Instructional Design Portfolio.
Welcome to my electronic portfolio where you can read about my work as Instructional Designer.
Instructional Design has been for me the perfect career because it is an interdisciplinary field that lets me combine my engineering background and formal learning experiences in the STEM disciplines with my personal interests and other informal learning experiences. For example, it is in this profession that my love for the humanities and foreign languages has an important place, because it allows me to switch easily between a STEM project to a projects related to any of those other disciplines. My international experience living in Germany, Mexico and the U.S., has taught me to adapt quickly and smoothly to a new unfamiliar environment.
Since 2006, I have been involved in instructional design projects for my graduate-level classes at Purdue University, where I learn to apply instructional design theory, methods, models and best practices. However, meaningful learning has always been an important part of my life mostly because my parents were high school teachers that were strongly committed to support their students to reach their full potential. I remember long conversations with them about the importance to understand every learner, respecting their uniqueness and the challenges to help them achieve their goals. Meaningful learning requires the learner to actively construct meanings and build knowledge, and requires carefully designed activities that are engaging for learners from social and culturally diverse backgrounds. Understanding the learners of the 21st Century is a very important consideration for effective instructional design.
Instructional designers should be familiar with many emergent technologies that could be used in combination with learning theories, methods and strategies to benefit the learner. Using emergent technologies for learning is expected for the students of the current generation, but is still unexpected for some educators and parents.
As Instructional Designer I offer:
Instructional Design has been for me the perfect career because it is an interdisciplinary field that lets me combine my engineering background and formal learning experiences in the STEM disciplines with my personal interests and other informal learning experiences. For example, it is in this profession that my love for the humanities and foreign languages has an important place, because it allows me to switch easily between a STEM project to a projects related to any of those other disciplines. My international experience living in Germany, Mexico and the U.S., has taught me to adapt quickly and smoothly to a new unfamiliar environment.
Since 2006, I have been involved in instructional design projects for my graduate-level classes at Purdue University, where I learn to apply instructional design theory, methods, models and best practices. However, meaningful learning has always been an important part of my life mostly because my parents were high school teachers that were strongly committed to support their students to reach their full potential. I remember long conversations with them about the importance to understand every learner, respecting their uniqueness and the challenges to help them achieve their goals. Meaningful learning requires the learner to actively construct meanings and build knowledge, and requires carefully designed activities that are engaging for learners from social and culturally diverse backgrounds. Understanding the learners of the 21st Century is a very important consideration for effective instructional design.
Instructional designers should be familiar with many emergent technologies that could be used in combination with learning theories, methods and strategies to benefit the learner. Using emergent technologies for learning is expected for the students of the current generation, but is still unexpected for some educators and parents.
As Instructional Designer I offer:
- Knowledge of instructional design theories, methodologies and
best practices for online learning, traditional classroom learning and adult learning.
- Strong creative skills to improve the learning situation in
different contexts: online, blended or traditional learning.
- Solid understanding of emergent technologies for teaching and
learning.
- More than six years of teaching at the college level, training pre-service teachers about meaningful technology integration and assisting my students to create instructional projects that support learning.
- Three years of teaching at the High School level with culturally diverse learners.