Minh Le is currently Principal Instructional Designer, working at Digital Futures Institute (DFI) of Teachers College, Columbia University where he is leading various initiatives to materialize the institute’s mission
to support digital innovation and build the future of learning within and beyond Teachers College Minh greets Dr. Thomas Bailey, President of Teachers College
His career encompasses diverse experiences working in highly regarded institutions across three sectors including non-profit, government, and higher education in both Vietnam and the United States. Before coming to the U.S. to pursue the Master’s degree in Instructional Technology and Media at Teachers College, he worked for the U.S. Consulate General and the American Chamber of Commerce in Ho Chi Minh City to coordinate various high profile business and diplomatic programs including the visits of Former President Obama, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg. These programs not only expanded and strengthened strategic relationships between the U.S and Vietnam in terms of commerce and education but also advanced educational, cultural, and entrepreneurial opportunities for Vietnamese youths. During the course of four years, he was granted more than 10 honored awards by the U.S. State Department for his exceptional performance and dedication. Presently his work at Teachers College focuses on streamlining digital infrastructure and developing robust operational systems to support digital transformation of teaching and learning. The transformation aims to further the institution’s tradition of teaching excellence, cultivate a culture of innovation and creativity, and ultimately position the college as a leader in learning innovation in the 21st century. As part of his work, he is overseeing the hiring and training program for Instructional Support Associates whose job is to provide technological and pedagogical support for faculty to raise the baseline of technology integration into course design and pedagogy. In addition, he is initiating a myriad of professional development programs including live and on-demand workshops, individual consultations, office hours, and panel discussions to build capacities for faculty in teaching with technology. Lastly, he liaisons with other internal stakeholders across the college such as the departments of Information Technology, Registrar, and Student Affairs to ensure the review, pilot, and implementation of new educational technology is successful. As part of his professional and personal interest, he has been constantly seeking new possibilities of and experimenting with technology and media to create highly interactive and engaging learning content and experience. He especially enjoys being a thought partner to help faculty brainstorm novel pedagogy and consulting faculty on how to utilize cutting-edge educational technology and multimedia effectively and purposefully to reimagine learning in the digital world.
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key initiatives Develop standard operating procedures, automation tools, communication and outreach strategy, and training program for 13 instructional support associates to deliver course development support which serves 200+ faculty and lecturers every semester and is rated 100% Net Promoter Score for customer satisfaction
Manage a portfolio of 100+ courses in various formats and modalities, including the college’s top 5 highest enrolled PD courses serving 2,000+ educators worldwide annually and executive education programs for distinguished organizations including Google, West Point Academy, Singapore’s National Institute of Education Lead Pedagogical Innovation Fellows program that partners faculty up with instructional experts to collaboratively design pedagogically innovative courses and/or course assets including animation videos, mobile apps, interactive lectures, games, VR learning galleries, visually-branded interactive template for Canvas course shell and syllabus, etc.
Initiate a new comprehensive, collaborative, and holistic faculty professional development program that develops faculty capacity in teaching with technology and cultivates an institutional culture of innovation, more specifically, develop and facilitate the annual well-regarded Summer Summit workshops that engage 100+ faculty members in learning, experimenting, and reflecting on their multimodal teaching practices and scholarship
credentials M.A. Instructional Technology and Media Teachers College, Columbia University
Google Certified Educator Level 2 This certification validates that educators demonstrate the advanced knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to implement and integrate Google for Education tools
Graduate Certificate Instructional Technology St. Cloud State University
Microsoft Certified Educator The certification validates that educators have the global educator technology literacy competencies needed to provide a rich, custom learning experience for students.
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honors & awards His work is frequently featured in the college’s website. Some stories are listed below. Practicing the Inclusion She Preaches: Angel Wang An Online Nutrition Course That Entices Students to the Table Ready for Prime Time Building Community in a Remote Classroom Statues with Limitations: Detra Price-Dennis Mission Virtually Accomplished
His innovative work has been recognized by the industry and selected to feature in the DemoFest of DevLearn conference, one of the largest and most highly-regarded conferences in learning design in two consecutive years 2020 & 2021.
This year he will be presenting at Online Learning Consortium’s Innovate Conference to share his work with participants across the U.S.
Top 20 in Atos’ International IT Challenge 2018
Top 6 team finalists in Teachers College’s Innovation Award 2017
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Franklin Award Jun 2016
Meritorious Honor Award Jun 2016
For the passionate participation and contributions toward creating an innovative outreach strategy in educating host country nationals about immigrant visa procedures in Vietnam.
For outstanding service in support of the highly successful Ninth U.S.-Vietnam Science and Technology Joint Committee Meeting in HCMC.
Meritorious Honor Award Jan 2017
For outstanding support of media coverage of President Obama's visit to Ho Chi Minh City
Certificate of Appreciation Jun 2016 Meritorious Honor Award Dec 2015
For superlative teamwork and creative, dogged and highly effective on-the-spot support for the innovative Ambassador's Bike Outreach Program - a new Journey - from Hanoi to Hue that broke new ground in broadening and strengthen people-to-people ties between Americans and Vietnamese
For outstanding teamwork, flexibility, and communication in ensuring a successful and productive visit to Ho Chi Minh City by the Second Lady of the United States, Dr. Jill Biden.
Meritorious Honor Award Jun 2015
Meritorious Honor Award Dec 2014
For outstanding service, sustained effort, innovation, support and achievement in, and project management of the renovation of the American Center, which resulted in a state-of-the-art platform for United States Government engagement with people in southern Vietnam.
For building new communications platforms and developing innovative programs that have greatly expanded the Public Affairs Section's ability to promote key Mission messages.
Meritorious Honor Award Nov 2015 For demonstrating exceptional teamwork and dedication in planning and executing Secretary John F. Kerry's visit to Hanoi marking the 20th Anniversary of normalized diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam.
Extra Mile Award Jul 2014
Meritorious Honor Award May 2014
For extraordinary effort in managing all of the day-to-day programming at the American Center and organizing the LGBT Pride Month series which is one of the most innovative and sustained campaigns ever despite having limited human resources at his disposal.
For exceptional teamwork in advancing mission goals through John Kerry's first visit to Vietnam as Secretary of State.
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praises Minh was instrumental in updating my Canvas courses to the new format. The new look and feel is extremely polished and I received several comments from students sharing how much they liked it. Minh has also provided me with an enormous amount of support in addressing some of my technology classes. Overall, his support has helped to make this semester really successful through the online transition.
The work Minh did for us is beautiful. It is simply terrific. The graphics, layout, look and feel of everything is wonderful, but I was most impressed by how Minh clearly studied the content and made the slides reflect the content so well, even though he is not an organizational psychologist! Further, our deadline kept changing due to some back and forth with our client and we often asked Minh to do one thing and meet one deadline only to have to then ask him to do something different on a shorter deadline. No matter, through it all, Minh was gracious, hard-working, fast, and just so uber competent. He was a gift.
Minh has helped me solve numerous and varied problems related to online teaching. He is creative, patient, exceedingly skilled and competent, and also a very kind man! I love working with Minh and am so grateful for his expertise. He has made my courses exceedingly better in our virtual environment.
Minh Le was my Instructional Designer. And he has been a jewel. Minh began our journey with a Zoom meeting to learn what I was looking for. Then he took my existing course and overlaid the TC template — which is outstanding. It’s both attractive and user-friendly. Minh and I continued communicating via email as the course took its final shape. Every time that I asked him to add, delete, or edit, he completed the work quickly and without error. In fact, each time that we communicated, I found Minh to be a good listener (reader), client-focused, fast and efficient, professional and talented. I’m super impressed with the final product but more than that, I’m super impressed with Minh Le.
All I can say is WOW!!!! We are over the moon about this design. It is everything we could have ever dreamed of, and that's a high bar because we've talked about re-doing these slides for the past 5 years! You managed to capture all the things we talked about -- modern, cutting edge, executive look and feel, Ivy League. Please accept our deepest thanks. These slides are truly a dream come true!! You did beautiful work (and under a tight deadline). We are so grateful.
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