Presentations
Designing Scenario-based Assessments - 3/21/2012
CIMES Instructional Design Coordinator, Iskandaria Masduki, is presenting a session, "How to Design Scenario-based Assessments" at the Learning Solutions 2012 Conference in Orlando on Friday, March 23.
The presentation provides insights on creating interesting and authentic assessments while adhering to assessment standards that provide valid evaluation of performance. Examples shown include job negotiation (soft skills) and roadway data collection (hard skills) scenario-based assessments.
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Press Releases
Student assistants strengthen CIMES capacity - 2/08/2012
Michael Lewin and Gregor Richardson joined CIMES as Student Assistants in Fall, 2011. They continue to bring support and enthusiasm to our team during the Spring semester, 2012.
Michael is pursuing his bachelor's degree with a double major: Finance and Real Estate.
His professional interest is to become an expert in financial independence, stability, and investment analysis. While at CIMES, he has been helping us to refine and expand several of our information management databases. He deftly applies some of his many skills, including interpersonal communication, computer technology, punctuality, meeting visitors, and time management.
Management Information Systems is Gregor's academic major. Before attending FSU for a bachelor's degree, he had gained extensive experience through Apple employment and his own independent consulting company. Gregor now applies his thirst for knowledge to working closely with the CIMES IT team.
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CIMES employees mark 10-year anniversary! - 2/03/2012
CIMES congratulates Brian Arsenault and Blair Monroe for 10 years of employment with the Center. Brian became a web developer for our then fledgling California OTIS project as soon as he began at CIMES.
He has continued to enhance OTIS since then and is now CIMES Lead Web Developer. Another achievement of Brian's is his initiation of usability testing.
Blair, as Web Development Coordinator, has adroitly and wisely guided the team through all our IT projects at all levels of the process, from discovery and design to quality assurance and client support. Blair is the architect for our web projects and manages our network support.
CIMES is fortunate to have such talented and committed members on its team of professionals!
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CIMES PR Campaign Invites You From the Past Into the Future
01/17/2012
The CIMES creative team has been garnering a lot of attention with their whimsical, to-the-point post card PR campaign! Get on board and request to be added to our mailing list.
Our new post card series uses a sense of humor and a touch of history to show what CIMES Instructional Design and Training has to offer. If you're looking for a new angle on old training, or want to develop new training, look first at our services and record of success! And, as you can see, our marketing campaigns provide the perfect complement to your new training. Call on us! More
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