Graduate course design
We design the courses that train designers
We built two full graduate courses for a master's program in instructional design, from course map and storyboards through final build. We also wrote the companion texts those courses use, so the pedagogy and the practice line up end to end.
Design Thinking for Learning Design
Applying design thinking as a method for solving learning problems: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test. We built the full course, course map, storyboards, and learning resources, and wrote the companion text it uses.
Project Management for Learning Design
Running learning-design projects in the real world: scoping, timelines, stakeholders, and iteration, with the trade-offs that come with each. Designed end to end, with an authored companion text.
What goes into it
The work behind a course
A finished course is the last 20 percent. These are the design artifacts that make it hold up.
Course maps & blueprints
Objectives, modules, and assessments aligned before anything is built, so every unit earns its place.
Storyboards
Unit-by-unit design docs SMEs and faculty sign off on, with readings, activities, media, and assessment specified.
Aligned assessments
Assignments and rubrics that measure the objective, not recall, so a passing grade actually means competence.
Authored companion texts
When the right reading did not exist, we wrote it, so the course and its source material teach the same thing.