Curriculum Vitae:
CV Highlights:
Christopher James Haynes
christopher.haynes@colorado.edu
Education
- Ph.D, English Literature: University of Colorado at Boulder (August 2010 – May 2017)
- Dissertation: Convergence and Contest: Humanism, Comic Books, and Higher Education in the Digital Age (Director: Professor William Kuskin)
Experience:
- Director of Learning Experience Design (June 2020 – Present)
- Office for Academic Innovation, University of Colorado Boulder
- Led team of learning experience designers to build online courses, online scaled degree programs, and innovative microcredentials.
- Coordinated campus business, academic, and technical teams to implement forward-looking admissions, enrollment, and grade processing systems.
- Associate Director for Learning Experience Design (March 2019 – June 2020)
- Office of Strategic Initiatives, University of Colorado Boulder
- Responsible for program design, next generation student experience, and faculty development for scaled online learning initiatives.
- Program Manager (July 2017 – March 2019)
- Office of Strategic Initiatives, University of Colorado Boulder
- Instructional design, project management, and faculty development for the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, a MOOC-based fully online MS degree.
- Consultation with variety of academic departments on pedagogy and administration of developing online course content and curriculum design.
- Digital Learning Design Researcher (September 2016 – May 2017)
- Digital Learning Initiatives Group, CU Boulder Graduate School
- Project management and instructional design for “Spacecraft Dynamics and Control,” a pilot Coursera Specialization based on graduate Aerospace Engineering lecture capture
- Instructional design support for “The Sun and the Total Eclipse of August 2017,” a Coursera MOOC hosted by CU Boulder and the Fiske Planetarium
- Project Manager (January 2016 – May 2017)
- Online Credit Program, CU Boulder Continuing Education
- Development and project management of Online Pedagogy Cafe Design Workshop, both live faculty development sessions and suite of Desire2Learn and Slack design spaces
- Project management and research design for pilot study of course modality impact on affective domain learning outcomes in literature courses
- Graduate Instructor of Record (August 2010 – May 2017)
- Department of English, CU Boulder
- Designed and delivered courses in both face-to-face and fully online learning environments, focusing on close reading, critical thinking, and analytical writing skills
- Average FCQ rating for Instructor: 5.67 (1-6 scale)
- Average FCQ rating for Course: 5.24 (1-6 scale)
- Courses Taught (29 total sections):
- Shakespeare for Non Majors (face-to-face)
- Introduction to Women’s Literature (face-to-face)
- Introduction to Western European Literature II (face-to-face)
- Masterpieces of British Literature (fully online and face-to-face)
- Modern and Contemporary Literature (face-to-face and fully online)
- Studies in Genre: Comics and Graphic Novels (fully online)
- Literature in English 1945-Present (fully online)
- Topics in Popular Culture: Fandom in the Digital Age (fully online)
- Graduate Teaching Assistant (August 2014 – December 2014)
- Coursera and the Division of Continuing Education, CU Boulder
- Designed peer-assessment rubrics and instructional strategies for Coursera MOOC “Comic Books and Graphic Novels”
- Developed 1 and 2-credit extension courses of “Comic Books and Graphic Novels” through CU Boulder Division of Continuing Education
Professional Certifications:
- OLC “Certificate in Online Teaching” with Specialization in Instructional Design (June 2016)
- Digital Pedagogy Lab “Learning Online” Certificate of Completion (November 2015)
- Quality Matters (QM) “Teaching Online” Certificate of Completion (Summer 2014)
Publications:
- “What is a MOOC in 2018?” (January 2018), White Paper for CU Boulder – Academic Futures Initiative https://www.colorado.edu/academicfutures/2018/01/11/what-mooc-2018-haynes
- “The Pedagogy of Boredom” (November 2017), Inside Higher Ed https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/views/2017/11/15/embracing-unconstrained-time-online-courses
- “Time to Change the Narrative of Online Education” (August 2017), Inside Higher Ed https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/views/2017/08/23/time-change-narrative-online-education
- “Breaking Through the Stigma of Online Education” (May 2017), Inside Higher Ed https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/views/2017/05/24/breaking-stigma-online-education
- “Confessions of a Graduate Teacher (Once Lost, Now Found)” (October 2016), Hybrid Pedagogy http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/confessions-graduate-teacher/
- “The Elegant Formats of Junk Literature” (Summer 2017), forthcoming in the Sequart edited collection How To Analyze and Review Comics
References
- Dr. William Kuskin (william.kuskin@colorado.edu), Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives, Professor of English, University of Colorado Boulder
- Dr. Geoffrey Rubinstein (geoffrey.rubinstein@colorado.edu), Director of Online Credit, Division of Continuing Education, University of Colorado Boulder
- Dr. Quentin McAndrew (quentin.mcandrew@colorado.edu), Special Assistant Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives, University of Colorado Boulder
- Dr. Adam Bradley (adam.bradley@colorado.edu), Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado Boulder