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Case studies in learning design, accessibility, and faculty development

Selected projects show how I identify learning challenges, work within institutional constraints, and design practical systems for course quality, faculty development, and accessibility.

Selected work

Case Study

Accessible Course Review Framework

This project represents my work creating a repeatable process for identifying, documenting, and communicating online-course accessibility and quality concerns.

Accessibility Review
ADA Title II
WCAG
Course Quality
Quality Matters
Faculty Guidance

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Challenge: Course reviews needed a more consistent way to identify accessibility barriers, document findings, communicate responsibilities, and guide faculty toward practical next steps.
Constraints: Limited instructional design staffing
Faculty ownership of academic content
Inherited and publisher-provided materials
Fixed academic timelines
Varying levels of faculty accessibility knowledge
Need to distinguish instructional design support from content ownership
Approach: Developed a structured review process using documented criteria, clear issue classifications, faculty-facing guidance, and defined pathways for remediation, escalation, and follow-up.
Deliverables: Course-review framework
Review report template
Accessibility criteria
Faculty communication language
Remediation guidance
Documentation and tracking process
Outcome or Status: Created a more consistent and documented review process that can be reused across courses while clarifying findings, responsibilities, and next steps.

Case Study

Faculty Accessibility Development Pathway

This project represents a multi-session faculty training program developed in response to ADA Title II accessibility requirements.

Faculty Development
ADA Title II
WCAG 2.1 AA
Accessibility Training
Professional Learning
Faculty Coaching

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Challenge: Faculty needed practical, manageable preparation for creating and reviewing accessible course materials without being overwhelmed by legal, technical, or remediation requirements.
Constraints: Broad variation in faculty technical skills
Limited instructional design staffing
Need for scalable self-paced training
Applied activities and assessment requirements
Publisher-created materials faculty may not be authorized to edit
Institutional timelines connected to ADA Title II compliance
Approach: Designed a staged faculty-development pathway combining self-paced instruction, quizzes, applied accessibility activities, coaching opportunities, follow-up communication, and guidance for handling publisher-provided content.
Deliverables: Multi-session training sequence
Instructional videos
Quizzes
Applied Word and PowerPoint activities
Faculty guidance
Consultation pathway
Follow-up and completion workflows
Outcome or Status: Established a repeatable professional-development pathway designed to build faculty knowledge, provide practice, and connect training with ongoing support.

Case Study

Course Governance and Quality System

This project represents my work developing institutional systems for source courses, course lifecycle management, review, approval, production, maintenance, and archival practices.

Course Governance
Learning Systems
Quality Management
Workflow Design
Higher Education
Course Stewardship

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Challenge: Course development and maintenance required clearer governance, ownership, naming conventions, review expectations, approval roles, and lifecycle documentation.
Constraints: Multiple course modalities
Multiple academic approval roles
Long-term maintenance requirements
Limited staffing
Need to preserve institutional memory
Recurring course resets and updates
Quality, accessibility, and production requirements
Approach: Designed a governance model that defines course types, identifiers, ownership, approval roles, lifecycle stages, review expectations, production pathways, maintenance rules, and archival practices.
Deliverables: Governance framework
Course lifecycle model
Naming and identification conventions
Approval structure
Review and production workflow
Maintenance and archival rules
Supporting documentation
Outcome or Status: Created a documented system intended to support consistency, accountability, scalability, and long-term course stewardship.

Teaching Resource Series

Comparative Politics Teaching Resource Series

This series reframes graduate comparative politics coursework as OER-informed teaching resources, including explainer articles, multimedia learning objects, data-informed infographics, comparative case studies, policy briefs, presentation decks, and comparative timelines designed for learner comprehension, reuse, visual learning, and accessible academic engagement.

OER-Informed Design
Comparative Politics
Multimedia Learning
Visual Learning Design
Teaching Resource
Graduate Work

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Challenge: An eight-week comparative politics course included a sequence of assignments that could be designed as learner-facing teaching artifacts rather than isolated academic submissions.
Constraints: Graduate-level comparative politics content
Seven assignment products across an accelerated course
Open educational resource and Creative Commons considerations
Accessibility-conscious structure and visual support
Reader-facing explanation rather than standard coursework format
Careful source attribution, licensing, and discussion framing
Approach: Used the course as a design lab for reusable educational resources, applying learning objectives, key terms, structured sections, visual supports, captions, alt text, image credits, references, and discussion prompts.
Deliverables: Teaching-resource series framework
Downloadable comparative explainer article
Embedded comparative podcast
Reviewed transcript support
Data-informed comparative infographic
Written explanation support
Comparative institutional case study
Professional comparative policy brief
Comparative presentation deck
Speaker-note supported research
Comparative analytical timeline
Cognitive load-conscious visual design
Learning objectives and key terms
Theory-to-practice framing
Visual learning supports
Outcome or Status: The completed series includes the Week 2 teaching article, Week 3 comparative podcast, Week 4 comparative infographic, Week 5 case study, Week 6 policy brief, Week 7 presentation, and Week 8 comparative timeline and analysis.

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