CLIENTS
Learn more about my clients as you roll over each company below. You will see a range of client types, ranging from investment research to analytics to technology and design-oriented clients. This demonstrates my ability to meet organizations needs with uniquely tailored learning solutions. Click to learn more about each one.
VENTURES
VLT
VLT Ventures
This client was forward-thinking, with a focus on emerging technologies for the future of learning. The projects I took on for this client were profound learning opportunities that were closely aligned with my goals. I gained a deeper understanding of how we can support adult learning using principles of embodied learning and role play to simulate training for valuable soft skills; skills that are notoriously difficult to ‘train.’
I was challenged to explore many new technologies; both from exposure to venture research presented by other project members but in the tools used to develop our OER and my venture pitch. Also, because of the innovative nature of the technologies we explored, combined with the limited research in this field as it relates to workplace learning, I feel that I was able to expand my knowledge vastly in the areas of extended realities.
ETEC522 Ventures in Learning Technologies
Rapid
eLearning solutions
Rapid e-Learning Solutions
This client’s objectives were rooted in opportunities for hands-on practice and developing technical skills using e-learning authoring software and exploring the growing field of rapid e-learning development. Project teams would have the opportunity to create interactive multimedia content designed to enhance organizational learning and performance, using industry-leading tools. Areas of research included developing a deeper understanding of the landscape of workplace learning, including barriers and challenges, and how rapid eLearning can improve employee training. We also examine various multimedia design principles and their application in the development of learning materials.
Technology has made the workplace increasingly complex, and as a result our processes for developing learning materials has changed. In working with this client, we analyzed the advantages and pitfalls of rapid e-learning development, when it is best used, and how to develop rich, engaging rapid e-learning content.
OPWL523: Rapid e-Learning Development
Tech @Work
This client took me outside the MET to explore the specific use of learning technologies within the context of the workplace. While there are many similarities in pedagogical and andragogical principles; the purpose and outcomes of learning in the workplace have very different applications in an organizational setting. Most MET clients have given me the flexibility to apply my knowledge to the adult and workplace learning environment. This client was able to support my goals with materials dedicated to technologies in the workplace. We discussed and how competing theories of activity theory, communities of practice, actor-network theory and the social construction of technology influence the affordances that result from these technologies. This work encouraged me to expand my knowledge of adult learning theories as they relate to the workplace, and deepen my understanding of how the technologies we use to work support our learning; how the informal learning that happens as a result of technologies are a driving force behind how workers learn.
LA Analytics
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EPORT INC.
ePORT Inc.
Our work for this client was centered on designing a educational portfolio to showcase completed work, as well as serve as a space for reflective learning. This portfolio serves as the project completed for this client. Discussions with this client and project team examined the role of an educational portfolio and how it differs from a creative one. This included both stages of both peer review and self-reflection for the development of a portfolio through an iterative process.
Working with this client required that a strong foundation had been laid through completion of prior work in areas of educational research, understanding learning theories and design as well as additional project work in areas relevant to professional goals. Areas of discussion with this client that were of particular interest included the use of eportfolios as tool for formative assessment and learner motivation, as well as the roll they play in preparinglearners for the workplace.
RED
Methodologies
RED Methodologies
The work for this client was grounded in understanding the scientific research process and its application to learning and technology. The focus was not only on understanding how to conduct research, but also how to critically evaluate what makes a study a valuable contribution of work. This required developing skills in areas of conducting research of published literature, and also a deep knowledge of research methodologies, types of variables and hypothesies, control procedures, data analysis and more.
What became clear in working with this client was that there is very limited research in the field of adult learning, and especially in adult learning in the workplace. This created an opportunity to explore what research did exist, and conclude that many findings relating to higher education were also applicable to workplace learning. With limited opportunities for formal testing and quantitative evaluation in the workplace, much of our work examined qualitative studies in support of action research.
ETEC500: Research Methodology in Education
analytics
LA
LA Analytics
An overarching goal of project work with this client was trying to address the difficult question of "how can we measure the effectiveness of workplace learning initiatives?" The impact of learning analytics is significant yet research in this field as it relates to organlizational learning and development is quite limited. This client generated opportunities to explore this field with a series of tasks that could be tailored to this area of study.
Key areas of work included review and evaluation learning analytics policies, readiness for the use of analytics, and the development of policies that would allow for behavioural, procedural, attitudinal and discursive changes. Such policies needed to account for barriers to adoption, development of data strategy as well as capacity planning. The JISC framework of characteristics for analysis and their corresponding discovery toolkit were especially valuable in the project work completed for this client.
ETEC565A Understanding Learning Analytics
Tech@Work
t@w
Tech @ Work
LHA1195: Technology @Work: The Internet Workplace Learning & Change
Working with this client, we explored and discussed emerging technologies that are being used in the workplace and how this has changed the way we conduct our work. Consequently, this also requires a shift in how we develop our workforce professionally, and navigating the complexities of workplace learning was a key area of focus. How can we effectively support virtual teams? How does technology influence pedagogy and androgogy? How can artificial intelligences support learning? Are we entering the 4th Industrial Revolution? Much of our work with this client was driven by these questions.
My project work was centered around workplace learning and how technologies are embedded in learning, and how they have influenced the way learning happens in an organization, and corresponding frameworks for evaluating technology-mediated environments. We focused heavily on the subject of technological determinism, and alternative thinking in the relationship between learning and technology. We also looked at the impact of virtual teamwork, surveillance and online learning have changed the way we conduct work, and the emergence of technologies that support learning in the flow of work.
CONSTRUCT & Co.
Construct & Co.
What is knowledge? This is the first question the client posed as we began our project work. To understand how knowledge is formed, we first had to develop a definition of what knowledge is. It quickly became clear that knowledge is very much a construct of our prior learning and experiences, which led to the development a workshop aimed at teaching the relationship between knowledge, constructivism and learning in the workplace, and supporting the professional development of teachers through knowledge management practices.
A key outcome in working with this client was the ability to assess and implement constructivist principles in the instructional design process for developing online learning programs. A constructivist learning approach to training design addresses the needs of real-world organizations. Together, we looked at how prior work experience, organizational culture and mentality towards sharing knowledge influence how learning occurs in the workplace.
ETEC630: Constructivist Strategies for eLearning
DESIGNS
tsle
#tsle Designs
Knowledge sharing and learning communities were two very prominent themes in the work completed for this client. How knowledge is shared and managed in the workplace is an essential component for supporting organizational learning. Strong training programs are scaffolded by well-developed knowledge management initiatives with frictionless access to information at the time the learner needs it. How knowledge is shared and the motivation brought on by a learning community where key areas of work.
Working with this client also gave me the opportunity to broaden my technical skills, being introduced to new technologies early on, with opportunities to work with video editing tools, creating stop motion videos, contributing to the learning community with digital artifacts, and working with a new learning management system. This client also gave me early insights into UX work and design thinking process which has greatly shaped my personal education philosophy and the learning solutions I recommend.
ETEC510: Design of Technology Supported Learning Environments
APPLICATIONS
LT
LT Applications
Project work for this client was deeply rooted in building a strong foundation for learning by exploring traditional learning theories. While andragogy was not a core topic, understanding this helped me better understand theories that best align with adult learning and designing training for the workplace, and further develop my own beliefs about learning. This client also had an interest in emerging theories such as gamification, augmented reality and open learning, and their impact on education.
Since my project work with this client early on, my own philosophy on education has continued to develop, with a particular interest in how approaches such as contextual learning, microlearning and the use of artificial intelligence can be leveraged to enhance the way we conduct training and support learning in the workplace.