William "Cody" Nolen
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER (ISD)
Graphic Designer
eLearning Team Manager
Adult Learning Consultant
Forever Student
With over 20 years of producing blended learning for the Department of Defense, this portfolio is a movement to demonstrate possibilities of how we can improve your corporate training initiatives.
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About
My name is Cody. I fell into the Instructional Design world accidentally. During my active duty years in the Air Force, I was working on a Fine Arts degree, something that I had passion in and still do.
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However, at each of my tours, I eventually ended up as an instructor and leading the training shops. Things sort of just lined up and I realized that I enjoyed creating curriculum. I went on to get my Master of Science Instructional Design, made the Dean's list multiple times and earned a 3.8 GPA.
By trade, I was a radar operator in the Air Force, but after service I knew that I wanted to continue as an Instructional Designer. As of 2024, I have almost a decade of experience as a contractor and GS in this field.
Unfortunately for working in the military, I do not own rights to most of the work that I have created.
This image is one that I created in use for an online "escape room" that we used for an online class.
The typewriter, screen on the typewriter, pen, and paper were added to the library. The theming was a blend of "Hogwarts" and "Steampunk".
This is another course that I created for our safety office. It was a course for our staff and also our students. The objective was to teach them about how to prepare a vehicle for driving and also how to anticipate the dangers. It also covered how to handle road rage incidents.
The design of the course was setup so that the student could choose their own path and make choices that would lead to different outcomes.
This course also served as a test for my creations. I wanted to create the most efficient course within a very short amount of time. I was able to compress the size down 75% and the course was complete within one month. The course is fully interactive. It included all aspects of ADDIE and still gets annual reviews to this day. It was highly successful and gets great reviews.
This course was developed for our training staff. The purpose was to encourage "creative thinking" for instructing.
The course is setup as a dialog between two robots. The robots are talking about how humans have the ability to be creative, while robots are more technical. It brings humor with the robots making fun of humans, sort of a nod to the "Love, Death, and Robots" movie series.