Instructor Biography

Welcome! My name is William Beers. Most of my friends and colleagues call me Bill. I have been teaching for Lake-Sumter State College for just over ten years now. I used to work as an instructional designer building and maintaining the vast majority of online and hybrid courses for the college. While opportunities shined elsewhere for my career, I still maintain my presence as an adjunct at this prestigious college in order to continue supporting their wild efforts and the local community I know and love.

These days I work for Pearson Higher Education as an instructional designer full-time, a course builder (now an Articulate Designer) for a company called TNTP, as well as a support contractor for other companies in the corporate climate. That is all in addition to teaching career development for LSSC. I keep myself quite busy!

On a more professional level, I have an M.A. in eLearning Instructional Design with multiple awards from Blackboard and numerous Quality Matters recognitions. I have also shared in the development of a major corporate training which was recognized with two Brandon Hall Awards.

On a personal and less boring level, I love playing video games, teaching, reading, and writing short stories/poetry—though I have done less on the latter these past few years. I have a wonderful fiance, and she has an amazingly brilliant daughter--both of whom are genius artists and instructional designers. Atop that, I have five poodles of various sizes and ages. Recently, we obtained a standard phantom poodle expected to top off around 80-90lbs.

Course and Instructor Information

SLS1401

SLS1401 is a course that provides students the opportunity to increase awareness of self in relation to values, goals, interests, and attitudes; to explore a wide variety of career fields, and to translate self-appraisal results and career exploration discoveries into a concrete action plan.

Course Syllabi

Spring 2021 Course Syllabus

Course Calendars

Spring 2021 Course Calendar

Instructor Contact Information

Email: BeersW@lssc.edu