Educator · Researcher · Instructional Designer · CTDP
Designing learning for a world transformed by AI.
I create rigorous, human-centred learning experiences that connect scholarship with authentic professional practice.
Profile
Scholarship made practical.
I am Roger Batchelor, a professor, curriculum designer, and doctoral researcher working at the intersection of higher education, generative AI, and authentic learning.
My work draws on experience in education, law, business, organizational development, and human resources. Across each field, the goal remains the same: build learning that is clear, engaging, inclusive, and useful beyond the classroom.
Selected portfolio
Learning experiences built to be used.
Open resources, applied simulations, and multimedia designed for real learners and real decisions.
Open textbook
Human Resources Management and Labour Relations in Healthcare
An Ontario-focused, open course text connecting workforce strategy, analytics, equity, talent, performance, safety, and labour relations in healthcare.
AI microlearning
Animated Learning Experience
A concise animated learning resource showing how generative tools, visual storytelling, and sound instructional design can work together.
Interactive case study
Respond: Applied Decision-Making
A branching, scenario-based learning experience designed to make complex professional judgment visible, active, and memorable.
Open textbook · In progress
Artificial Intelligence and Education
An open educational resource exploring the opportunities, challenges, and responsible use of artificial intelligence across teaching and learning.
Open textbook · In progress
Environmental Law in the United States
An accessible introduction to environmental law, regulation, risk management, pesticides, toxic substances, and environmental decision-making.
Open textbook · In progress
Business Law
A practical open textbook connecting legal principles with the decisions, responsibilities, and risks encountered in contemporary business.
Open textbook · In progress
Strategic Human Resource Management
A graduate-level resource examining how people, organizational capabilities, and HR systems align with business strategy.
Current research
Generative AI, assessment, and authentic learning.
How can higher education respond to generative AI without losing what makes learning meaningful?
My doctoral research in Curriculum & Pedagogy at OISE examines how educators are adapting online assessment in response to student use of generative AI. I am especially interested in approaches that move beyond detection and toward authentic, transparent, and educationally defensible assessment.
Practice
Four perspectives, one integrated approach.
Generative AI
Authentic learning, assessment design, and responsible adoption in higher education.
Curriculum & pedagogy
Evidence-informed course architecture connecting learning outcomes to meaningful practice.
Instructional design
Accessible digital learning, LMS development, interactive cases, simulations, and microlearning.
Business & law
Teaching and curriculum work across management, human resources, ethics, and environmental law.
Education & credentials
A multidisciplinary foundation.
My education spans curriculum and pedagogy, psychology, law, business, and organizational development—perspectives that shape how I approach complex learning problems.
In progress
PhD in Curriculum & Pedagogy
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Master of Education
University of Toronto
MBA & Master of Organizational Development
Bowling Green State University
Juris Doctor
Queen's University
MA in Law & BA in Legal Studies
Carleton University
BSc in Psychology
McMaster University
Professional designation
Certified Training and Development Professional
CTDP · Institute for Performance and Learning
Founder & creator
Education without barriers.
Through Classerly Higher Education, I create open textbooks, decision-based simulations, study tools, learning videos, pretests, and course resources. The aim is simple: combine academic rigour, digital creativity, and real-world application so that high-quality learning is accessible and useful.
Visit ClasserlyHied.comBeyond the classroom
Life on the water.
Sailing and boating have been part of my life since childhood.
I began sailing at five and owned my first boat at twelve. Today, time on the water remains one of the ways I reconnect with family, curiosity, and the pleasure of learning through doing. My son and I completed a full boat restoration together, and our summer boating trips continue a lifelong tradition of exploration.
Sailing since age five
A lifelong source of challenge, freedom, and perspective.
Restoration & cruising
Hands-on projects and multi-week summer journeys with my son.
Let’s connect
Interested in learning that works?
I welcome conversations about teaching, research, curriculum design, open education, and responsible uses of AI in learning.
rogerbatchelor61@gmail.comGet in touch