Making Instructors Look Good Several times instructors have asked for help updating their lecture slides, often as part of moving the course online. I was able to use both instructional design and graphic design principles to improve the slides’ ability to communicate … Read More
Maintaining Instructor Presence Online Babs Carryer of the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute was developing a new course on innovation and the development of medical technology. Since this course would be taught in a flipped format, Ms. Carryer recorded lectures … Read More
A Guide to Writing a Grant Application Dr. Doug Landsittel taught a free online course on comparative effectiveness research (CER) available to people underrepresented in the clinical research community. Much of the course was intended to be practical as well … Read More
Accessing the Crowd for Innovation A website is important to a project that investigates crowd-driven phenomena. This project was specifically looking at how crowds could be leveraged to assist in teaching innovation in design. We did find that students could … Read More
Explaining Science to Non-Scientists I designed this poster for a meeting I attended to promote educational games research to businesses and foundations interested in partnering with Carnegie Mellon University. The central goal was to explain the research to a non-scientist … Read More
Website Design and Custom App I designed this site (and still serve as webmaster) for the Swedenborg Scientific Association, a group that supports the study of the philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg, an 18th Century scientist, philosopher, and theologian. The most important feature … Read More
Academic Website with Custom App I designed this site to host material for part of the Bryn Athyn College History Department focusing on 18th century history and the history of the college’s home town of Bryn Athyn. Embedded in the … Read More
Guiding Inexperienced Researchers Through Complex Decisions Dr. Doug Landsittel observed that students and less experienced researchers struggle to navigate the slew of methods used in comparative effectiveness research (CER). He was attempting to make a tool, now called DECODE CER, … Read More
Learn by Playing with Legos Snapology was a young company using toys and games to teach STEM concepts to children. I created several sets of Lego modules and accompanying instructions that introduced builders to the simple machines (wheels, gears, inclined plane, … Read More