Recent Work

Ops in NYC: Experiential Flipped Classroom Course, 2014 – Present
New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Foundations of Statistics Using R: Blended Online and Global Course, 2014 – Present
New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Data Visualization: Blended Online and Global Course, 2013 – Present
New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Electronic Communities: Blended Online Course, 2010 – 2013
New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Online Course Design and Teaching,  2005 – 2011
NYU School of Professional Studies

  • Research Process and Methodology
  • Collaboration Technologies
  • Web Architecture and Infrastructure
  • Contemporary Issues in Web-based and Distance Education
  • Instructional Systems Design
  • Principles and Practices of Instructional Design and Online Course Creation

Educational Technology Projects, 1999 – 2007

Another Heutagogical Reference: Course Blog, 2007
New York University, School of Professional Studies
In collaboration with Steven Goss, designed and managed a course that complemented a student-centered approach to contemporary topics in web-based and distance education to understand research development. Used in a blended online course entitled Contemporary Issues of Web and Distance Education.

Columbia News Service: Journalism Content Management System, 2005
Columbia University, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
As the project manager, worked with a team to designed a digital environment that modeled the authentic systems used in the professional practice of newsrooms for revision and editing of news stories for publication.

Image Annotation Tool, 2004 – 2005
Columbia University, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
As the project manager, worked with a team to design and build a collaborative digital environment that provided students and faculty with the means to organize images and coordinate their efforts using visual content.

Director’s Notebook, 2003 – 2005
Columbia University, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
As the project manager, worked with a team to design an online Flash-based digital notebook to aid and scaffold students in the conceptualization, planning, and visualization activities involved in the film-direction process.

Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences eLessons, 2003
As the project manager, oversaw the development of interactive lessons designed to provide users with an understanding of fundamental issues common to all data-based social sciences and to specific statistical tools used in analysis and research.

The Deconstructor: An Online Film Analysis Tool, 2002 – 2005
Columbia University, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
As the project manager, worked with a team to design a tool that assisted in exploring cinema’s visual syntax through its arrangement of shots and organization. Students watched film scene, dissected the scene into a series of shots, described those shots according to a structural framework, and finally identified patterns and forms.

The Media Machine, 2002
As the project manager, oversaw the development of a database that allows allows faculty to organize content online in a manner that reveals the multiple connections within a collection of digital assets (slides, images, movies, audio, text) for use in their courses. Using the Media Machine website, students can search for and view video clips, browse a storyboard of images based on video keyframes, and read movie summaries, screenplays and editorial annotations.

Journalism Radio Broadcast Content Management System, 2002–2005
Columbia University, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
As the project manager, oversaw the design of a database-driven solution that modeled the decision-making, review and editorial process of radio broadcasting by managing the steps journalism students must follow to organize live broadcasts.

News Reporting Simulation, 2001–2005
Columbia University, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
Together with developers and faculty, designed a news reporting simulation in which journalism students assumed the roles of reporters covering a fire story in a fictitious small city.

Music Intellectual Property Case Studies, 2002
Columbia University, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
Managed and designed the Music Law Copyright Infringement project to provide law students and copyright scholars with access to previously inaccessible materials, which may provide new insights into an often opaque area of the law.

Music Major Minor Training Environment, 1999 – 2001
Columbia University, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
Served as the project manager and designer. This training environment helps Music Humanities students to learn to distinguish major and minor scales in musical composition, a common obstacle for students who lack prior experience or training in music.