Prof. Steven Schatz is the latest addition to our ID program team. Starting as full time faculty in September 2012, he teaches courses covering analysis and evaluation. In addition, he is a capstone advisor and serves as one of our academic advisors for ID students. Last year, Steve developed a new course for our program, Project Management in Instructional Design.

Over the past 25 years, Steve has studied and applied useful technologies at the progressive edge of learning. His work focuses on change initiatives in organizations, specializing in communication, sharing knowledge, and effectively using the organization’s knowledge pool to create learning events and enhance performance.

For the past three years, he has been developing and testing an integrated model of design for online and blended courses, focusing on continuous feedback and evaluation to both increase effectiveness and provide clear measures for success. His new model, the Change Design Process is the evolution of design and organizational learning, integrating evaluation and analysis with practical application of theory, experience, and practice.

Dr. Schatz earned his Masters at San Francisco State and his PhD at Indiana University. He was an assistant professor at the University of Hartford before joining UMass Boston. He has consulted with corporate, military, government, and higher ed on effective design of learning events, breaking the isolation of online learning, and Goal Packages of interventions for improving performance. He is also president of PowerStart.com, offering online instructional design courses using a hi-flex model.

He has published numerous articles in trade publications and academic journals including Performance Improvement Quarterly, Journal of Interactive Learning Research, and Educational Technology Research and Development. Prof. Schatz has led workshops throughout the country and spoken at corporate and academic conferences (including ASTD, ISPI, and AERA).