Meghna Sarkar — Senior Instructional Designer
Pune, Maharashtra
Instructional designer with six years in edtech after three years teaching school mathematics. Designs the K-12 mathematics catalogue at a Pune studio, where rebuilding the Grade 8 algebra course around faded worked examples took completion from 41% to 68%.
Experience
Senior Instructional Designer, Lumenpath Learning · April 2023 – present
K-12 mathematics catalogue for a school-facing platform used by 340 schools.
- Owns the Grades 6 to 10 mathematics catalogue: 240 lessons shipped, each with a formative check, a worked example set and a teacher script.
- Rebuilt the Grade 8 algebra course around faded worked examples, raising completion from 41% to 68% and median quiz score from 54% to 71%.
- Runs monthly usability sessions with 60 teachers a year; the redesigned lesson planner cut reported preparation time per lesson from 25 minutes to 9.
- Wrote the studio accessibility standard for captions, contrast and screen-reader order, now applied to all 240 lessons and to new production by default.
- Reviews every storyboard before production and coaches two junior designers through their first courses.
Instructional Designer, Nimbus Learning Studio · June 2020 – March 2023
- Converted 18 instructor-led corporate courses to self-paced modules, taking average time to completion from six weeks to 11 days.
- Built the storyboard template and review checklist the team of nine still works from, cutting rework cycles per course from three to one.
- Ran a randomised trial of spaced quizzing across 3,200 learners, which raised 30-day retention scores by 22 points and became the studio default.
Mathematics Teacher, Grades 7-10, Hillcrest Public School · June 2017 – April 2020
- Taught six sections of mathematics, 240 students a year; the Grade 10 board average in mathematics rose from 68% to 79% across three cohorts.
- Built a bank of 300 graded problems that all four mathematics teachers adopted, replacing per-teacher worksheet writing.
- Digitised the remedial mathematics programme for 90 students across three trust schools, which is where the move into design began.
Projects
- Open Maths Worksheets — A free worksheet generator for Grades 6 to 8 that prints the same problem set in English and Marathi.
Education
- M.A. Education · Savitribai Phule Pune University · July 2019 – May 2021
- B.Ed. Education · Tilak College of Education, Pune · June 2016 – April 2017
- B.Sc. Mathematics · Fergusson College, Pune · June 2013 – April 2016
Skills
- Design: Backward design, Storyboarding, Worked examples, Assessment writing, Cognitive load
- Tools: Articulate Storyline, Figma, Camtasia, xAPI, SCORM, Moodle
- Evidence: A/B testing, Learner interviews, Completion analytics, Accessibility audits, Usability testing
Certifications
- Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) — Association for Talent Development
- Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) — International Association of Accessibility Professionals
