Micro-Orientation · Self-Paced
Quick Tour 101: Gary Bartanus
Twenty years of teaching and eLearning design, a national eLearning award, and a habit of testing new tools early — in about four minutes.
DELIVERY
Self-paced
ESTIMATED TIME
3 - 5 minutes
PREREQUISITE
None
FINAL ASSESSMENT
Your judgment
OPTIONAL EXTENSION
A conversation with Gary
Welcome
Your Course Facilitator
Early in my teaching career I mailed school districts my résumé written as a lesson plan. It landed far more interviews than a standard résumé. This page is the same idea, updated.
Note: Your facilitator is an AI avatar. The script, the syllabus and the jokes are those of its human conceptualizer.
Learning Outcomes
Given a few minutes and a mobile device, you will be able to:
01 · Identify
Design Strengths
Recognize Gary’s core strengths in instructional design, adult learning, educational technology and multimedia production.
02 · Examine
Evidence
Review concrete examples of complex learning design, interactive media, measurable results and emerging-technology experimentation.
03 · Consider
AI in Practice
Consider how emerging AI tools can extend—rather than replace—human creativity, judgment and instructional design.
04 · Decide
Fit
Determine whether Gary’s experience and approach warrant further exploration—or a conversation.
Module 01 · Instructional Design
Learning Before Technology
Tools change. Learners still matter. Gary’s work begins with the learner, the performance problem and the context in which learning must actually work. The two cases selected here show both enterprise complexity and measurable organizational impact.
Reducing Cognitive Friction in Healthcare
How I helped clinical staff get ready for complex EHR go-lives: accessible learning design, built with clinical teams, backed by workflow automation.
Federal 101: National eLearning Award Winner
Creative enterprise learning with measurable completion, multimedia, organizational change and national recognition.
Module 02 · Multimedia & Storytelling
Ideas Made Visible
Sometimes the most effective explanation is not another paragraph. This module focuses on multimedia used instructionally: learner control, interaction, story, audio, video and deliberate production choices that support understanding rather than decorate it.
Increasing Learner Engagement with Interactive Videos
Two examples showing how navigation, embedded questions and multimedia production can turn passive viewing into active participation.
AI-Assisted Digital Storytelling
A multi-tool production experiment showing how one designer can orchestrate voice, avatars, visual generation and motion into a coherent story.
Module 03 · AI in Practice
Human Judgment Is the Point
Generative AI can now create voices, faces, images, motion and virtual performances remarkably quickly. The interesting question is not whether the technology can generate something. It is whether a designer knows what should be created, for whom, and why.
Reflection: The character is artificial. The communication problem isn’t. AI can manufacture performance; deciding what that performance should accomplish remains a human design task.
Module 04 · Experience & Credentials
The Evidence Behind the Work
The guided tour ends with the formal record and the person behind it: professional experience, education, awards, tools, design philosophy and the broader combination of learning design and media-production experience.
Online Résumé
Experience, measurable results, selected evidence, education, professional development and technical capabilities.
About Gary
The design philosophy, media background, workflow and practical approach that sit behind the résumé.
Course Completion
You’ve Reached the End.
No quiz. No certificate. No 47-question Level 1 evaluation. If this brief orientation has raised a few useful questions, then it has done its job.
Estimated seat time: considerably shorter than reading another résumé.