Erin Stapleton-Corcoran
Manager of Quality Assurance
Instructional Design and Media Production Studio
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Erin Stapleton-Corcoran joined the Studio in 2023 after working at the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence at UIC starting in 2020. Always looking for new challenges and ways to engage with faculty and staff across the UIC community, Erin has presented several large-scale workshops for campus leadership and departments and has led several high-stakes online course development projects during her time at UIC.
Prior to joining UIC, Erin worked as an editor, curriculum designer, instructional designer, and university-level music instructor. She holds a B.A. in Music/Anthropology from Northern Illinois University, a Master of Music in Ethnomusicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is pursuing a Doctorate in Learning Design and Leadership from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She also holds an eLearning Instructional Design Certificate from UC-Irvine, Digital Accessibility for Educators (DAE) and Master of Online Learning Administration Certificates from the University of Illinois Springfield, and Applying the Quality Matters Rubric Certification from Quality Matters. Her professional interests include teaching and learning with Generative AI, applying learning analytics to continuous quality improvement of online courses, Universal Design for Learning, gamification, culturally relevant pedagogy, liberatory design, intercultural competence, teaching locally relevant content, and open educational resources (OER).
Erin enjoys reading, walking on the 606, and finding new places to explore throughout Chicago.