About Our Work

The Academic Technology and Design (ATD) unit provides instructional design and course development services for CCAPS. Using a research-based approach, our courses are designed in collaboration with faculty subject matter experts who are practitioners in their field. This faculty expertise provides the basis for a student-centered, active, learning design. The goal is to engage students who gain disciplinary thinking skills by completing authentic, real world tasks.

In addition to course design and development services, ATD Staff updates and maintains courses for faculty, provides ongoing faculty support, and faculty development.

ATD Staff Roles

Our staff are experts in using Learning Management Systems and pedagogy for the online environment. There are four roles in our team:

  1. Instructional Designers (ID): work with faculty on creating new course sites or redesigning sites that need improvements.
  2. Multimedia Designers: support multimedia and academic technologies used in online courses.
  3. Academic Technologists: update and pilot test the courses every semester. They also serve as the end user support team that answers faculty questions for their online courses.
  4. Project Coordinator: works with the programs and their leaders to assign projects to the various ATD staff members. The project coordinator works with the bookstore and library to ensure textbooks and other course resources students need are available.

Staff and Organizational Chart

ATD Organizational Chart as of 10/2026
Matt Sherwood is the Executive Director of Academic and Information of Technology (AIT). Amanda Chamberlain is the Director of Academic Technology and Design (ATD). Reporting to the Director of Academic Technology and Design are: Project Coordinator Matthew Verkuilen;  Instructional Designers Kimi Johnson, Jared Coffin, Maurice Booth Jr. and Hayley Nickels; Academic Technologists Paul McLagan and Rita Gauscheman;  Multimedia Specialists Grayson Simmons and Ilya Kravchik.

CCAPS ATD Organizational Chart current as of April 2026