Margo Williams Email & Phone Number

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

• Provide instructional design guidance to Course Support Specialists for new and redeveloped courses.
• Lead internal course developments, including 700-level part-time online courses, undergraduate and graduate courses for the full-time programs, initiatives with other Whiting Engineering centers, and MOOC and at-scale.
• Perform a quality assurance review of all courses being developed to ensure quality standards in learning design, accessibility, and course consistency.
• Conduct regular faculty education opportunities on best practices in instructional design, teaching, and learning, including seminars, webinars, and training courses.
• Manage course developments and additional special projects to help EP and the CLD achieve its goals.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

• Collaborate and consult with engineering faculty members to support the creation of new courses and conversion of existing classroom-based courses for online delivery through a method of systematic design, clear course.
• Collaborate with multimedia and instructional technologists to develop multimedia assets and leverage digital tools
• Develop and facilitate training sessions on best practices for online instruction and use of educational technology
• Research, evaluate, and integrate new and emerging educational technologies for improving student learning
• Manage overall course development process for a large portfolio of courses from inception to completion including developing project timelines and coordinating with team members to meet project deliverables
• Lead and contribute to special projects which advance established strategic goals

Baltimore, MD

• Complete course transfer by testing course functionality, checking HTML code, and analyzing if the course is accessible to students
• Detail major and minor aspects of course quality and stability by closely analyzing and evaluating existing courses
• Resolve HTML code errors, content and link management, and accessibility issues in courses
• Communicate with faculty about their course transfer, to include transfer process summary and limitations
• Review new courses to ensure adherence to established instructional design best practices
• Analyze process efficiencies to improve workflow

Columbia, MD

• Perform the role of ‘student proxy,’ to evaluate and improve Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate-level course content with an eye toward student experience and sound instructional design standards
• Analyze course framework and content for consistency with program outcomes and alignment with established quality indicators
• Collaborate with Course Developers to resolve issues regarding consistency, clarity, and problems with resources or assignments
• Compile and verify media content and resource permissions for use in course content
• Build course pages in Blackboard using Dreamweaver and HTML
• Configure and implement grade book structure for courses

Washington, DC

• Wrote and developed multiple modules for a train-the-trainer course with a focus on facilitation techniques rather than lecture or “teaching”
• Consulted on design and implementation strategies for the larger project
• Attended a post-cultural audit seminar on designing and developing course for an international community

Lanham, MD

• Design and implement Moodle LMS installations for the online management of training courses
• Act as administrator for multiple client LMSs
• Manage various projects and serve as the main point of contact
• Write, edit, revise and program (HTML and JavaScript) instructional content for web-based training courses
• Design web-based tools to track training metrics and provide other customized functionality
• Develop and facilitate customer training through documentation and instructor-led courses

Anchorage, AK

• Researched, wrote and developed materials (press releases, brochures, flyers and letters) to generate awareness of the Red Cross of Alaska and its programs
• Organized, wrote, and executed direct mail campaigns for fundraising events
• Wrote Alaska’s Red Cross History 1917-2005, a 30-page archival account of the Red Cross of Alaska’s history using archive photography and articles

Master’S Degree, Human Centered Computing, 3.98

Graduate Certificate, Instructional Systems Development, 4.0

Bachelors Of Arts, Major: English, Minor: Economics, 3.74

Activities and Societies: Omicron Delta Epsilon, Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) member and competitor, Student Investment.