Hi! I’m Britta. I am an Instructional Designer. I love learning and I love learning about learning—so very meta, right?
I have been a college faculty member and administrator, a writer, a instructional designer, an e-Learning developer, an LMS Administrator, a project manager, and more, but my favorite aspects about designing learning experiences include:
- Beginning with the end in mind—using a strategic approach based on the Kirkpatrick 4 Levels of Evaluation keeps projects and programs data-driven.
- Partnering with a Subject Matter Expert and seeing a course come to life.
- Training other learning professionals to leverage learning science and instructional design to create a meaningful Learner Experience
- Taking the big picture approach and creating a comprehensive plan for Performance Improvement and on-going evaluation and improvement (Kaizen).
- Seeing what we know about learning science at work in the world (and having a hand in putting it there!)
I also enjoy working in authoring tools like Articulate Rise 360, Articulate Storyline 360, Camtasia 2020, and Vyond. My next favorite thing, and one of my greatest strengths, is writing. I also love brainstorming and applying my knowledge of learning and human performance theories and instructional design to real-world problems and designing solutions. I’m very detail-oriented, which helps me to enjoy my favorite things even more!
A little background about me: I am a former dental hygienist and dental hygiene educator. Before staying home with my kiddos, homeschooling for 7 years, and moving around with my military husband, I was the Clinic Supervisor and an Assistant Professor in the Dental Hygiene Program at LSU School of Dentistry in New Orleans, and a recipient of the LSU School of Dentistry Allen A. Copping Excellence in Teaching Award.
I received my MEd in Higher Education Administration from the University of New Orleans while teaching at LSU School of Dentistry. I received an MS in Instructional Design and Development from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. I collaborated with the Department of Social Work at Samford University when they built an online program to complement the existing face-to-face MSW program. Next, I created training and performance interventions at a hip little software company in Birmingham, AL called Daxko. And for the past few year, I’ve worked remotely to build training and performance solutions for volunteers, employees, and incarcerated men and women at Prison Fellowship.
I grew up with a Marine Corps dad, and my husband was an Air Force dentist. In 2016, after my lifetime of moving, I finally settled with my family in beautiful Birmingham. My husband, Scott, is retired from the military and is enjoying private practice in Alabaster, AL. I am the mother of Gracie and Josh, two wonderful and sweet college kids. If you’d like to know even more about me, you can read about my personality type and my DISC profile here. I have a special interest in Seligman’s Positive Psychology, Cooperrider’s Appreciative Inquiry, Duckworth’s Grit, and Dweck’s Growth Mindset.
In my professional work, I lean on Social Learning, Connectivism, Cognitive Load Theory, Growth Mindset, Appreciative Inquiry, Self-Determination Theory, Constructivism (and experiential learning), and Cognitive Apprenticeship (which might be my favorite!). I enjoy the collaboration required to bring ideas to life and prefer an agile, iterative approach with time and space for feedback. I think a strategic approach to performance improvement begins with the end in mind, so I lean heavily on the Kirkpatrick evaluation principles during the design process. You can see all of these aspects of learning science, in action, (and more!) by visiting my professional portfolio.
Feel free to contact me (below) or connect with me on LinkedIn—I would love to hear from you!