Michael Collins
Associate Teaching Professor
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Collins is an Associate Teaching Professor and multidisciplinary art-and-design educator with 12 years of experience designing online learning and digital media programs at Penn State. He led the creation of a fully online Bachelor of Design in Digital Multimedia Design and coordinates online curriculum and UX for visual arts programs, blending instructional design, Drupal-based development, and multimedia production. An early advocate for open education, he co-founded the OER Schema project and contributes to ELMS Learning Network, applying open-source tooling to scalable course delivery. Michael’s background in new media art (MFA) and hands-on UX work gives him a rare combination of studio practice, pedagogical strategy, and technical implementation across web and learning platforms.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Art, New Media, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Art, New Media at Penn State University
Github Skills (57)
markdown10
gitbook10
dispatcher10
semantics10
lms10
edtech10
vagrant10
dotnetnuke9
toolchain9
vocabulary9
documentation9
grav-plugin9
grav9
rdf8
chatbot8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dmd-program/dmd-100-master
May 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:14 PRs, 51 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 5 months
dmd-program/dmd-400-master
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 review, 25 PRs, 92 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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