Instructional Design Portfolio
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Learning to Speak Data
This short (~10-minute) eLearning course was designed for a large financial-services company to help employees—in particular, employees not accustomed to discussing and applying data—improve their data literacy by applying the Value-Information-Analysis (VIA) model. The result was deployed in the corporate LMS for enterprise-wide availability.
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The Power of a Good Infographic
Watching two people talk can get boring. Incorporating visuals at key moments keeps viewers engaged and improves retention.
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Instructional Design: What Not to Do
A recent medical issue provides an opportunity to explore what makes for bad instructional design.
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Strategic Thinking with Ren McCormack
What can Kevin Bacon’s character in Footloose teach us about strategic thinking?
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Thinking about, Engaging with, and Applying Data
This is the story about turning a requested course into a simple job aid and producing something more effective and reusable.
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Data Validation in Dev Studio
I wrote this lesson topic as a bridge between the validation capabilities available in the low-code development experience and the more technical capabilities available when accessing the underlying rule form directly. This allowed us to leverage the low-code development content as an introduction, which we could then “peel back” to expose more advanced use cases…
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Accessing a Third-Party Data Source with a REST API
I wrote this exercise when Pega introduced a REST integration wizard in Pega Platform. The wizard simplified the experience of accessing an external data source, allowing me to add the exercise to training aligned to the most-basic developer certification (Pega Certified System Architect). The LMS-hosted version of exercise includes a solution walk-through recorded with Camtasia.
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