Instructional Design

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Tennessee and Utah Valley University designed course experts to develop course shells for synchronous and asynchronous online education. I was appointed as course expert by both Universities, and in this function developed two such shells for immediate implementation and distribution across +/- 50 sections and >1k students. These courses continue to serve dozens of instructors and thousands of students/year. All courses were built in Instructure Canvas Learning Management System.

COURSE DESIGN — Philosophy & Humanities Department, Utah Valley University

PHIL205G: Ethics and Values — ONLINE

A global and intercultural course with writing requirement. Students are challenged to explore their values and those of their society. They do this by engaging with a variety of material in philosophy, history, literature, and world religions. Students consider a range of contemporary moral issues, including questions of happiness, justice, race, and the environment. The course presents a diverse set of voices that allow students to consider the lived experiences of others while reflecting on their own values.

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Ethics and Values has been staple of UVU's educational offering for decades. It's online offering has been very popular, and the online course has seen several iterations over the last 10 years. The pandemic coincided with the need for a course overhaul, and my 6+ years of experience in the course meant that I was ideally suited to facilitate the new build. I designed the new course during the Summer of 2020 and it was first employed that Fall. During the Summer of 2021 I made revisions based on student and instructor feedback.

The course runs as a fully online, fully asynch, large enrollment course. However, it was built to be utilized by a large number of instructors and is adaptive to their needs, in particular with respect to enrollment numbers. The course continues to serve 1000+ students per semester.

COURSE DESIGN — Philosophy Department, University of Tennessee

PHIL244: Professional Responsibilities — ONLINE

A writing-emphasis and oral communication course. It involves the critical analysis of texts from philosophy, humanities, and social sciences that are relevant to thinking about the personal, social, and political dimensions of the professions. The course offers a combination of theory concerning personal happiness, justice, and oppression, along side the practical and concrete evaluation of professional practices, including journalism, medicine, law, and education. This culminates in presentations wherein students evaluate a moral case study from the professional of their choice based on that profession's code of ethics.

This course was initially developed for the Summer 2020 semester. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, courses had to move online. My previous experience with online education allowed me to respond quickly to this need by building a brand new online education course in the necessary timeframe. Due to the success of the course, it was slated to be included in the College of Arts and Sciences online education program. To this end, it was updated during the Fall 2020 semester, in partnership with O'Donnell Learn.

The course generally runs as a fully online synch/asynch hybrid course. However, it was built to be available to other instructors and adaptive to their needs. As a result, the course can be run on a online, face-to-face, and a hybrid modality. It can be fully synchronous, asychronous, or a hybrid. And it's suitable for small and large enrollments The course is available to all instructors teaching PHIL244, and has already served hundreds of students.

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