TN eCampus Central Office Staff

As Executive Director for TN eCampus, Dr. Christine Mayer is responsible for leading development initiatives and activities, providing leadership to TN eCampus Directors, and facilitating collaboration among departments. She collaborates with the Associate Vice-Chancellor of TN eCampus to set overall online strategic direction and ensure that high quality educational programs are offered.

Prior to joining TBR, Dr. Mayer was the Director for the Center for Distributed Education at Volunteer State Community College. Before her relocation to Tennessee in 2012, she served 20 years with the University of Missouri System. Key roles held with the University of Missouri System include manager for instructional design and project management for UM Online, manager for the establishment and administration of the Project Management Office within the Information Technology division, and training manager for the system's PeopleSoft implementation. Other work experiences include educational software development, instructional design and curriculum development, grant writing, family services, and nonprofit management.

Dr. Mayer earned a doctorate in learning technologies from the University of Missouri; a master’s degree in curriculum, teaching and psychological studies from the University of Michigan; and, a bachelor’s degree in psychology, secondary education, and family life education from Adrian College. She also holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) credential from the Project Management Institute.

As Senior Educational Technology Systems Coordinator, Richard "Woody" Woodward is responsible for managing Tier 2 technical support services for TN eCampus and working with technical and support contacts at the course management system (CMS) vendor.

Mark Chamberlain has recently joined the TN eCampus team as Senior Performance Support Specialist and a member of the Instructional Design and Training team. Mark served public school families in Nashville as a K-8 teacher and administrator over the last 25 years. He trained and led classroom technology initiatives early in his teaching career. After earning his Master’s Degree in School Administration from Trevecca Nazarene University, Mark was selected to lead district-wide technology advancements. In his most recent role, he pioneered a customer contact center for public school families which subsequently led to the development of other centers across the county.

In his new role, Mark supports the TN eCampus community in developing, delivering, and maintaining performance support and training activities and materials. Mark coordinates performance support initiatives, which are designed to help faculty and staff in their work through online and face-to-face training, just-in-time learning, and other resource materials. Additionally, Mark helps to pilot and evaluate instructional technologies and to develop content for support materials and programs.

Pam joined TN eCampus in May 2017 as a Senior Instructional Designer. Previously, she was Graduate Program Coordinator for the Instructional Design and Technology Program at Midwestern State University, and Chair of the university-wide Learning and Teaching Online committee. Pam earned a Master’s of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island and a Master’s and doctorate in Learning and Teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has more than 15 years of experience in developing online teaching and learning courses for institutes of higher education, and working with state agencies to develop 3D virtual world simulations for education.

As Senior Instructional Designer, Pam serves as a project lead in the course development and review process, providing instructional design expertise and guidance to faculty in selecting appropriate technologies and applying pedagogical/andragogical best practices and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. She also collaborates in the development of TN eCampus course development templates and standards, instructional design methodologies, best practices to develop high-quality, engaging, ADA/508 compliant, fully-functional online courses, as well as faculty professional development and performance support materials.

As Operations Coordinator, Kara Byler is responsible for the execution of tasks related to supporting instructional design and training functions. These tasks align with strategic priorities for TN eCampus and support campus faculty and staff. One of Kara's top priorities is to become fluent with various technologies and subsequently develop training materials and modules to support users of those technologies. Additionally, Kara is responsible for an initial quality assurance review of course content to ensure adherence to TN eCampus standards and templates.