Emily Rodriguez(she/they)
I redesign higher-ed courses to move both the QM scorecard and the equity scorecard in the same year.
Selected work
08Skills this work teaches and assesses
ProposedAllure Connect reads each published course and records which skills it teaches and which it checks. This describes the courses, not what any learner has achieved.
Claimed by Emily
Self-declared. Not measured or checked.- Quality Matters
- Canvas LMS
- Higher Education
- OER Development
- Adaptive Learning
- Faculty Development
- Accessibility & UDL
- Course Design
- Learning Science
- WCAG 2.2 Remediation
- Generative-AI Pedagogy
- Open Badges / Verifiable Credentials
Words from clients
“Emily's QM-certified course template has transformed our online programs. Faculty adoption was immediate, and our course quality scores jumped 40%. She made Quality Matters accessible to everyone.”
After completing Emily's faculty development certificate, I completely redesigned my online courses. Student engagement increased, and I finally feel confident teaching online. Best professional development I've experienced.
Emily's approach to OER development saved our district thousands in textbook costs while improving course quality. Her understanding of both pedagogy and open education is remarkable.
Emily's writing-program AI cohort gave us the only rubric our department chairs would actually adopt — and the first-gen DFW gap on her adaptive stats redesign closed by 18 points without changing a single prerequisite. She is the rare designer who can move both the QM scorecard and the equity scorecard in the same year.
Emily mentored me through my first WCAG remediation sprint. She doesn't hand you the rubric — she walks you through how she'd score it, then makes you defend your call. I came out faster, more rigorous, and with a portfolio piece that landed me my next role.
Credentials
- Quality Matters Master ReviewerQuality Matters · Certification · 2021–2027View source(opens the issuer’s page)
- Canvas Certified EducatorInstructure · Certification · 2022–2028View source(opens the issuer’s page)
- Accessibility SpecialistW3C · Certification · 2023–2029View source(opens the issuer’s page)
- OER ChampionOpen Education Consortium · Badge · 2024
Recent activity
- Apr 22Confirmed as speaker OLC Innovate — 'UDL Beyond the Checklist: Designing for Real Cognitive Range'Long Beach, CA
- Apr 8Published module Adaptive Routing 101 for Stats TAs2004
- Mar 25Added case study Adaptive Statistics for First-Gen StudentsCanvas · 15-week course · adaptive entry
- Nov 13Spoke at Quality Matters Connect — 'From Rubric to Roadmap in Eight Weeks'Baltimore, MD
Active in 3 of the last 12 months
Events
- Apr 2026OLC Innovate — 'UDL Beyond the Checklist: Designing for Real Cognitive Range'Speaking · Long Beach, CA · Upcoming
- Nov 2025Quality Matters Connect — 'From Rubric to Roadmap in Eight Weeks'Workshop · Baltimore, MD · Past
- Aug 2025UT Austin Faculty Innovation Center — 'Accessibility Isn't a Tax'Speaking · Austin, TX · Past
Fall 2026 cohort · 3 institutional seats
Accessible learning, by design.
I redesign higher-ed courses to meet Quality Matters + WCAG without losing the spark that got students enrolled.
- Replies
- Within a day
- First call
- Free 30-min QM gap check — leave with a one-page rubric scorecard.
- NDA
- Standard mutual NDA welcome
- Time zone
- America/Chicago
- Formats
- Course rebuild (8–12w), QM peer review, Faculty cohort