Instructional Design Skills

I must say how much I like what you’ve done. Your work has made me realize how absolutely essential an instructional designer is. I’m sure that if some of our failing students at UWI had the benefit of such input into courses, they would have had greater success.

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Your work is absolutely essential to the improvement of learning outcomes, I believe. Thank you for the opportunity to have collaborated!!! It has been a huge eye-opener.

Heather Ricketts
University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

 

The purpose of this section of the website is to illustrate my skills and thought process as I engage in instructional design, the types of materials I create as a result and templates to guide faculty in the development of courses.

But before I delve into that, here's a comment that speaks about my skills as instructional designer and about the role of instructional designers in general. It is from a faculty member I had the opportunity to collaborate with in designing one of the courses for the Organization of America States:

Technical Skills

Instructional design & teaching with technology

Instructional design project management

  • Establishing goals, deliverables, and deadlines
  • Monitoring progress
  • Managing resources and people
  • Evaluating achievement
  • Using project management/teamwork software (e.g., Teamwork, Microsoft Teams, Slack)

Communication and collaboration using web conferencing, and file-sharing tools (e.g., Zoom, WebEx, GoToMeeting, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive)

Learning management systems use (e.g., Blackboard, Brightspace, Canvas, eCollege, Moodle)

Learning management systems administration (e.g., Blackboard, Brightspace, Canvas, eCollege, Moodle)

Accessibility (e.g., remediation of content to comply with the WCAG 2.0, trained on Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education)

eLearning content development

Website design/development

  • HTML, CSS, PHP, Authoring Tools (e.g., Adobe Dreamweaver)
  • Web content development & maintenance using content management systems (e.g., Drupal)

Multimedia design/development

  • Image/photo editing (e.g., Photoshop)
  • Audio/video editing (e.g., iMovie, Adobe Premiere, Audition)
  • Screen recording (e.g., Camtasia, Adobe Presenter Video Express)
  • Animation (e.g., Advanced PowerPoint)

Design and development of office documents (e.g., Microsoft Office and Google Suite)

Ability to work on both computer platforms:

  • Mac
  • Windows