Fawn Thompson
Lead Instructional Designer
- Title Lead Instructional Designer
- Office 1010 Comm Ave, 2nd Floor
- Email fawnt(at)bu(dot)edu
- Phone 617-358-1963
- Education M.Ed., Technology, Innovation, and Education: Harvard Graduate School of Education
B.F.A., Studio for Interrelated Media: Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Fawn Thompson is a Lead Instructional Designer at the Office of Distance Education of Boston University, co-leading a team with Shelby Harvey. She cares deeply about lifelong learning and mentoring, and won the Online Learning Consortium 2018 Effective Practices Award in recognition of her peer review method for course design. Her method and findings were published by OLC in February 2019. Fawn also completed a Certificate in Leaders of Learning from HarvardX.
Before specializing in instructional design, Fawn taught courses and workshops in a broad range of creative topics—from digital animation to live puppetry. She is currently a volunteer mentor for a number of Boston-area organizations that support youth development in the arts and technology. Fawn’s design and performance work have been included in shows at the Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge.