Selected Case Studies

Learning Solutions Built Around Real Needs

My portfolio demonstrates how I analyze learning and performance challenges, make evidence-based design decisions, and develop solutions that support learners, stakeholders, and organizational goals.

My Approach

Design Begins With Understanding the Problem

My strongest work begins before development. I focus first on the learner experience, the performance need, the organizational context, and the evidence that will define success.

These case studies reflect work across instructional systems, learning experience design, performance consulting, game-based learning, assessment, and multimedia development. Each project highlights not only what I created, but how I approached the problem and why specific design decisions were made.

Featured Portfolio

Seven Areas of Instructional Design Practice

Explore projects that demonstrate analysis, strategy, development, evaluation, and learner-centered design.

CASE STUDY 01
TidePoint
Learning Strategy and Performance Consulting

Flagship Case Study

AI-Enabled Learning Strategy

A consulting-style instructional treatment plan designed to support responsible AI adoption through performance analysis, stakeholder engagement, professional learning, implementation planning, and organizational change.

Challenge Support strategic and responsible AI adoption
Role Instructional Designer and Performance Consultant
Focus Needs analysis, training strategy, and change support
  • Performance Consulting
  • Needs Analysis
  • Learning Strategy
  • AI Adoption
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CASE STUDY 02
STRATEGIX
Smart City Energy Challenge

Game-Based Learning

Systems Thinking Through Interactive Decision-Making

An instructional game concept and prototype designed to engage learners in strategic reasoning, systems thinking, resource management, self-regulation, and evidence-based decision-making.

Audience Secondary mathematics learners
Role Learning Experience and Game Designer
Focus Motivation, feedback, strategy, and authentic challenge
  • Game-Based Learning
  • Simulation
  • Systems Thinking
  • Learner Motivation
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CASE STUDY 03
Project Management
Planning Learning Solutions for Delivery

Instructional Systems and Project Delivery

Instructional Design Project Management

A comprehensive management plan translating a complex eLearning contract into an executable lifecycle of analysis, design, prototype development, production, quality assurance, pilot testing, risk control, and final delivery.

Scope20-hour self-paced eLearning program with ten modules
FocusMilestones, QA/QC, risk, change, and stakeholder communication
RoleInstructional design project team member and SME contributor
  • Project Planning
  • Quality Assurance
  • Risk Management
  • Stakeholder Communication
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CASE STUDY 04
Assessment Design
Evidence of Performance

Assessment and Evaluation

Evidence-Centered Assessment Design

A criterion-referenced Algebra 1 assessment system aligning standards, objectives, test blueprints, objective items, an authentic performance task, an analytic rubric, and equitable accommodations.

Challenge Build valid evidence of conceptual understanding and application
Role Assessment and Instructional Designer
Focus Standards alignment, validity, accessibility, and performance evidence
  • Assessment Design
  • Rubrics
  • Alignment
  • Evaluation
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CASE STUDY 05
Neuroscience
Learning Science and Cognitive Design

Learning Science and Evidence-Based Practice

Applying Neuroscience to Instructional Design

A synthesis of three research-based investigations connecting brain function, perception, attention, memory, retrieval, and transfer to practical instructional design decisions.

ChallengeTranslate complex brain science into responsible design practice
RoleLearning Science Researcher and Instructional Designer
FocusAttention, perception, memory, retrieval, and transfer
  • Learning Science
  • Cognitive Design
  • Memory & Retrieval
  • Evidence Evaluation
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CASE STUDY 06
Learning Analytics
Data-Informed Instructional Decisions

Performance Analysis and Decision Support

Learning Analytics & Instructional Decision Making

A multi-source learner readiness analysis synthesizing standards mastery, performance trends, attendance, cumulative retention, and professional observation into an actionable instructional recommendation.

ChallengeSeparate demonstrated ability from the effects of interrupted instruction
RoleLearning Analyst and Instructional Decision-Maker
FocusEvidence synthesis, readiness, support planning, and stakeholder communication
  • Learning Analytics
  • Performance Analysis
  • Decision Support
  • Stakeholder Reporting
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CASE STUDY 07
Consulting Toolkit
Discovery, Requirements & Scoping

Performance Consulting and Project Scoping

Performance Consulting & Project Scoping Toolkit

A structured approach for analyzing a client work order, separating known requirements from missing information, creating focused discovery questions, and defining both instructional product scope and project scope.

ChallengeReduce ambiguity before analysis and development begin
ArtifactsClient work order and product/project scoping checklist
FocusRequirements analysis, discovery, scope, and consulting judgment
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Discovery
  • Project Scoping
  • Client Consulting
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