Jennie Davenport and Pedro Lopez: Converting a Powerful Workshop to an Online Format

Jennie Davenport was beginning to wonder if she was making any progress in resolving the instructional design challenges in the project she had been assigned to coordinate. Both Jennie, a project manager with eduLearning Systems (eLS), and Pedro Lopez, a professor of learning sciences at Midwestern State University, had been recruited by Professor Clark Essex, a renowned sexual health expert at the university, to design an online version of his very successful “Man-to-Man” (M2M) HIV/AIDS prevention workshop. This workshop had been designed to improve sexual health for gay and bisexual men and had been delivered face-to-face at cities around the United States on a monthly basis for the past five years. This particular target audience had been shown to be at high risk: specifically, target audience members were in danger of becoming infected with HIV/AIDS though sexual contact with infected partners.