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Erin Wheaton

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Hi there! I'm Erin

This portfolio offers insight into who I am and how I leverage my L&D skills to support people first intiatives!

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Hi, I’m Erin Wheaton, an L&D professional based in Portland, Maine.

I’ve spent the last 12+ years designing inclusive & engaging learning experiences that help people grow, connect, and thrive. Designing to meet learners where they are whether that’s in the classroom, on the job, or in the community. Designing with equity, accessibility, and people-first languge is at the core of what I do!

Inspiration

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A lovely day in Maine...

Outside of work, I live a full (and often loud!) life with my husband of 12 years and our two kids.

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Seeking calm among the chaos is a daily pursuit, usually found when sharing good food among friends, reading, or spending time at the beach. But calm doesn't always mean quiet! I’m a twin and one of four sisters, so connection, collaboration, and conversation are at the core of who I am.

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CLick to reveal what Inspires me both personally & professionally.

Professionally

Personally

Professionally

Personally

My constant need to learn something new, ask questions, and not be afraid to just jump in has led me to beautiful places! Where to next?

Seeing first-hand the impact of THOUGHTFUL DESIGN is what motivated me to pursue a degree in LXDT!.

I am deeply inspired by the creative pursuits of others' be it cooking, painting, printing, or singing; if someone is open to sharing their passion I am honored to be an observer!

Thoughtful design quietly enhances learning by making spaces, tools, and experiences more intuitive, efficient, and comfortable. It solves problems before we notice them, improving how we live, work, and connect.

Creating spaces and places for others to share their work in our community brings me joy! Appreciating the skill and creativity of others inspires me to do my best work!

My family gives purpose to my efforts and strength in challenging moments. Their support and love inspire me to grow, achieve, and keep going.

Finding confidence in curiosity is a learned skill that when unlocked cna lead to huge shifts in thinking, perosnal growth and opportunity!

Creating and fostering opportunity for others is what inspires my commitment to teaching and learning.

Project Highlights

Click on each video to view samples of my work. Alternatively, explore each project in more detail by clicking the links below:

TRIO Financial Literacy eLearning Program

Online Course Redevelopment

New Hire Onboarding & Training

EDU as an advanced Field

Capstone

Social Justice in EDU

Data Literacy

Northeastern University, MPS LXDT

How People Learn

Articulate 360 Storyline

Explore each course

LXD: Gamification

"Our Master of Professional Studies in Learning Experience Design and Technology (LXDT) teaches you learning design skills through meaningful, learner-centered experiences and flexible, customizable coursework."

Storyboarding

Tools & Tech for LXD

Northeastern University

Managing Collaborative Learning

Program Overview

Foundations of LXD

Advanced Practice LXD

Project MGMT for LXD

Program Level Outcomes

EDU 6050

Education as an Advanced Field

This foundational M.Ed. course introduces students to the critical evaluation and interpretation of published educational research. It emphasizes the connection between theory and practice, guiding students in analyzing peer-reviewed articles and applying research to real-world educational challenges.

Syllabus

Key Takeaways

Personal Narrative

Signature Assignments

PD Proposal

Annotated Bibliography

Course Overview

Next Course

EDU 6051

Inroduction to Social Justice in Education

This course introduces foundational concepts of social justice with a focus on equitable access to education. It examines educational institutions as systems and encourages students to consider how they can be agents of change in teaching, curriculum, leadership, and policy. Through reflective discussions and personal exploration, students will develop cultural intelligence and advocacy skills to promote systemic transformation in education.

Key Takeaways

Syllabus

Signature Assignment

Workshop Series: Culturally Resposive Community College Classrooms

Previous Course

Next Course

EDU 6319

How People Learn

How People Learn explores the science of learning across the lifespan, combining theory with real-world case studies. It examines formal and informal learning in face-to-face, online, and mobile environments, from traditional college students to adult and lifelong learners.

Key Take Aways

Syllabus

Signature Assignments

Case Study Website

Professional Competencies Paper

Conference Poster

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EDU 6558

LXD: Gamification

This course introduces gamification theories and models used in diverse learning contexts. Students will examine engaging systems, explore game design elements, and analyze how game structures influence behavior and motivation.

Key Takeaways

Syllabus

Signature Assignments

Capstone Project

PCM Website

Annotated Coursework

Previous Course

Thank You for Visting!

Thank you for taking the time to explore my work. This portfolio showcases my passion for designing thoughtful, people-centered learning experiences rooted in research, data, and collaboration. If anything here has piqued your interest or if you'd like to connect professionally—whether to share ideas, explore opportunities, or discuss potential collaborations—I would be delighted to hear from you. Please feel free to reach out!

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Key Takeaways

The power of ongoing self-reflection in social justice work
Developing a liberatory conscience requires practice and persistence
Small, intentional actions create meaningful change in learning communities.

Key Takeaways

Growth in visual communication and synthesis

Application of Multimedia Learning Principles

Expanding technical skills

How People Learn: Case Study

The purpose of this assignment is to document and critically analyze the real-world learning experience of another person in order to apply and demonstrate understanding of learning theories and principles. Through interviews, observations, and multimedia documentation, I was able to:

Explore a learning experience
Analyze what helped or hindered learning using relevant theory and research
Evaluate the effectiveness of the learning experience and provide evidence-based recommendations for improvement.

Technical Skills:

Webs Design & Digital Publishing
Multimedia Content Creation
Documentation & File Management
Observation, Reseach, & Documentation

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Do you need more reasons to create dynamic content? Well: 90% of the information we assimilate comes to us through sight, and we retain 42% more information when the content moves. Step by step interactive visual communication:

Plan the structure of your communication.
Prioritize it and give visual weight to the main points.
Define secondary messages with interactivity.
Establish a flow through the content.
Measure the results.

Professional Competencies Paper

This assignment is a guided self-reflection and professional planning project designed to help you assess how you learn, identify your professional goals, and evaluate the skills and competencies needed to reach them. Over several weeks, you’ll reflect on your personal learning habits, research trends and expectations in your chosen field, and build a personalized professional competency model. You’ll also rate your current level of expertise across key competencies and analyze areas for growth.

I am excited to highlight how this project added value for students, faculty, and the LXD team at D'Amore McKim School of Buisness. Click play to view this project’s goals, process, challenges, and key outcomes.

Design Thinking Model Infographic

This interactive learning object introduces the Design Thinking model, emphasizing its user-centered, iterative, and non-linear nature. The model’s five stages—Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test—prioritize understanding user needs and evolving solutions over time.

Innovation in Education Video Storyboard

.This video will be 3-5 minutes in length and require audience participation to determine the order of video content. This requires the video to have 3 segments, with the middle segment being interchangeable based on audience preference. By incorporating audience choice and modeling instructional practices that promote active learning, this video clip will serve as an informative exemplar of the argument it is trying to make.

Key Takeaways

Intentionally cultivate inclusive team environments.

When working with Subject Matte Experts, how we communicate, structure feedback, and embrace new perspective, directly shapes the quality of the product we build together.

Key Takeaways

Practical experince designing within an LMS
Designing for accessibility and inclusion
Learner-centered content development
Alignment between learning objectives

Key Takeaways

Gamification is already present in practice—now it’s more intentional
Gamification can enhance motivation and engagement in learning
Gamification offers a way to balance work with joy
Gamification provides responsive & meaningful feedback

Learning Experience Design Plan

This assignment was to apply instructional design principles using the ADDIE model to create a detailed Design Plan. This plan was intended to: Demonstrate the ability to analyze learner needs, context, and content Develop a cohesive and aligned instructional strategy for a real-world training context Engage with stakeholder feedback Align instructional decisions with organizational values and outcomes. In this case, the plan supports Day 2 of a new employee onboarding for a TRIO Academic Success Coach at Southern Maine Community College. To present this design plan to a variety of stakeholders. I created a visual guide (top left) in addition to the design plan narrative (bottom left)

Key Takeaways:

Committed to learner-centered design

Developed into a systems-level thinker,

Transitioning into a Learning & Development Consultant role focused on adule learning

Project Management Presentation

This Signature Assignmetn culmintaed in a presenattion in whihc I was able to communicatite my plan, discuss challenges and obstacles, while highlighting the skills gained thorugh practice.

Key Takeaways

Leaning into soft & smart skills can help learners navigate the struggle
Feedback is essential to skill development
Learner centered design balances interactivity with clarity and usability.

Visual communication interactive step by step

Plan the structure of your communication.
Prioritize it and give visual weight to the main points.
Define secondary messages with interactivity.
Establish a flow through the content.
Measure the results.

Use graphics in your presentation. Data, figures, numbers… can also be displayed visually, interactively, and animated. And this has a great advantage: you will simplify the information and make it more understandable for the entire class.

Making Numbers Count: The Art & Science of Communicating Numbers

Drawing from behavioral science and real-world examples, Heath and Starr offer a toolkit for transforming abstract data into memorable, actionable messages. While the book shines in its accessibility and real-life examples, it also raises questions about how far one can translate the data before losing clarity or accuracy.

Module 0 Introduction

Module 2 Introduction

Module 1 Introduction

Lesson Build Summary

This project focuses on the creation of a fully developed online lesson, emphasizing coherence, alignment, accessibility, and the use of learning analytics. I met the the goal of designing a comprehensive and learner-centered module in Canvas focused on developing financial literacy skills among community college students in Southern Maine. Module 0 is a course introduction, Module 1 guides students through understanding thier money mindset, and Module 3 supports the setting of SMART financial goals.

Social Justice in Action: Culturally Responsive Teaching Workshop Series

This Signature Assignment was designed to explore and address issues of (in)equity in education through a self-directed project rooted in research, reflection, and design. This project focused on developing a four-part professional development workshop series for faculty at Southern Maine Community College (SMCC), aimed at enhancing culturally responsive teaching (CRT) practices. Through the lens of systemic and institutional inequities, the project invited faculty to explore their own identities, assess current teaching practices, and align curriculum with the needs of an increasingly diverse student population. A central component was integrating student voice and demographic data to guide culturally informed instructional change

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Key Takeaways

Data is not just numbers; it's a human-centered tool for storytelling
Effective data communication balances accuracy with accessibility
Purpose-driven data use supports advocacy and informed leadership

Professional Conference Poster

The purpose of this assignment was to simulate a professional conference poster session by designing an engaging, research-informed poster that introduces a specific learning strategy—in this case, Self-Explanation. The goal was to deepen our understanding of how learning strategies grounded in cognitive science can be effectively applied in real-world educational contexts. This project also served as an opportunity to build technical and visual communication skills, which are essential for learning designers and educators.

Improving the Online Student Learning Experience at SMCC

This data plan aims to enhance the student experience within SMCC's Brightspace LMS by identifying key areas for consistent course design, such as navigation, assessment feedback, and progress indicators. Using an Improvement Science approach, small-scale changes will be tested within select courses or departments, studied for impact, and scaled over time. Key assumptions guiding this work include:

Standardizing course design may reduce departmental flexibility.
Faculty need more time and training to effectively use Brightspace.
Online and in-person learning outcomes are comparable.

Qualitative

faculty and student feedback
course evaluations,
internal audits

Quantitative

grades
retentio,
enrollment patterns.

Points, Badges, Leaderboard (PBL) Infographic

This assignment challenged me to apply gamification principles—specifically the Points, Badges, and Leaderboards (PBL) system—to a real-world problem within my current professional setting. I created an infographic proposing a PBL strategy to increase student engagement in the TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) program at a two-year community college. By aligning rewards with specific goals for both students and advisors, the proposed system aims to enhance participation in key programming, strengthen communication, and improve overall caseload management through a collaborative and motivating structure.

Opportunity for Collaboration:

This signature assignment reflects on an event I have attended, analyzing its environment, execution, and lessons learned. With the goal of tying lived experience to key ideas, this paper highlights key areas for opportunity, I highlight how stronger collaboration could have significantly improved the learning experience

Storyline Skill Building Project

This skill building assignment showcases my development over 6 weeks. Storyline has endless customization possibilities including interactive and branching scenarios but is a more complex tool withint he Articulate Suite.

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Module 0 Introduction

Module 2 Introduction

Module 1 Introduction

Lesson Build Summary

Case Study: Project Charter

This Signature Assignment required the appliation of project management skills to facilitate the devleopment of a new online learning experince.This Project Charter communicates how the development team will navigate logistical challenges, balance competing priorities, and stay within scope and budget.

TOAST Alignment Table

The purpose of this assignment is to develop the foundation for a fully online, asynchronous lesson that you will later build in Canvas or Torus (Assignment A3). In A2, students will complete a TOAST table—focusing specifically on the Outcomes and Assessments columns—for one lesson/module.

Key Takeaways

Storyboardng as both a design process and a design tool
Communcating with clarity and brevity
Collaboration with multi-media specialists
Delegation within the design process

TOAST Table:

This table outlines the development of a comprehensive Canvas lesson module, integrating key instructional design elements to ensure an effective learning experience for New Employees Onbarding in their role as TRIO SSS Academic Coaches at Southern Maine Community College.

LDXT: Program Overview

Northeastern’s online Master of Professional Studies in Learning Experience Design and Technology (LXDT) prepares students to create engaging, learner-centered experiences across education, corporate, and nonprofit settings. The program emphasizes real-world application through project-based courses, skill-building labs, and the development of a professional digital portfolio. With flexible scheduling and a strong focus on employability, it’s ideal for professionals seeking hands-on training in instructional design and educational technology.

I Earned This! Fostering Academic Independence in Exceptional Learners.

The goal of this assignment was to design a professional development (PD) session centered on a current, pressing issue in education, tailored for a specific audience and setting. I selected the topic of fostering academic independence in exceptional learners—students with disabilities or learning differences—based on its critical relevance to academic advising. The project included designing an engaging infographic as an instructional aid, supported by research and practical experience.

Click to reveal the fullPD implementation Plan

This hybrid onboarding course was created for new Academic Success Coaches joining the TRIO Program at Southern Maine Community College. For the sake of this assignment I focused on building out Day 1 & Day 4 within the Canvas LMS. Keeping in minf my audience and the realities of starting in a new role, this training emphasizesm learner autonomy and flexibility within the learning design.

LDXT: Program Level Outcomes

Learning Design

Cultural Responsivness

LD Technologies

Collaboration

Communication

Creative Problem Solving & Systems Thinking

ILO Storyboard

This storyboard will support the building of Interactive Learning Object that reinforces a learners understanding of the Spatical Contiguity Concpet, while providing and interactive opportunity to practice. Storyboard Considerations:

Effective directions to the ILO developer
Clear alignmnent between ILO & concept
User Experience

Annotated Bibliography

Signature Assignment 1 explored the stigma faced by community college transfer students through six diverse source types. The goal was to deepen understanding of a current issue in education while strengthening research and analysis skills. Through this work, I gained experience in evaluating credible sources, applying APA 7th edition formatting, and synthesizing perspectives across academic and popular media. I also enhanced my ability to think critically about equity in higher education and connect research to real-world practice—skills that directly support my professional and academic growth.

Change Management Plan

This Signature Assignment required flexible thinking when presented with a significant change to the original plan. Considering the overall goal and scope of the project, this Change Management Plan demonstrates a realistic response to communicate what can and can not be accomplished within the current project constraints, while simultaneously offering a solution.

Key Takeaways

Real-world application of learning experience design
Cross-platform design and tool integration
Growth in project management and iterative design

Key Takeaways

Balancing clarity, flexibility, and relevance in design

Shifting from K–12 standards to sdult learning objectives

Embracing collaborative and iterative development

TRIO New Coach Onboarding 2024

Understanding

Outcomes

People

Connection

LMS Video Tour

Key Take Aways

Project management enhances structure and clarity in learning design
Peer collaboration enriched understanding of PM concepts
A supportive introduction built confidence in a new discipline

Key Takeaways

Growth in visual communication and synthesis
Application of multimedia learning principles
Expanding technical skills and embracing discomfort

Signature Assignment 1 encourages self-awareness by connecting student’s educational past with our motivations and goals in the field. It also prepares students to critically engage with course content by identifying the values and assumptions they bring to othier work. Listen as I consider how social and systemic factors influenced my experiences, and my reflection on how these perspectives inform my current and future practice as an education professional.

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North Optical PD

How to read a glasses prescription

This asynchrnous trainiing was developed useing the learning design tool Atriculate 360 Storyline. The goal of this training was to provide an interactive learning experience where employees could apply Optical Knowledge to cutomer based scenarios.

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Full Proposal

For Signature Assignment 2, I created a gamified experience to bring a ltitle fun to the division of household labor. Maintenance Managed is a gamified household management system designed to equitably divide domestic labor by assigning, tracking, and rewarding tasks through competitive play. Personalized task lists are generated based on user profiles, encouraging participation through both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Designed with a male demographic in mind to counter gendered labor norms, the system promotes fair engagement, reduces invisible labor, and fosters conversations around shared responsibilities at home.

SME Plan

This signature assignment proposes a comprehencisve Subject Matter Expert Plan. outlining the need, management, and evaluation of SME's in collaboration with course development. Taking in to consideration, project scope, budget,a nd timeline this plan effectively communciates to project stakeholders who should be enlisted as an SME and how they are a pivotal part of the course development process.

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E. WHeaton, MPS

Hi, I’m Erin Wheaton, an L&D professional based in Portland, Maine.

Outside of work, I live a full (and often loud!) life with my husband of 12 years and our two kids.

CLick to reveal what Inspires me both personally & professionally.

Professionally

Professionally

Professionally

Personally

Personally

Personally

Professionally

Personally

Project Highlights

EDU as an advanced Field

Capstone

Social Justice in EDU

Data Literacy

Northeastern University, MPS LXDT

How People Learn

Articulate 360 Storyline

Explore each course

LXD: Gamification

Storyboarding

Tools & Tech for LXD

Managing Collaborative Learning

Foundations of LXD

Advanced Practice LXD

Project MGMT for LXD

EDU 6050

Education as an Advanced Field

Signature Assignments

EDU 6051

Inroduction to Social Justice in Education

Signature Assignment

EDU 6319

How People Learn

Signature Assignments

EDU 6558

LXD: Gamification

Signature Assignments

EDU 6323

Digital Learning Tools & Technology for LXD

Signature Assignment

EDU 6334

Foundations of Learning Experience Design

Signature Assignment

EDU 6558

Project Management for LXD

Signature Assignment

EDU 6335

Advanced Practice Learning Experience Design

Signature Assignment

EDU 6558

Managing Collaborative Learning Design

Signature Assignment

EDU 6558

Skill Buidling Lab: Storyboarding

Signature Assignments

EDU 6558

Skill Building Lab: Articulate 360-Storyline

Signature Assignments

EDU 6336

Data Literacy For Decison Making