Alicia Willis, MA Ed.

Alicia Willis (MA Ed.) is a Senior Instructional Design Specialist with the Curriculum and Training team at the Center on Education and Training for Employment (CETE). Her education includes a Master’s Degree in Education, with a focus on Curriculum and Instruction. For more than a decade, Alicia has designed and developed instructional programs, provided curriculum recommendations, and consulted on curriculum and instructional design projects.

With more than 20 years of experience, Alicia began her Instructional Design work by developing and delivering on-the-job training to her peers. Later, she designed online-learning programs for career-technical education courses, including the creation of project-based learning assessments, learning engagement, animations, videos, and interactive games. Recently, she developed more than 100 online learning modules, including three modules within the Center’s international award-winning Go Digital Training Collection. Alicia also develops presentations, podcast episodes, videos, and animations to share her knowledge and skills with other learning and development professionals.

Alicia has delivered more than 20 presentations at educational conferences on topics including instructional design, accessibility, competency-based education, curriculum development, professional development, and artificial intelligence in the classroom. Alicia prioritizes her own professional development on accessible instructional practices.

Since 2015, Alicia has led the Center’s Instructional Design Cohort. This cohort has expanded to include 42 Instructional Designers across 18 colleges and departments within The Ohio State University and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Alicia spends her personal time reading, kayaking, hiking, playing board games, and spending time with family.

Research Interests:

• Instructional Design
  • Accessibility
  • Curriculum and Instruction
  • Learning Design
  • Learning Technologies
  • User Experience Design
• Adult Learning
• Adult Literacy
• Career and Technical Education
• Workforce Development and Education