Chris Appleton, M.Ed Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Canada Area

Distant Light Learning is a full-service training development company located in Calgary, Alberta, specializing in building e-learning, face-to-face facilitation, mobile and game-based learning, skills coaching and training assessment solutions. DLL can work with your staff to create the optimal training intervention strategies or introduce entirely new.

Calgary, Canada Area

Facilitator of multiple courses for Continuing Education in the areas of online adultlearning and professional writing. "Learning Online" is an introductory gateway course thatintroduces adult learners to the world of online learning. Students are given strategies for successin the online classroom as well as a thorough understanding of the technology they.

• To better facilitate the University of Calgary Continuing Education's ability to deliver high quality educational opportunities to lifelong learners, locally and globally, the e-Learning Specialist works with internal.
• Completely revised the overall e-learning model of Continuing Education and the resources available for students, instructors and staff - including the development of… Show more To better facilitate the University of.
• Completely revised the overall e-learning model of Continuing Education and the resources available for students, instructors and staff - including the development of all policies and procedures that Continuing.
• Provided training to instructors teaching online or supplementing classroom courses with web technologies via online and classroom based workshops.
• Consulted programming staff in planning current and future online and blended programs.
• Provided extensive coaching and guidance to instructors to ensure they developed and delivered the highest possible quality online courses.

Taught two courses in the Web Development certificate: "Introduction to PHP & MySQL" and "Advanced PHP". Over the course of the two 30 hour evening classes, students were able to start at an introductory level and then move all the way into the advanced edge of these web development technologies.

Calgary, Canada Area

• The Manager of Instructional Design & Development is responsible for:
• Building and fully implementing a curriculum-based learning strategy on a national scale that addresses new hire and ongoing educational needs in key areas, including: sales, customer experience, business and technical.
• Providing leadership to the centralized… Show more The Manager of Instructional Design & Development is responsible for:
• Providing leadership to the centralized instructional design & development team, including ongoing direction, support, feedback, coaching, and general performance management. Ensuring skill set and capabilities of the.
• Assisting the SLN Leadership Team to generate a development culture where learning is integral and a “holistic” part of how we operate at Shaw.
• Working with the SLN Leadership Team to enable the use of technology, innovation and entrepreneurialism to reinvent how we deliver education at Shaw.

Calgary, Canada Area

Lead a learning development team to design and deliver high quality training programs for Shaw employees working in the Technical Operations division. Provide on-going support, mentorship and coaching to the Tech Ops team as well as others across the entire Shaw organization. Maintain, evaluate and update library of technical training resources for all.

• Developed new policies and guidelines around online programming for the Distance Education department at CBU.
• Trained new and existing online instructors on how to deliver online, covering specific tools and best practices.
• Developed the departmental website and a comprehensive student tracking database system to supplement the university systems.
• Provided considerable training opportunities to staff and colleagues at the university. Instrumental in supporting instructors… Show more
• Provided considerable training opportunities to staff and colleagues at the university. Instrumental in supporting instructors, students and overall programs involved in online and web-supplemented courses.
• Implemented greater support initiatives and capacity within the department despite no increase in personnel.

• Developed and maintained a comprehensive website resource to enable persons with disabilities to easily locate and connect with all special services across the province of Nova Scotia.
• Provided onsite and offsite informational technology support.

Masters Degree, Educational Technology

Bsc, Math & Computer Science

Diploma, Professional Engineering