The Team
OFFICE OF INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

Will Pagán is the Director of Instructional Design, and leads the Office of Instructional Design. Previously, Will served as an Instructional Designer within OIRT and has taught Project Management for IT at Rutgers. Will has a Masters of Business and Science degree with a concentration of User Experience Design and is currently an Ed.D candidate with a concentration of Design of Learning Environments.
william.pagan@rutgers.edu

kbachmann@docs.rutgers.edu

karen.harris@rutgers.edu

hanna.kim12@rutgers.edu

Natalia Kouraeva serves as Instructional Designer at Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) at Rutgers University. Dr. Kouraeva is supporting Rutgers faculty in creating effective learning environments by integrating pedagogy principles and technology tools to meet diverse learning needs of students. Dr. Kouraeva previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Special Education in four-year college, a course instructor in community college, and as special education teacher in K-12. She has been preparing future educators and teaching students with special learning needs for many years. Dr. Kouraeva holds a B.S. and a M. Ed. from Moscow Pedagogical University in Russia and an Ed. D. from Rutgers University. Dr. Kouraeva values diversity and believes in the power of quality education for all. She is committed to pushing the limits and making positive change in lives of all people.
koraeva@docs.rutgers.edu

Mary Labrada is a Senior Instructional Designer at Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT). She earned her B.S. in Exercise Science from Rutgers University and her M.Ed. in Instructional Design from the University of Massachusetts Boston Online. Before joining TLT, she spent 8 years supporting students and faculty in medical education at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
mlabrada@docs.rutgers.edu

Dena Novak is a Senior Instructional Designer with the Teaching and Learning with Technology team at Rutgers University. She has a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Education from Rutgers University, and previously served as a high school English and Special Education teacher. Dena has also taught both online and face-to face courses at the University for the Writing and Information Technology programs. She loves working with faculty to develop great courses, and is passionate about pedagogy, student engagement in all types of learning environments, and the power of educational technology tools to improve learning and teaching experiences in higher education.
dena.novak@rutgers.edu

Ruth Ronan is a Senior Instructional Designer in the Teaching and Learning with Technology team. She received her MEd in Instructional Design from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Prior to joining the Office of Instructional Design at Rutgers, she supported Higher Ed faculty in Boston and Worcester, MA, for eight years. Ruth has had a long career in professional development that began as a training manager in New York City’s corporate sector and continued in Massachusetts, supporting faculty in K12 schools with technology integration before finding her niche in Higher Ed. She has been involved in various curriculum development projects with a focus on curriculum alignment and outcomes-based assessment. She is committed to helping faculty apply best practices to achieve their pedagogical goals and values opportunities to facilitate faculty learning communities to promote the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
ruth.ronan@rutgers.edu

David is an Instructional Designer with the Teaching & Learning with Technology (TLT) team. Before joining the TLT department at Rutgers University, David spent close to a decade working for Seton Hall University's School of Law, where he filled a variety of roles in Academic Support. This included serving as the department lead for Faculty Support Services and online course development responsibilities within the Division of Online Learning. David is also currently completing his doctoral studies in Higher Education Leadership, Management & Policy at Seton Hall, where his research focus is in instructional design and emerging technologies in Higher Education.
david.uibelhoer@rutgers.edu

channell.walker@rutgers.edu

Kyle Whitmus joined TLT in August 2016. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Washington State University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing – Fiction from the University of Massachusetts—Amherst. At UMass—Amherst, Kyle taught College Writing in the Writing Program and supported faculty in digital pedagogy and the use of instructional technology as part of the Instructional Media Lab. His responsibilities as an Instructional Designer at TLT include collaborating and consulting with University faculty in the migration, conception, development, and refinement of their online and hybrid courses. Kyle lives in Red Bank and in his free time enjoys beachgoing, downtowning, creative writing, DIY furniture, mixed media visual art, plastic music, paper books, and Oxford commas.
kwhitmus@docs.rutgers.edu

Joe Yankus is an Instructional Designer at Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT). Prior to arriving at Rutgers, Joe spent eight years at Seton Hall University, where he earned his B.A. in Communication Studies & Sociology and his M.A. in Instructional Design & Technology. Joe’s professional experience includes five years at Seton Hall’s IT department, where he provided on-site and online technical support for the University community and led training workshops for new department hires. He then spent three years at the Seton Hall University Libraries, where his duties included web development, creation of training materials, resource acquisition, art gallery assistance and more.
jyankus@docs.rutgers.edu
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