e-Learning

In this section you will find a few highlights of e-learning courses and products I have been involved with. My roles have including everything from instructional design, to illustration, to application development.

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Advanced Patrol Training
Ontario Police College

Roles and responsibilities:
- Lead Developer
- Concept / Interactions Designer

The Advanced Patrol Training course was designed for the Ontario Police College, one of the largest police colleges in Canada. The challenge was to create a highly interactive and visually rich course. In my roles as lead developer and concept designer, I worked with the instructional design team to develop a solution that would combine scenarios, tutorials, and explorations in a highly engaging environment. After outlining the solution in visual design documents, I then worked with the graphic design team to define the look and feel of the interface and content. I also developed the core engine for this course from scratch, implementing shared libraries and components to streamline workflow.

CourseDesign Toolset
VitesseLearning

Roles and responsibilities:
- Developer
- Interactions Designer
- Technical Writer

CourseDesign was an internal project designed to create e-learning courseware from a set of core templates. I worked with a team distributed in Fredericton, NB and San Francisco, CA to create this toolset. The tool was comprised of Microsoft Word with custom VB extensions integrated into Flash via exported XML.

My role was to create the Flash templates that would display and manipulate the imported XML and media in the final courseware. We leveraged the new class and compiled clip structures found in ActionScript 2.0, creating a robust OOP application. In addition to actual development, I was the primary author of technical documentation for the toolset.

Emergency First Aid for Police Officers
Active Canadian

Roles and responsibilities:
- Developer
- Illustrator

Emergency First Aid for Police Officers was a first aid course designed specifically for police officers. As the course was quite large, a tutorial approach was taken with complimentary text and graphics. I was a core developer on the project, scripting HTML and Flash elements. Since the course required a huge number of custom illustrations, I was asked to assist the graphic design team by drawing illustrations for a few lessons. The samples included here were drawn and coloured in Flash, with a little post-vector work in Photoshop.

Other e-Learning Projects
Various Clients

My time in the e-learning industry has given me the opportunity to work on many other courses not featured here. The following table lists some other projects and my role within them.