Michele Kelmer
Director, Faculty Engagement and Outreach
Michele enjoys building relationships and promoting learning technologies to the masses. Her background is in the intersection of communication & technology, visual design, and web development.
Julia Sanders
Group Manager, Digital Education Programs and Initiatives
Julia is an ardent advocate for learning environments that integrate effective, innovative uses of technology to enhance instruction and empower learner success. She enjoys working alongside dedicated collaborators to get ideas off the drawing board and into being! Outside of work, she is most likely planning a new family travel adventure.
Riley Bell
IU eTexts Consultant
Considering her extensive experience in educational technology support, it is no surprise that Riley is a firm believer that every student deserves good quality and easily accessible education materials. Riley is thrilled to join the IU eTexts Team and their initiative to help IU faculty members provide these materials to students. Outside of work she can be found playing video games or tending to her houseplants and garden.
Kat Carlton
IU eTexts Consultant
Kat is passionate about allowing wonder and creativity to lead in learning spaces. Her background is in community care, teaching, writing, and technology—which centers around her work with the IU eTexts team, connecting with faculty to facilitate new possibilities in student engagement and accessibility. In her spare time, she can be found diving into cooking and art projects or tending gardens with her loved ones.
Zach Carnagey
Principal Digital Learning Consultant
Zach's role on the Faculty Outreach team is to develop and share new or otherwise unconventional ways to support teaching and learning for faculty and students. A former teacher and instructional designer, Zach works with consultants across IU to help realize their faculty development dreams.
Robert De Roeck
Principal IT Training Specialist EdCert
Robert M. De Roeck, MSCIA, CISSP, MCT is the Principal IT Training Specialist EdCert at Digital Education Programs & Initiatives – IT Training. With over 15 years of experience at Indiana University, he leads the EdCert program in providing Education Certification training mapping to several industry vendor certifications. Mr. De Roeck’s passion is sharing his knowledge and expertise in IT and Cybersecurity, assisting those who are in pursuit of certifications.
Sarah Engel
Faculty Liaison, UITS Learning Technologies
Sarah likes introducing people to technology -- not to mention other people -- that can help free up their time or resources for other priorities. Her background is in communications and outreach, strategic planning, and project management. Outside work, she enjoys traveling, exploring the outdoors, and trying new things (especially foods!) along the way.
Carrie Hansel
Unizin Principal IT Consultant
Carrie A. Hansel, Ed.D., is the Manager of Learning Design, Research, Analytics, and Accessibility at eLearning Design and Services and Principal Unizin IT Consultant with Digital Education Programs and Initiatives. With over 20 years of experience at Indiana University, she leads initiatives in Unizin, research, and learning analytics. Dr. Hansel chairs Unizin's Affordable Content Subcommittee and disseminate information about Unizin with the IU community. Additionally, she and her team leverage Unizin’s resources and tools to enhance data-driven decision-making and accessible instructional design. Dr. Hansel’s passion is to make a difference for students and faculty by creating engaging, accessible, and data-informed learning experiences.
Todd Kirk
Student Engagement and Outreach Consultant
Todd began working at IU after leaving the military in 1993. He has worked in Pulmonary, Dentistry, Informatics, and now UITS-DEPI. His varied experience includes microscopy, animal surgery, networking, software engineering, virtual reality, 3D printing, and now student outreach.
April Law
IT Education Specialist
April is a training specialist with IT Training at Indiana University. She has an MLS from Indiana University and over 20 years of experience in IT and IT training. She has worked with the students, staff, and faculty at IU for almost 16 years.
Noma Maier
Business Analyst / IU eTexts Consultant
Noma likes to help things grow. During the workweek, she provides outreach about the IU eTexts Initiative to faculty on all IU’s campuses. Her main priority is helping instructors learn how IU eTexts can both remove barriers to student success and “grow” their engagement with course materials. In her spare time, Noma enjoys gardening and trying out new dishes made with her freshly grown produce.
Tom Mason
IT Training Manager and Principal Microsoft Adoption Consultant
Tom is IT Training's resident web development expert. In addition to web development, his training areas also focus on databases, office applications, and programming. In his free time, Tom enjoys playing video games and being active in the outdoors.
Beth Lynn Nolen
Senior IT Education Specialist
Beth is responsible for creating IT Training's technology training videos, and enjoys the process of video development and production. In addition, she serves as the Materials Development Coordinator, and is responsible for helping get IT Training's content online for everyone to use. Her training focuses are on graphic design, web design, and XML. When she's not recording voiceovers for training videos or authoring courses on Adobe Creative Cloud applications, she spends her time crafting, playing board games, and reading.
Jen Oakes
Senior IT Education Specialist
Jen's work at IT Training focuses on training development and delivery. Her training areas of focus include programming and web development. When she's not teaching, she enjoys diamond painting and other crafts.
Katie Thompson
Student Outreach and Engagement Consultant
Katie is a proud IU alum and comes from a background in nonprofit social services. She enjoys technology and bringing people together to accomplish things and have fun doing it. Katie is an unapologetic geek and an avid gamer. She can be found after hours playing board/video games with friends, singing karaoke around Bloomington, and hanging out with her cats, Mr. Patterson and Meatloaf.
Jason Fickel
IT Education Specialist
Jason Fickel is a training specialist with IT Training. He has an MLIS from Dominican University and 20 years of information technology teaching experience in corporate, government, and academic settings.
Yvonne Wittmann
Engagement Development Specialist
Yvonne is devoted to good learning experiences, clean design, and clear communication. Her background is in visual design, instructional design, multimedia, and editing. She craves variety and loves to come across surprising new ideas.
