Moving Successfully from Face-to-Face to Online Learning was originally developed in January 2015 by the Indiana University School of Nursing Center for Professional Development and Lifelong Learning to provide introductory and easy-to- use information for nursing and other higher education faculty who are interested in moving a traditionally face-to-face course into the online environment. 

The content author of this course is Cynthia D. Hollingsworth, MS, BS, AAS, who has been instrumental in sharing the wonders of distance learning to Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) faculty since 1994. The Web was released in the early 90s and Cindy began working with faculty through the Center for Teaching and Learning at first to teach them how to find resources using text-based Web browsers. As the Web matured, training faculty migrated as well to developing HTML pages using text- and UNIX-based applications and into graphical WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors such as FrontPage and Dreamweaver.

In 2001 Cindy accepted the position of coordinator of instructional design in the IU School of Nursing. Although not trained as an instructional designer, she drew on skills learned while receiving her education at Purdue University as a non-traditional student. She earned an AAS in data management processing in 1991 and a BS (with distinction) in computer information systems in 1992 with a minor in technical communication. In 2001, she balanced the Purdue degrees with one from Indiana University—an MS in adult education. The marriage of these degrees allowed her to bring a systems analysis perspective to education and the skills to develop documentation, train, and teach focusing on not only the adult learner (faculty) but the adult learners those faculty would be instructing (students).

Hollingsworth has presented many times throughout the years at local, regional, and national conferences on the topic of faculty development and moving to online learning. She has consulted at schools of nursing on the topic, presenting 1-3 development and training sessions to help faculty as they implement online learning. She is the author of several chapters on this topic including 2 in the 2001 AJN Book of the Year in the category of nursing education and continuing education, Conversations in E-learning, and several in the 2008 HCPro publication, New Technology in Nursing Staff Development.

In her spare time she does formatting, editing, and dissertation prep through her consulting company. She enjoys spending time with her granddaughters, caring for her mother, and hanging out with her husband of 35 years.