use of transactional learning.

This past week Michael Hughes and I have been in Canberra, at the Legal Workshop, College of Law in the Australian National University, Canberra. We've been working with them on pilot simulations, helping them to build the sims, showing them how to resource them, run them and discussing the general educational and technological background to the sims. It's been a wonderful, intense time over five days, with lots of presentations, lots of pilot planning, discussions of sim learning & assessment with course leaders, IT staff and educationalists.