Demystifying Instructional Design

Lance Eaton is the Director of Digital Pedagogy at College Unbound, a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College and Southern New Hampshire University, and a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a dissertation that focuses on how scholars engage in academic piracy. He has given talks, written about, and presented at conferences on open access, academic piracy, ope...

Lance Eaton is the Director of Digital Pedagogy at College Unbound, a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College and Southern New Hampshire University, and a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a dissertation that focuses on how scholars engage in academic piracy. He has given talks, written about, and presented at conferences on open access, academic piracy, ope...

Rob is an experienced workplace learning and development leader, Ed-Tech business builder, instructional designer, and documentary filmmaker.  Sparked during his undergraduate film production studies, a linking theme throughout Rob’s career has been the role of media and technology as an enabler of learning. Rob has a rich and varied work history with experiences in health care, higher education,...

Paula Thorsland holds a BA in English and education, and an MEd in instructional design. She has worked in the education field for 25 years as an instructor and more recently as an senior instructional designer and Manager of the eLearning and Instructional Design Team at UMass Boston. Her focus is to help faculty learn to use technology successfully in their online and face-to-face courses, while...

Darlesa has been an instructional designer and learning technologist for over 15 years with 10 of those working for the Port of Seattle at Seattle Tacoma International Airport.  She holds an MA in Instructional Technology from University of Colorado at Denver.   She gets excited about imagining and developing online, hybrid, and instructor-led learning experiences which grab attention, encourage r...

Arthur is a Learning and Development professional who has been in the instructional design field for over 20 years. He started his career training radiologists at mass general hospital in Boston. Arthur earned a masters in education at UMass Boston and returned to his alma mater to earn an MBA. Arthur has led the training operations for several high tech organizations and currently leads a team of...

Caroline Frankel received her MEd in Instructional Design and graduate certificate in Instructional and Learning Design from UMass Boston in May 2020. She currently works at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts as a Senior Instructional Designer. Caroline has provided leadership to her institution in online learning, as well as remote instruction initiativ...

Terry Greene is Senior eLearning Designer at Trent University. He holds a B.Ed. in Elementary Education from the University of Alberta and a M.Sc. in Instructional Design & Technology from the University of North Dakota. He is interested in both the cutting and trailing edges of technology in education. Especially those uses that increase the human element in technology-enabled learning. Hint, hin...

Karen has over 20 years of experience in the learning field. She led the process of creating a formal online learning program at the Community College of Rhode Island. At Johnson & Wales University, she created training faculty for online course development and delivery and worked closely with faculty developing online courses and managed a team of instructional designers and technologists. She ha...

In this episode, Rebecca interviews Julie Havill. Julie has been working in learning and development for close to twenty years. She's worked with people from around the world using modalities from web-based training to virtual reality. She has a Master's Degree in Adult Education and currently works for a company that provides learning services to its clients. Julie lives and works in Bl...

In this episode I interview Matt Crosslin. Matt Crosslin, Ph. D. is currently an Instructional Designer II at Orbis Education, where he works with faculty to create student-centered, active learning-based courses. He is also part-time faculty at the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley, where he teaches Masters and Doctoral courses in Educational Technology and Instructional Design. Matt holds...

In this first episode of Demystifying Instructional Design I begin by interviewing myself.  Discover who I am and why I started this podcast, as well as what advice I would give to those who are new to instructional design.