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Commonwealth

Facilitating the design and development of on-line courses and the conversion of face-to-face courses into on-line courses.

Instructional designer for a distance training and mentoring certificate programme for community learning programme (CLP) developers. Launching in October 2013, the 4 course series guides participants through a process to plan, design and deliver effective, low-cost participatory communication programmes that focus on local community health and development.

Trinidad And Tobago

Train IT Professionals on the fundamental functions of the Moodle 2.0+ administrative environment and orient educators to Moodle.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Strategically create, distribute and advocate for OpenSchoolingConnect's content across a variety of different social networks.

Hired as Project Manager and Instructional Designer by the Commonwealth of Learning, I coordinated, developed, hosted and managed a two week certificate Moodle course and Google Community on exploring open educational resources, open policy, open research, open practice and everything related to working towards and advocating for open education. I secured.

Nigeria

Sexual and Reproductive Health intervention project volunteer. Using social media to reduce the rate of sexually transmitted infections among young people and to promote family planning and HIV treatment and care across target Nigerian states.

Trinidad And Tobago

Transitioning to the delivery of flexible and blended online vocational skills and trades training.

Barbados

Contracted by the Commonwealth of Learning Education Specialist Dr. Alison Mead Richardson (Technical & Vocational Skills Development) to work as Instructional Designer for the Caribbean National Training Agencies (NTAs) to collaborate on the development of e-learning materials for the CVQ assessor training, which will be published under a CC-BY-SA licence.

Brand and web site development.http://subseageoservices.com

The Private Career Training Institutions Agency (PCTIA) is the regulatory agency for private training institutions in the province of BC.

Assisting in the development and evaluation of online programs.

Engaged by the Commonwealth of Learning to facilitate three workshops in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The training had two goals. The first was to install and configure an instance of Moodle. The second, to use the Moodle platform to conduct Moodle and instructional design skills training. The training was guided by the ADDIE model of instructional.

Hosted and moderated a 10-week live pilot of the Embracing Commonwealth Values (CV) e-learning course. This online course transformed the paper-based Diploma for Youth Development into an engaging and fun virtual learning experience. One hundred participants from four regions of the Commonwealth participated.

Commissioned by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and the Commonwealth Secretariat to develop a 25-hour eLearning short course on “Commonwealth Values."

Strategically create, distribute and advocate for EDTECHOPEN, CEET, BCNEXUS, ETMN (edtech mentors network) across a variety of different social networks.

Strategically create, distribute and advocate for content across a variety of different social networks and moderate an online community to join together diverse groups of people to engage in a dialogue about educational leadership.

Strategically create, distribute and advocate for content across a variety of different social networks and moderate an online community to join together diverse groups of people to engage in a dialogue about literacy. Winner of the Premier's Award for Innovation and Excellence.

Strategically create, distribute and advocate for content across a variety of different social networks and moderate an online community to connect learners and educators to system wide post secondary education services.