I work in teaching and learning at the University of Calgary, where I’ve spent most of the last three decades in various roles at the intersection of course design, learning technologies, and institutional decision-making. Currently I’m Associate Director of Learning Technologies and Design at the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, where I lead a team that supports faculty across instructional design, educational technology, and pedagogy.
My path into this field started sideways. I studied zoology and education at UCalgary, then got pulled into building some of western Canada’s first online courses in the 1990s, and never really left. Along the way I’ve led an enterprise LMS migration for 30,000+ users, built tools, served on more committees than I can count, and returned to graduate school mid-career. My PhD, completed in 2023, adapted video game user research methods to study teaching practices - which sounds odd but turned out to be a useful way to look at course design.
Most of my current thinking is about how institutions make decisions about educational technology, and whether those decisions hold up against what faculty and students actually need. I co-chair the Learning Technologies Advisory Committee and spend a fair amount of time on questions around generative AI, platform governance, and microcredentials.
I’ve kept this site running since 2002. There’s a lot here - writing about edtech, photography, occasional prototypes, and whatever I’m currently thinking through.
For publications, presentations, and service history, see my full CV.