Alexa Taylor
Never create a training product you would not learn from or enjoy yourself.
About Me
School: University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Information Science and Learning Technologies
Masters of Science: Learning Technologies and Design
Hello! I’m Alexa Taylor. Thank you for visiting my site. I’m an instructional designer, trainer, and training manager with the motto: “Don’t let anyone sit in any training I would not be engaged in or enjoy personally attending”. I love all parts of training and especially using technology in training! Please take a look around to learn more about me, see my portfolio of work, course of study, and learning reflection.
Samples Of Work
Check out my resume!
Program of Study
INTERMEDIATE WEB DEVELOPMENT, Grade: A+ (Individual contributor)
Demonstrated skills:
- Web design and authoring skills (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript)
- Created a gallery slideshow
- Validated forms with javascript
- Established website layout design based off of guidelines and principles
- Tested website for usability for more user-friendly design
Objectives/Goals met:
- Designing learning environments, including systems for direct instruction, constructivist learning, collaborative work, and performance support.
- Developing learning systems applications or components of applications.
- To provide students with experiences to develop theory-grounded and research-based competencies for the innovative, aesthetic, effective and sustainable design/development and management of technologies for learning opportunities and systems.
Incredible opportunity to push myself and develop skills in an area I never thought possible. I have found myself using my html skills in more places than expected and a greater understanding of how things work. While I don’t foresee myself building future websites, I have found I can use this knowledge in other projects. My strength was page readability, appealing layouts, and simple navigation. I look forward to improving in margin/responsive exactness and by learning new techniques to spice up sites.
RAPID DEVELOPMENT TOOLS FOR ONLINE LEARNING --- Grade: A (Individual Contributor)
Demonstrated skills:
- Created learning interactions to enhance the instructional process.
- Designed reliable quizzes to assess learner’s knowledge, and to provide appropriate remediation when necessary.
- Produced impactful, visually appealing slides and user interfaces.
- Evaluated eLearning modules using the Kirkpatrick framework.
Objectives/Goals met:
- Students are able to design/develop learning opportunities and systems for meaningful learning; promote student engagement in online learning environments; and select appropriate technology and learning objects to support learners.
- Designing learning environments, including systems for direct instruction, constructivist learning, collaborative work, and performance support.
- Developing learning systems applications or components of applications.
This topic feels like my niche. I enjoyed designing creative, interactive, and objective met learning tutorials. I will continually learn new features in captivate particularly learning how to use captivate with JavaScript, variations in my design schemes/styles, and diversifying interactive activities.
FRONT END ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMS --- A
Demonstrated skills:
- Conducted a performance analysis to determine the causes of performance problems
- Designed, developed, and implemented data collection methods for needs assessment
- Determined instructional goals/objectives based on needs assessment
- Utilized varying methods to analyze tasks (learning domains) needed to perform
Objectives/Goals met:
- Conducted needs assessment and evaluating learning system of the identified goals/objectives
- Developed skills for systematically analyzing learning, or other types of systems, that need to be improved.
- Developed data collection instruments (e.g. surveys, observation protocols, interviews); analyzed secondary data; analyzed tasks or activities in the system, and interpreted data to make recommendations for system improvement.
- Students are able to conduct analysis in order to translate and use theoretical frameworks and existing research to design/develop learning opportunities and systems.
- Students are able to manage and optimize analytics collected by learning and performance systems to develop criteria to measure learning impact and talent development.
Reflection: My strengths in this area are understanding how to break complex processes into simple methods and simple learning. I am also best at formatting surveys to be easy to follow. My weaknesses come in categorizing and analyzing procedures as great depth.