Center for Online Professional Education
Elizabeth Farmer
Liz Farmer is Associate Project Director for EDC's EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO) project,
a nationally recognized, capacity building online professional development program for state
departments of education, school districts, colleges and universities and other educational
organizations to enable them to incorporate online learning into their educational programs.
Liz is an experienced online facilitator and course developer who has provided training for
hundreds of educators to facilitate and design their own online courses. Liz is also a core
member of the leadership team for the E-Learning for Educators initiative, a federally-funded
eight-state consortium to build state level online professional development programs in Alabama,
Delaware, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire and West Virginia.
Additionally, Liz manages three Title IID grants for high needs districts in Massachusetts
focused on developing online courses in math and science, and training local educators to
facilitate these courses for their colleagues. She also manages ETLO's ongoing post-training
support and consulting for educational organizations as they implement their local online
professional development programs.
Before joining ETLO, Liz worked on an EDC project focused on building the
professional capacity of teachers to use research-based assessment strategies
in their classrooms. Her past work experience also includes managing several
projects for the Learning Lab at Lesley University, producing educational
software and teaching English and Italian courses for children and adults.
Liz holds a B.A. in Educational Studies and Italian Studies from Brown University
and an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Elizabeth Farmer
Associate Project Director
efarmer@edc.org
