Instructional Resources
I have provide a sample of the instructional resources I have developed over the years for a range of purposes. These resources are not regularly updated, but they do give you an idea of the type of instructional design work I have done in the past. Many of these resources are published as Open Educational Resources (OER) for sharing, remixing, and distribution.
This resource was developed in my Advanced Instructional Design course in the Fall of 2014. This resource was created using a novel systematic approach to the design and development of a peer-reviewed eBook as part of a classroom learning experience. This was the first resource developed following this process. This resource explains contemporary instructional design following the ADDIE model: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. This ebook includes interactive quizzes, discussion questions, individual assignment activities, chapter summaries, and a group project component.
The Citizen Science Curriculum was designed to serve as an Open Educational Resource (OER) to prepare citizens to participate in medical research. This is a program at the University of Florida in which citizens are hired as citizen scientists to provide research scientists a lay perspective during the research process. The curriculum covers everything from informed consent to biomedical big data research. The curriculum is delivered on a WordPress platform with dozens of YouTube videos of subject-matter experts. Each lesson includes a video tutorial and a practice assessment.
Citizen Science Cancer Research Curriculum
The Citizen Science Cancer Research Curriculum is an extension to the original Citizen Science program focusing on cancer research outcomes. Using a similar approach to the original curriculum, the content is organized into five modules with instructional videos and interactive practice assessments. Additionally, this resource also does a patient case study video series from the perspective of a cancer survivor, caregivers, and healthcare providers. This program is also housed at the University of Florida and is distributed as an Open Educational Resource (OER).
Power and Sample Size for Multilevel and Longitudinal Study Designs
Power and Sample Size for Multilevel and Longitudinal Study Designs is an interactive Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) delivered on the Coursera platform. The curriculum focuses on a range of research designs using multilevel and longitudinal data and the critical importance of calculating power and estimating appropriate sample sizes for the research objectives. The course was developed several years ago as part of an NIH grant I was involved in.
Distance Education Theory and Practice
This resource was developed in my Advanced Instructional Design course in the Fall of 2016. This is the second resource designed and developed using this novel systematic approach to eBook development. In this iteration, several enhancements were made to this instructional design process. This resource explains contemporary distance education research and practice by providing a rich definition, history, and lens to examine the field. This ebook includes interactive quizzes, discussion questions, individual assignment activities, and chapter summaries.
Structured Programming Flowchart Workbook
This workbook uses a self-paced instructional approach to carefully operationalize the primary symbols used in structured programming flowcharts. The workbook includes clearly written learning objectives aligned with assessment items and instruction in aligned experience. I created this resource a long-time ago to assist my software development students in visualizing their software logic in a consistent and meaningful way using an old tool from our toolbox.
Software Design Patterns Presentations
These resources were developed as part of my undergraduate honors thesis in which I developed a sequence of programming activities that integrated design patterns into a traditional data structures course. A design pattern names, motivates, and explains a general design that addresses a recurring design problem in object-oriented systems. It describes the problem, the solution, when to apply the solution, and its consequences. These presentations outline some of the primary design patterns documented in the literature. There are three broad classifications of design patterns:
Autocorrelation Random Number Test Applet
This resource was developed as part of my discrete systems modeling and application course in my undergraduate program in computer and information sciences. This resource explains a technique known as Autocorrelation for verifying that a random number generator is producing truly independent random numbers in a sequence. This resource includes a brief tutorial and a Java Applet that can be used to run the Autocorrelation test on a sequence of numbers. The software can be downloaded as well.
Writing Performance Objectives
This instructional resource was actually developed for a job interview I had back in 2008 when I was on the academic market. The institution I applied for the job will remain unnamed, but I will note, I did get a job offer from this institution. This is a short web-based tutorial that illustrates the components of writing effective performance objectives according the the Mager format. To illustrate the context, the tutorial uses the Dick and Carey instructional design model as a framework leading to the writing of well-formed performance objectives.
This resource was developed as part of a research project conducted at the University of Florida. The eBook resource focuses on information literacy knowledge and skills in three domains: 1) access, 2) evaluate, and 3) communicate. We developed this resource following the principles of backward design and implemented an array of instructional elements (e.g., embedded practice) to test their influence on learning achievement, learner satisfaction, and information literacy self-efficacy. The resource was tested on undergraduate students during the Fall of 2019 and the Spring of 2020.