Gretchen Pletschke Email & Phone Number

South Africa

South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

https://www.indiefin.com/

Woodstock, Cape Town

Managing the Learning Design team in the designing, development, and digitisation of course material to ensure that it aligns with sound pedagogy and learning design principles. Working closely with the Production and Sales teams to ensure our clients' needs are met. Writing, proofing and editing of course material, as well as authoring of courses online in our learning management system (LMS), Open edX.Key responsibilities include:* Designing learning programmes and curricula.* Advising clients on the best ways to digitise content to align with learning theory and best practice.* Working with subject matter experts to deliver expert content.* Working with Production and Post­Production teams to create course content, e.g. videos, motion graphic, written content (scripts, text, and assessments).* Authoring courseware in our LMS.* Performing quality assurance at various stages throughout the development process.* Researching emerging trends in online education and implementing new approaches.* Overseeing the Learning Design team.

Managing the creation and sharing of knowledge across the organisation; ensuring information and experience is shared internally and externally, where appropriate. Key responsibilities include:* Developing a phased, long-term strategy for Knowledge Management and managing its implementation. * Identifying key knowledge stakeholders and liaising with them to establish key roles and responsibilities.* Mapping organisational knowledge across operational business processes.* Establishing a Styles & Standards Guide and ensuring it's adoption across the organisation. * Creating supporting documents including templates and an employee handbook.* Researching and maintaining a user-friendly content repository of categorised, searchable, current content that abides by the standards set out in the Style Guide. * Promoting knowledge sharing through business processes and systems to enable seamless exchange of information across systems.* Establishing a content creation process and facilitating in its internal and external implementation.* Writing documentation; when required and where appropriate. * Providing training and support for knowledge sharing tools, including organising knowledge sharing events, internal and external training sessions, supporting documentation.* Monitoring and evaluating knowledge sharing activities. * Researching current knowledge management best practices, case studies, and technologies.

Writing and designing instructional material covering a wide range of hardware and software related subjects for web-based learning.

Cape Town

In-house communications coordinator and writer. Responsibilities include Social Media Marketing, Email marketing, blogging, creation of content for company newsletter, editing, internal document standardisation, copy writing for web, writing for the web (SEO).

Writing and designing instructional material covering a wide range of hardware and software related subjects for an international client.

• Co-ordination of projects from inception to completion.• Receipt of briefs from Account Executive.• Source required suppliers, issue purchase orders, and supervise progress of production.• Organise, co-ordinate, and establish a good rapport with “creatives” and clients.• Proof reading of material /artwork – ads, newsletters, brochure copy, etc.• Trafficking of proofs.• Billing of clients.• Maintaining an efficient filing system.

Creation and submission of newspaper and magazine ads. Submission of properties onto the website· and plasma display. Creating brochures for window advertising and showhouse information. Photography: Perform virtual tours and take "stills" of properties for use in various marketing media.

Pietermaritzburg Area, South Africa

I entered into a 1-year contract to teach the music component of their Arts and Culture programme as well as Vocal Training. Skills involved were creative brainstorming of Term Themes within a team, converting these into effective lesson plans, and clearly communicating ideas to the learners.

Bachelor Of Music, Musicology Iii, Ethnomusicology, Sound Technology, Singing, Psychology I, German Foreign Language I, Honours With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Chamber Choir (Committee member, 2000) Mountain Climbing/Biking The Arb Quartet The Cathedral Choir

Performer'S Licentiate, Performance In Singing

Activities and Societies: Chamber Choir, Mountain Biking, Mountain Climbing

Pc Orientation, Microsoft Office

Matric With Exemption