Contacts for EM

Contacted

1. Nicole Allen
   • Textbooks Advocate for The Student PIRGs and Campaign Director for Make Textbooks Affordable
   • Phone: (617) 747 - 4409
   • Email: nicole [at] studentpirgs [dot] org
2. Anita Elberse
   • Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School

     Her research focuses on 'creative industries,' such as book and magazine publishing, asking:

     • How can firms increase the success of new products in creative industries?
     • How can firms build sustainable businesses in creative industries?

   • Phone: (617) 495 - 6080
   • Email: aelberse [at] hbs [dot] edu
   • Will e-mail on 04/21/09
3. Jonathan Emmons
   • Community Development Specialist, Connexions
   • Phone: (713) 348 - 2392
   • Email: jonathan [dot] emmons [at] cnx [dot] org
   • Conference Call Scheduled for 10am EDT on Monday, 03/25/09
     • Jonathan Emmons Interview Notes
4. Joel Thierstein
   • Executive Director, Connexions
   • Email: joel [dot] thierstein [at] cnx [dot] org
   • Proposed interview/call for week of 04/13/09

Potential Contacts

1. Judy Baker
   • Director, Community College Consortium for OER
   • Dean, Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA

     CCCOER is probably the first coordinated institutional effort for OER. In theory, they are supposed to collect, vet and distribute OER to community college faculty. (Martha Kanter, the chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza district, is the visionary behind CCCOER. Her email is kantermartha [at] fhda [dot] edu.)

   • Email: bakerjudy [at] fhda [dot] edu
   • Other Websites: CCCOER Blog
2. Sanford Forte
   • Director, California Open Source Textbook Project

     Sanford heads up a K-12 open textbook program.

   • Email: siforte [at] ix [dot] netcom [dot] com
3. Eric Frank
   • Co-Founder, Flat World Knowledge

     Flat World Knowledge is an open textbook publishing company. Eric Frank is the Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, and he serves as the delegate to partnerships with the open ed world. He is also a veteran of the traditional publishing industry.

   • Phone: (845) 825 - 9499
   • Email: eric [at] flatworldknowledge [dot] com
4. Albert Greco
   • Professor, Fordham University

     Al is one of the few academics who studies the economics of publishing. He has a wealth of information on textbooks and the state of the industry. Most recently, he has been working on a study on scholarly publishing and university presses.

   • Phone: (212) 636 - 6199
   • Email: agreco [at] fordham [dot] edu
5. Cable Green
   • Director of eLearning, Washington State Board of Community & Technical Colleges

     Cable is heading up a project to include open online courses in the eLearning program; the state allocated money for this specific purpose.

   • Phone: (360) 704 - 4334
   • Email: cgreen [at] sbctc [dot] edu
   • Other Websites: Blogs at http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu
6. Gerry Hanley
   • Executive Director of MERLOT

     MERLOT is a repository of digital learning materials, somewhat similar to Connexions, except MERLOT only catalogs materials and links out to them, while CNX actually hosts the content. MERLOT also provides a mechanism for peer & user review, and even has an editorial board to review materials. Gerry is the visionary behind it.

   • Director of Academic Tech for the Cal State Chancellor's office
   • Email: ghanley [at] calstate [dot] edu
7. Diane Harley
   • Researcher at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley

     Diane has produced a number of studies on OER, and she just began a study on the Make Textbooks Affordable campaign to determine the success of organizing professors around the issue of affordability. Her work is criticized by many of the intellectual leaders in the open ed movement because she is conservative about the potential for OER use; she believes that professors are not going to switch straight from traditional textbooks to OER.

   • Phone: (510) 642 - 4343
   • Email: dianeh [at] berkeley [dot] edu
8. Preston McAfee
   • Professor, Caltech

     Preston is a well known economist and author of open textbook www.introecon.com. He recently took a leave from Caltech to head up research at Yahoo.

   • Email: mcafee [at] yahoo-inc [dot] com
9. Mark Nelson
   • Digital Content Strategist, National Association of College Stores

     Mark's job is to figure out how, as education goes digital, college bookstores must change to survive in the future (including how to incorporate OER).

   • Email: MNelson [at] nacs [dot] org
   • Other Websites: http://thecite.blogspot.com
10. David Wiley
    • Professor, Brigham Young University

      David was the original creator of the Open Publication License, which was the inspiration for Creative Commons. He is also the "Chief Openness Officer" at Flat World Knowledge. He recently opened a charter school called "The Open High School of Utah," which is completely online and uses only OER. He is a big proponent of OER, but he agrees that an intermediary step like open textbooks is necessary.

    • Phone: (435) 797 - 7562
    • Email: david [dot] wiley [at] byu [dot] edu
    • Other Websites: http://www.opencontent.org/

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