Laura Elizabeth Hand
Curriculum development · Learning analytics · Research · Writing · Digital systems
I build clear, evidence-based systems that turn complex information into decisions, learning, and tools people can actually use.
Research · Learning · Data · Technology
Make complex work useful.
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Data & Analytics
Learning and workforce analytics, reporting systems, dashboard development, data cleaning, utilization analysis, and decision-support tools.
Curriculum and Learning Design
Curriculum architecture, instructional design, portfolio strategy, learning-product development, and scalable content systems.
Research and Publications
Interdisciplinary research, synthesis, scholarly and professional writing, and publication development across education, technology, health, and the humanities.
Digital Humanities and Technology
Projects combining research, textual scholarship, information architecture, web design, and emerging technology.
About Laura Elizabeth Hand
Laura Elizabeth Hand works across curriculum development, learning analytics, research, writing, and digital systems. Her experience spans professional learning, higher education, workforce development, teaching, program operations, and interdisciplinary research, with a consistent focus on turning complex information into systems people can understand and use.
She holds an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and a B.A. from Columbia College with study spanning Comparative Literature & Society, English and Comparative Literature, and Mathematics.
Her work connects quantitative and qualitative analysis, curriculum architecture, research synthesis, writing, and digital systems. Current interests include AI-responsive learning, measurement, digital humanities, and the design of practical tools for complex organizations.
Selected Work
A focused set of case studies across analytics, research, learning systems, and digital humanities. Each project makes the method, evidence, assumptions, and outputs inspectable.
Portfolio Decision Engine
Transparent portfolio scoring across demand, outcomes, lifecycle, quality, audience, strategic gaps, and redundancy.
Learning Experiment & Statistical Analysis
Blocked randomized design, balance checks, confidence intervals, effect size, operational outcomes, and subgroup analysis.
Stevenson Text Analysis
Public-domain corpus provenance, reproducible textual analysis, research annotation, TEI modeling, evidence traceability, and tested research code.
The Making and Knowing Project
Textual research, information architecture, collaborative design, and recommendations for a digital critical edition.
Experience in numbers
Across education, workforce development, and professional learning, my work has involved direct teaching, program delivery, training, and measurable improvements to student-facing systems.
Students and prospects in programs I managed
Workshops led
Teachers and advisers trained
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Year-over-year Symplicity engagement growth
Selected measures: 60,000+ is the student and prospect population covered by programs I managed. The 131+ training figure is a documented minimum through 2024; 363% measures year-over-year Symplicity engagement growth at Hostos. Explore professional experience and supporting work →
Selected work and case studies
Start with the evidence: enterprise analytics, program operations, research, and learning systems. Each example shows a problem, an approach, and the decisions the work was designed to support.
Five Years of Data, One Decision System
Longitudinal engagement and labor-market data shaped into dashboards, comparisons, and reviewable outreach priorities.
Building a Data-Informed Workforce Development System
Employer partnerships, participant support, CRM data, outreach, reporting, and service-delivery operations treated as one system.
Building an Adult ESOL Learning System
Curriculum, instructor onboarding, professional development, assessment, staffing, and multi-site adult-learning operations.
Career to Calling
An interactive workshop on translating passion projects into professional narratives, networks, resumes, and interview stories.
Phone
(941) 462-8770
Address
New York City
Research, projects, and collaboration
Interested in collaborating on research, learning, data, writing, or digital projects? Get in touch to discuss the work.