Colorado State University Pueblo
Graduate instructional design including course revisions/course conversion to hybrid/online environments/new course builds; curriculum development for three new graduate degree programs; consultations with faculty members; professional development activities and initiatives; developed Graduate Faculty Toolkit (53MB of online links/resources/professional learning)
Western Governors University, Salt Lake City, Utah
Instructional design responsibilities for online/mobile CBE nursing prelicensure, undergraduate, and graduate level courses; coordinate with administrators, Data Specialists, Course Mentors, Subject Matter Experts, Assessment Specialists, and vendors; revised, updated, and combined formerly separate didactic and clinical prelicensure courses; developed single courses from formerly separate didactic and clinical courses; and revised and updated MSN program courses.
Instructional design to improve the ten worst performing courses in the college; revised 30 courses for Course Consistency Project; developed a Health Professions Knowledge Base and Student Engagement Toolkit for Instructional Designers. Helped lead the online CBE curriculum in the nursing program to recognition as a National Center of Excellence by the National League for Nursing (NLN), one of only 12 schools of nursing to receive this designation.
Technologies/Tools
Various authoring tools; hyperlinks; video conferencing tools; whiteboards; blogs; message boards; podcasts; webcasts; synchronous and asynchronous discussion forums; learning object development; video and audio recording, editing, and production; photo, illustration, and design tools; groupware tools; discipline-specific search engines; multimedia tools; online survey tools; resource development and archiving; web design; web architecture; social networking; social organizing systems; Web 2.0; Flash; cloud computing; data mashups; various learning management systems; clickers; m-learning tools and technologies; Camtasia; and institutional, program, faculty, and student assessment tools
Skills/Abilities/Expertise
Professional consulting; leadership, administrative, and supervisory skills; comprehensive financial services; project and program management expertise; technical skills, abilities, and expertise; teaching and learning expertise; adult pedagogy expertise; online higher education expertise; budgeting skills; training skills; writing skills; presentation skills; interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills; research skills; analytical skills; assessment expertise; curriculum development and instructional design expertise; team building skills; scheduling abilities; organizational skills; entrepreneurial skills and abilities; marketing skills; public relations skills; data management skills; professional development expertise; graphic design skills; and ability to recognize trends in online higher education, educational technology, pedagogy, CBE, PBL, TBL, active/adaptive learning, and electronically-mediated teaching and learning.