Instructional Design Portfolio

Design, development, and innovation.

A curated collection of instructional design artifacts, eLearning modules, multimedia projects, and doctoral course reflections demonstrating applied mastery across the instructional design cycle.

Featured Project

Articulate Rise 360 interactive tutorial.

Two-Dimensional Geometrical Shapes is a fully interactive, self-paced eLearning module using Rise 360 with branching menus, audio narration, embedded videos, and responsive design aligned with WCAG accessibility guidelines.

Articulate Rise 360 Click to Launch
Rise 360 tutorial preview
Launch Interactive Module
Articulate Rise 360Interactive MultimediaAccessibilityElementary Mathematics
Featured Project

Canvas Course Prototype: The Principles of Instructional Design.

Designed a full prototype online course in the Canvas LMS with clear learning outcomes, modular content, varied assessments, and multimedia, paired with a narrated walkthrough explaining the design rationale. Applied ADDIE, UDL, backward design, and multimedia learning principles, with deliberate attention to learner decision points.

Canvas LMS View Reflection
Canvas course page for ID 553: Introduction to the Principles of Instructional Design
Canvas LMSADDIEUniversal Design for LearningBackward DesignMultimedia Learning
Faculty Training Prototype

Activating Annotation in Blackboard, faculty PD prototype.

A documentation and training prototype I designed and delivered for a higher-education faculty development program (July 2024). The deck walks faculty from set-up through pedagogy: enabling the Hypothesis tool inside Blackboard, configuring grading and group readings, and applying social-annotation strategies to course readings, syllabi, and lecture slides. The methodology behind the documentation follows ADDIE.

Creating Effective Instructional Technology Documentation and Training, July 2024, David Awoyemi
Creating Effective Instructional Technology Documentation and Training.
ADDIE diagram: Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluation cycle annotated with documentation tasks
ADDIE methodology guiding the documentation cycle.
Getting Started with Hypothesis, Hypothesis in Teaching and Learning
Getting started with Hypothesis in teaching and learning.
Demo screenshot: Blackboard Groups with Hypothesis showing annotation sidebar on a New York Times Magazine reading
Demo, Blackboard Groups with Hypothesis on a shared course reading.
Faculty DevelopmentBlackboard LearnHypothesis AnnotationADDIEInstructional Documentation
AI-IVR Design and Development Project

AI-immersive virtual reality intervention for civil engineering education.

Design and Development Research applying systematic instructional design methodology to an immersive VR-based safety training intervention with two learning phases and AI-driven adaptive feedback.

VR construction safety training environment
SOS Construction scene
VR night scaffold hazard markers
Unstable scaffold
AI avatar inside VR training environment
AI avatar feedback

Designing and developing an immersive virtual reality intervention for civil engineering education.

Phase 1 guides learners through hazard-identification scenarios. Phase 2 introduces an AI avatar that delivers diagnostic and corrective feedback. The work is grounded in experiential and situated learning theory and has already supported research dissemination across major venues.

Phase 1Hazard navigation across multiple scenarios
Phase 2AI avatar feedback and mastery-gated support
IVR and XR DesignAI AvatarOSHA TrainingAERA 2026
Curriculum Design and STEM Education

Code, Sensors, and Me, summer camp curriculum.

A 16-activity STEM curriculum for upper-elementary learners integrating physiological computing, visual coding, and culturally responsive STEM pedagogy, alongside a two-day teacher professional development sequence.

Professional Development and Training Documentation

Workshop design, onboarding, and facilitation artifacts.

Training materials developed through SME collaboration, faculty development work, and eLearning design practice.

Arts-Integrated GenAI Literacy PD Series

Music and theatre branches of the professional development program.

These videos sit inside the Arts-Integrated GenAI Literacy Development Program, a Blackboard-delivered course for pre-service teachers. Each branch (Music or Theater) carries four hands-on lessons in which participants build prompt-engineering, AI-feedback evaluation, and AI-ethics literacy by creating songs, soundtracks, animated performances, and dramatic storytelling with tools like SUNO AI, Boomy, Animake, Invideo AI, and Soundtrap.

Arts IntegrationMusic

Introduction, Music Lesson One

Introductory video for the arts-integrated music PD series, setting learning aims and the music-technology integration approach.

Arts IntegrationMusicTeacher PD

Music Lesson Four

Later-stage music module focused on classroom application and teacher professional development.

Digital SkillsCreative Production

The Symphony of Digital Skills

A creative instructional video using musical metaphor to communicate digital competency frameworks for educators.

AI ToolsMusic

SOUNDRAW, AI Music Composition

Demonstrates AI-supported music generation as a tool for creative instructional production.

TheatreArts IntegrationTeacher PD

Welcome, Theatre Module

Opening orientation for the theatre arts integration professional development sequence.

TheatreArts Integration

Theatre Lesson Two, Digital Drama

Builds deeper pedagogical strategy and classroom application into the theatre sequence.

TheatreFormative Assessment

Theatre Lesson Three, Digital Storytelling

Focuses on digital storytelling and formative assessment within arts-based instruction.

TheatreSummative Assessment

Theatre Lesson Four

Capstone lesson emphasizing performance-based assessment and reflective practice.

TheatreModule Overview

Theatre Module, Full Overview

Comprehensive overview of the full theatre module from introduction to evaluation.

Doctoral Coursework Portfolio

Course artifacts and reflections.

Select a course to explore artifacts, reflections, and key learnings from the doctoral program in instructional technology.

AIL 601, Principles of Instructional Technology course tile
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Foundations of Instructional Technology

Adobe Express Portfolio and UDL Reflection

Developed a portfolio demonstrating UDL, motivational theory, and core instructional technology concepts while clarifying my scholarly stance.

AIL 602, Electronic Instructional Design course tile
AIL-602
Instructional Design

Gagne Planning Sheet and Design Mapping

Applied systematic design models, including Gagne and TEC-VARIETY, to the sequencing and support structures that later informed immersive learning work.

AIL 604, Distance Technologies course tile
AIL-604
Distance Learning Technologies

Canvas Course Prototype: The Principles of Instructional Design

Designed a full prototype online course in the Canvas LMS with clear learning outcomes, modular content, varied assessments, and multimedia, paired with a narrated walkthrough explaining the design rationale. Applied ADDIE, UDL, backward design, and multimedia learning principles, with deliberate attention to learner decision points.

AIL 608, Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Accessibility course tile
AIL-608
Emerging Technologies in Education

VR Hazard Identification Research Reflection

Connected XR design, AI-supported feedback, and research dissemination through a doctoral course that directly fed into the immersive safety training project.

AIL 605, Interactive Multimedia Processes course tile
AIL-605
Interactive Multimedia Processes

Rise 360 Interactive Tutorial and Reflection

Built a full interactive multimedia lesson with branching menus, audio narration, embedded videos, and accessibility-aware design choices.

AIL 690, Seminar in Instructional Technology course tile
AIL-689/690
Doctoral Seminar and Dissertation

Dissertation Prospectus and Program Reflection

Capstone documents showing research readiness, scholarly identity, and synthesis across the doctoral program in instructional technology.

Selected Course Deliverables

Artifacts from the doctoral program with their own live destinations.

These are stand-alone outputs from individual courses, each opens to its own site, document, or slide deck so you can examine the artifact directly.

AIL-608

Accessibility Resources Portfolio

Google Sites resource hub

A curated resource site built for educators integrating accessibility into instructional technology design. Pairs WCAG 2.1 success criteria with concrete evaluation tools, screen-reader checklists, and Universal Design for Learning prompts so a faculty member can move from awareness to action in a single sitting.

Evidence: Demonstrates the ability to translate accessibility standards into a usable practitioner workflow.

WCAG 2.1Universal Design for LearningFaculty EnablementGoogle Sites
Open artifact
AIL-608

Accessibility Audit of Adobe Express

Google Slides audit deck

Heuristic audit of Adobe Express evaluating interface accessibility, keyboard and screen-reader behaviour, template inclusiveness, and remediation paths against WCAG 2.1 AA. Frames each finding as an actionable design recommendation rather than a binary pass/fail.

Evidence: Shows applied evaluation skill, moving from standards knowledge to a defensible, recommendation-driven product audit.

WCAG 2.1 AAHeuristic EvaluationScreen-Reader TestingRemediation Planning
Open artifact
AIL-690

Graphic Design Analysis of an Instructional Visual

Google Slides presentation

Decomposes the 'Classifying Quadrilaterals' instructional design through Mayer's multimedia learning principles and Gestalt visual hierarchy: how color, structure, and clarity guide learner attention, reduce cognitive load, and surface or hide the underlying conceptual schema.

Evidence: Evidence of design literacy, connecting visual choices to learning outcomes rather than aesthetic preference.

Multimedia Learning PrinciplesVisual HierarchyCognitive Load AnalysisDesign Critique
Open artifact
AIL-602

Strategies–Materials Mapping (TEC-VARIETY)

Interactive mapping artifact

Applies Bonk's TEC-VARIETY framework to design two technology-enhanced activities, Just-in-Time Teaching and Technology Tool Demonstrator, for mathematics teacher training. Each activity is mapped end-to-end across motivation, materials, assessment, and feedback loops, then scaffolded for transfer.

Evidence: Demonstrates fluency with applied instructional-strategy frameworks and the ability to translate them into ready-to-use lesson architecture.

TEC-VARIETYStrategy DesignMathematics PDBackward Mapping
Open artifact
AIL-605

Storyboard for Two-Dimensional Geometrical Shapes

Published slide deck

The visual blueprint that bridged conceptual scope and the final Articulate Rise 360 tutorial. Sequences narrative pacing, branching decision points, accessibility-aware media placement, and learner-choice moments before a single component is built in the LMS authoring tool.

Evidence: Evidence of plan-before-build discipline, the artifact a hiring team uses to judge upstream design rigor, not just shipped polish.

StoryboardingNarrative SequencingBranching ScenariosPre-development Planning
Open artifact
AIL-605

Interactive Multimedia Proposal

Proposal and topic-selection document

The proposal that scoped the interactive tutorial: topic justification, target audience and prior-knowledge analysis, multimedia treatment, success metrics, and the accessibility commitments that later carried through to the Rise 360 module.

Evidence: Shows project framing skill, defining the problem, audience, and constraints clearly before design work begins.

Project ScopingAudience AnalysisMultimedia TreatmentAccessibility-by-Design
Open artifact
AIL-689

Infographic Self-Presentation

Scholarly identity infographic

An infographic introducing my academic trajectory, professional experiences, and instructional-technology interests, designed as the practicum's opening artifact so reviewers can read a scholar's identity in a single glance before diving into deeper portfolio work.

Evidence: Demonstrates information-design ability and the discipline to communicate complex identity through structured visual hierarchy.

Information DesignScholarly IdentityVisual StorytellingPracticum Reflection
Open artifact
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