About
Dr. Pauline Muljana has diverse experience. She is currently an Independent Consultant/Contractor, having provided or providing instructional design and research services to multiple institutions/organization such as Tulane University School of Professional Advancement, Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University, and the Learner Variability Project team at Digital Promise. She is also a Lecturer for the Instructional Technology Program at the University of Tennessee Knoxville and a Lecturer and the Fall 2023 Program Coordinator for the Instructional Design & Technology Program at California State University, San Bernardino.
She was the Education Technology Program Manager for the Learner Variability Project team at a non-profit organization, Digital Promise. At Digital Promise, she supported initiatives to integrate learning science and research-based design strategies related to learner variability into educational technology products and programs in more inclusive and equitable ways, and managed a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
She worked at Lumen Learning as Director of Continuous Improvement, leading the work of integrating both data-driven improvements and community-contributed improvements into courseware, and conducting A/B testing to identify which changes were improving student learning outcomes and which were not.
She is a former Instructional Designer with twelve years of experience working for the eLearning Department (now called Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence or CAFE) at California State Polytechnic University Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), where she provided instructional design consultation and assistance in redesigning existing courses and developing new courses for online, hybrid, and web-assisted modes of instructions, as well as facilitating workshops and webinars on technology integration. Collaborating with SMEs and Multimedia Developers, she designed interactive learning objects to demonstrate complex concepts. At Cal Poly Pomona, she had a chance to work as a Learning Management Systems Specialist, leading the support efforts to ensure smooth, scalable university-wide LMS adoption.
Prior to that, Dr. Muljana worked in the nursery and PK-12 educational settings that included teaching activities and curriculum design for about five years.
She received her Ph.D. in Education with a concentration in Instructional Design and Technology from Old Dominion University, Virginia, in 2022. Her research interests center on the investigations of how a data-informed analytics approach informs instructional design to foster learning behaviors and strategies associated with successful learning, which include ways to intersect learning analytics, self-regulated learning, and instructional design. Her broader interests include systems thinking and designing technology-mediated learning experiences.
She served at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Graduate Student Assembly/GSA (as a Past President) and currently is still serving in AECT as the Assistant Editor for the Journal of Applied Instructional Design.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy in Education
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Instructional Design and Technology
Dissertation: Muljana, P.S. (2022). Instructional designers conducting professional learning using social media: A phenomenological study of their experiences through a self-regulated learning lens. [Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Dissertation, STEM Education & Professional Studies, Old Dominion University]. Old Dominion University Digital Commons. https://doi.org/10.25777/1hx0-d698 - Master of Arts in Education
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), CA
Educational Multimedia
Project: Learning Indonesian basic conversation for beginners: An interactive CD-ROM. - Child Development Coursework
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
12 Units of Child Development Courses - Bachelor of Arts in Education (Sarjana Pendidikan)
Widya Mandala Catholic University, Surabaya, Indonesia (Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Teacher Training and Education, Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
