In February 2025, I earned the Instructional Design Professional (IDP) certification from the Online Learning Consortium. As part of the certification requirements, I developed a website and a 28-minute video walkthrough demonstrating my work.

This certification recognizes advanced expertise in instructional design for higher education. To achieve it, I demonstrated competencies in course design, pedagogy, resource integration, professional development, course evaluation, continuous improvement, staying current with best practices, and project leadership.

I'm sharing this example, as it highlights a wide range of instructional design skills and illustrates how I intentionally designed the project and presentation to align with the certification criteria.

Infographics help everyone learn better. I love designing them because they are easy to use, and produce powerful, well-designed learning tools. The example presented here concerns inclusion in the workplace. 

The second example involves baking a special loaf of bread called challah. I was the subject-matter expert for the content in each of these pieces. 

The "Energy Efficient Measures" is a short, narrated slide deck that allows learners to interact with it. My narration asks the learner to post a response to the discussion question. The slide deck was built with PowerPoint and then uploaded to VoiceThread to allow learners to interact with each other in a discussion forum. Other discussion tools like Harmonize, InScribe, PackBack, Perusall, or Yellowdig would also work to engage the learner in the content. 

This is a course tour from my introductory global health course on Canvas. I use Canvas regularly for the courses I design for university students. I have also designed courses in other LMSs. As a designer, I have experience working with subject-matter experts to build courses in D2L Brightspace, Canvas, and Moodle. 

Click on the D2L Brightspace LMS button for another one of my course tours from an introductory human origins course. I was both the designer and subject-matter expert for those courses.  

This is a 7Taps microlearning sample (I recommend clicking the link to see the sample in a separate tab.). The content, like in the Rise course, is from one of the first lessons that I used to give in my introductory anthropology and biology courses when I was a college professor. What I find unique about the learning experience in 7Taps is how portable it is. I can build a course quickly and at high quality for something that will likely be accessed on a mobile device. It's also scalable and accessible.