Jamie Littlefield is a former writer for ThoughtCo and contributed articles about distance learning for over 11 years. As an online instructor and instructional designer, she has considerable experience mentoring students in non-traditional settings. Littlefield has contributed to multiple textbooks and has taught distance education courses at both the high school and college level. She currently serves on the advisory board of the United States Distance Learning Association.
Since 2005, Littlefield has written about education for a variety of media outlets, including ThoughtCo, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, the Salt Lake Tribune, and Deseret News.
After attending Claremont Graduate University, Littlefield received an M.A. in Education. Prior to that, she received her B.A. in English from Brigham Young University.
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