Sharon Gander
Instructional Design Certifications Director in Downers Grove, Illinois
Clients:
* The Institute for Performance Improvemenet
* Judge Learning Group
* CARA Group
* NCRA/RISE
* ABPD
* Cerner Corporation
* Grantham University
* International Facility Managers Association (IFM)
* International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
* Mattie Rhodes Community Center
* Metropolitan Community College
I have twenty-five years leading strategic performance improvement projects working on certifications, learning solution development, and learning/knowledge infrastructures.I have worked with government, education, heath care, information technology, veterinary medicine, supply chain logistics, energy sector, and not-for-profits.
I am a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) certified since 2005. I have renewed successfully every three years and I participate as an application reviewer in the CPT double-blind application review process for the International Society of Performance Improvement (ISPI). In addition, I have been active in the development of three new accreditations for ISPI.
I am a Certified Assessment and Credentialing Professional (CACP) and a certified instructional designer specializing in synchronous elearning and serious learning games as well as traditional instructor-led learning and a variety of other learning solutions.
I find life/bio-sciences interesting and that interest shows in my work with healthcare IT and veterinary medicine. One special course was co-developed with a professor of genomics preparing software developers to create bio-infomatics software that would withstand the rigors of FDA medical devise testing. For fun and an opportunity to use her interest in sciences, she was a volunteer docent in the "on floor" lab at the Science Museum of Minnesota teaching concepts in acids and bases, chromatography, bubbles, magnetism,