Jean Marrapodi
VP/Senior Instructional Designer, UMB Bank
Jean Marrapodi, Ph.D., CPTD, has designed and developed eLearning for over 20 years in various industries and higher education. Named a Guild Master in 2016 by the eLearning Guild, she is considered an industry thought leader. Over the last 10 years, Marrapodi has presented more than 75 workshops and webinars for industry organizations and has taught over 40 graduate and undergraduate courses at New England College of Business, where she served as director of eLearning. Her expertise lies in her ability to make the complex simple, and pinpoint client needs to drive to business outcomes. She is a soup-to-nuts eLearning designer, able to single-handedly build a project from idea to rollout and work in a specific role on a project team. She is the chief learning architect at Applestar Productions, providing targeted eLearning and custom workshops for her clients.
Latest from Jean Marrapodi
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Build the Framework: Goals, Outcomes and Objectives
Learners will discover how to identify the business goal and the training goal for a training request, then learn to create outcomes and objectives to achieve them. They will also create a roadmap for defining the assessments to measure learner success and how to populate appropriate content and activities to support the objectives. In this session, learners will be able to:
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Accessible & Inclusive Learning: A Panel Discussion
When From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers was first published in 2008, few designers thought about whether or how to ensure that their online resources would be accessible to a diverse population of learners; a focus on designing inclusive content was years away. In this closing session of our online conference marking 15 years since the book was released, we look at how far we’ve come— and how much we still need to do—to achieve the goal of learning content that is accessible and inclusive to all of our learners. Join this panel discussion for perspectives…
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Evaluation and Assessment: Measure What Matters
You worked hard to create your course, but how do you know it was effective? In this session you’ll learn the difference between assessment and evaluation, and techniques to measure what matters in learner abilities and course effectiveness. We’ll examine what the research says about making learning transferrable and ways to let the learners authentically show what they know. You’ll also learn how to determine if the course met its intended goal and how to represent your data to your stakeholders as ROI (return on investment) or ROE (return on expectations). In this session you will learn:
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Reframe Scenario-based Learning with Good Storytelling
Once there was an eLearning designer who was handed a course request and a pile of content from a SME. What happened next? S/he: In the end, which choice led to happily ever after for the designer, the SME, and the learners? Which made the content stick? Find out in this interactive workshop and learn to make your courses sticky, too.
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Evaluation Rubrics a Valuable Tool for Assessing eLearning
An evaluation rubric offers a clear, objective method of assessing eLearning.