Resume

• 2010

  Master's

  e-Learning

  UX Foundations: Accessibility

  LinkedIn

  Blackboard 9.x Essential Training: Instructors

  LinkedIn

  Advanced Accessible PDFs

  LinkedIn

  iOS App Development: Accessibility

  LinkedIn

  Creating Accessible Documents in Microsoft Office

  LinkedIn

  Customizing Windows 10 for Accessibility and Ease of Use

  LinkedIn

  Using Accessibility to Improve SEO

  LinkedIn

  Adobe Captivate Essential Training

  LinkedIn

  Adobe Captivate 2019: Advanced Techniques

  LinkedIn

  Android App Development: Accessibility

  LinkedIn

  Advanced Moodle: Working with Themes

  LinkedIn

  Articulate 360: First Look

  LinkedIn

  Teaching Techniques: Making Accessible Learning

  LinkedIn

  Customizing Macs for Accessibility and Ease of Use

  LinkedIn

  Accessibility for Web Design

  LinkedIn

  Adobe Captivate for Systems Training

  LinkedIn

  EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign

  LinkedIn

  Accessible Video: Caption

  Search

  and Compliance Strategies

  LinkedIn

  Creating Accessible PDFs

  LinkedIn

  WordPress: Accessibility

  LinkedIn

• 2008

  Undergraduate

  Interdisciplinary Studies: Creative Writing Major

  Anthropology Minor

• 2005

  AA

  English

  Philosophy

  Humanities

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  Katie and Bill Free Gaming Software Education

  Katie Evans and Bill Beers present the concepts of free gaming software for the development of engaging learning materials at the Pearson Cite Conference in ...

  Katie and Bill Free Gaming Software Education

  I dedicated myself to the improvement of my local community by supporting dual–enrollment students as they prepared to enter college for the first time

  returning students looking to finish existing degrees

  and empowering adult learners to engage themselves in the opportunities education provides. I focused my time on communicating with teachers

  staff

  and administrators on behalf of students to ensure their needs were met

  reviewing and revising research papers and other coursework

  and ensuring the public library

  provided by the institution

  was organized and clean for our students and community.

  Lake-Sumter State College

  Creative Writing

  Microsoft Office

  E-Learning

  Student Development

  Curriculum Design

  Technical Writing

  Classroom

  User Experience Design (UED)

  Dreamweaver

  Higher Education

  Distance Learning

  Training

  Microsoft PowerPoint

  Responsive Web Design

  Public Speaking

  PowerPoint

  Teaching

  Instructional Design

  Java

  Educational Technology

  Using Blackboard to Ensure Student Success

  Using Blackboard to Ensure Student Success

  Beers

  William

  Beers

  Lake-Sumter State College

  TNTP

  Pearson

  Leesburg

  Florida

  Led and strengthened online and hybrid course designs and redesign efforts following the ADDIE and Dick and Cary design methodologies to meet universal

  learner-centered design standards. Trained faculty to design

  build

  and teach online

  hybrid and technology-enhanced courses to meet Quality Matters standards

  using the Blackboard learning management system and Blackboard Collaborate.\n\n- Administrated the back end structure

  function

  and stability of the Blackboard learning management system.\n- Successfully implemented multiple

  fully online degree programs including Criminal Justice

  Health Information Management

  Nursing

  and Associate of Arts in General Studies.\n- Facilitated the delivery and training of the Blackboard learning management system to faculty.\n- Facilitated the delivery and training of faculty in Quality Matters standards and eLearning pedagogy.\n- Compiled external and internal research data related to student success based on accessibility standards

  navigation

  mobile accessibility

  online student services

  and progressing best-practices.\n- Introduced and maintained online student service efforts for academic advising

  financial aid

  tutoring

  and library programs.\n- Designed

  led and promoted learner-centered faculty and staff training programs to enhance pedagogical and technical talents for online instruction.\n- Produced and co-authored an online training textbook to enhance faculty training in the Blackboard learning management system.\n- Designed and built multiple online and hybrid courses and trainings including Humanities: Renaissance to Present

  Introduction to Psychology

  Blackboard 9.1 Faculty Training

  Technology for Educators

  Technology in the Classroom and a variety of HTML-enhanced

  Quality Matters-centered course templates.\n- Co–designed award–winning online courses including the current Quality Matters demo course

  American Literature: 1865-Present.

  eLearning Instructional Designer and Faculty Mentor

  Lake-Sumter State College

  Leesburg

  Florida

  Teaching

  designing

  and building tech-enhanced

  hybrid and online courses including:\n\n- Foundations of Success Seminar\n- Career Planning\n- Education and Technology\n- Educators Preparation \n- Technology in the Classroom

  Student Development and Education Instructor

  Lake-Sumter State College

  Remote

  Design and build partner-based learner-centered online courses in Learning Studio (eCollege)

  Moodle

  Blackboard

  Sakai

  and Canvas while applying ADDIE

  Dick and Cary

  and Backward Design methodologies.\n\n- Lead and coordinate partner–based consultations oriented toward the design

  creation

  and redesign of online learning materials.\n- Create innovative

  immersive learner experiences through media aligned with course goals and objectives.\n- Advocating for Quality Matters guidelines

  research–based best practices

  and evolving accessibility standards both internally and externally with peers and partners.\n- Deliver training and mentoring support to new hires as well collaborative efforts with colleagues during Pearson hosted conferences.

  Instructional Designer - Remote

  Pearson

  Remote

  Prepare course materials and construct course content in the Blackboard learning management system oriented toward improving instructors in the field of K–12 education.\n\n- Support and consult with project manager and course writer during the course material preparation process.\n- Provide design suggestions following instructional design research–based best practices.\n- Design and create interactive learning content through Captivate to enhance learner engagement and comprehension.\n- Collaborated with the instructional design manager regarding learner-centered course improvements including navigation

  ADA compliance

  captioning

  assessment building

  rubric design and HTML.\n- Apply graphic design skills to generate original Captivate templates and frameworks companywide.

  Course Builder

  TNTP

  Peer Reviewer

  Quality Matters

  During the Fall 2013 semester I assisted in the design of HUM1230-Humanities: Rennaissance to Modern Times for Lake-Sumter State College. This course was submitted during Spring 2014 for review by Blackboard

  and I received word during the end of the Spring 2014 semester that HUM1230 had been chosen for a Blackboard Exemplary Award.

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  Blackboard Exemplary Award

  During the Fall 2013 semester I designed GEB1011-Introduction to Business for Lake-Sumter State College. This course was submitted during Spring 2014 for review by Blackboard

  and I received word during the end of the Spring 2014 semester that GEB1011 had been chosen for a Blackboard Exemplary Award.

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