I help higher ed, corporations, and learning teams create engaging learning that works.
E-learning and Face-to-Face
I also help organizations form strategic visions and plans for the future.
Alan J Stephen is a learning designer, strategist and manager using the research and insights of the learning sciences to address learning priorities in our dynamic world.
Hello and welcome to my portfolio site.
My work has been instrumental in helping learning teams and clients make dramatic improvements in learning quality and program growth, create nation-wide occupational standards and form strategic visions and plans for the future.
My Approach
I’ve worked at Universities in Canada and the USA, managed a College Centre for Distance Education, and, with my business partner, led my own learning business (Standing Stones). Based on this successful experience…
I believe in the ability of collaborative minds, focused on the same purpose, to create breakthrough solutions and take action.
I believe in a positive future too. There is always more to learn.
Cases
Visual Learning
New Visual Learning for existing Suncor course “Suncor SAP Integration for New Leaders” - a course on using its Enterprise Resource Planning software to manage their units effectively.
Visual Learning for the City of Calgary course I designed called “The Design and Operation of Calgary’s Water System”.
Learning Design
An overview of the municipal challenge, cognitive work analysis with experts, scenario-based course design and the results for a new course for the City of Calgary called “The Design and Operation of Calgary’s Water System”.
Strategy & Innovation
The research project I facilitated and the report I was the primary author on that led to the creation of Alberta’s post-secondary e-learning consortium called eCampus Alberta - which over 15 years of operation had 20,000+ learners per year and 26 partners. This version of the report is a special 25th anniversary edition.
Download and use my latest visual design
Before we had diphtheria vaccines widely available
An account from a family memorial stone.
Imagine January 1862…
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A true sad tale from a memorial stone in Scotland that highlights the deaths of 8 children from the same family who died in January 1862 from diphtheria.
This visual has a creative commons copyright so you are free to download the visual and use it as outlined by the licence.
Expert at Becoming Expert…
Diverse content I have made work for learners:
Adult Literacy
An Introduction to Adult Learning
An Introduction to Learning Management Systems
Arborist: Tree Health & Maintenance
Cardiopulmonary Emergencies
Coiled Tubing
Current Research in Learning Theory
Curriculum Design
Curriculum Mapping
Design and Operation of Calgary’s Water System
Designing Standard Operating Procedures
Emergency Medical Technician - Ambulance
Entrepreneurship (Concept to Capital)
Essential Workplace Skills
Fire Fighting
Food Safety and Nutrition
Health Sciences
Heavy Duty Mechanics: Maintaining Your Vehicle
Information Sciences
Interior Design
Introduction to Philosophy
Leak Locating
Learning Theory
Learning Facilities and Space Management
Macintosh Computer Training
Monitoring Smokestack Emissions
Mountain Bird Watching
Nature Photography
Oilfield Transportation
Paramedic Level II Competencies
Petroleum Services
Pipelaying
Student Services
Snubbing Services
Supervising Youth with Barriers to Employment
Telecommunications
Water Production Operator
Water Distribution Control Operator
Water Production Supervisor
Water Distribution Control Supervisor
Water Services Manager
Inside Outside Onward.
What’s that?
It’s my model of Organizational Research & Innovation developed over thirty years of experience. Influenced by Learning Sciences, Systems Thinking and Design Thinking, it helps make priority projects work.