Christian Drennen , M.Ed.

In close coordination with Undergraduate Studies, Enterprise Academic Technologies (IT@UC), UC Online, and faculty, Christian directs CET&L’s efforts to support high quality and learner centered online instruction. He also creates resources related to using Canvas and other educational technologies for instructors of online, flipped, and hybrid courses.

Christian has more than 10 years of instructional design experience in both higher education and corporate settings. Prior to his move to CET&L, Christian was the Senior Instructional Designer in UC’s College of Allied Health Sciences. There he worked with the Center for Educational Technology and Instructional Support (CETIS) team to implement a systematic process for creating instructional materials in both classroom and online environments. Christian has also worked as a Corporate Learning Specialist for a fortune five-hundred company where he designed and implemented training curriculum consistent with adult learning principles for virtual, face-to-face, and off-shore instruction.

Christian is proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite, Zoom, WebEx, Teams, and Kaltura. He also has experience in course design models, interaction and mental models, and flipped classroom modalities.

Bachelors of Science: Indiana Wesleyan University Marion Indiana, 2015 (Major: Business Management Minor: Computer Informatics)

Master of Education: University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2019 (Plan: Instructional Design and Technology | Subplan: Teaching Track)

Can different Knowledge Types impact the Levels of Learning; and can this effect learner cognition? Let's discuss the importance of understanding how levels of learning and knowledge types matrix to impact learner cognition in the classroom.

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10-12-2015 - Instructional Designer | Digital Media Specialist, Strategically prepare, motivate, and empower faculty and administrators to create and deliver innovative and student-centered learning experiences, resulting in students meeting learning outcomes while positioning the College of Allied Health Sciences to embrace change in a rapidly evolving field., University of Cincinnati - College of Allied Health and Sciences, Cincinnati Campus - French East Building, Room 280

12-05-2019 - Assistant Director, Pedagogy and Technology, In close coordination with Undergraduate Studies, Enterprise Academic Technologies (IT@UC), UC Online, and faculty, Christian directs CET&L’s efforts to support high quality and learner centered online instruction. He also creates resources related to using Canvas and other educational technologies for instructors of online, flipped, and hybrid courses. Christian has more than 10 years of instructional design experience in both higher education and corporate settings. Prior to his move to CET&L, Christian was the Senior Instructional Designer in UC’s College of Allied Health Sciences. There he worked with the Center for Educational Technology and Instructional Support (CETIS) team to implement a systematic process for creating instructional materials in both classroom and online environments. Christian has also worked as a Corporate Learning Specialist for a fortune five-hundred company where he designed and implemented training curriculum consistent with adult learning principles for virtual, face-to-face, and off-shore instruction. Christian is proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite, Zoom, WebEx, Teams, and Kaltura. He also has experience in course design models, interaction and mental models, and flipped classroom modalities., University of Cincinnati, Clifton Campus

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