Learning Design

Michelle Moore is an internationally recognized expert in online learning. A former middle school math teacher, Michelle has been an advocate for Moodle since evaluating it fifteen years ago during a review of learning management systems while completing her Master's Degree in Instructional Design and Technology. Enamored with Moodle's capabilities and its foundation in social constructionism, it wasn't long before Michelle's passion led her to a full-time position training and providing support for educators and trainers in schools, universities, and businesses across North America. Since then, Michelle has helped thousands of Moodlers leverage Moodle's features to design quality online, blended, and mobile learning experiences.

Michelle is an energetic, award-winning speaker who presents regularly at MoodleMoots and educational technology conferences worldwide on the use of Moodle with a strong emphasis on pedagogy and best practices. Michelle is pursuing a doctorate in Learning Technologies at University of North Texas where she is actively researching online education and constructivist teaching methods.

Amy has over 15 years of experience in education serving as a teacher, technology integration specialist, and instructional designer in K-12, higher education, and professional settings. Her enthusiastic approach to online education focuses on developing an engaging user experience that is easy to use for all stakeholders. In her free time, she enjoys spending time outdoors with her family and dogs.

Carli has been an avid champion of educational technology since her first days in a K-12 classroom in 2011. She has experience as an educator, Moodle site administrator, instructional designer, educator professional learning coordinator, and educational technology adjunct professor. She believes that high-quality online education provides equitable opportunities, and is passionate about online teaching for adult learners. Carli has a M. Ed. Tech. in Educational Technology with an endorsement in Online Teaching for Adult Learners from Boise State University, and her B.S. in Elementary Education (K-8) with endorsement in Reading (K-12) at Montana State University – Northern. Carli lives in Montana with her husband, Justin, and enjoys playing piano and watching stand-up comedy.

Corey has been working with the Moodle program since 2013. He began his career as a Technology Facilitator, providing instructor and LMS support to the Faculty of Social Work and Nursing at the University of Regina. Teaching teachers how to teach using technology has been his mantra for nearly a decade. Prior to his experience in technology, Corey enjoyed a career in comedy doing both stand-up and managing a comedy club. He is a gym rat, funny guy and all around family man.

With over 16 years of Moodle experience, Darrel provides implementation consulting, training and project management for new Moodle and Moodle Workplace clients. He also specializes in learning content development using Adobe Captivate. Married with two daughters, Darrel’s favorite hobbies are motorcycling, 4 - wheeling, and leatherwork. He lives in Helena, Montana.

David began working in e-learning as a corporate trainer and instructional designer. He transitioned into Moodle development in 2016. Since then he has helped develop code for nearly every plugin type in Moodle. He is especially fond of the configurable reports block and custom sql reports. In his free time, David spends time with his wife and kids and when time allows, he enjoys hobby programming, fishing, chess and game nights with his extended family.

Don has been working in distance education since the very beginning in the 90’s. Don has earned both his undergrad and graduate degrees from East Carolina University, where Don got his start in distance education. Don began in this field by working on blurring the lines of the physical classroom in developing an SDK to bring the classroom to state of the art Handspring devices for a company called Online Wireless Solutions (OWLS). This joint partnership with East Carolina University and Ericsson Wireless exposed Don to the future of education.

From this experience Don went into the classroom and began teaching a wide variety of courses both online and traditionally. This experience has shaped Don’s career ever since. From that point he has always wanted to provide those wanting to improve their lives through education the best opportunity to do so using the latest and greatest technology. From the classroom Don went on to run the Computer Technology Center at Pitt Community College - providing the technical education needed in the local workforce. Don took the opportunity to then head up Pitt Community College’s distance education program and capped off the transition from a proprietary LMS to Moodle. During this time Don also had the chance to work on a program bringing Associates Degrees to vocational colleges in China - working with faculty, staff, and students in China on how to implement, use, and learn with Moodle.

Don then widened his cast of providing opportunities by supporting Moodle clients with a former Moodle partner, Remote-Learner. Through Don’s time with Remote-Learner, Don moved into the Senior Key Sales Account Manager position reporting to leadership before moving on to his next opportunity. Don was hired by IntelliBoard to lead their new sales program and grew IntelliBoard’s program to 3X sales growth within 24 months.

Don comes to Moodle US with a passion to provide the best opportunity for those who want to improve their life by bringing the best LMS to the market. Ensuring as many people have the access to quality learning and great results.

Outside of work, Don enjoys photography, motorsports, cooking, reading, and travel as well as taking every opportunity at life long learning.

Daniel came to Moonami (now Moodle US) after a 30 year career in K-12 education. He has an undergrad, Master’s and a Doctoral degree in Education and leadership. At Moonami (now Moodle US), Daniel oversees the Moodle Educator Certification program and has guided more than 30 MEC certified instructors to date. He also provides design review consultations to clients who seek to improve their online delivery of courses through the use of proven best practices. Daniel is married and enjoys listening to his blues/jazz collection, playing golf, catching a fish or two and recently relocated to Florida.

Heather Robinson is an online learning consultant who started her career in technology in 1995. In 2010 her passion for teaching inspired a transition into education, where she started teaching and developing courses in Moodle. She presently teaches courses in the areas of computer science, information systems, and learning technologies. She earned a Ph.D. in Learning Technologies from the University of North Texas in 2016. Heather researches online collaborative learning, critical pedagogy, and care ethics in online learning. She enjoys spending time hiking in the mountains and learned to sail last summer.

Jess has over 11 years of experience with online learning while working as a High School Science teacher, coach, at Montana’s Office of Public Instruction, and now Moodle US! Driven by a passion for online learning, she takes pride in helping clients set up their site and courses to run smoothly while providing a professional, quality experience for users. In her spare time Jess enjoys camping, exploring Montana, baking and spending time with her family.

Kelly began her career in education as a K-12 teacher then moved into higher ed as an instructional designer, providing faculty support and LMS administration. In her role at Moonami (now Moodle US), Kelly has lead the Client Success program, worked on the implementation team as a project manager onboarding new clients, assisted the Sales team with new business, conference presentations and leads the Moodle Educator Certification program. She is currently working with the IBM Team managing the US Air Force’s transition to Moodle Workplace. Kelly has Master’s degrees in education and instructional design and enjoys working with clients to help them use best practices to deliver instruction online. She recently relocated from NY to Florida with her spouse and is enjoying the year round outdoors lifestyle including pursuing her passion for golf, kayaking and swimming.

Lauren has always worked in education, as a teacher and consultant in China and Japan and more recently as a public higher education administrator and adjunct faculty member in the U.S. She is committed to open education and equity-minded online course design, and loves helping others learn how to use Moodle to achieve their individual goals. Lauren has an MFA in Fiction Writing, an M.Ed. in Learning, Media, and Technology, and is currently completing a PhD in Instructional Technologies at UMass Amherst. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Yuchao, and two children and loves playing games of all kinds, cooking and eating, making things, and traveling to Taiwan to spend time with family and friends.

Over his educational career, Ryan has designed learning experiences in the K-12, higher education, corporate, government, and nonprofit sectors. He has been an 8th grade teacher, an instructional technologist in higher education, and an online learning consultant. He has presented on active engagement, faculty development, Moodle course design, and other topics at conferences in the US and around the world. He is also the Vice President of Northwest Managers of Educational Technology and Chief Mootineer of the MountainMoot.

Moodle has been the centerpiece of Shalimar’s professional life for 14 years. She joined Moonami (now Moodle US) in 2013 and her roles have included leading the Customer Support team, implementation consulting, and training delivery. She recently stepped in to coordinate work assignments with the technical services team and has also been involved in staff development, content creation, implementation of Moonami’s original custom support app, and representing Moonami at various Moots and industry events.

Ted has been an active member of the Moodle community since 2007. An experienced trainer and Moodle administrator, Ted is passionate about contributing to people-oriented solutions in all of his endeavors. Ted is also a Marine Corps veteran, an avid video gamer, and an official Mootineer for the Montana Mountain Moot.

Trevor McCready is a learning solutions and technology professional with over 20 years of hands-on leadership experience in online higher education. Having worked with dozens of businesses and non-profit organizations with their elearning initiatives, Trevor understands their challenges and thrives on helping develop and implement solutions. When Trevor has spare time, he loves hockey, kayaking, guitar music and doing pretty much anything with his family.

Vanessa started her career in education in public schools, working primarily with students ages K-12 whose families chose online learning. Vanessa quickly built relationships with these students and families and knew that online learning would be her niche. After a few years, Vanessa began expanding her repertoire by training other online educators in best practices for online learning in addition to fully supporting the Moodle LMS. She has spoken at a number of educational conferences, holds the MEC, and continues to pursue both formal and informal education to further her career. Vanessa has a Masters in Educational Leadership as well as a teaching certification issued by the State of Pennsylvania. Because of her strong interest in the best practices surrounding online learning, she intends to further her education by pursuing another Masters in this area. In her spare time she enjoys watching her sons play sports, cuddling her young daughter and watching her grow, cooking, reading and traveling.