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
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- 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
- Survey Questionnaire Development Assignment – Sample (PDF)
OPWL 523 E-Learning Authoring and Development
Visit the OPWL Course Resources Canvas site to view OPWL 523 Project Samples.
OPWL 529 Needs Assessment
- 2020 For the Love of Dogs
Completed by Katie Costolnick, Gabrielle Dabu, Allison Moore, Julie Zeigler
Team Charter
Project Plan
Final Report
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
- Transformative Learning: A Way To Develop Our Mindset For Organizational Change
(eLearning Industry published this article based on her class blog)
Completed by student Valentina Paronetto. - Four Steps to Improve Retention with Schema Theory
(Learning Solutions published this article based on her class blog)
Completed by student Hannah Hunter - Transformative Learning in the Workplace
(eLearning Industry published this article based on her class blog)
Completed by student LaTrice McGraw - 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
OPWL 537 Instructional Design
Student Blogs
Blogs help writers and readers reflect on new ideas and experiences. They provide a mechanism to apply new techniques to current and future ID practice. They also help their writers hone their professional voice.
Projects
- 2021 Idaho Youth Ranch – Sorting Clothes Properly
Completed by Cindy Simms-West, Alejandro Maya, Branden Nunez, Jill Meyer - 2020 Idaho Food Bank Cooler Audit
Completed by Justin Beaudry, Lorraine Frazier, Madeleine Yount
OPWL 551 E-Learning Content Design
Asset Repository
- Cory Archer
- Michael Cowan
- Audrey Fisher
- Nahari Leija
- Kymberly Mayfield
- Halah Mohammed
- Whitney Ridings
- Hayley Sayre
Projects
- 2019 Haircut Consultation Challenge
Completed by Marianne Meindertsma - 2019 Scheduling meetings in Outlook
Completed by Danielle Dale
OPWL 592 Portfolio
- Sharnice Yates’s Portfolio – December 2021
- Nicole Imler’s Portfolio – August 2021
- Victor McCraw’s Portfolio – August 2021
- Terry Hansen’s Portfolio – May 2021
- Douglas Hutchinson’s Portfolio – May 2021
- Andrea Kelley’s Portfolio – December 2020
- Jill Pearson’s Portfolio – December 2020
- Lori Simkins’s Portfolio – December 2020
- Jeromy Gallant’s Portfolio – May 2020