Michael Windelspecht Email & Phone Number

Founder and Chief Learning Officer responsible for the design of unique educational experiences targeting student and adult lifelong learners. Currently, I am involved in the design of activities that immerse travelers to Belize in the following areas:* studying the population ecology of lionfish populations in the coral reef ecosystems.* developing resources to study the water quality of the Sibun River basin.* initiating a program to monitor the population dynamics of jaguars in the Sibun River basin.Additionally, I am responsible for developing new partnerships with local, international, corporate and educational identities that are looking to transcend traditional forms of education and form experiences that inspire learning for the global community.

Boone, Nc, Us

Founder and CEO of an instructional design/e-learning company that is responsible for the development of digital learning resources (animations, video, etc) for use in the higher education and corporate training environments. • Manage all aspects of corporate projects involving the integration of edtech and elearning resources into the higher ed and corporate training environments. • Project management and supervision of teams that include multiple authors, instructional design specialists, copy editors, and interns. • Lead instructional designer for online course materials in the life sciences. • Subject matter expert for the effective development educational content in the life sciences (genetics, anatomy and physiology, general biology)• Lead designer of online training materials associated with faculty training and onboarding of instructional designers into the adaptive learning technologies.• Conference and workshop presenter on the effective implementation of edtech resources in the online training environment.• Science communication expert with extensive experience in cloud-based authoring.• Editor and manager of the Ricochet Science website – a source of free resources for science education.

New York, Ny, Us

Digital implementation consultant to the Life Sciences group at McGraw-Hill Education. Responsibilities include:• Conduct presentations, workshops, seminars, symposia, and webinars for individual faculty, departments, and institutions on the effective use and implementation of adaptive and digital platforms in the higher education science classroom.• Conduct training of new faculty entering into the digital faculty consultant program.• Develop marketing and training materials for use at national and regional sales meetings.• Pilot new technologies and platforms for use within McGraw-Hill’s educational technology platforms. Managing/Lead Author for the Mader/Windelspecht Biology series of introductory biology textbooks. Responsibilities include:• Authoring of introductory biology content for 1-2 titles per year. Titles include: o Biology o Inquiry into Life o Essentials of Biology o Human Biology• Act as the pilot author of next-generation authoring platforms including the development of continuously-upgraded (evergreen) digital content.• Development of marketing and sales force training materials associated with the texts.• Development of heat map process to assess student interaction with the content of the texts and increase the efficiency of the revision process.

New York, Ny, Us

multimedia development, executive producer of 3D animations, lead author for five book series

Boone, North Carolina, Us

As a new Member of the Board at the Hunger and Health Coalition of Boone NC, I will be assisting in the formation of new partnerships, development of innovative marketing opportunities, and expansion of public outreach campaigns for this valuable organization.

Boone, Nc, Us

Instructor of introductory biology and human genetics courses in online, hybrid, and large-lecture formats. Research interests focus on how to use student data from learning systems to more effectively build microlearning assets to address specific knowledge deficiencies.

Boone, Nc, Us

Coordinator of the introductory biology program (majors, non-majors) and an instructor of genetics. General Biology Coordinator from 2000-2010. Responsible for the training and direct supervision of 20+ teaching assistants per semester; development of online and traditional training materials; supervision of courses that enrolled over 4,500 students annually.

Boone, Nc, Us

Direct supervision of a program that enrolled over 4,500 students annually and employed 30+ graduate students. Author of seven lab manuals, including two online manuals.

managed a team of authors for the publication of a ten book series on human biology; coordinated art program; content editor

Instructor of general biology courses, online instructor for principles of nutrition course

Tampa, Florida, Us

research into the molecular basis of insecticide resistance in natural populations of Drosophila simulans

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Molecular Genetics

Ph.D., Biology, Genetics

B.S., Zoology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs