Our Story
Following her departure from Laureate Education in 2017, Dawn Papuga Bunja began consulting with a variety of partners on digital teaching and learning strategy, content design and development, and broad educational efforts, and from these efforts launched Arcadia. She gathered a team roster of similarly experienced experts who share her passion for helping institutions and companies educate learners around the globe. These shared interests and experiences provide a view to academic and professional education systems in countries around the world, across different modalities, and at different points of maturity with digital teaching and learning (DTL).
Our Approach
Not all learning is created equal. At Arcadia, we believe that a high-quality curriculum, instructional design, and student experience engage learners and help foster a love of lifelong learning. Whether you are seeking to upskill your team or provide students with courses to complete a degree, learning can be enjoyable, modern, and challenging. We do this by tying industry expectations and professional requirements to opportunities to practice skills, test retention, and apply learning in meaningful, real-world assessments and projects.
Meet the Founder
Dawn Papuga Bunja
Owner and Principal Consultant
Prior to launching Arcadia, Dawn spent a decade teaching English literature, writing, and communications at the university level across the United States. She then spent 10 exciting years at Laureate Education, where she consulted with 37 universities and institutions in 20+ countries on entering and expanding their digital teaching and learning and training efforts. Following her departure from Laureate, she gathered a roster of similarly experienced experts who share her passion for helping institutions and companies educate learners around the globe.
Our Team
Arcadia employs a 360-Team approach. For each engagement, we complete a project diagnostic to identify the necessary skills to accomplish the project outcomes and assemble that team from our roster of education experts. Our roster includes individuals experienced in international higher education and training and development across a wide range of skill sets. These experiences provide a view to academic and professional education systems in countries around the world, across different modalities, and at different points of maturity with DTL/online learning.
The Arcadia Team is equipped to support you across the curriculum lifecycle, including with:
- Education Strategy
- Instructional design and development
- Curriculum design
- Quality assurance
- Educational technology
- Professional training and development
- Media design and production
- Marketing and communications
- Market research
- Teaching and facilitation
- Faculty development
- Ghostwriting and content creation
- Regulatory & Accreditation alignment
- Game based learning
- Project management
Many of the team members on our roster have worked together on projects spanning the globe for 5-10 years, and this familiar collaboration is critical in rapid deployment and kick-off of projects across time zones and languages. The wealth of experience at Arcadia is also valuable when assisting universities to retake or revise the quality of existing online offerings and operations.
Interested in a spot on the team?
Contact us for further inquiries and a chance to add your talent to our team roster!