Speaker: Elizabeth Dalton

Elizabeth Dalton is the Moodle system administrator at Granite State College, a public college focusing on the needs of adult students, where the majority of enrollments are in fully online courses hosted in Moodle. She is also a doctoral student in Education at the University of New Hampshire, where she attempts to interpret the numbers of quantitative research using a variety of metaphors of human experience and learning. Sometimes she teaches college courses in statistics, in which she always learns a lot from her students. Elizabeth was an invited speaker at Moodle Moot US 2015 and has also presented at iMoot15, the NERCOMP "Moodle User Group 2015: A Return to Fundamentals" workshop, and the Badge Alliance Research Group. She earned the "Particularly Helpful Moodler" badge in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Speaker: Alexandra Deschamps

Alex Deschamps is an Instructional Designer and Faculty Support Coordinator for UMass Amherst. As part of UMass IT Services and Academic Computing, she oversees the Instructional Media Lab; the University’s front-line support for instructional technology use by faculty, lecturers, and teaching assistants. Alex has a Master’s degree in Education with a focus on math, science, and learning technologies. Alex and the Instructional Media Lab played an integral part in transitioning the campus from Blackboard Vista to Moodle.

Speaker: Sarah Oelker

Sarah Oelker is a librarian and instructional technologist in LITS, the hybrid Library/IT organization at Mount Holyoke College. Sarah delivers research instruction, research support, and instructional technology consulting to students and faculty in a number of science departments as a LITS Liaison and part of the Research & Instructional Support team. Sarah led faculty outreach and training for the campus transition to Moodle, organized an initiative to increase the use of clickers in courses across the curriculum, and is currently leading a group reassessing campus audience response needs for the future. Sarah is also involved in the campus makerspace and volunteers with Hour of Code. Sarah has an MLIS from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and a BA in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry from Yale. You can reach Sarah at soelker@mtholyoke.edu or @sarahoelker on Twitter.
 

Speaker: Jason Simms

Jason Simms is Academic Computing Manager for the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. He has a B.A. in Classics and an M.A. In Anthropology from the University of Tennessee, as well as an M.P.H. in Environmental Health and a Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology from the University of South Florida. His primary role at Wesleyan is working with faculty and students to integrate technology into their teaching, research, and scholarship, and he also is the functional Moodle manager.

Speaker: Kevin Wiliarty

Kevin Wiliarty is a Senior Web Developer at Hampshire College and an occasional literary translator. Over the years he has also worked in educational technology at Smith College and Wesleyan University. He focuses on PHP applications such as Moodle, WordPress and more recently Drupal. Wiliarty is the current lead developer for a handful of Moodle and WordPress plugins, he has contributed fixes to Moodle core, and he is an apprentice integrator for the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP).