Open Education Program and Learning Designer | Care as Infrastructure | OER & Open Practice Leader

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Summary

Open Education leader, learning systems designer, and builder of practical pathways for real people working inside real constraints. For 13 years, I designed programs, resources, and learning experiences that accounted for the realities of higher education: overloaded faculty, complex institutions, limited capacity, and students who could not afford one more barrier.

At the University of Texas at Arlington, I led the Open Education strategy by helping people move from curiosity to confidence, from confidence to practice, and from practice to leadership. My work lived at the intersection of program design, facilitation, open infrastructure, and care. I built scaffolded learning experiences, credentialed pathways, decision-ready documentation, and publishing workflows that made open education easier to understand, adopt, and maintain.

I approached accessibility, UDL, and care ethics not as add-ons or ideals, but as design commitments. For me, good systems reduce friction, honor human capacity, and make follow-through more possible. My goal was to build open education ecosystems that were practical, humane, and sturdy enough to last.

Areas of focus

• Open Education strategy, implementation, and systems change
• Program operations + infrastructure (intake/consultation models, workflows, tracking, reporting)
• Microcredentials, digital badges, and competency-based pathway design
• Professional learning design (workshops, learning communities, cohort experiences)
• Facilitation and community-of-practice design
• OER adoption, adaptation, creation, and author support (Pressbooks)
• Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
• AI + open practice enablement (ethical, human-centered use for teaching and learning)
• Documentation systems (decision-ready artifacts, templates, process design)
• Assessment and continuous improvement (story-based + data-informed)