Vancouver, Canada Area
- Recommended
-
2 people have recommended Patricia - Connections
-
51
connections
- Industry
- Higher Education
Patricia Foster’s Summary
Influenced by an educational background in the social sciences, web development and multimedia, has developed a communications-rich career path that integrates user experience intelligence, teaching and learning, and community building as a means of creating a qualitative experience for specific university student and staff communities.
As a front-end web developer, has created web pages, written and managed online content for both library and university student website pages. Expertise in website usability has been used in a series of work projects which include an open source repository, library e-reserve and LibQual (QA Survey) usability testing. Credit course project on Web 2.0 staff training led to an assignment to initiate and act as a consultant to a similar program for library staff which will commence in October 2008.
Patricia Foster’s Specialties:
Problem-Based Learning (PBL) on-line resource management
Strategic planning activities
Customer support
Qualitative research
Blog administration and social software
Client-side web development
Web authoring and graphics software
Website planning and usability
Writing articles and editing
Technical Writing
Learning E-portfolios