Nine chapters, in order. Each one is a narrative with the artifacts behind it: course sites, reports, rubrics, evaluations, screencasts and the occasional photograph of a building site. The older chapters were written at the time; I have left their voice intact.
2003–04
Optimizing the Learning Management System
Charles Darwin University. Lead designer for CUC107 Northern Perspectives: rebuilding an early Blackboard course with learning units, packaged HTML, CSS and JavaScript navigation, and the first streaming-media lectures.
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2004–05
Contribution to Dentistry and Oral Health Education
Griffith University. Learning design and accreditation support for the first new school to train dentists in Australia in more than fifty years, built from nothing to its first graduating class.
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2005
You want me to train everyone from scratch? LMS implementation
Queensland University of Technology. Designed, developed and delivered a twelve-month program of intensive Blackboard workshops as QUT retired its in-house LMS.
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2006–08
Curricular Collaborations
National projects funded by the Carrick Institute / Australian Learning and Teaching Council: the WIL Report scoping study, intercultural competence in business education, and graduate attributes in business faculties.
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2008–11
Consulting and Accreditation Chasing
Curriculum consultant to QUT Business School and Griffith Business School. Designed Assurance of Learning processes for AACSB accreditation, including a pilot cited by the accreditation team as global best practice, and the ALEC data application.
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2011–14
Mainstreaming the Disruption
Senior Lecturer (Online Education) and Program Director, Open Universities Australia B.Bus, Griffith Business School. Large-enrolment online teaching, social media embedded in the LMS, QStream, LAMS and screencast lectures.
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2014–18
Just Add Bricks, Mortar, Glass and Steel
Director, University Center at West Hawaiʻi and Hawaiʻi Community College – Pālamanui. Helped open a new campus serving a region long underserved by higher education.
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2018–
New Adventures
Return to Honolulu, an MA in English and Creative Writing, an MFA in Nonfiction, and a return to full-time teaching of research, business and technical writing at UMGC.
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2023–
AI and Writing
Teaching writing after generative AI: AI literacy as a subject, ethical use modeled in the open, and AI research tools held to the standards of any other source.
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A course-by-course list of everything I have taught, designed or developed is in the Catalog of Teaching, Design and Development.
