Hello! I’m Payton Walters
I am a Ph.D. student in Education for Learning, Design, and Technology at Oklahoma State University. My pursuit of combining my passions for teaching and design inspires my career in instructional design.
Together we can design a new or even revamp an existing learning model that is effective and appealing to best meet the needs of your learners.
Teaching empowers others to grow beyond what they know in that moment; Training equips anyone with the tools and strategies to effectively teach others.
Explore, create, and evaluate all forms of materials that can be representative of your content like eLearning tools, educational videos, and more.
Dedicated to the advancement of Instructional Design, I am excited to take part with research that contributes to the development of learning strategies and tools.
Assist all patron's question regarding the library catalog, website, and research.
Provided instructional guidance to teaching assistants while facilitating weekly meetings.
Adapted curriculum from traditional to online instructional methods.
By Payton Walters
Game-based and immersive learning technologies are becoming increasingly apparent in research and practice suggesting an innovative supplement to traditional and online methods. The technological innovations of game-based and immersive learning for training and education require thorough attention in their design, development, and integration. However, instructional designers and educators do not readily consider and suggest these options due to a lack of understanding of how to design them for educational or training purposes. The focused attention and planning of these innovations call upon instructional designers and their expertise of instructional principles and technologies in the broad understanding including strategies, practices, devices, and tools. With combinations of these principles and technologies, instructional designers can construct appealing and functional designs for contextual gaps in knowledge and skills. Current research can aid in synthesizing a coherent set of design principles for game-based and immersive learning that connects to an instructional designer’s existing knowledge of instructional principles and experiences. Improving competency in these innovations would initiate designing more effective serious games, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) that meet an educational purpose.
By Adam Schovanec & Payton Walters
Organizational politics have an unexpected pervasiveness and influence on various institutions’ decisions, behaviors, and outcomes. While organizational politics among employees in higher education is increasingly studied, its impact on students has yet to be discovered. Identifying and understanding organizational politics in a graduate program could provide insightful suggestions for mitigating adverse effects on graduate students and their academic and career success.
By Payton Walters Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) presents new avenues for educational integration, presenting opportunities to create worthwhile learning experiences.