Michael Brand offered tremendous assistance and advice in helping me to design and launch the online course, History and Styles of Rock. He was extremely knowledgable about the topic and able to offer great ideas that helped me deliver the content in a way that suited my teaching style. In all aspects, from recording and embedding videos, to creating assessment tools, to the designing the overall structure of the course, he was able to offer expert advice and assistance.
J. Drew Stephen Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Musicology, UTSA
Michael has been most helpful in my effort to develop hybrid courses. He is professional, knowledgeable, reliable, responsive and detail-oriented. I enjoyed working with Michael and would highly recommend him to anyone who is interested in creating hybrid or online courses.
Becky Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Texas San Antonio
I’ve worked with Michael Brand in developing several courses for our new online graduate certificates in Health, Applied Health Research, and Community Nutrition. As an Associate Professor with limited background in online course development, I very much appreciated Michael’s expertise, creativity, and patience. He was helpful in identifying which methods would work best to communicate my messages to the students. His creativity also helped to make my online activities interesting and engaging. Finally, his patience was appreciated as we worked together to quickly develop several courses in a very limited timeframe. This was all very helpful in expediting the process.
Erica T. Sosa, Ph.D.
College of Education & Human Development
I was very pleased when I started to work with Michael Brand on the development of a new fully online course. He and his team were extremely responsive to my needs in a very timely manner. I learned to use Skype for Business tools that were extremely effective in making the process more efficient and effective. He was also skilled in the pedagogical aspects of making the course user-friendly and engaging for the students. I had a fantastic experience, and have continued to benefit from various follow-up modifications and improvements. I highly recommend him to anyone wanting to establish or improve on their online learning materials!
Steven R. Levitt, Ph.D. Professor and Associate Dean, The University of Texas at San Antonio