Texas A&M University College Station - Psychology
Operations | Learning Development | Virtual | Training Management
E-learning
Rhonda
Blackburn
Wylie, Texas
Dynamic leader with over 20 years experience in academia, non-profit, and corporate settings. Passion for and extensive experience with teaching high school to graduate students; training employees, faculty, and staff; presenting; implementing technology and integrating enterprise solutions; counseling; and supervising within a diverse environment. Proven ability to bring diverse groups together into a cohesive team and interacting with all levels of administration. Ability to create and implement strategic initiatives and evaluate ROI with the added ability to manage large budgets. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal. Highly organized and extremely detail-oriented. Very positive attitude and committed to excellence in customer service.
Specialties:
eLearning
Instructional Technology
Instructional Design
Educational Technology
SAAS
People Management
Competency-Based Learning
Competency-Based Career Ladder
Training Development
Mentorships
Research and Development
Project Management
Product Management
Program Management
Talent Development
Strategic Planning
Change Management
Accreditation
Strategic Account Manager for Higher Education
Manage five accounts including three state-wide implementations. Responsibilities include developing strategic plans for system implementations, individual institutions within the systems, and stand-alone implementations, create strategies to implement instructional technology across schools and systems, provide detailed reports to schools on yearly goals, and determine instructional technology needs of schools and systems and provide detailed information to reach desired implementation.
Senior Advisory Consultant
Work with the consulting group to provide thought leadership for our clients. Responsibilities include advising clients on proven success strategies and innovative approaches to achieve desired strategic outcomes in blended and online learning and to leverage deep experience and understanding of teaching and learning in K12, higher education, and corporate environments to help clients find effective answers for existing issues and upcoming opportunities.
Vice President, Instructional Services
Work with an experienced and cohesive team to provide thought leadership for our clients. Responsibilities include advising clients on proven success strategies and innovative approaches to achieve desired strategic outcomes in blended and online learning and to leverage deep experience and understanding of teaching and learning in K12, higher education, and corporate environments to help clients find effective answers for existing issues and upcoming opportunities. As the Academic Lead, she helps clients create competency based courses to allow students to track their learning and move through a curriculum at a pace that meets the students’ needs and learning experiences and enhance on-ground and online courses through the use of technology and learning outcomes assessment.
VP & Chief Academic Officer
Work with an experienced and cohesive team to provide thought leadership for our clients on instructional technology, competency based education, analytics, implementation strategies, and more. Responsibilities include advising clients on proven success strategies and innovative approaches to achieve desired strategic outcomes in blended and online learning and to leverage deep experience and understanding of teaching and learning in K12, higher education, and corporate environments to help clients find effective answers for existing issues and upcoming opportunities. As the Academic Lead, she helps clients create competency based courses to allow students to track their learning and move through a curriculum at a pace that meets the students’ needs and learning experiences and enhance on-ground and online courses through the use of technology and learning outcomes assessment.
Owner
Educate, train, and develop on best practices, strategic planning, pedagogy, assessment, and instructional technology. Responsibilities include consulting on migration and transition issues within instructional technology, training on instructional technology, web accessibility, social networking, multimedia, consulting on organizational and career development, assisting in the organization of a conference or seminar, presenting on instructional technology, web accessibility, social networking, and provide guidance through accreditation.
Advisory Board Member
Advised Blackboard on strategic learn initiatives.
PhD
Educational Psychology
MA
Clinical Psychology