Kim Welch is an Instructional Designer for EdPlus, Innovations and Emerging Initiatives. She holds an Educational Doctorate in Learning Technologies from Pepperdine University and has worked in higher education for over 25 years as an instructional designer, a faculty developer, an assistant director of a teaching center, an LMS administrator, a language instructor (French, English, and ESL), and an instructor of higher education pedagogy. She has taught in the U.S., Morocco, and China and served as a volunteer English instructor for low-income populations in France.
She is currently working on initiatives sponsored by the Mastercard Foundation, including:
- e-Learning for Strengthening Higher Education in Ethiopia (e-SHE): Part 1: Kim manages the facilitation of Master Class Foundations for Excellence in Teaching Online to hundreds of Ethiopian faculty. Part 2: Kim creates and facilitates a trainer of trainers (ToT) model to help chosen Ethiopian faculty to facilitate the same training at their own institutions.
- e-Learning Champion Initiative: As a continuation of previous work, Kim facilitates the Quality Matters Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) workshop to help affiliate institutions increase their e-learning capacity.
Previous ASU projects include: creating AI rubrics and prompts for globally-minded design of instructional assets; training over 130 e-learning champions from institutions in Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Benin, Lebanon, and Costa Rica to increase their digital skills for online teaching; creating mobile trainings for WeGrad family education and engagement programs to increase college readiness for middle and high school students; and quality assurance for courses designed for MENA youth who are bridging into college and technical/vocational trades (sponsored by the Al Ghurair Foundation for Education).