More About Todd

(Todd shaved the mustache, but his daughter hasn’t had time to draw new sketches, so imagine Todd clean shaven…Oh, and new glasses!)

S. Todd Stubbs is a Learning Experience Designer with over 30 years of experience teaching and creating instructional and educational media of all sorts—print, visual, video, and interactive—including whole college courses.

He has taught in urban and rural schools, and at virtually every level: elementary school, middle, and high school, as well as undergraduate- and graduate-level university courses. He has trained K-12 teachers, university faculty, and K-12 and university administrators, on ways to apply technology in instruction, Todd has presented at state, regional, and national conferences and seminars, and has authored several successful grants. He is a former president of the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET) (he once coaxed Apple’s Steve Wozniak to be the keynote speaker for UCET’s annual conference).

His interest in instructional design began in the rural town of Tropic, Utah, where he pioneered a telecommunication display system for use in teaching long-distance classes—long before the Internet. Later, he trained, consulted, and assisted faculty and administrators in a regional service center that served nine rural school districts in northeastern Utah. He taught information literacy to K–6 students at an urban elementary school as a certified library-media teacher/specialist; then, soon after, took over as project director of a large, struggling technology grant project involving high school math and science. Between and around all of these he has done many varied instructional design and development tasks for dozens of projects and assisted with hundreds of courses.

Todd holds a doctorate degree (PhD) from Brigham Young University in Instructional Psychology and Technology, and a masters degree (MEd) from Utah State University in Instructional Technology. (For a copy of Todd’s curriculum vitae, go to https://www.toddstubbs.com/cv/.)

Todd and his wife Joy have been married over 40 years and have five children and 17 grandchildren.

His interest in instructional design began in the rural town of Tropic, Utah, where he invented and developed a primitive telecommunication visual display system for use in teaching synchronous classes using standard telephone lines. From there he guided technical documentation for a small software firm in central Utah; helped, trained and consulted with faculty and administrators of nine school districts in northeastern Utah as a regional technology specialist; managed and taught K–6 students as a certified elementary school library-media teacher/specialist in an urban elementary school, directed a large technology grant project, and performed various instructional design and development duties for dozens of projects and hundreds of courses.

He has taught at virtually every level: urban elementary students, rural middle and high school students, undergraduate university students, and graduate students. In addition he has conducted inservice training for teachers, administrators, and university faculty, generally on topics of instructional uses of technology. Todd has presented at state, university, regional and national conferences, and is a former president of the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology, a Utah affiliate of AECT (where he coaxed Steve Jobs to come to Utah as a keynote speaker for their annual conference).

Todd holds a doctorate degree (PhD) from Brigham Young University in Instructional Psychology and Technology (2006). The subject of his dissertation was the value and importance of drawing and sketching to the instructional design process; Dr. Andy Gibbons was his dissertation chair. He also holds a masters degree (MEd) from Utah State in Instructional Technology (1989) where his master’s project was to devise a way to compare the potential effectiveness of electronic distance education systems; Dr. Byron Burnham was his chair.

Todd and his wife Joy have been married 35 years and have five children and 16 grandchildren.