Welcome to my UMUC MDE ePortfolioThank you for your interest in my educational experience with the University of Maryland, University College (UMUC) Masters of Distance Education and E-Learning (MDE) program. I chose Distance Education Policy& Management for my program focus to support me in my responsibilities as a corporate healthcare educator. My background is in healthcare technology and software education and I currently focus on creating training around software implementations in hospitals, clinics and community health centers.
Although I really enjoy my work and the experiences that I have had as a workplace learning professional in various healthcare environments, I also enjoy creating courses outside my expertise. To that end, I volunteer teach seniors, young children, teens and sometimes adults. Examples
include piano lessons for children under 5 years of age, managing money for teens, and email and social media to keep in touch for seniors. When I have time, I give other community teachers a break by substituting for a day or two in adult education courses at the Salvation Army. These classes typically focus on workforce readiness or money management.
Because reading is my passion, quotes appear throughout my ePortfolio. The following quote highlights three things that I believe are core requisites when creating training: analysis, evaluation and action. I will also talk about andragogy and pedagogy, my introduction to learning as transformation (reflective learning journals) and provide examples of actions that I have taken in my work environments that incorporate information from the perspective of moving a face-to-face course to a blended and then an online course, how what I have learned has impacted me and my work experiences, and the different actions that I have taken that were motivated by and are a result of what I have learned in this program. I hope you enjoy my ePortfolio.
Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis.
But wisdom comes by putting things together.
John A. Morrison
Although I really enjoy my work and the experiences that I have had as a workplace learning professional in various healthcare environments, I also enjoy creating courses outside my expertise. To that end, I volunteer teach seniors, young children, teens and sometimes adults. Examples
include piano lessons for children under 5 years of age, managing money for teens, and email and social media to keep in touch for seniors. When I have time, I give other community teachers a break by substituting for a day or two in adult education courses at the Salvation Army. These classes typically focus on workforce readiness or money management.
Because reading is my passion, quotes appear throughout my ePortfolio. The following quote highlights three things that I believe are core requisites when creating training: analysis, evaluation and action. I will also talk about andragogy and pedagogy, my introduction to learning as transformation (reflective learning journals) and provide examples of actions that I have taken in my work environments that incorporate information from the perspective of moving a face-to-face course to a blended and then an online course, how what I have learned has impacted me and my work experiences, and the different actions that I have taken that were motivated by and are a result of what I have learned in this program. I hope you enjoy my ePortfolio.
Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis.
But wisdom comes by putting things together.
John A. Morrison