America is the only one of thirty developed nations with young adults less educated today than the generation before them (OECD, 2007). We have nearly 200 million workers in our country, and nearly 90 million of them face significant challenges in either education or language that will prevent them from getting skilled jobs (NCHEMS, 2006). Skilled jobs require more than a high school education, and will allow people to earn a family sustaining wage. Jobs aren’t going away, but they are requiring skills that many adults in the workforce don’t have yet. Adults are lifelong learners and we must accept that most of them are learning new job skills while they are raising their families and working at the same time. We can do better in extending access to learning to all Americans. My belief is that Instructional technology and distance education offer tools to help extend viable learning solutions to a larger number of adults in the workforce.

To that end I invested the past 3 years in pursuit of my Master of Science in Instructional Technology and Distance Education at Nova Southeastern University. This site and connected pages serve as a digital narrative of my time, effort and learning over that time period. The links below will direct you to an overview of the author, provided in the form of a resume and a short philosophy statement on education. The link to course work is populated by the assignments for each class, and reflections on those assignments. Finally, the program reflection link leads to an introspective evaluation reviewing the connection between the learning experience and the learner.

Resume

Educational Philosophy