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