Alumni News
Alexander William Umstead (Certificate, 2016)
Alex graduated from IDDE in May with a Certificate in Instructional Design Foundations. Prior to that, he had finished a MS and completed PhD coursework in Cultural Foundations of Education in May 2015. He was hired at the end of June at SSB BART Group, Inc. as an Accessibility Analyst....
Micah Gideon Modell (Master, 2009)
Micah moved with his family to Incheon, South Korea to take a position at SUNY Korea as tenure-track faculty in the Department of Technology and Society. He also got a book chapter published.
Tiffany M. Squires (Ph.D., 2016)
Dr. Tiffany M. Squires has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Education and Assistant Director of Online Programs for Education Leadership at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Squires is a 2015 graduate of the PhD program in IDD&E. Her dissertation research focused on principal perspectives regarding the role of the school leader in the...
Cameron Blake (Master, 2016)
Cameron worked at the Learning Experience Design, SolarCity—A Subsidiary of Tesla. He is responsible for the design and development of training materials for the customer service arm of SolarCity. This includes process documentation, process improvement, and process training. Trainings that he and his team create affect more than 1200...
Caitlyn “Kit” John (Master, 2016)
Kit most recently worked as a Technology Camp Instructor for Classroom Antics in Cleveland, Ohio during the 2016 summer camp season where she received exceptional reviews from both parents and students. She has been promoted to Program Coordinator to further optimize and develop their growing portfolio of educational programs....
Shakis Drummond (Master, 2013)
On November 9th 2016, Shakis Drummond presented at her first conference at the 2016 USCA NDLW Virtual Conference, which was hosted by University of South Carolina in Aiken. Her topic was, Alright, Stop! Collaborate and Listen. Her presentation focused on course design benefits of integration collaboration into your design process....
Leigh Melissa Tolley (Ph.D., 2016)
Leigh Tolley has just accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor in Secondary Education position at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for the 2016-2017 academic year. She will be teaching four classes per semester; for the fall, this includes two sections of Classroom Management and Instructional Design. She says, “All...
A Letter From Deborah Ann Little (Master, 2016):
Graduating with the brilliant Syracuse University class’s of 2016, I am so grateful to so many for Believing in me and assisting me along the way. Achieving a BS in IM&T, a MS in IDD&E and a CAS in Ed. Tech in 5 years certainly took some patience, encouragement,...
Thanks to Tiffany Squires and Our Alumni!
This past summer Syracuse University welcomed a new Vice Chancellor for academic affairs and Provost, Michele G. Wheatly. Many of you took this opportunity to write letters to Provost Wheatly to welcome her and advocate for IDD&E. Tiffany Squires took the lead to organize and create a pack of...
