Natalia Echeverry is an Instructional Designer in Pitt EDGE Academic Programs at the University of Pittsburgh. She collaborates with faculty across multiple schools to design and refine online and hybrid graduate-level courses, supporting programs in fields ranging from nursing to data science. Her work focuses on aligning pedagogical goals, learning technologies, and assessment practices to support high-quality online learning experiences that reflect disciplinary priorities, learner needs, and program goals.
Natalia’s professional practice is grounded in learning experience design and informed by learning engineering and user-centered design principles. She approaches course development as an iterative, evidence-informed process and is currently exploring the use of AI-enabled tools to support instructional design and course improvement, with attention to quality and academic integrity.
She holds a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Before joining Pitt, she worked as an instructional designer and program officer with multilateral organizations, developing training programs for humanitarian and economic development initiatives across diverse international contexts.
- MS in Human-Computer Interaction, Rochester Institute of Technology
- BS Visual Arts, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Education & Training
- University Center for Teaching and Learning Staff Excellence Award 2024
Echeverry's research focuses on designing and evaluating digital interfaces for computer-based learning and decision-making. She is particularly interested in how the interface design of the AI-based system affects users’ trust in the system’s outputs.
