Instructional Designer · Higher Education
Designing learning that actually works.
I partner with faculty and institutions to build courses, programs, and professional development experiences grounded in learning science — and designed for real students.
Areas of Practice
Course Design
Backward design, Quality Matters, and evidence-based frameworks applied to online and hybrid courses.
Faculty Development
Cohort-based professional learning programs, one-on-one consultations, and sustainable teaching support.
eLearning & Accessibility
Interactive eLearning development, LMS implementation, and universal design for equitable learning.
Writing
Wiggins and McTighe's Understanding by Design framework has been around for decades, but most faculty implementations stop at writing learning outcomes. Here's how to push further and make backward design genuinely transformative for your course.
AI image generators and chatbots have been flooding the instructional design space. After a year of experimenting, here's an honest account of what's genuinely changed my workflow and what's still more hype than help.
Universal Design for Learning often gets reduced to 'add captions and alt text.' That's accessibility — it's necessary but not sufficient. Here's what UDL actually asks us to do, and how to begin without redesigning your entire course.