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Dane Adams
Learning Experience Designer
With eleven years of classroom experience, I bring a practical understanding of how people learn. I now design learning for corporate L&D and EdTech, and build the tools that support it using AI enhanced development.
Experience
11
years designing learning that holds up in real classrooms
AI-native
AI
prototypes, dashboards, and internal tools I've shipped myself
L&D focus
L&D
accessible, evidence-led, built for mixed ability
Selected Work
My Work
A mix of teaching resources, production tools, and things I built because the existing options weren't good enough.
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KPI Analytics Dashboard
A live KPI platform built because a 40-sheet Excel workbook had become impossible to navigate quickly.
Next.jsSupabaseAnalytics
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T Level eLearning Modules
A full library of eLearning modules built for T Level Digital students — the programme has achieved 100% pass rates in each of its first two years.
eLearningAccessibilityStoryline
Additional Work
Supporting projects and faster prototypes
Curriculum Vitae
Background, skills, and experience.
Learning Experience DesignerInstructional DesignerLearning Technologist
Learning Experience Designer and Learning Technologist with eleven years designing, building and deploying technology-enhanced learning at scale. Deep instructional design experience paired with an AI-first approach to content creation, development and workflow design, including shipping working web applications built with AI coding assistants. Proficient in Articulate Storyline, Rise 360 and H5P, with hands-on SCORM authoring and multi-platform LMS administration. Designed and delivered programmes achieving 100% pass rates against lower national benchmarks, with learning outcomes directly evidenced through data. Actively transitioning into corporate L&D and EdTech.
Core Strengths
What I bring into corporate L&D and EdTech roles
AI-Assisted Content & Development
Instructional Design (ADDIE, UDL)
Articulate Storyline & Rise 360
H5P & SCORM Authoring
LMS Administration
SME Collaboration
Adult Learning Theory
Professional Narrative
Grounded in education, increasingly fluent in product
I've spent my career making learning that has to work the first time. Real cohorts, real deadlines, mixed prior knowledge, and often a significant number of learners with ADHD, autism, or other additional needs. Designing inclusively wasn't a box to tick - it was the only way the class functioned.
The clearest evidence I have that the approach works is the T Level in Digital Production, Design and Development. I designed and launched it from scratch, and it has achieved 100% student achievement in each of its first two years. All the assessment is externally set and marked, so the figure isn't something I've flattered into existence - it's what came back from Pearson.
What's shifted recently is speed. AI tools let me move from concept to working artefact in days rather than weeks - a prototype, an internal tool, a full analytics dashboard. That's changed what one person can credibly own end-to-end, and it's the part of the role I find most exciting.
The thread through everything here is the same: clear thinking, sound pedagogy, accessible delivery, and AI used as proper leverage rather than decoration.
Signature Project
KPI Analytics Dashboard
Full-stack web application built with AI coding assistants
Next.jsReactTailwindSupabase/PostgreSQLVercel
Built because a 40-sheet Excel workbook had become the thing nobody wanted to open. It is now the primary performance reporting interface for institutional leadership, with weekly data capture feeding historical trend views across department, course, and student level. Built solo, using Claude Code - the kind of lean, AI-augmented delivery that is becoming table stakes for L&D people who want to own the tooling as well as the learning design.
Experience
Professional experience
Senior Lecturer & Programme Leader, Digital Technologies
Hertford Regional College
Hybrid instructional designer, learning technologist and programme lead designing digital learning, administering multiple LMS platforms, and producing eLearning content across T Level, BTEC and HND Digital programmes.
2018-Present
- Designed and launched the T Level in Digital Production, Design and Development from inception, personally creating hundreds of interactive digital learning resources, achieving 100% student achievement in each of the first two years of delivery against a significantly lower national average.
- Facilitated live Agile/SCRUM sprint cycles across T Level and games development cohorts, acting as Scrum Master for 20-week project delivery cycles producing industry-standard outputs.
- Embedded AI tooling across daily authoring, storyboarding, code generation, and accessibility review - not as an experiment, as the default workflow.
- Authored a full library of interactive HTML-based eLearning modules using AI-accelerated HTML, CSS and JavaScript development, alongside resources built in Articulate Storyline, Rise 360, H5P, and Adobe Captivate.
- Administered Moodle, Canvas, Cisco Networking Academy and AWS Academy concurrently, including course builds, rollover, assessment setup, and QA.
- Built and deployed a full-stack KPI analytics dashboard adopted by institutional leadership as the primary performance reporting interface.
- Applied ADDIE, backward design, Bloom's and UDL throughout curriculum development, including differentiated content for learners with additional needs including ADHD and autism.
- Delivered formal staff CPD sessions on AI-enabled content creation, learning technologies and accessibility, alongside one-to-one support and written how-to guides for colleagues with varying levels of digital literacy.
- Acted as Personal Tutor - pastoral support, one-to-ones, SMART target setting, and safeguarding - for a cohort that often needed that before any of the digital content could land.
Toolkit
Technical toolkit
AI Tooling
Daily use of AI coding and content assistants for authoring, development, storyboarding, assessment design, accessibility review and workflow automation.
Authoring
Articulate Storyline, Rise 360, H5P, bespoke HTML/CSS/JS modules, screencasting.
Standards
SCORM, xAPI awareness, WCAG accessibility, Universal Design for Learning.
LMS / VLE
Moodle, Canvas, Cisco Networking Academy, AWS Academy, Turnitin, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Google Classroom.
Frameworks
ADDIE, Backward Design, Bloom's Taxonomy, UDL, Adult Learning Theory, Agile / SCRUM.
Development
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, Node.js, Python, SQL / PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Git, Vercel.
Soft Skills
Stakeholder engagement, SME collaboration, clear technical communication, mentoring and knowledge transfer, analytical problem solving, calm under pressure, self-directed learning.
AI in Practice
How AI already shows up in my day-to-day work
Content development
First-draft storyboards, scripts, quiz banks, and rubrics from SME material - then iterating on tone, reading level, and cognitive load until it is actually teachable.
Development & prototyping
Shipping full-stack web applications, dashboards, inventory tools and interactive learning prototypes end-to-end using AI coding assistants.
Accessibility & inclusivity
Auditing content against WCAG and UDL principles, generating alt-text, simplifying language and producing multiple versions of content at varying complexity levels.
Workflow automation
Turning repetitive administrative work into templated, AI-assisted processes that save hours per week.
Colleague enablement
Training delivery teams on responsible AI use in education, including prompt design, verification, bias awareness and practical integration into authored learning content.
Education
Formal education
Level 6 Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
2018-2020University of Greenwich
BA (Hons) Games Design - First Class Honours
2009-2012University of West London
Development
Certifications and CPD
- Cisco Networking Academy - Certified Instructor & Platform Administrator
- AWS Academy - Certified Instructor & Learning Environment Administrator
- Pearson Lead Internal Verifier - T Level Digital Production, Design & Development
- Ongoing CPD - Learning Experience Design, accessibility, AI in Learning & Development, emerging EdTech