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Office: 238 Ruffner Hall
Phone: (434) 924.0835
e-mail: kinzie@virginia.edu
Mable Kinzie is an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. She specializes in user-centered instructional and informational design, based on needs assessment and validated through rapid prototyping and continuous evaluation. Her methods draw on learning and psycho-social theories and employ proven user-interface design practices. Delivery media range from interactive multimedia on the web, to instructor-led class/workshop packages, to self-guided stand-alone modules.
Kinzie has produced over 40 instructional/interactive products and 30 publications, with products in use for adult/life-long learning, e-learning, Pre-K and K-12 education, and consumer/public health education, among other areas. She has led qualitative and quantitative evaluation efforts for intact products and programs, directed pilot tests/trials, analyzed data, and produced research reports.
Kinzie’s work has earned a number of awards:
- Instructional design (Outstanding Instructional Design Practice, Association for Educational Communications & Technology, 1988 [Project Director Susan Shaffer])
- Instructional development (Over 40 “Best of the Web” awards for the Interactive Frog Dissection http://frog.edschool.virginia.edu)
- Scholarship (Young Scholar Award, Association for Educational Communications & Technology, 1990)
- Faculty teaching, research, and service (1996 Harrison Outstanding Faculty Award)
She teaches graduate classes on instructional and interactive design, development, and research at the University of Virginia.
Find out more about her work at http://kinzie.edschool.virginia.edu
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