Course Resources
While eLearning offers flexibility and interactivity, providing students with physical materials remains a highly beneficial and complementary practice. Physical resources give learners a tangible way to process and engage with content, helping to reduce screen fatigue and support different learning preferences—especially for those who benefit from handwriting notes, highlighting, or working offline.
Physical resources also promote deeper focus, fewer digital distractions, and easier access for students with limited technology or inconsistent internet access. In my instructional design, I use print materials to reinforce key concepts, offer alternative pathways to learning, and ensure equity across all learning environments. Blending print with digital tools creates a more inclusive, accessible, and well-rounded learning experience for every student.
Lecture Notes
These lecture notes cover many topics and are designed to include periodic “exercise” breaks where students can practice the concepts covered with me coaching them through it. Structurally, these are similar to any eLearning module, but interacting with the concepts live addresses different learning styles. These are two samples from my classes.
Syllabi
If there’s one thing most students don’t read but should, it’s a syllabus. Given this, I design my syllabi to be more like an infographic than a document. This highlights the most important information and is visually appealing. These don’t contain pacing guides like collegiate syllabi do. The day-to-day realities of a public school classroom need the flexibility to change.
