Artifacts

Communication and Analysis

The above images are an example of a needs assessment plan created for implementing a distance learning initiative. This excerpt is an example of possible solutions for university stakeholders to review. Conducting needs assessments, analyzing university systems for organizational interventions and preparing assessment tools after actively listening to client concerns, requires excellent communication skills.

Communication and Analysis Skills

  • Produce visuals that adhere to the principles of message design.
  • Deliver effective and engaging presentations.
  • Use appropriate tools to communicate with learners, clients, and other stakeholders.
  • Analyze learning and performance problems to recommend appropriate solutions.
  • Use a variety of analysis practices such as performance system analysis, needs assessment, goal, task, learner, and context analysis.
  • Use appropriate data collection methods and tools to conduct analyses.
  • Estimate costs and benefits for proposed solutions.
  • Write analysis reports and disseminate findings to stakeholders.

Instructional Design 

Full ENC1102E-BOOK Sample Assignment

The images above are an example of an interactive e-book chapter on Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal” I created highlighting my instructional design skills. This excerpt from the chapter includes interactive objectives, and a series of QR codes I created to offer students quick references to historically contextualize the short story presented in the chapter. I have received positive feedback from students regarding this assignment every semester. The link above provides additional examples design skills.

Design Skills

  • Apply learning theory and systems thinking to design practice.
  • Design a curriculum, program, or learning solution.
  • Work with subject-matter experts and other team members to design interventions.
  • Align outcomes, strategies, and assessments.
  • Generate appropriate instructional strategies and activities.
  • Apply interaction design principles.
  • Design assessments to measure learning and performance.
  • Identify the scope and sequence for instructional solutions.
  • Use visual design principles appropriately.

 

 Adaptive E-learning Center

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These slides are images taken from an adaptive e-learning prototype I designed as a project for an adaptive learning course but it was also a project I created to assist with teacher training in a homeschool collective. Although the actual collective could not incorporate the strategies I created for the adaptive e-learning centers, the theoretical model for this project assisted novice teachers with instructional design. The adaptive e-learning centers I created were for children, therefore, bright primary colors and other instructional design elements that adhere to instructional standards for children are present. Learner characteristics, cognitive theory, and other technological theoretical models were used to create this prototype. I also created the word art presented in the “center entrance.”

Technology and Media Skills

  • Select and use appropriate technology and media for specific outcomes.
  • Develop instructional materials using a variety of media (e.g., print, audio-visual, multimedia).
  • Develop and use web-based instruction, e-learning, social media, and content management tools.
  • Analyze the characteristics of existing and emerging technology.
  • Use technology correctly for professional communication purposes.
  • Use technology tools in the design process.
  • Provide a rationale for technology and media decisions.

 

Social Media Research Analysis

The above images are excerpts from a small scale Qualtrics survey I designed to conduct research on online protests and their ability to affect offline protests and social change. I chose a variety of question styles to construct an effective survey on social media usage as it relates to protest and social justice. I also used various social media analytics and qualitative research to construct this project that I hope to submit as an article for publication.

Evaluation and Research Skills

  • Apply appropriate qualitative and quantitative data collection methods.
  • Construct valid & reliable data collection tools.
  • Collect, analyze, and summarize data.

Faculty Workshops

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After providing feedback to an administrator at my current job, she decided to implement some of the changes I suggested. The university stakeholders were slated to invest a considerable amount of money on portfolio tools for students in their new Quality Enhancement Program initiative. I was able to encourage the administration to use the tools readily available to them and gave them examples of technology they could use within the software currently utilized at the university. Because of these suggestions, I will participate in facilitating faculty workshops on e-portfolios and instructional design. During the last quality enhancement program, I conducted faculty workshops on strategies for critical thinking and analysis in the writing classroom. Above is a portfolio draft created in Adobe Portfolio that I will use for these workshops.

Management Skills and Personal & Interpersonal Skills

  • Establish project scope and goals.
  • Identify and resolve management issues
  • Collaborate with team members, clients, and stakeholders.
  • Give and receive constructive feedback.
  • Build positive relationships with team members, clients, and other stakeholders
  • Recognize and accommodate individual and cultural differences.
  • Stay current about advances in instructional systems and learning technology.