About Lauren Oczypok
Lauren is a skilled instructional designer focused on the design and delivery of creative and engaging e-learning materials. She has a unique combination of experiences working with a variety of Higher Education institutions as well as corporate companies. She has significant experience creating and delivering interactive training to adult learners in face-to-face, blended, and both synchronous and asynchronous online modalities.Lauren currently works as a Sales Enablement Manager for a data technology company, TIBCO. She is responsible for the design and delivery of an intensive one to two-week sales onboarding bootcamp delivered in both online and face to face formats. She also administers TIBCO’s learning management system for the sales organization and creates interactive courses using Articulate Rise for sales employees to complete.
Outside of her corporate experience, Lauren has a wealth of experience working with faculty who teach online and face to face courses. She enjoys helping faculty learn the best ways to utilize technology to increase student engagement, assist in teaching, and effectively design course content. She worked as an instructional designer for many higher education institutions where she:
- Developed online courses with faculty in accordance with guidelines aligned to Quality Matters.
- Designed and delivered training sessions on topics such as: ADA Compliance, Rubrics, Introduction to Blackboard, Canvas and Desire2Learn, Using Assessments, Increasing Student Engagement and Using Multimedia.
- Administered and developed training for multiple learning management systems.
- Assisted faculty in using Educational Technology programs for teaching
Lauren is one of a rare breed of individuals who are expert and experienced in two academic disciplines, instructional design and instructional technology. She has a passion for both education and technology and is eager to work with focusEDU clients to help them shape and realize their teaching and learning visions.