Meg Swanson

Background

Meg is currently working on classwork for her Ph.D. in Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University, working with undergraduate students on their computational thinking skills and purposeful technology integration.

She worked as an Instructional Designer from 2022 to 2026, beginning less than a week after defending her thesis. Her time as an ID allowed her to work on many, many courses, present on different elements of instructional design to faculty and colleagues, conduct workshops, as well as numerous other small projects, such as creating a university-wide syllabus statement and a department-wide tutorial.

While completing a Master’s degree in Instructional Psychology and Technology, Meg took advantage of many opportunities afforded to her. She taught undergraduate students for two years, participated in a year-long internship designing for a non-profit organization, presented at the annual conference of the Association for Educational Communication and Technology (AECT) multiple times on original research, held a leadership position in the department’s student organization, and many opportunities for networking. Prior to Meg’s graduate work, she pursued various interests. She began college as a computer science major, switched to psychology, dabbled in anthropology, and was able to further dabble in communications as she completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology with an emphasis in IndustrialOrganizational Psychology. She spent over a year working as a data processor where she also spent time training and reviewing the orders of others. A semester was spent teaching English to young children. During this time, she also began nannying for some of the young children with whom she also worked at church. This began as working with toddlers, moved to three year olds, and now extends to young children in general.