LISA SHELDON BROWN
DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION & COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Lisa Sheldon Brown, Ph.D. Executive Director of Education and Community Outreach for the Flight Test Historical Foundation (FTHF). Brown manages and directs the curriculum for programs at the museum and Blackbird Airpark as well as coordinating learning content development, educational grant administration, and program planning with our education partners at the Air Force Research Lab and Air and Space Force. She has more than 20 years of experience in curriculum and course design, textbook content development, and learning resource publishing for international companies including McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Pearson Learning, Sage Publications and MacMillan Education.
Her responsibilities included content development, training, course design, product management and implementation of both online and face-to-face curriculum models being used by colleges and universities throughout the United States. She led advisory groups, conducted extensive needs analysis of adult learners, and participated in the design of leading educational learning platforms used both nationally and internationally.
In her previous role as Director of Curriculum Development at Claremont Lincoln University, she led the development, course design, and assessment criteria for the university’s overall institutional goals, program learning outcomes, and all individual courses. She designed and implemented efficacy studies and institutional research in learning and retention for all courses and performed all reporting in curriculum development and assessment for the Department of Education. With her contributions in effective courses, curriculum and assessment development, the school received accreditation and assessment and consistent and highly collaborative environment of the course design was highlighted as a key feature for the university.
She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Florida, and has a Master’s degree in Learning Design and Technology in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction from Purdue University, and an undergraduate degree in Education from the University of South Florida. In her community work, she has volunteered with the Society of Experimental Test Pilots in accident preparedness and acted as the Director of STEM Education for the Edwards Air Force Base Museum, where she designed and developed the curriculum and interactive course modules for the online Junior Test Pilot School, summer program and Blackbird Airpark, and works extensively in the community promoting science, technology, engineering and math education programs.
