Learner Tools
Learner-Facing Tools represent the most tangible learner materials and create a lasting impression. I work to create materials that support the overall instructional approach and serve as a reference after instruction is complete. Content, audience, narrative style, delivery format, and indexing are all important considerations. The samples below encompass distinct and deliberate formats selected for unique purposes featuring an Online Program, a Project Based Program, and a Blended Program.
Asynchronous Online Training Portal for Professional/Adult Learners // Digital Quest - Instructional Design/LX Design
The Online Training Portal was developed for professional organizations to train current staff and future hires consistently. Training topics range from 3D Printing Software to 3D Scanning and are created independently in "sprints". Asynchronous, responsive video based content allows learners to visualize instruction in desktop settings or in the field via tablets or mobile devices. User Logins determine access to individual sections.
Instructional Features:
A process based workflow for each topic/hardware based on industry application.
Single page design for each topic provides a contained source for all content, videos, descriptions, and downloadable data.
Single long topic narrated video or chapter sections based on a created workflow.
Technical Requirements: Wordpress, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Camtasia, Adobe Animate, Adobe Premiere, Storyboard; SME Collaboration on Artec Scanning, Stratasys, & GrabCAD
Project Management for Geospatial Technology// Digital Quest - Author/Instructional Design
While learning geospatial technology requires step by step instruction to learn technical features, much of the work occurs before you open a program and log after you have created a map. This print/ebook for professionals and students-- the final in an eight title series-- serves as a guide for planning and executing a geospatial project. It is designed to contextualize all supervisory and administrative geospatial tasks while providing a framework for managing those tasks.
Instructional Features:
Planning tasks from project identification to determining deliverables
Instruction for informative or persuasive reporting and presenting
Rubrics for evaluating performance and reporting
Tools project tasks like stakeholder interviews and time management
Technical Requirements: Adobe Suite, Office Suite, ArcGIS; Book Production & Budgeting; SME Collaboration on project management in large and small organizations
College & Career Ready Industry-Focused Academic Course// Southern Regional Educational Board (SREB) - Lead Writer
This series of Blended Learning projects for the SREB are part of an initiative to combine technical, organizational, and academic instruction into a project-based, learner-guided environment. A priority of the project is authenticity, so the end product became a complex simulation of science and industry careers complete with all necessary science, literacy, mathematics, and technical instruction.
Instructional Features:
Simulation-based instruction to mimic real world scenarios down to authentic industry feedback.
Consistent framework from topics as diverse as six sigma approach for manufacturing carbon to wetlands management & flood control.
Consistency was crucial in maintaining quality from project to project as well as developing a set of expectations for direct-report writers as well as senior editors.
Developed as complete separate projects within larger series
Technical Requirements: Desktop Publishing Tools, Sharepoint; Many industry packages; SME Collaboration on many disparate topics.