Rebecca Nusbaum, Ed.D. (she/her)
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility
Personally and professionally, I have discovered that my Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Accessibility philosophy is rooted in a commitment to continued growth in learning. Ijeoma Oluo shares,
“No matter what our intentions, everything we say and do in the pursuit of justice will one day be outdated, ineffective, and yes probably wrong. That is the way progress works. What we do now is important and helpful so long as what we do now is needed now. But the arguments I was having in college are not the arguments the world needs now as I prepare to send my son to college”.
I was fortunate to participate in the ATD DEI in Training Certificate Program. Together we learned how to leverage tools with actionable change, organizational outcomes, and sustainability:
- Change Management Plan
- Implementation to Sustainability
- Organizational Outcomes
- Impact Strategies
- Deloitte Impact model
In my previous role with the State of Colorado, Innovation and Change Management, we reclassified my role with a targeted focus on EDIBA. I was involved in: Colorado Department of Healthcare Policy and Finance (HCPF): EDI Education and EDI Health Equity; Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS): Office of Economic Security EDI committee, CDHS EDI 2022-2023 Action Plan Committee, and The Belonging Project.
Oluo, I. (2019). So you want to talk about race. Seal Press.
Boeing Digital Solutions
SaaS startup: Backing Ukraine Against Russia
Podcast: Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Colin Kahl and Counselor to the Secretary of State, Derek Chollet reflect on the war one year after Russia’s brutal invasion and the commencement of Ukraine’s monumental resistance. This section dives deeper into just one of their many topics, Global Support: Military Supplies.
Design, Development, and 3-tier Assessment Plan
This cross teams project was part of our beta launch presentation with a military contract. Our launch included four tenets: Intelligence/National Security, Game Simulation, Learning Curriculum, Community (forums). I was responsible for the Learning Curriculum (Design, Development, and 3-tier Assessment Plan). Our Instructional Design and cross-UX team developed the Backing Ukraine microlearning course, alongside video/audio courses on Information Security and Open Source Intelligence.
Apple: digital learning hive
App-based Digital Community Learning Hive
Analyzed existing curriculum, developed wireframes, and proposed new-to-launch
Best Practices interactive learning curriculum for Advanced B2C App Developers.
Civil Rights Web-Based Training
Civil Rights Web-Based Training (WBT)
I initially developed this project as part of my interview process for the State of Colorado. I later presented and trained from this presentation for a PD Lunch-and-Learn.
Tech: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Articulate Storyline 360, AWS server
Colorado Refugee Services
Colorado Refugee Services Web-Based Training (WBT)
This project was highly collaborative, as one of three members of the Lead Design & Developers on this project, we coordinated style, layout, animations an development for consistency, while maintaining the individual integrity of three different content needs and varying target learners.
Tech: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Articulate Storyline 360, SCORM, LMS
State of Colorado: CDHS Training Curriculum
Colorado Department of Human Services: Case Management Charter
I led this project full lifecycle from needs analysis, to content development, design and development, pilot and training evaluation, to live launch. This project began with executive leadership and a selected workgroup of cross-team policy program area. We developed this training so that it is adaptive to the learner's area of focus, a "choose your own adventure" curriculum playlist (Family Violence Option, Workforce Development, Colorado Works, Employment First, and Homecare Allowance)
- Web-Based Training (WBT) Curriculum:
24 WBTs Advocacy, Multi-Generational Approach, Documentation, Assessment, Plan Development, and Monitoring. - Followed by 3-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) on Coaching
Tech: Articulate Rise, Adobe Creative Cloud, Vyond video
Training Evaluation results reported to C-Stat as part of Colorado Governor's Wildly Important Goals.
L.E.A.D. Series: Leadership Development
Curriculum development leadership team of three, design and development on team of two, and facilitate as a LEAD trainer on a team of four.
We developed this leadership series for management and executive leadership state-wide. The developed curriculum focuses on leadership foundations, team building, and change management. The training program is 1-year, 4 quarters, with a 2-day workshop and 1 web forum each quarter. We have implemented COLearn Communities, which is a digital learning hive for continued communications asynchronously. We are facilitating Cohort 2 state-wide with 30 awarded participants. Additionally, we developed a second county cohort tailored to their county's specific leadership team building needs. March 2020 rapid development from live 64-county materials to virtual.
FlipGrid: an Innovative Tool
FlipGrid, an Innovative Tool in Collaborative Learning and Telemedicine
CU Anschutz Medical campus
This project is seemingly smaller than larger scaled curriculum, but I am highlighting for its potential impact. FlipGrid, and tools like it, harness capabilities to extend learning in a hybrid model (Just-in-Time (JiT) teaching, microlearning.
Harnesses potential to extend Professional Development, competency-based, and back channel conferences.
Coursera MOOCS: Newborn Baby Healthcare Specialization
Led Coursera MOOCs project as Project Manager and Design & Develop Lead, coordinating internal and external partnerships, stakeholder communications (University of Colorado President's Office, CU Anschutz Medical Campus, CU School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Colorado, UC Health Hospital, and Coursera). Cross teams content development, video scripting, and productions (17 medical specialists and two directors).
One of the most challenging and rewarding parts of this project involved coordinating the filming on a newborn baby's skill assessment within 10 hrs of birth. Baby Colette was literally the highlight of the project.
Tech: Adobe Photoshop, TechSmith Camtasia, PlayPosit, Camtasia. A professional videographer filmed all video.
Press:
"Coursera and top-ranked partners in health—including Columbia University, Emory University, Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins University, University of Colorado, University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota —are committed to making high-quality content and healthcare education more widely accessible" Source: Business World
Teaching, Training, EdTech Research & Presentations
With over fifteen years of direct classroom experience (live, online, and hybrid) and two decades of faculty development, I began my journey as the Online Course Director for The Center for Legal Studies (2000-2010).
I appreciate the adult learning, Higher Education and EdTech experience that this foundational position provided, as I supported faculty, reviewed faculty evaluations, communicated with 400+ contracted universities, helped design and develop curriculum, managed LMS and the server, and led "all things online".
As an educator and lifelong learner, I have taught for Montana State University, MSU College of Technology, University of Denver, and Montana State Women’s Prison. I've taught various disciplines ranging from web and media, graphics and coding, EdTech Integration, to Project Management.
I have trained faculty development and State partnered trainings, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility, leadership development, coaching, State of Colorado policy and legislative rule, and Salesforce upskilling.
Courses that I have taught or currently teaching: Project Management, Tech Essentials, Web Fundamentals, and Advanced Web. I currently serve as an internship advisor for graduate students working in the tech field.
As a contracted adjunct, I am able to choose which courses I teach and how often, including choice of formats (on-campus evenings, online, or hybrid).
Ed.D. EdTech dissertation
Dissertation: Examining the Experiences of Online Professional Development: A Teacher Education Twitter-Based Professional Learning Network (2020).
- Themes of collaborative learning, Communities of Practice, microlearning, mentorship and coaching, Professional Development and Leadership Development, mLearning, eLearning, social constructionism, constructivism.
Related Research and Presentations:
- MOOC! (There It Is) - Launching a Massive Open Online Course in the Healthcare Space (2019) – Academy of Medical Educators, Vienna, Austria (Scholar Award: 4th place ePoster of 250 presenters)
- Online Education in Healthcare, Integrative Health Medicine (2019) - Edmonton, Alberta
- (W)rap with a Cap: Developing an Effective Capstone (2019) - CU Boulder, Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT)
- Using FlipGrid in Collaborative Healthcare and Telemedicine Discussions (2018) - CU Anschutz Medical
- Stop, Collaborate & Listen! Teacher Education EdChats (2017) – iLearn Collaborative Conference, Denver
- One-to-One is Done: 1:1 iPad Implementation Analysis (2014) - St. Francis Upper & Montana State University
- Survey Instrument: Best Practices in Online Learning (2011) – Scholar Poster, Montana State University
Staff Development Center, Colorado Department Human Services:
- Colorado Professional Development Academy (Vail, CO)
- Colorado Trainers Network Meeting (Denver, CO)
- Colorado Certified Trainers Teleconference (Denver, CO)