Brown Bag with Rebekah Richards

ITLS Brown Bag, Thursday 5 November at Noon.
Pizza Provided!

Rebekah Richards will discuss how the skills she learned as an instructional designer have helped her frame -- and, more importantly, reframe -- questions and ideas and move in a new and rapidly evolving field: online education.

Rebekah Richards is The American Academy's Chief Academic Officer and School Principal ((http://www.theamericanacademy.com). Rebekah has worked in online high school education since 1999; she has been involved in the early stage planning and implementation of numerous public and private online high schools throughout the country, including Colorado Online Learning, Connecticut¹s Adult Education online program, The Online Latin School, and Insight Schools, Inc.

Rebekah is a frequent speaker on k12 online learning and has been featured at national and international conferences on topics including online learning for students with learning disabilities, online instructor training, learning management systems, training complex cognitive skills, and instructional message design.

Rebekah received a B.A. in Classics from Brigham Young University, an M.S.
in Instructional Design and Technology from Utah State University in 2001, and an M.A. in Classical Philology from the University of Colorado-Boulder.