Ellen D. Wagner is Director of Global Education Solutions, Macromedia, Inc. where she helps set the strategic direction of the company’s postsecondary education business. Before joining Macromedia, Wagner was Chief Learning Officer for Viviance AG new education, a Swiss elearning company with offices in 12 European and North American countries. She was Chief Learning Officer and Vice President of Consulting Services with Informania, Inc. before its acquisition by Viviance AG.  Dr. Wagner’s prior career as a tenured university professor and administrator featured positions as Associate Professor and Chair of the Educational Technology Program, Academic Affairs Coordinator of Instructional and Research Technologies and Director of Western Institute for Distance Education at the University of Northern Colorado. She was also Visiting Scholar and Project Director at the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunication, Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education.

Wagner’s work has featured technology-based learning and performance improvement designs and implementations in numerous industries technology, finance, telecommunications, medical, banking and for government agencies including the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, The U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Ellen has designed and managed organization-wide reengineering, change management, and training programs for organizations including but not limited to the New York Stock Exchange, the Canadian Securities Institute, Wells Fargo Bank, US Bank Corporation, Dell Computer, Hewlett Packard, the Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry, Norsk Hydro, the Western Governors University, Kaiser Permanente, Novell, Sun Microsystems, Volkswagen, US WEST (now Quest Communications), Nortel, and AT&T. 

She has published over 75 articles and book chapters on topics dealing with learning and instructional design, distance learning and elearning, and is the co-author of the book Managing Web-Based Training (American Society for Training and Development, 1999) and has delivered hundreds of juried and invited presentations at international, national and regional conferences.

Her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology is from the University of Colorado, Boulder; her MS and BA degrees were earned at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She serves on the Board of the University of Texas System TeleSystem, the University of California-Berkeley Extended Studies Online Advisory Board, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the NMC (New Media Consortium).