My students are future professionals, and I teach them as such. Courses I design are built around discussion, design critique, exemplar study, and group work rather than recall. Each student's background and values are brought to the foreground, challenged where useful, and built upon to expand who they are as practitioners. I ask for feedback beyond what the institution requires and revise accordingly; I try to model the reflective, failure-tolerant practice I want them to adopt.

 

In a competency-based program, that commitment becomes structural: competencies are defined with workforce partners, evidence is authentic and portfolio-based, and pacing is flexible. My approach draws on notable design scholars' works, such as Professor Elizabeth Boling's scholarship, Nelson and Stolterman's design philosophy, Lawson and Dorst on design expertise, and Yanchar and Gabbitas on design sense.

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University of Kansas (2025–present)

Associate Teaching Professor of Learning Design and Program Director. I teach across the graduate programs of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching, supervise doctoral research, coach graduate teaching assistants, and lead the competency-based M.S.E.

• LD-C 700–704 — Designerly Thinking sequence (Fall 2026)

• LD-C 705–708 — Instructional Methods, Models, and Artifacts (Fall 2026)

• LD-C 716 — Contributing to a Professional Community (Fall 2026)

• LD-C 719–723 — Learning Technologies in the Field (Fall 2026)

• LD-C 728–729 — Capstone in Learning Design I & II (Fall 2026)

• CT 806 — Instructional Strategies & Models (Spring 2026, online)

• CT 997 — Individual Study (Fall 2025)

 

Indiana University Bloomington (2015–2020)

Associate Instructor and Online Teaching Assistant, Instructional Systems Technology.

• R685 — Seminar in IST: Design Thinking in Instructional Design (co-instructor)

• R626 — Instructional Strategies and Tactics (co-instructor)

• R685 — Seminar in IST: HRD Research & Practice

• R621 — Needs Analysis for Instructional and Performance Improvement

• R551 — Learning in Organizations

• R341 — Multimedia Design & Development (studio)

• W200 — Using Computers in Education

 

Fort Hays State University (2013–2015)

• UNIV 101 — Freshman Seminar: Learning Strategies & Tactics (blended)

• IDS 350 — Diversity in the United States (online)