Education by Design
Tony Rivas - Instructional Design and Development
Elearning / Instructor-led / Video
Technical / Soft Skills
Welcome to Education by Design
Education by design builds learning experiences for technical and soft-skill learners.
We design and develop Elearning storyboards, lessons, and courses.
Instructor-led learning materials include slide presentations, instructor delivery guides, student guides, and learning aids.
We also offer video and audio production, technical labs, and lab environment development services
You are welcome to view the various examples of course content and instructional design documentation.
Please get in touch with me with any questions.
Services
Experience across Training Modalities
Virtual and Instructor-led Courseware and Materials
World-class training delivery requires agile content and focused learning tools for the learners and the facilitators delivering the class.
Instructor-led courseware supports and provides added value to the instructor's delivery, generally including presentations, videos, and guides. Additional materials are often needed to help understand and retain the instructed core competencies.
Self-paced and Structured eLearning
Properly designed eLearning offers consistent, sustainable training delivery.
This modality requires additional analysis and often includes videos, gamification, Q&A, and progress gates.
The design document should always be accompanied by a storyboard prior to the development stage of the project
Video and Voice Production
Properly designed eLearning offers consistent, sustainable training delivery.
This modality requires additional analysis and often includes videos, gamification, Q&A, and progress gates.
The design document should always be accompanied by a storyboard prior to the development stage of the project.
Video shorts have become an essential training modality called 'Quick Training.'
A recorded TOI, sales meeting, or team-building exercise can be captured and saved for future use.
More in-depth and polished videos require more advanced measure like scripting, backgrounds, instructor’s interactive backgrounds or light boards.
Courseware Examples
The examples shared in this section are not for distribution or use other than the intended purpose of a design and development review.
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PowerPoint presentations are viewable by download only.
View these presentations using the 'Slide Show' feature of Microsoft PowerPoint for full animation effect.
Design Documents are created after the analysis phase of a course. Design documents outline the course build as an outline used by the Instructional designer to gain sign off from stakeholders, SME, Learning Program Architects, and course developers.
This example showcases an instructor-led 2-Day live leture with labs from 2008.
You may notice a difference in style and form than seen in more modern courseware.
This example showcases a 5-Day instructor led technical sales class lecture presentation. The original files are seperated by module, but for viewing ease, all modules have been joined.
Example - Audio Voice Recording
This is a short example of a audio clip showcasing my work as a voice actor.
This example accompanies the instructor led technical sales class lecture presentation.
Learners perform thises hands on labs in a live environment.
Example - eLearning and Video
Coming Soon!
About Me
Resourceful and innovative Senior Instructional Designer with expansive experience in instructional and eLearning design, and curriculum development for various technical and sales professional backgrounds. Thorough knowledge of instructional and eLearning design, development processes and strategies, and evaluation methods offers insightful content and design analysis to create value-added learning programs that achieve desired business outcomes. Possesses strong communication and interpersonal skills to build stakeholder relationships and assess learning needs.
Ivan Bishop PH.D.
Tony designed and implemented a rigorous training course for the Dell AIM product and ancillary associated tools use to cross train not only Dell Software Field service engineers, but others across the corporate spectrum.
The material was carefully designed to be read-then-lab, to ensure what was taught was immediately applicable to product deployments.
In addition to creating excellent materials,Tony worked *hands on* in his extensive storage/switching/server and software environment to setup challenging and engaging testbeds to compliment the materials taught.
I'd rely on Tony in pretty much any environment to understand and impart deep technical knowledge to assist those encountering a product and having to learn how to deploy it live, rather than just past a written test at the end of a few days lecturing.
Thomas Funk
I've worked with Tony for the last few years. He is extremely knowledgeable in regards to the different aspects of training, including design, development, and delivery of web-based and classroom courses. He puts together product courses in a very intuitive and easy-to-learn fashion. His attitude and demeanor is always positive and high-energy. I've really enjoyed working with Tony, and have learned a lot from him as well along the way.
Karim Bahdouh, MS
Tony is a service driven, knowledge centric and professional course developer. He consistently went above and beyond to ensure the course material he is developing met and exceeded the needs of the delivery teams. He is very collaborative and focuses on understanding the training pain points experienced by his customers but more importantly, takes action to address them.
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