About Me
I am a passionate educator who loves working with different ages and fields of study. Dreaming about a multidisciplinary model for schools, I am doing projects that combine STEAM and CLIL approaches in education. Everything is connected; we, as teachers, just need to show it to everyone.
Primary Education
CLIL and ESL
Instructional Design
International Education
Resume
Skills
Video Making
Camtasia, Adobe Premier
Office tools
Word, Power Point, Excel, Adobe Captivate
Languages
Russian (native), English (C1), Spanish (A1)
Graphic Design
Canva, Photoshop, Figma, Adobe Illustrator
Data Analysis
SPSS, R, Tableau
Web development
Wordpress, HTML5
Cups of coffee
Projects
Students
Lessons
Education
Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY, USA
Fulbright FGS scholar
August 2021 - Present
GPA 4.0
GPA 4.0
Minin University, Nizhny
Novgorod, Russia
Thesis: "Adaptation of international students across the world and its difficulties"
Advisor: Maria Liashenko, Ph.D.
Thesis: "Adaptation of international students across the world and its difficulties"
Advisor: Maria Liashenko, Ph.D.
August 2020 - Present
GPA 4.0
GPA 4.0
Federal University,
Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Thesis:"Formation of foreign language communicative competence for primary and secondary school in the context of content-language integrated learning (CLIL)"
Advisor: Tatiana Bondareva, Ph.D.
Thesis:"Formation of foreign language communicative competence for primary and secondary school in the context of content-language integrated learning (CLIL)"
Advisor: Tatiana Bondareva, Ph.D.
August 2015 - July 2020
GPA 4.0
GPA 4.0
Drexel University,
Philadelphia, PA, USA
July 2021 - August 2021
Arizona Statee University, AZ,
USA
February 2020
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
February 2019 - July 2019
Work Experience
Instructional Research intern
Office Of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment, Syracuse, NY, USA
Teaching assistant assistant for Spoken and Written
English course
January 2021 - July 2021
Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Online English tutor
September 2019 - July 2021
Skyeng, Remote job
Internship, CLIL teaching assistant
February 2019
Public School, Rubi, Spain
MASTER degree Courses
Instructional Design and Development I
IDE 631
Grade: A
Professor: Jerry Edmonds
Major aspects of instructional design and development
emphasizing learning outcomes, instructional objective,
and strategies in the context of theory and practice.
Emphasis on knowledge and skills required to create
instructional design rationale.
Principles of Instruction and Learning
IDE 621
Grade: A
Professor: Micah Shippee
Theories of learning and instruction, factors affecting
human learning, youth through adult, with implications
for the design and management of instruction.
Technologies in Instructional Design
IDE 611
Grade: A
Professor: Moon-Heum Cho
Students gain knowledge, skills and experiences with a
variety of information and communication technologies
relevant to educational contexts, create instructional
materials and resources, and examine critical issues
related to information technologies used in
instructional settings.
Digital Media Production
IDE 552
Grade: A
Professor: Celestia Ohrazda
Use of new media tools to develop digital instructional
media. Includes introduction and instruction on
contemporary and emerging media development tools,
including graphics, video editing, web design, and
mobile technology.
Instructional Design and Development II
IDE 632
Grade: A
Professor: Jerry Edmonds
Instructional design and development theory and
practice. The knowledge and skills required to select,
revise, and apply instructional development models.
Techniques in Educational Evaluation
IDE 641
Grade: A
Professor: Robert Tornberg
Applied, programmatic techniques for evaluating
educational/training programs and projects. Units focus
on planning, client relations, problem analysis, data
collection and analysis, reporting, evaluation
management, and ethics.
Analysis for Human Performance Technology Decisions
IDE 712
Grade: A
Professor: Rob Pusch
Addresses analytical techniques used to determine
educational or training program solutions. Participants
examine human behavior and the role that instruction can
have in changing behavior on the job and in society.
Strategies in Educational Project Management
IDE 761
Grade: A
Professor: Gary La Point
Management tactics, skills, procedures, and tools for
planning and administering educational projects.
Includes planning, implementing, maintaining, and
closing projects; investigating project management
issues on scope, changes, and quality.
Educational Technology in International Settings
IDE 772
Grade: A
Professor: Jing Lei
Issues arising in application of instructional
principles, strategies, and processes in international
settings. Impact of educational technology reforms
around the world; issues and challenges in designing
multicultural learning; social aspects of instructional
design, development, evaluation.
Advanced Instructional Design (Capstone Course)
IDE 737
Grade: A
Professor: Moon-Heum Cho
Additional learning experience helping students develop
confidence in their role as designers. Students will
storyboard, critique, enhance, and evaluate an
instructional unit while learning about advanced design
techniques.
Projects
INSTRUCTIONAL UNIT (CAPSTONE PROJECT) IDE 737
Authors: V. SobolevaADDIE Phase: Development
Context: This capstone project presents an Instructional Unit of the "Project Management in Instructional Design" course (part of the master's program) with a detailed storyboard of instruction and supporting instructional resources.
Reflection: This project helped me realize that I am a real instructional designer ready for challenges and real projects, ready to work with the client and develop instructional resources within the set time frame.
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY USE IN UKRAINE IDE 772
Authors: V. SobolevaADDIE Phase: The project does not focus on any of the phases of the ADDIE model but includes information about Educational Technologies (which are chosen in the Development phase)
Context: This chapter is devoted to a better understanding of Ukraine and its educational technology issues and includes its current situation around Edtech, future trends and factors to consider when working in Ukraine.
Reflection: This project made me think a lot about the questions I first need to ask myself before starting to work with a particular country context. While working on my project and reading other students' chapters I learned a lot about the cultural differences that influence educational technology in different countries.
KNOWLEDGE BASE IDE 621
Authors: V. SobolevaADDIE Phase: It does not represent any of the IDD&E phases, as it is a more theoretical project that is focused on learning theories.
Context: This project is a knowledge base devoted to three major learning theories: behaviorism, cognitivism, and social learning theory. It includes the basic principles, main personnel, learning scenario, observation checklist and reflection on each theory.
Reflection: It was the first website I made on my own, and I am proud of that! This project includes basic information about behaviorism, cognitivism and social learning theory, and I still use it to remind myself of their concepts. I think it is a good way to organize information to remember it for a long time and use it for future reference.
Improving First-Year International Students’ Money Management Skills and Knowledge IDE 631
Authors: W. Alkeheli, M. Montenegro, R. Pettit, V.SobolevaADDIE Phase: The Whole ADDIE process.
Context: This project describes a money management problem that undergraduate international students face and provides a prototype of an instructional solution for such a problem.
Reflection: It was my first experience working with the IDD&E model, and, therefore, a little challenging at first. Due to the lack of experience with instructional design before, I needed to read and reread a course book to be able to understand what I actually need to do but by the end of the project I had much more skills and instruments to work with.
Microsoft Teams for Online Staff Workshops IDE 611
Authors: H. A. Afzal, P. Gavenda, V. SobolevaADDIE Phase: Design & Development
Context: This project describes an online-learning technology need faced by individuals within the Syracuse University Talent Management team, and campus partners and provides a prototype of an instructional design solution in a form of training.
Reflection: Being an enthusiastic person about technology, I found this project one of the most interesting ones. Throughout the project, I realized how a good team and management can make the project work easier.
STEAM and games video IDE 552
Authors: V. SobolevaADDIE Phase: It does not belong to any stage of the IDD&E process
Context: This project is a short video explaining how games can be integrated into STEAM courses at the K-12 level. A short quiz at the end is integrated into the video. Depending on the person's answers the video can move to the answer explanation section.
Reflection: This project remains one of the most interesting ones I have ever had even though I had to spend days and nights working on it because of some technical issues with Camtasia. Now I know much more about video editing and this project in particular helped me get accepted for the position in the office where I work right now.
Effective assessment strategies IDE 764
Authors: V. SobolevaADDIE Phase: Development
Context: This project presents a prototype of an instructional design solution to the problem of lack of skills in students' assessment among professors in post-Soviet countries. This is a course that explains techniques to effectively assess student performance.
Reflection: It was a doctoral course project and it was too difficult for me to work on. Studying the first semester in the IDD&E department, it was challenging for me to understand what instructional design is and how to use its strategies to develop a course.
ISD Educational Change Model IDE 632
Authors: V. SobolevaADDIE Phase: It represents the initial phase of IDD&E - analyzing the context and developing a model based on that.
Context: This project presents a new educational change model based on the context of Ukrainian higher education needs.
Reflection: I devoted a lot of time to this project and would be happy to work on its realization as I believe that this model can help Higher Education Institutions to implement CLIL strategies into the educational process.
Formative evaluation of the “Course Tagging” Instructional Materials IDE 641
Authors: J. S. Mwayaona, P. D. Mouboua, V. SobolevaADDIE Phase: Evaluation
Context: This is a formative evaluation project of a Course Tagging project at Syracuse University. It included interviewing an expert and two potential users of the instructional materials and recommendations to the developers, based on their comments.
Reflection: This experience appeared to be interesting both in terms of developing a theoretical framework and performing the interviews. I realized that evaluation might be my favorite part of the ADDIE process.
Business Generic Project Management Plan IDE 761
Authors: J. S. Mwayaona, S. Graff, V. SobolevaADDIE Phase: It focuses on the Project management piece of the Instructional Design.
Context: This project aims to create a project management plan (PMP) to help Instructional Design Productions Incorporated (IDPI) company (client) efficiently improve the instructional solutions they develop.
Reflection: It appeared to be the most challenging project, as I knew nothing about project management before this course. So, this project had to be something I started learning the PM from scratch but my team helped me a lot to understand some PM parts: we met a lot and discussed everything together.
Addressing Employees Performance In Digital Literacy Project IDE 712
Authors: H. A. Afzal, J. S. Mwayaona, V. SobolevaADDIE Phase: Analysis
Context: This project report is a front-end analysis of a case study in Pakistan where employees failed to fill the report into the training system. In this document, our team shows how to approach this problem, what methods, techniques, and tools can be used to perform the front-end analysis, and propose.
Reflection: I found this project very valuable for future work. It was interesting to work in an unfamiliar context to me as I knew nothing about the Pakistani corporate environment before.
Planning & Self Study Tutorials
Authors: Violetta SobolevaContext: Syracuse University uses Watermark’s Planning & Self-Study (P&SS) to document program and unit assessment and action plans. This series of tutorials was developed for faculty/staff to document their assessment.
Course Tag Search Tool
Authors: Violetta SobolevaContext: Syracuse University has six university-wide learning goals called Shared Competencies. This Course Tag Search Tool provides a means to filter courses by school/college, department and Shared Competencies course tags.
Essays
Personal Statement
Throughout my life, I have worked as a teacher for K-12, a teaching assistant for Higher Education and even a gymnastics coach for a while, but no matter what I did, it was all based on the instruction. Moreover, depending on the quality of instruction, I, as a teacher, could get satisfactory or non-satisfactory results. Over the years of studying for my bachelor's and two master's, I mastered my skills and currently feel confident in teaching at the primary school, ESL, and university levels and presenting as a guest lecturer. Furthermore, my research on international students' perception of their adaptation experiences promotes intercultural competence and exchange between students in my blog and the universities where I present (Southern Federal University, Minin University).
Practical Application
I currently work at Syracuse University (SU) in the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment (IEA), which specializes in instructional design for higher education. The office headcount is seven permanent workers and more than ten interns, including me. They are instructional designers, graphic designers, data scientists and educational technology specialists. The office focuses on managing Syracuse University accreditation and supports SU to success in assessment, program review, strategic planning and course feedback projects. IEA also provides consultations for operation success and operational support for strategic initiatives of Academic Affairs. My instructional design intern position focuses on blended learning and the design/development of instructional materials.
Self-Evaluation
When I enrolled in the instructional design program, I could not imagine that this field was much broader than just developing instructions for students. However, over the year of study, I improved as an Instructional Designer from a beginner to a more advanced level while studying and working on my projects. All the courses gave me a better understanding of the instructional design process. They helped me to become a professional and to be able to work as an instructional design intern in the Office of Effectiveness and Assessment.
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