Kathy Brew

Kathy Brew is the Coordinator of Technology Training for Gwinnett County Public Schools. She has been with Gwinnett for 11 years and a user of Moodle in Adult Education for 16 years. Kathy works with various departments to provide customized staff training at the district level.

Kirk Chapman
 

Kirk Chapman is an ESOL teacher in Atlanta Public Schools. He has been teaching for 20 years and is also a freelance instructional and graphic designer specializing in interactive media for language learning. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education and a Master of Arts in Education, Curriculum & Instruction. He also works for his school district's Organizational Development department as an e-learning developer specializing in interface simulations and interactive media. He is an Adobe Captivate Certified Expert and Adobe Creative Cloud enthusiast. 

Kim Salinas

Kim Salinas, professor emeritus of allied health education at the community college level. Throughout her career, Kim taught all of her courses online. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree totally online as well. This sparked her interest in creating effective online courses and sharing her knowledge of the ever-changing online environment. She started using Moodle in 2007 when she piloted the system at her college which was looking to make a change to its Learning Management System. She has worked as a Moodle mentor-assessor and course facilitator since 2008. Kim is happy to be part of the Moodle US team. She was the first person to earn the Moodle Educator Facilitator Certification along with the Moodle Educator Certificate (MEC). In her spare time, she enjoys fishing the great Lake Erie, biking, hiking, and bowling.

 

Daniel Starr

I am Dr. Daniel Starr and have been a facilitator for the MEC since 2019.  I am a retired school superintendent and have taught in higher ed at both the Masters (SUNY Plattsburgh) and Doctorate (The Sage Colleges) levels.  I have been an HS Principal and then a superintendent.  I earned my Master's at the UNH and my Ed.D. from the University of Buffalo.

One of the challenges with Moodle, as with any other LMS, is staying current with the continuous introduction of new features!  The MEC is offered through MoodleUS and is designed for people who are already proficient to increase their level of expertise.  Hopefully, they become a resource for their own colleagues in the process. 

Personally, I grew up in the Buffalo area and gradually moved eastward, where I now live in Glens Falls, NY with my wife Kelly.  My hobbies include reading, golf, and being an audiophile.

Elisabeth Stucklen

Elisabeth Stucklen is an instructional designer in the Online Learning Consortium's Institute for Professional Development, where she provides course design/production and facilitation support for the Instructional Designer Certificate Program and serves as the instructional designer in the Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning (IELOL) program. She has worked in online higher education and instructional design for over 18 years. 

Before joining the OLC, she worked as the senior instructional designer at Mount Washington College (MWC) in Manchester, NH, where she was responsible for creating new online courses, providing training and support for faculty, and assisting the director in monitoring the course development process. Before MWC, she worked at Lesley University, providing professional development and course design assistance to faculty. 

In addition to her role with the OLC, Elisabeth teaches online for Brandeis University in their Masters in Learning Experience Design program, and has also served as a mentor in the Educause ID2ID cross-institutional peer mentoring program for the instructional designer.

Elisabeth holds a Master of Science in Instructional Design and Technology from Emporia State University and a Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication Technology from Lesley University. She is also a graduate of the 2020 cohort of the Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning (IELOL).

Todd Vasquez

Todd D. Vasquez works as an Instructional Designer for Fresno Pacific University in Fresno, California where he provides peer-based coaching to faculty in the design and facilitation of their online courses. He received his Ph.D. in Theology from Loyola University in Chicago and an M.A. in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Talbot School of Theology. So, you will also find him teaching courses in the Interpretation of the Bible, New Testament, Christian Doctrine, and Early Christianity, as well as courses in Ethics and Philosophy. He also has an extensive background in the use and deployment of Apple technologies in educational environments, having been among the first to deploy Apple’s iPad technology in a K-12 environment and working for many years as a Genius for Apple.