Course Project Samples

OPWL students are required to complete a real workplace project, for a real client in the workplace, as a member of a virtual team. These projects are intended to provide students practice conducting a needs assessment, an evaluation as well as designing instruction, developing e-learning modules or proposing a research project. The goal is to provide student practice applying the fields’ models to resolve real workplace problems so the process can successfully be replicated in the student’s workplace. While that is the primary goal, we are proud that so many of the course projects done by students have resulted in grants being awarded or proposed solutions being implemented as the client feedback indicates on the below spring 2016 student instructional design project.

Below are course project samples completed by students to resolve real workplace needs.

OPWL 506 Survey Design and Data Analysis

• • Survey Questionnaire Development Assignment – Sample (PDF)
    Completed by Jackie Kerzner
  • Data Analysis with Excel Assignment – Sample (.xlsx)
    Completed by Jackie Kerzner
  • Student comments about specific skill set takeaways
    There has been SO much real world transfer with this course–it’s the one that’s paid off the most the fastest because it’s such a discrete set of skills that I’ve been able to do a bunch of surveys for work and for clients!
    ~ Jackie Kerzner

OPWL 523 Rapid E-Learning Development

Visit the OPWL Course Resources Blackboard site to view OPWL 523 Project Samples.

OPWL 529 Needs Assessment

• 2013 A Needs Assessment of the LETC’s Internal Self-Assessment (PDF)
  Completed by James Corbett, Dyan Ellinger, Savannah McEntarffer, and Alan Wheaton
• 2013 Preserving Patient Safety after the Implementation of an Electronic Health Record (PDF)
  Completed by Valerie Alley, Geoff Rhode, Elizabeth Martin, and Angie Wolthuis

OPWL 530 Evaluation

• 2019 A Formative Evaluation of the Student Advisor Training (SAT) Program
  Completed by Thomas Frazier, Kandi Horsman, and Stephania Moore

OPWL 535 Principles of Adult Learning

• Engaging a Belief in Learning Styles to Encourage a Growth Mindset
  (the student published this article based on her class term paper)
  Completed by Jill Pearson
• Remaining Semper Paratus: Augmented Reality in the Coast Guard
  (the student published this article based on her class term paper)
  Completed by Erin Sheridan