Victor Manuel Iglesias

Principle Experiential learning + multimedia principles

The problem

Students preparing for clinical-therapy work needed to experience a therapeutic multisensory room, a physical, sensory space that not everyone could visit in person.

My role

I designed and produced a 360° walkthrough in CenarioVR, capturing the room’s calming and arousing sensory environments.

Approach

I built it as an experiential simulation: learners explore the space and its sensory settings directly rather than reading about them. It applies experiential-learning and multimedia principles to make an embodied setting learnable online.

Impact

Let students explore the sensory settings remotely and gave the program a reusable immersive experience. The footage preserves the work after FIU’s CenarioVR license ended.

What I’d carry forward

Immersive media earns its cost only when the subject is spatial or sensory. Here it was exactly right.

Principle WCAG 2.1 + Universal Design for Learning

The problem

Checking hundreds of course documents for missing image alt text by hand was slow and error-prone, and every gap blocked students using screen readers.

My role

I built Alt-Scan, a Python tool that scans PDF, DOCX, and PPTX files and generates a structured report of every image missing alt text.

Approach

I treated accessibility as a design requirement, not a cleanup step: I automated the WCAG check so issues surface early, in support of Universal Design for Learning.

Impact

Reduced manual review time and strengthened FIU Online accessibility compliance. I presented it at the FIU Online ID Expo 2025, and it seeded CourseKit’s browser version.

What I’d carry forward

The fastest way to make accessibility stick is to make the check effortless. Tooling changes behavior where reminders don’t.

Principle Consistency → reduced cognitive load

The problem

High-enrollment online programs need every course to feel coherent and accessible, but building each from scratch is inconsistent and hard to maintain.

My role

I led program-wide master templates and orientation modules for FIU’s online graduate programs, including the M.S. in Logistics & Supply Chain Management (MSLSCM) and PMBAO.

Approach

I designed a consistent, accessible course shell with predictable navigation, structure, and styling, so students spend their attention on learning, not on relearning where things are. It builds on the accessible master template I presented at ID Talks in 2019.

Impact

Gave high-enrollment programs a consistent, accessible, maintainable baseline across many courses and terms.

What I’d carry forward

A good template is invisible. Its payoff is the friction students and faculty never feel.

Principle Transparency in Learning & Teaching (TILT) + valid assessment

The problem

Faculty often build rubrics and test banks that are inconsistent or unclear, which undercuts fair grading and reliable assessment.

My role

I designed and led live faculty trainings: building and managing rubrics in Canvas for transparent grading, and creating reliable question banks and quizzes.

Approach

I taught rubrics through transparency, making criteria explicit so grading is fair and students know the target, and taught assessment through validity and alignment.

Impact

Helped FIU Online faculty, including a College of Business cohort, grade more transparently and build more reliable Canvas assessments.

What I’d carry forward

Faculty adopt a practice when it saves them time and defends their grading. Lead with that, and the theory follows.