Andrea R. M. Meyers

Andrea has been working in education for 18 years, first as a K-12 teacher and later as a software trainer and instructional designer. She taught overseas at U.S. schools in Saipan, Colombia, and Saudi Arabia. When she returned to the U.S. eight years later, she put her classroom experience to work as a software trainer and as an administrator with ExecuTrain of Chicago. Her success earned her the Circle of Excellence Award in 1998, a national award which recognized the highest rated trainers.

Moving to the D.C. area in 1999, she joined Clearly Gottlieb’s IT department, where she designed and administered the software and hardware training materials and programs for over 200 employees of the highly respected international law firm.

In 2001 Andrea joined K12 Inc. in McLean, Virginia leading a virtual team of Instructional Designers, Content Specialists (SMEs), Lesson Developers, Visual Designers, and Editors developing nine yearlong e-learning courses. She personally created over 300 storyboards and specced over 500 pieces of interactive media. As the Lead Instructional Designer, she also prototyped new courses, managed lessons in a proprietary LCMS, reviewed and incorporated customer feedback, planned usability testing, handled quality assurance, trained new instructional designers and lesson developers, planned future lesson changes, and managed team documents.

Andrea joined Professional Solutions in Alexandria, Virginia in 2005 and worked on the Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability (JKDDC). As part of the JKDDC virtual team, she created SCORM and ADA 508 compliant e-learning modules for military training.

Andrea has worked out of her home office since 2002 and consulted since 2005. She is a member of DC Web Women, The eLearning Guild, and BlogHer. She holds a Bachelor of Music from Butler University, a Master of Arts in Elementary Education from the University of Alabama, and an Information Technology certificate from the University of Virginia. Her professional interests include e-learning design, simulations, virtual learning communities, performance improvement, special needs education, and K-12 education.

In addition to her work in e-learning, she writes and manages the cooking blog Andrea’s Recipes, which gets as many as 1,900 visitors a day. Her blog posts have been picked up by Reuters, USA Today, and IBS, with local news affiliates in 65 cities around the country. She founded the monthly international food blogging event, Grow Your Own, which promotes cooking with the foods that people grow themselves. She is also a contributing author for Foodie View and the DC Metro Moms Blog. Andrea resides with her family in Northern Virginia.