OUR TEAM.

She is an Instructional Designer in the Chicago area with a passion for learning, researching new things, and delivering information to learners. Dana believes learners learn through application and collaboration. She favors learning communities. Dana loves to create content that learners can easily absorb and quickly put into practice. Her interest in computer based online learning began with a godmother who was a software engineer and mathematician. Dana helped her godmother develop lessons for math software teaching learners math. This content served learners as young as three years old, beginning with basic math and progressed as far as Calculus. This taught her the power of online learning.

Working in the curriculum department for her local school district provides a wealth of knowledge about K-8 curriculum. For the past three years, she has worked with the KeelWorks foundation to expand and apply her master’s level instructional design learning. There, she has performed needs analysis, perfected her grasp on learning objectives, the chunking of learning, the crafting of learning strategies to match need, and content development both in written form, and in media. She loves that Instructional Design is both broad and diverse. It exposes her to diverse audiences, technologies, and business challenges; it continually broadens her knowledge. The diversity of skills required to meet needs is especially gratifying, from project management to writing copy and audio, to developing rollovers, simulations, video, audio, and scenarios with a wide array of development tools. She especially loves that creating learning continues to challenge her own comfort level, forcing her to explore new ground with every new project.