Before I joined Oregon State University Ecampus, the educational app development team focused primarily on one off, custom built projects. While the team was highly creative, the model had clear limitations, short development cycles, rushed releases, and little opportunity to revisit or scale past work.

I proposed a shift to a platform strategy: instead of building dozens of isolated apps each term, we'd create reusable frameworks that could serve many courses efficiently and consistently. After getting approval, I assembled and led a small team to deliver our first platform, Never Ending Story (NES).

NES provided instructors with a simple way to transform static reading assignments into rich, interactive narratives. The tool supported accessibility from the ground up, and delivered a cinematic, high quality experience for students while reducing development overhead.

The impact was immediate, we scaled from delivering roughly 8 projects per term to over 50, while improving both quality and accessibility. NES became the foundation for a new way of thinking about educational content delivery at Ecampus: build once, enhance everywhere.

NES won the 2019 NWACC Instructional Technology Award.