Patrick Yurick
Instructional Designer, Artist, and Designer in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Patrick has a passion for education and has worked as an art educator for nearly a decade. He has a BS in graphic design from the New England Institute of Art, an MAT in art education from Plymouth State University, and is currently pursuing an M.ed. in School Leadership from the High Tech High Graduate School of Education.
Obsessed with designing ways for people to learn all over the world has led Patrick to MOOC (massive open online course) instructional design as a career. To date Patrick has designed and deployed five courses including New School Creation, Get A Grasp!, How To Teach Us, Learning Mindsets & Skills, and How To Make A Comic Book. Patrick is currently working on the design of his sixth and seventh MOOCs at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) while also doing research on differentiated dissemination strategies within MOOC environments.