Course & platform design · Broward College · NYU · edX

Online Course Development

Designing coherent online experiences while adapting interaction, assessment, and media to different platforms and learner populations.

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Broward College

French · Undergraduate General Education Requirement · Beginning French II

Serving as the faculty developer, SME, and instructor, I independently created both the French 1120 and 1121 online courses. Working with a skeletal departmental syllabus, I structured and curated the content, designed and wrote the assessments, and taught several sections of the course. I even created my own animated videos to cover content where existing materials were insufficient.

French course module outline — Module 6.1: overview of module content and assignments.

Curated vocabulary videos — Curated YouTube videos and other OER for learning vocabulary.

Cultural discussion prompt — Module 6 cultural discussion prompt and instructions.

Assessment menu — An assessment “menu” where learners select which skills to practice.

New York University & edX

Integrated Digital Media, MS · Theories of Media and Technology

This unique project required the simultaneous development of two different versions of the course—one for NYU’s online Masters in Integrated Digital Media, and the other as part of NYU’s MicroMasters partnership with edX. As instructional design lead, I collaborated with faculty developer Scott Fitzgerald to tailor the experience to each platform’s learners. I also developed supplemental module content, wrote discussion prompts, designed weekly “hook” activities, crafted the assignments and rubrics, and edited the course trailer.

The challenge lay in bringing creative projects and peer feedback to the more rigid edX platform. We used an open-ended assessment tool coupled with required peer assessment, allowing learners to submit a wide range of project types and provide constructive critiques through a shared rubric.

NYU course module — A weekly NYU learning module with its topic and introductory media.

NYU course activities — Designated sections guide learners through the week’s activities.

New York University

Management of Technology, MS · Organizational Behavior

This was a particularly daunting development: the face-to-face course relied on team interaction, physical classroom activities, and real-time third-party tools. As educational technology lead, I worked with Anne-Laure Fayard and Jay Leibowitz to translate that engagement into a primarily asynchronous environment using Google Communities and imaginative applications of Qualtrics for polls, quizzes, and games.

Organizational Behavior course screen — The course received NYU Tandon Online’s Course Development Team Award. Students rated its technology and interactivity especially positively.