Ryan Keller,
CREATIVE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER
PhD
With a combined total of over 8 years of practical experience working in instructional design, I employ a pragmatic philosophy, starting with a backward design and focus on solutions that will show positive results. I've created, implemented, and measured training and education across several disciplines in academia as well as healthcare. I pride myself in honest evaluation, creating meaningful and engaging learning.
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Below are some work examples that illustrate this process:
Backward Design
As a results-oriented designer, starting with the goal of training or education is the first focus: defining what the goal in terms of measurable and practical terms.​
I employed a backward design approach in creating an LMS administrator course recently for HealthStream. The institution needed administrators trained at different levels of access. These admin are healthcare professionals that have already intense workloads, which makes training challenging. I created a course that condensed the necessary information into an instructional video.
The course featured instructional video content and downloadable job aids to help with the more complex tasks.​Here a sample of the video content:
Measurable Results
Instructional solutions must be tracked to determine effectiveness. To do this, it must be accurately determined not just how to measure results, but what is needed to be measured.
I employed a pre- and post-design to measure an intervention for developing critical thinking skills in nurses. I designed the intervention using an AI engine to facilitate Socratic dialogue using empirical nursing case studies.
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This is the video tutorial of the intervention:
There were multiple measurement controls in place, including a pre- and post-survey for confidence measurement, a pre- and post-test design that measured critical thinking demonstration, and a measure of the performance of the AI in the intervention. The pre- and post-data were measured via paired-samples t tests and provided a comprehensive picture of the strengths and areas for improvement for the intervention.
Efficient Operations
Instructional design is directly intertwined with performance evaluation. In evaluating operations for an organization or entity, improving functionality is a strong focus.
After a discrepancy with onboarding was made known, I conducted an evaluation of the orientee recruitment and training process at USA Health. The issue was of a disconnect with the recruitment process and new staff populating the LMS accurately, resulting in unreliable onboarding modules populating and unexpected changes occurring from the integration of the HRIS system.
Determining the primary issue was of accuracy in bridging information from recruitment sheets to the LMS, I developed a central, shared sheet, coded with pre-established fields that populated directly from the HRIS information. The results were a drastic decrease in incorrect modules populating and fewer error job titles and department codes populating.
Innovating Learning
There is a multitude of solutions available today for developing instructional content. It's important for training and education designers to be versed in the options available.
To illustrate my skills and process better, check out the HTML 5 tool below, created in Adobe XD. This is a more in-depth look at some of the work I've done and the tools I use. This interactive presentation can be navigated by clicking each project snapshot. This is only a short demo - additional projects, experience, and skills can be demonstrated and explained. Just send me a message!
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(Please note: presentation is formatted for standard computer screen -cell phone formatting can be made available upon request)
This is, of course, only a sample of the work I've done in my time in academia, healthcare, and industry. I'm happy to provide evidence of other skills from the extensive work I've done in instructional design, graphic design, research and evaluation, as well as the software and processes I'm adept at.
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No generative AI was used in the creation of this page or any projects featured.