Lead the development strategy for academic programs at the university’s new urban center for innovation, including innovative, stackable multidisciplinary degrees and non-degree workforce development programs.Collaborate with academic units, community organizations, government representatives, local entrepreneurs, and industry partners to define and address skill gaps and workforce development goals.Assist in the launch of the new center, including supporting building design activities, operations planning, community engagement, and other necessary start-up functions.

Led strategy and development for a portfolio of 200+ non-credit online learning programs that supported the education of 10 million global learners across multiple learning management platforms.Led the generation of innovative new learning products, evaluated trend reports and market research to identify new content opportunities, and engaged academic leadership and subject matter experts to create new online experiences and resources.Cultivated relationships with industry partners, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and other higher ed institutions to create new courses or facilitate their adoption of existing content. Brought in several hundred thousand dollars in new revenue from partnerships alone.Managed 33 full-time employees and a dozen part-time employees over multiple teams focused on partnership development, project management, media production, and course operations. Collaborated closely with other key teams including marketing, learning experience design, behavioral science, public engagement, and research and development. Collaborated in the development and expansion of white-label platform, online.umich.edu. Led the strategy and development of white-label initiative pilots that will be offered on the site.Managed all external platform partners and key vendors.Managed budget for non-credit online learning programs and oversaw $750,000 grant fund to support new projects.

Managed team of 10 design managers and course operations specialists. Collaborated closely with other key teams including marketing, learning experience design, behavioral science, public engagement, and research and development. Oversaw the design and development of new online courses, including developing and implementing processes; stakeholder management; communication; project planning; course design; media production; and QA processes.Served as key liaison to all external platform partners (Coursera, FutureLearn, edX)Worked closely with the finance team to manage and approve budget expenditures and revenue for open content.

Led team of 5 design managers.Collaborated closely with other key teams across our organization, including marketing, learning experience design, behavioral science, public engagement, and research and development. Oversaw the design and development of new online courses, including developing and implementing processes; stakeholder management; communication; project planning; course design; media production; and QA processes.

Led the design and development of new online courses, including stakeholder management; communication; project planning; course design; media production; and QA processes.Collaborated closely with other key teams across our organization, including marketing, learning experience design, behavioral science, public engagement, and research and development.

Provide integrative technology solutions for project management, branding, outreach, learning, and daily operations for small businesses, research units, organizations, and educational institutions.

Developed and maintained partnerships for key Seelio partner institutions such as A&M Prairie View, Ohio University, West Virginia University, Towson University, and the University of Michigan School of Social Work.Assisted partners with implementation, support, evaluation, and expansion of e-portfolio programs aimed at helping students better identify, understand, track, and show the impact of their learning.Trained faculty and students via in-person workshops and online webinars; monitored adoption progress across an institution; communicated with key stakeholders; developed resources, assignments, best practices, and strategies around successful and pedagogically-thoughtful implementations of student portfolios Collaborated with designers, developers, and data analysts to continually improve our product and our service.

Collaborated with faculty (from design to implementation to iteration) to develop new curricula and implement technology projects in a wide range of disciplines, including e-portfolios, image databases, literary journals, digital history strategies, anti-plagiarism modules, flipped classrooms, online courses and more, supporting hundreds of residential students and dozens of faculty each semesterDeveloped and delivered workshops, wrote documentation, and trained faculty, students, and staff in various educational technologies and pedagogies.Oversaw the project load of 4 full-time consultants, 2 full-time assistants, and 2 part-time student staff, as well as temporary student staff hired on for projects as needed.

Education:B.A. Film & Video
University of Michigan, 2006SkillsDeveloping curricula and implementing technologies for in-person and blended course designsManaging projects, including workflow construction, developing budget, forecasting timelines, staff, etc.Constructing course resources, including websites, videos, databases, ePubs, webinars, and more.HTML, CSS, PHP, some Javascript and PythonWordpress, Google/ Microsoft/ Adobe SuitesFinal Cut Pro, iMovie, Compressor, CamtasiaLMS: CTools, Coursera, CanvasSome samples of work can be found at seelio.com/laurenb. Others can be provided upon request.Research, create and promote content for a curation service focused on learning and user interaction.

Researched, developed, and taught adult education courses centered around implementation of new technologies.

Consulting, editing, post-production, dvd and web video creation.