Our Team
Cel Team Bio List
Florida State College at Jacksonville has been at the forefront of online education since 2008, growing with the increased demand for online courses, certificates, and degree programs. Our school has not only increased the number and availability of offerings for students, it has even taken aim at tackling some of the challenges of maintaining a successful online program. At FSCJ Online, we recognize that online education, or e–learning, is the pathway to a future career that brings students closer to achieving their goals with every keystroke and mouse click.
As a response to the growing demand for online education, in 2012, FSCJ established the Center for E-Learning, also known as the CEL. The CEL employs a dedicated group of professionals who understand distance learning and more importantly –that change is a constant and we must continue to evolve and work together to keep pace with the converging worlds of education and technology.
Kay Amarasing
eLearning Instructional Designer
Kay Amarasing joined the Center for eLearning in February 2014. She currently serves as an eLearning Instructional Designer in the Center for eLearning. Her role is to work with faculty members to design and develop online courses as well as work on other projects and grants. Kay holds a Master of Business Administration from University of South Alabama. She has over twelve years of experience in online learning in higher education, corporate and government.
Taryn Bellino
Project Coordinator
Taryn serves as the Project Coordinator for the Center for eLearning. She is responsible for facilitating the department’s internship programs, managing stipends, and managing hardware and software projects, amongst other various projects. She started with the Center for eLearning in 2014.
She graduated from the University of North Florida with a bachelor’s degree in English and will be pursuing a Master’s degree in the near future.
Ronald Carr
eLearning Instructional Designer
Ronald Carr joined the FSCJ Center for eLearning instructional design team in 2015. Prior to coming to FSCJ, he was an Assistant in Research and Instructional Designer at Florida State University. Ron earned a PhD in Learning Design and Technology from Purdue University where he was the P-12 Engineering Education Research Fellow and studied instructional design, P-12 engineering education research, and situated educational research. In 2014, he was awarded the Robert M. Gagné Award for Graduate Student Research in Instructional Design from the Association for Educational Communications & Technology. Ron also has degrees from Purdue in Elementary Education (B.S.) and Gifted Education (M.S.). Ron has designed and delivered teacher professional development for Integrated STEM/Engineering Education for Purdue University and FSU’s Learning Systems Institute for teachers from many states including Indiana, Texas, California, and Florida. His research interests include curriculum design, design research, metacognition, high ability learners, and teacher training.
Olivia Daley
eLearning Multimedia Specialist
Olivia is a graduate of FSCJ, and serves as a multimedia specialist and system operator for the Fresh for Florida Kids Training program developed by the Center for eLearning for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. She currently provides the day-to-day support for the project via the development of web-based learning objects and administration on the Moodle learning management system.
Erica L. Goodenough
eLearning Instructional Designer
Erica earned her MEd in Curriculum and Instruction from Doane University and has been working in the field of education for the past nine years. She joined to the Center for e-Learning in October of 2017. Prior to joining CeL, she worked as a course designer at Bellevue University in Omaha, Nebraska.
Erica is passionate about education and designing effective and efficient courses that facilitate the learning process. She plans to pursue an EdD in the near future.
Andrew Gustafson
eLearning Multimedia Designer
Andrew Gustafson is part of CeL’s Multimedia Team. His background is in audio production and creative writing. He serves as their primary voice talent, audio producer, and script editor. Day-to-day, Andrew lays out learning units, creates custom graphics, and works with the team to produce educational videos, soundscapes, and audio books.
Jill Hagenberger
eLearning Instructional Designer
Jill Hagenberger has been with FSCJ since 2010, serving in the roles of Senior Instructional Designer and e-Learning Instructional Designer respectively. Jill earned her MEd and PhD in Instructional Systems at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Jill has 28 years combined experience in higher education and the private sector. Her expertise includes theoretical foundations of learning, instructional theory, and principles of instructional design.
Prior to FSCJ, Jill worked for Penn State’s World Campus and taught for the Smeal College of Business Administration. Additionally, she worked for Corning, Inc., Genentech, QUALCOMM, and LSI.
Bea Harrison
Director for E-Administration and Support Services
Bea Harrison came to the College in 2004 and has served our online students and faculty since her arrival. Currently the Director for E-Administration and Support Services in the Center for eLearning, Bea manages instructional support to online faculty, directs and monitors portions of the campus’ online and facility course schedules, provides guidance and oversight for a number of operational processes, and works collaboratively with campus and College staffs involved with course development, delivery and review. Bea earned an A.D. in Management from St. Joseph’s University, a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Hawaii Pacific University, and an M. S. Degree in Educational Leadership from Troy State University. Having pursued her degrees on a part-time basis and through traditional and early
Piti "Golf" Kanjanapongpaisal
eLearning Instructional Designer
Golf joined the Center for eLearning in April 2012. Golf is an instructional designer who holds a Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Instructional Design and Development from the University of South Alabama. He has more than ten years of experience specializing in developing training programs for government agencies and online courses for higher education institutions.
Kristin Kristen
Program Manager
Kristin Kristen, Program Manager for Instruction for the Center for eLearning comes to us from the University of North Florida where she managed the Center for Professional Development & Training and previously served as a Program Manager for their Division of Continuing Education. Prior to UNF, Kristin was employed at the PGA TOUR as a Multimedia Producer. She received her B.A. in Broadcasting and Mass Communication from Arizona State University.
Heather Moore
eLearning Junior Instructional Designer
Heather began working at FSCJ in July 2015 and has been with the Center for eLearning since April 2017. Prior to joining FSCJ, she worked at the University of North Florida and the University of Houston. While completing her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, she created the initial curriculum for, and taught, several freshman-level courses at the University of Houston. During this same time, she also developed and conducted academic advising and PeopleSoft trainings for internal stakeholders. Having worked in various positions within higher education since 2006, Heather believes that interactive and engaging course material is just one of the many factors that contribute to students’ success and is proud to be part of the Center for eLearning’s team.
Danielle Philipp-Edmonds
eLearning Multimedia Designer
Danielle earned her B.A. from Florida State University in 2011. She has a background in visual arts and education. As part of the Center for eLearning Multimedia team, she designs custom graphics and layouts for Learning Units and brands courses.
Ian Vanhoof
eLearning Multimedia/Lead Web Designer
Ian is a 20-year enterprise IT professional that has a broad skill set centering on web based and multimedia work. Currently—Ian is the Lead Front End Web Designer for the Center for eLearning. He concentrates on developing an open source web framework to deliver course content via the web in a manner that is responsive, performant, accessible, adheres to web standards & mobile best practice.
Janice Weaver
eLearning Instructional Designer
Janice has worked in the higher education field in a variety of functions; from teaching online to supervising Brevard Community Colleges Health Science Continuing Education department. She has over 13 years of instructional design experience including college credit, continuing education and corporate training.
Janice has a passion for online learning and obtained her University of Maryland, University College Master’s degree in Distance Education, which encompasses instructional design along with the many specialized components of distance learning, such as retention in an isolated setting. Therefore, she is able to view online education from the student, instructor and administrator’s perspective.
Inez Whipple
eLearning Instructional Designer
Inez Whipple has served as an e-learning instructional designer at Florida State College at Jacksonville since 2012. Prior to FSCJ, she worked at Pima Community College as an instructional designer and as the director of the Teaching and Learning Center at Reading Area Community College.
She holds a bachelor's degree in education from St. Joseph’s College of Maine and a master’s degree in adult education and distance learning from the University of Phoenix. She has also attained the Blackboard senior certified trainer status. Inez teaches in the traditional, hybrid and online setting. Her main areas of interest are online learning, RLO's, and OER.
Chrystal Wickline
eLearning Instructional Designer
Chrystal Wickline earned her MA in Instructional Technology - eLearning from the University of Central Florida (UCF). She has worked for FSCJ for the past 16 years. The first 14 years she served as a technology professional with responsibilities including: design, layout, technology manuals, web design and content, publication artwork, packaging, ads, graphic interface, design for templates, printed communication pieces, program management, eBook creation, as well as workplace decor and design.
Chrystal joined the Center for eLearning (CeL) team in 2014, working with instructional and multimedia design professionals to make the online course creation process superior at FSCJ. She has experience with technical writing, instructional design, and curriculum creation.
Chrystal believes teaching is a living organism that grows better with challenges and continually fine-tuning the tools and methods of instruction leading to improved success.
Eric Zoller
eLearning Multimedia Designer
Eric provides creative direction for a variety of CeL multimedia projects. He is a UNF graduate with a B.S. in Communication, and has A.S. degrees in Multimedia and I.T. Eric is passionate about typography and video production.