Ashley Shifflett, a graduate assistant (GA) for a grant-funded venture with Loyola’s EdTech program, introduced in a hybrid spherical desk with Assistant Instructing Professor, Irene A. Bal, and the educational designer of the grant, Matt Connell, on the 2022 Affiliation of Instructional Communications and Know-how (AECT) Worldwide Conference in October 2022.
Their session, Designing Non-facilitated Micro-credentials: Supporting a Giant Crew by way of Design Paperwork, showcased how design paperwork had been used to steer a big workforce of designers, together with subject material consultants, content material designers, tutorial designers, accessibility designers, venture managers, and Ashley in her function because the Graduate Assistant (GA), within the design of six micro-credential programs.
Ashley is a center faculty English/Language Arts instructor in Prince George’s County Public Faculties. Ashley took on the GA place whereas additionally finishing her programs in this system, instructing full time, and being a mother. Because the GA, Ashley supported the venture in numerous capacities together with creating the framework within the studying administration system (LMS), creating references and citations for utilized assets, putting assets, and creating actions on the LMS primarily based on the content material within the design paperwork.
“Because the GA, I realized the ins-and-outs of making a course on an LMS which made it simpler for me to navigate my faculty’s new LMS [Canvas], as they appear similar to me. This expertise, the content material from the course ET631-Transformative On-line Instructing, and the Loyola EdTech program helped me take into consideration finest practices for my college students when putting content material and actions in Canvas,” acknowledged Ashley.
Ashley joined the presentation workforce synchronously for the 2022 AECT Worldwide Conference for a face-to-face roundtable the place she engaged with professionals from world wide on the work she supported with the grant. Ashley mirrored, “Presenting at AECT was a brand new expertise for me. I’ve by no means introduced on that massive of a stage earlier than. It was good presenting my expertise of the journey and the supplies and paperwork we created.” Though connecting synchronously for a face-to-face roundtable was not perfect, it supported Ashley’s busy schedule of college, work, and residential duties.
Ashley is finishing her program in January 2023 and the EdTech college are excited to see what comes subsequent for her professionally and personally. Ashley mirrored, “the Loyola EdTech program has helped me be certain that my college students are Twenty first-century-ready. I realized how one can be simply to the scholars I serve and how one can differentiate instruction in a means that meets the wants of my college students whereas utilizing data-driven tutorial practices. Being a Loyola EdTech scholar has been great, and my favourite expertise. I believe each instructor ought to take part on this program as my studying was so beneficial and instantly relevant in my classroom.”
Need to know extra concerning the on-line Loyola Instructional Know-how program? Discover extra info on this system at https://loyola.edu/edtech and comply with the Loyola Ed Tech program on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok – @LoyolaET
Revealed: January 6, 2023