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Ellen D. Wagner, Ph.D. Director of Learning Technologies, The Learnativity Alliance
Ellen Wagner is Director of Learning Technologies with the Learnativity Alliance, a small research institute and advisory services practice, dedicated to furthering the notion that learning is a transformative process allowing individuals to improve their situations and ensuring organizations capitalize on core strengths. The Alliance provides a venue for members to access and share new research and best practices about adult learning, knowledge creation, talent development, and human capital management. Dr. Wagner leads the Learnativity Alliance's efforts to explore how technology systems of various kinds can make it easier for people to learn when, where, and how they want to. She is particularly interested in research and best practice examples that help designers create learner-centered templates and tools for assembling reusable learning objects in meaningful ways. Before joining the Learnativity Alliance, Dr. Wagner was Chief Learning Officer for Viviance AG new education, a Swiss elearning company with offices in 12 European and North American countries. She was Chief Learning Officer and Vice President of Consulting Services with Informania, Inc. before its acquisition by Viviance AG. Wagner's work in the areas of cognition and instruction, assessment, interactivity and interoperability, technology regulation and public policy featured a wide array of media formats, with a special emphasis on Web-based training initiatives. She and her staff of learning designers, database analysts, content analysts, writers and digital artists completed ground-breaking work featuring technology-based learning and performance improvement designs and implementations in numerous industries technology, finance, telecommunications, medical, banking) and for government agencies including the U.S. Department of Defense, The U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Ellen has designed and managed organization-wide reengineering, change management, and training programs for organizations including the New York Stock Exchange, the Canadian Securities Institute, Wells Fargo Bank, US Bank Corporation, Dell Computer, Hewlett Packard, the Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry, Norsk Hydro, the Western Governors University, Kaiser Permanente, Novell, Sun Microsystems, Volkswagen, US WEST (now Quest Communications), Nortel, and AT&T. Dr. Wagner has written more than 70 book chapters, articles and monographs on instructional design, evaluation, and distance learning. Combined with hundreds of national and international conference presentations, she is a much sought-after speaker in the field. She recently co-authored the book, Managing Web-Based Training, with Alan Ellis and Warren Longmire, that was published by the American Society for Training and Development. Dr. Wagner is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Division for Instructional Development, Association for Educational Communications and Technology, and is a contributing editor to Educational Technology, the American Journal of Distance Education, Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR&D), and the International Journal of Educational Telecommunications. Before joining Informania. Dr. Wagner had a successful career as a tenured university professor and administrator. She was Associate Professor and Chair of the Educational Technology Program at the University of Northern Colorado, as well as Director of UNC'S Western Institute for Distance Education. She was also Visiting Scholar and Project Director at the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunication, Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education. Dr. Wagner's Ph.D. in Educational Psychology is from the University of Colorado, Boulder; her MS and BA degrees were earned at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. 324 East MacArthur Street . Sonoma, CA 95476 [email protected] . www.learnativity.com
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