Selected Projects
Digital learning strategy, instructional design, faculty development, AI in higher education, educational media, and health professions education across international contexts.
My selected projects focus on building humane, scalable digital learning systems. Across higher education, global health, and faculty development contexts, my work connects institutional strategy with practical learning design: courses, workshops, media production, AI frameworks, faculty support, and academic technology systems that help people teach and learn more effectively.
Rethinking Educational Frameworks in the Age of AI
A historical and institutional perspective on AI, cognition, and educational technology.
This presentation, which I presented to ADA University in Baku, examines whether artificial intelligence represents a continuation of earlier educational technologies or a more fundamental shift in how students learn. For much of the twentieth century, educational technology focused on improving access to and delivery of instructional content through film, slides, audio, radio, computers, the internet, and learning management systems. AI complicates that history because it does not simply deliver information. It participates in dialogue, explanation, drafting, revision, feedback, and problem-solving.
The project uses the history of visual instruction, instructional systems thinking, distributed cognition, and the Zone of Proximal Development to argue that AI should be understood as part of a broader cognitive ecology. In this framing, AI is not merely another tool in the learning environment. It becomes a cognitive partner that requires universities to rethink assessment, academic integrity, faculty development, student support, governance, and institutional strategy.
Designing Contextually Relevant Medical Instructional Video in East Africa
A UGHE–Harvard School of Dental Medicine collaboration integrating oral health, instructional media, and student video production.
In 2023, oral health faculty from Harvard School of Dental Medicine collaborated with the University of Global Health Equity’s e-Learning Department to strengthen medical education through instructional video production. The module asked medical students to conceptualize, design, storyboard, record, edit, and share short instructional videos on oral health topics relevant to East African contexts.
The project addressed two needs at once. Students needed to learn oral health concepts, but they also needed to develop communication, technology, and media-production skills that would allow them to explain clinical knowledge clearly to wider audiences. The process included topic assignment, research, storyboard creation, recording, editing, and sharing, supported through UGHE’s e-learning studio and faculty collaboration.
Student feedback showed that storyboarding and video production were challenging because the process and equipment were unfamiliar. At the same time, students described the experience as creative, educational, and useful. Many also saw the value of expanding student-produced instructional video into other clinical areas, including history taking, physical exams, CPR, intubation techniques, and introductions to medical sub-specialties.
Designing Engagement in Online and Blended Courses
A faculty-development workshop organized around motivation, participation, progression, breakout discussion, and practical strategies for student engagement in online learning environments.