Eleanor Patat Cotton

Instructional Designer

I am passionate about education, and I want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to get a great education.

My work as an experienced instructional designer demonstrates the impact of eLearning grounded in learning theory, instructional design, effective use of technology, and learner analysis and assessment. Feedback is the breakfast of champions, and I welcome it from learners, Subject Matter Experts, and others. Iterative design is a necessity given today’s fast-moving technology.

Core Skills

Very proficient with:

  • Articulate 360

  • Camtasia

  • Audacity

  • Moodle

  • Google Suite

  • Microsoft Office

  • Smartsheet

  • Project Management apps

  • Canva

Skilled with:

  • Adobe Creative Suite

  • HTML/CSS

  • WordPress

  • Marketo


 

Relevant Experience

Learning Ally — Director of Production Technology & Training

August 2003 - PRESENT

Focused on volunteer training and audiobook production technology with a national nonprofit producing audiobooks for students with reading deficits. Responsible for maintaining a training Moodle site and training thousands of volunteers. Architect of our cloud audio recording system. Responsible for developing and troubleshooting this recording system, and developing many system processes and procedures. Began as a Production Manager, then Production Director, Geo Hub Director, then Director in 2017.

Achievements

  • Tripled training graduation rate for narrator training course

  • Trained thousands of volunteers with state of the art virtual training courses

  • Developed a training style guide

  • Led development of a unique web and cloud-based audiobook recording system

  • Reduced volunteer tech support by 30% by developing a Knowledge Base

  • Co-chaired Spotlight on Dyslexia, a virtual conference with 9,000+ educator registrants and developed a dashboard to track event registration and resources

  • Led successful transition to a virtual audiobook production system

  • Led a Decision-Making internal team project analyzing how the organization makes decisions

Education

University of Georgia, Athens, GA — M.Ed.

Learning, Design, & Technology

University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA — J.D.

University of Georgia, Athens, GA — B.A.

Double Major in Political Science and English
Graduated Magna cum Laude
UGA Honor Graduate

Awards/Certificates

Darden Graduate School of Business Leadership Training (2014)

Spot Incentive Award (Gold) for my work in developing our cloud audio recording system (2012)

Phi Beta Kappa