Presently, I am an Instructional Designer in higher education. My main responsibilities include building courses within the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework (i.e., designing with accessibility and equity in mind), faculty support for online teaching, educational technology research, and course reviews as they relate to accessibility, equity, and fair-use copyright.
In particular, I have immense experience with accessibility and the WCAG 2.1 guidelines for ADA compliance, including how to properly alt text, adding captions/transcript to videos, formatting documents and tables, and formatting pages in an LMS. In addition, I have in-depth experience with copyright and copyediting, including how to properly cite resources (i.e., articles, textbook chapters, images, etc.) in APA, Chicago/Turabian, and MLA styles, differentiating between copyright licenses (i.e., Creative Commons, etc.), and copyediting courses for quality assurance.
Please see below for examples of the work projects that I have completed in the emerging field of instructional design and educational technology.
Website Creation
Kristin B. Waters Official Website (2021)
Primos Xtreme Painting and Cleaning, Inc. (2023)
Instructional Design and Technology User Training and Development
(Note: For proprietary purposes, any examples from my current position as an Instructional Designer at Vermont Law and Graduate School can be furnished upon request.)
Professional Career Development
Quality Matters | September 2020-November 2020
- Successfully completed the Quality Matters Online Teaching Certification which included seven courses in instructional design.
- The courses were as follows:
Benjamin H. Gerhardt 