This page offers links to academic work completed as part of the requirements for UMBC’s Instructional Systems Development (ISD) certificate program. Each of these projects represented the capstone requirement for each course. Together and separately, they convey both my teaching philosophy and understanding of instructional design principles and how they should be applied in traditional training/educational settings and in the virtual environment.
A Case Study in Course Design
This paper, written for EDUC 605 (The Adult Learner) combines adult learning theory with an analysis of community college curriculum design. The discussion centers on issues in remedial education and describes how a well-designed hybrid course can engage and empower learners.
Instructional Design: A Training Program for ESL Volunteers
This project reflects a semester-long project in adult training that engaged all principles of the ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation). A modified (shorter) version of the training session took place in August 2011 for teachers and assistants in the St. Mary’s English as a Second Language Program. This instructor-led training session is based on Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction. This project was completed for EDUC 602 (Instructional Systems Design I).
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Effective E-learning Design: How Learning Theory and Technology Come Together in Designing Online Courses
This paper for EDUC 671 (Principles of Training and Development) considers what elements are required for effective e-learning for both academic course design and training. It concludes that interactivity is required to engage the learner and allow for opportunities for critical thinking and reflection. Co-author: Simone Fary.
Practicum: A Training Program for Community Association Leaders
In this course (EDUC 603, ISD Design II), students were required to find a consulting opportunity in order to design a training program geared to resolving a performance gap. The client: an Anne Arundel community association and its president seeking an alternative to contentious, unproductive, and unnecessarily long board meetings. This project involved interviews, a performance gap analysis, root cause analysis, board survey, and a document review. The outcome: a training program in effective meeting facilitation.
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