Stephanie Moore, PhD

Dr. Moore is Director of Instructional Design at the University of Virginia in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her current work includes the development of undergraduate engineering education for distributed delivery to provide access to engineering education for rural parts of Virginia to build a stable engineering workforce and provide individuals with access to increased quality of life and self-sufficiency. She also is teaching engineering ethics for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, with a specific focus on business ethics for engineers.

Dr. Moore also currently teaches a course on universal design and assistive technology as adjunct for Morehead State University in Kentucky. Previously, she was at the University of Northern Colorado where she worked with faculty on research and development of effective learning and teaching with technology. Before that post, she spent two years at the Colorado Department of Education as the director of assessment, overseeing statewide implementation and analysis of K-3 literacy assessments. Before her time with CDE, she worked at UNC for several years, first as the lead instructional designer for the National Center on Low-Incidence Disabilities and then as the assistant to the director of institutional assessment. Before her instructional design work, Dr. Moore taught freshman composition at UNC. Dr. Moore also has worked as a graphic artist, desktop publisher and web developer for a leading design firm whose clients included many Fortune 500 companies.

In 2001, Dr. Moore received the AACTE Innovation of the Year Award, along with her colleagues at UNC, for the development of online courses in the area of blindness and visual impairments. These courses were noted for their application of cognitive apprenticeship and situated cognition, as well as advances in both the technical and philosophical approaches to accessibility demonstrated in the courses. Most recently, she has published widely in peer-reviewed journals in the area of performance improvement and just completed her first book – Ethics by Design: Strategic Thinking and Planning for Exemplary Performance, Responsible Results, and Societal Accountability (2009). Her research is on professional ethics with a specific emphasis on applied ethics, including in educational technology and performance improvement. Other areas of research and development include assessment and evaluation, instructional design and distance learning.