homastudio
Education | Instructional Design
Graphic and Web Design
Paint and Photography
Education | Instructional Design
Graphic and Web Design
Paint and Photography
Rich is a graphic designer, web designer, educator, trainer, instructional designer and painter. He developed and taught both online and classroom Graphic Design, Web Design and Computer Science courses at Warren County Community College (Washington NJ). He retired as an Associate Professor in 2024 after relocating to Knoxville, Tennessee.
As an online leaning creator, Rich developed a YouTube channel to make his lessons more accessible. His homawccc channel has over 1K subscribers and his homastudio YouTube channel, which offers tutorials for the general public, has also gained a steady following.
In addition to his many roles in higher education, Rich also developed project-based Graphic Design curriculum for Technical Schools throughout New Jersey as a consultant for the Office of Career & Technical Education (CTE) division of the NJ DOE. He also served as the chair of the CTE Graphic Design Advisory Committee for the state of New Jersey. See original Graphic Design CTE Web Site created in 2015 for NJ participating schools.
Rich received his Bachelor's degree in Graphic & Advertising Design from Moravian College and a Master of Science in Instructional Design and Development from Lehigh University.
Rich recently earned his Online Teaching Certificate through Quality Matters in preparation for an Instructional Design role where he hopes to utilize his past experience to help institutions/organization offer quality and engaging online training and instruction.
Rich continues to learn and develop new skills through YouTube, Udemy, Aquent and many other online resources.
See freelance work and samples created for student projects. Work is hosted on Behance.
See sampling of oil paintings from 1990's to present. Created from my original photos.
Original photos traced in Adobe Illustrator with additional effects added in Photoshop.
Sampling of summer landscape photography. See other photography categories on Behance
Target Audience: Higher Ed
Feedback from past online students:
"I am truly enjoying this class and I look forward to completing assignments every week. I love the online aspect of the class, it provides me the ability to work at my own pace and you make very thoughtful content that is thorough and approachable."
"I generally do not like online classes, however, I have been really enjoying this class and I think the videos help a lot with keeping an online class interesting and engaging. This has definitely been my favorite class this semester."
"I honestly am finding myself really enjoying the activities being presented to us here. This is the only class I actually kind of look forward to learning from."
"Love the pace, love the recorded follow-along videos, love the challenges...pretty much everything about this class is great. To me, it really seems to be confirming that majoring in Computer Science will be the right decision for me."
"It also helps that the teacher narrates the slideshows; you get a feel of his personality and the sense of actually having a teacher around - a fun and easy-going one at that. I feel that the structure of this class is exactly how web-based learning should be."
"The YouTube videos posted for the class are the perfect tool to help me succeed. It is much easier for me to comprehend something from a video versus reading text."
"I enjoyed taking this class online, because it felt like I was in the classroom."
"I learned things that I had no idea what they were before. I never thought that I would enjoy an online class but this class proved me wrong."
"A big thank you goes to you, Professor Homa, for making every assignment feel easy. I find it very helpful the way you explain every detail and it is easy to follow you while doing assignments."
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