David Dumonde

David Dumonde is an instructional designer and educator who has worked exclusively in the field of online education since 2008. He currently works at the University of Houston in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Office of Educational Technology.

He holds a master's degree in education, specializing in online teaching and learning, from California State University, East Bay. He has been both a teacher and administrator in higher education since 1999, including experience as a department chair at Remington College in New Orleans and an academic dean at Remington College in Memphis. He has been an online teacher, faculty developer, and instructional designer at Ozarks Technical Community College (OTC) in Missouri. At OTC, he developed a certification program for new online faculty and trained nearly 200 instructors to teach online. He also worked as an online instructional designer at Clemson University in South Carolina.

Prior to working in the field of higher education, he spent more than 20 years as a visual designer, including more than a dozen years as the principal of his own graphic design studio in San Francisco, where his client base included Apple, American Express, Blue Shield, Macworld magazine, and Wells Fargo. He brings this visual design experience to his work as an instructional designer, developing online courses with an emphasis on visual unity, typographic legibility, ease of navigation, and the use of images and vides that contribute to student learning.

David teaches mindfulness meditation in his spare time, both online and in classes in Houston. More information is available at his web site at daviddumonde.com.