Patrick  Sebiro

There is an increase in demand for Instructional Designers in the business or corporate world. Most organizations are managing knowledge and training strategically, as it is understood to impact productivity.

 

I began my career working as a software engineer with a Bachelor’s in Management Information Systems from the University of South Florida. In this role, I worked on supporting applications by writing code in C#, batch files, or SQL queries to fix users’ data or other programming errors.

 

My role has since evolved from the humble beginning. I currently work as an IT Manager. My job consists of managing IT operations, IT projects, and people...

In business, we favor best practices over standard. Best practices are flexible, quicker to adopt and adapt, while standards are often rigid and provide a unique way of accomplishing a task.

 

While the term best practices and standard are used interchangeably; the nuance is subtle and usually pronounced when implementing one or the other. Standard can be costly to implement as sometimes it requires a subject matter expert or even a specific technology.

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I joined the Instructional Technology program driven by the need of understanding my audience, developing useful training contents, and working with educational technologies. The program far exceeded my expectations as it allows to be further involved with my organization software development process where I provide counsel on metacognition and learning principles to make software smarter.

Standard 1 (Content Knowledge): Candidates demonstrate the knowledge necessary to create, use, assess, and manage theoretical and practical applications of educational technologies and processes.

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Standard 2 (Content Pedagogy): Candidates develop as reflective practitioners able to demonstrate effective implementation of educational technologies and processes based on contemporary content and pedagogy.

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Standard 3 (Learning Environments): Candidates facilitate learning by creating, using, evaluating, and managing effective learning environments.

 

Standard 4 (Professional Knowledge and Skills): Candidates design, develop, implement, and evaluate technology-rich learning environments within a supportive community of practice.

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Standard 5 (Research): Candidates explore, evaluate, synthesize, and apply methods of inquiry to enhance learning and improve performance

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