Sara Stamets - Portfolio
My Work
The following is a sample of my instructional design work over the course of my career. It is broken into three main parts meant to portray my design and prototyping process, innovative online assessment and interactive design, and media work. Please contact for more information or samples.
UI/UX and Scoping
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Competency Mapping
Foundational to the design of learning--from the single module through the microcertificate, course, and program--is the identification of competencies, skills, outcomes, and objectives the learner will need in order to succeed. At the Institute for Transformational Learning, I became proficient at the identification and mapping of these elements logically in order to model learning and learning pathways.
Site and Interaction Design
Discovering Value-Based Health Care is an adaptive web-based program for medical students and practitioners. Each module and collection of modules offer a unique learner experience, the completion of which gains course credit and continuing education credits.
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Every module is designed around a narrative, introduced by compelling video. They include curated resources, animation, custom infographics, and interactive assessment activities. For these I wireframed site pages and interactions, prepared for mobile, created content, storyboarded, and designed all interactive experiences.
Curriculum and Element Scoping
I'm versed in the mapping and creation of design blueprints informing the individual component or activity, to the summative assessment, to the overarching course or program. I love to think through complex systems and interactions to create compelling and robust learning experiences and environments.
Media and Storyboarding
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Animations
From explaining normal distribution through the timeline of zombie putrefaction to Nudge theory and patient communication, I've storyboarded and carried through development several animations. My creative writing background and attention to detail help me to storyboard informative and entertaining animation scripts and visual guidelines, which I've then helped to bring through the development process to the final piece.
Live Videos
While video is a wonderful instructional medium, it is also a powerful way to elicit empathy and weave narrative. For Dell's value-based health care initiative, our Stories from the Frontline helped achieve our instructional ends as well as inspire the desired emotional connection through storybuilding. I helped to outline, script, cast, coordinate the shooting of, and review these videos as well as determine the instructional activity and content that would build off of them.
Interactive Video
While we've found videos to be great instructional tools, providing interactive opportunities within them breaks up the passive experience and increases learner understanding and satisfaction. I'm experienced in developing branching interactive videos, assessment breaks, and videos built into activities. Please note that the linked video here indicates places where assessment occurs in the launched version, but relies on the code built into that site to function in that way. It is included as an example , and I would be happy to share further examples.
Interactive and Assessment Design
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High-Value Communication - Branching Assessment
Objective: Summative module interactive activity to assess AMA-based value-based health care learning outcomes in high-value communication.
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Design: Branching scenario based on conversation with a patient seeking opiates to combat back pain. The goal was to use the appropriate communication techniques to find a treatment solution that did not involve opiates, but which made the patient feel heard, understood, and a part of care decisions.
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Method: Built wireframe of interactions and character guidance using Slides. Built decision tree in Draw.io. Created all dialogue options and rationale as well as evaluation logic and feedback display.
Health Systems Design - Formative interactive activity
Objective: This assessment is meant to both provide practice in and assess knowledge of integrative health-system design discussed in the course of the module. Objectives are informed by AMA standards, and each patient provides a unique
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Design: Patient scenario wherein learner is given current patient medications and costs. The learner must utilize the resources discussed in the module (and captured here) as well as what they know generally to reduce his cost burden. Following the activity, the learner can compare their solution with a leaderboard of top solutions and see how these solutions compared with his or her own. Finally, the learner completes a reflection on the process and applicability to their current processes in a text box that populates a carousel of user responses that they can explore. This has been successfully used in individual as well as in-person and remote group-based settings.
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Method: Built wireframe of interactions and page set-up using Slides. Created process-steps of interaction and logic as well as leaderboard guidance.
Improvement Project - Learner-identified project plan
Objective: Summative module interactive activity to all learner to revisit an earlier problem statement, use what they've learned to improve it, and provide the learner with a project planning toolkit.
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Design: The goal of this project was to give the learner a concrete methodology to design and implement an improvement project for their institution. Early in the module, the learner is asked to identify a problem they would like to solve. Over the course of the module, the learner explores SMART goal statements, project design, and analysis methods. Finally, the learner sees their initial problem statement and are asked to ensure it is a SMART goal. Once they've self-identified each part of this, the goal is populated into a Project Planning Toolkit that can be downloaded as a PDF. Use-cases may be to complete this exercise as an individual or group, with a continuing supervised project implementation.
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Method: Built wireframe of interactions and page set-up using Slides. Created Toolkit PDF and identified where each individual's goal statement should be coded to appear.