Sharon Gillooly
Senior Media Production Specialist
Email: sgillooly@umaryland.edu
Sharon Gillooly leads media production for the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning. Her main focus is producing videos that support academic instruction. She also consults with stakeholders in the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) schools to address their media needs. She came to UMB after serving as a media production specialist at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Before her academic career, Sharon spent over two decades in documentary production, producing and editing programs, primarily for Discovery and National Geographic. Her favorite challenges included quickly learning new subject matter and communicating complex ideas to large audiences in an engaging way. In 2014, she turned her attention to higher education, where she saw similar challenges existed.
Sharon completed a master’s certificate in online instructional development from Florida State University. Her work there focused on instructional design and emerging technologies. She holds a BA from Hunter College, where she studied communications and film. Sharon is especially interested in the use of media to enhance learning.