Our team designs and develops online and blended courses for Spring Arbor University in southern Michigan. Over the years, our team built upon the diverse skills and interests of energetic learning theorists, writers and storytellers, game designers, broadcasters, librarians, creative media specialists, educators, talented student workers, and an AI-loving futurist.
As we streamline our processes and adapt to remote work, we’re finding ways to design accessible courses, integrate open educational resources (OER), implement universal design for learning (UDL) principles, and use the most practical technologies while infusing our design with new understandings of how people learn.
Model eLearning started as a space to explore instructional design topics and trends—and it became a place to collaborate with the wider learning and development community. We hope you’ll join the conversation!
Editor
Jessica M. Bishop
Instructional Designer
MS, Learning Technologies and Design, University of Missouri – Columbia
Graduate Certificate, User Experience and Usability, University of Missouri – Columbia
Contributors
Tara McCoy-Jones
Lead Instructional Designer
EdS, Instructional Technology, Wayne State University
Ann Iley, PhD
Instructional Designer
PhD, Communication, Regent University
MA, Theatre, Regent University
MA, Strategic Communication, Liberty University
Jessica Pierce
Instructional Designer
MA, Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, University of Iowa
Former Team Contributors
Michelle Dawson | Audrey Foust | Gwen Hersha | Kyle Koerner | Jeanie Maguire | Susan Miller | Wendy Moore | Gary R. Tucker, PhD | Kyle Winchell | Dave Zokvic
Presentations and Scholarly Work
2018
Presentations
Bishop, J., McCoy-Jones, T., & Zokvic, D. (2018). Why, what, & how: Using UDL in course materials to enhance learner experience. [Presentation]. Symposium on Universal Design for Instruction and Learning. IUPUC. Columbus, IN.
Dawson, M., Hersha, G., Bishop, J., & Broda, A. (2018). Parallel development: Killing two birds with one stone. [Presentation]. e-Cornucopia.2018: Teaching with Technology Conference. Oakland University. Rochester, MI.
2017
Poster Session
Hersha, G., & Bishop, J. (2017). Diving in: An eLearning team goes OER—and you can too! [Poster session, ]. Spring Arbor University Graduate Symposium 2017. Spring Arbor University. Spring Arbor, MI.
Presentation
McCoy-Jones, T., Dawson, M., Hersha, G., Bishop, J., & Broda, A. (2017). Diving in: An eLearning team goes OER—and you can too! [Presentation]. 2017 MI OER Summit: Harnessing the Power of OPEN: How Open Education Can Transform Our Assignments, Courses and Colleges. Kellogg Community College. Battle Creek, MI.
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