Happy 2023! Let’s kick off the new year with a spotlight on Senior Learning Designer and IDS faculty member Dr. David Noffs! Read on for David’s “Day in the Life”, his favorite superhero-inspired teaching tool, and his (maybe surprising) undergrad major.  How long have you worked here? How did you come to join the DL team / get involved in distance education? I have worked at SPS since 2015 as a faculty member and since 2017 as a Learning Designer. I have been teaching for over 20 years and first began working as an online teaching specialist in 2005, after

This month, we’re spotlighting our newest full-time staff member, Instructional Technologist Antonio Ortega! In the blog post below, Antonio tells us more about his work with Distance Learning. How long have you worked here? How did you come to join the DL team / get involved in distance education? I joined the DL team on August 1st, which would make four months this December. I was an elementary school teacher that enjoyed learning and applying educational technologies in my classroom. This came in handy when the pandemic forced schools to close and move to a remote learning format. I used

Staff Spotlight: Krissy Wilson This month, we’re spotlighting Senior Learning Designer Krissy Wilson! In the interview below, Krissy tells us more about her work with Distance Learning. How long have you worked here? How did you come to join the DL team / get involved in distance education? I joined the Distance Learning team as a Learning Designer in November 2015 (almost 7 years ago now!) and was promoted to Senior Learning Designer in the summer of 2018. Before coming to Northwestern SPS, I was an Instructional Designer at DePaul University in the School for New Learning (now School of