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Duquesne University

The campus of Duquesne University is located in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This page will serve as a portfolio of my work for my Instructional Technology and Leadership doctoral program.

Spring 2012

Distance Learning Global Leadership (GDIT 711)
In the context of technology-mediated distance learning, this course aims to raise your awareness of the evolution of distance learning and its historic and current impact on education both at K-12 and in third level. It also aims  to help you acquire the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to understand and exploit the various forms of this virtual portal to teaching and learning that is rapidly becoming commonplace in the 21st century and  is potentially disruptive in so far as it leads us to question traditional assumptions about pedagogy and the learning process.

Fall 2010

Courseware Design (GDIT 705)
This course is designed to support doctoral students of Instructional Technology in the courseware development process, from analysis through evaluation, especially the analysis, design and development phases.
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Blogging
Group Project
Design and document an example lesson unit which reflects the cognitive learning perspective (how human learns) and current literature on effective online learning. We selected to produce a lesson on blogging for a course teaching social media tools.
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Digital Portfolios & Weebly
Individual Project
Design and document an example lesson unit which reflects the cognitive learning perspective (how human learns) and current literature on effective online learning. I selected to produce a lesson on digital portfolios using the Weebly website.
Instructional Design (GDIT 715)
This course introduces the fundamental concepts of technology-based instruction by examining the pedagogy of teaching and the use of technology as a teaching tool. The instructional design theories that are introduced are equally applicable to education, training and learning in general.
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The First-Year Seminar Course and Backwards Design Model
Group Project
This project required us to design and document an example lesson using one of the design models we discussed in our class. We selected to apply the Backwards Design Model to a first-year seminar course for a university.
Statistics I (GREV 510)
This course is an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics.  It is the first course in a sequence of three statistics courses offered in the School of Education. 
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Pittsburgh Associated Press Statistics
Group Project
An important objective of the course is to develop skills to be able to analyze data and interpret results. We were asked to complete a data analysis project that employs the statistical topics covered in this course.

Summer 2010

Research Methods (GREV 701)
This course offers an overview of foundations of research design and the uses and interpretation of results. Content includes: reviewing the literature; developing research problems/questions; hypothesis testing; experimental, quasi-experimental and other research designs; and evaluating research studies.
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Research Design Project on Cyberbullying
Group Project
This project required the development of a basic research design for a topic assigned to our group. Our group established a research design for cyberbullying.
Foundations of Instructional Technology (GDIT 703)
This course offers an examination of the key foundations of teaching and learning as applied to instructional technology. Participants will consider the psychological, philosophical, social, and historical perspectives of using technology for teaching and learning.
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20 Minute Lesson
Individual Project
This project required students to produce a 20 minute lesson on a topic of choice and write a paper explaining the need for this lesson. The paper was to be written using the dissertation format. My lesson dealt with a basic lesson for using Adobe Dreamweaver in the Instructional Technology doctoral program.