Contacts for EM
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Lists of previously contacted interviewees and potential contacts regarding trends in EM.
Contacted
- 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
- E-mailed on 05/05/09
- Ahrash Bissell
- Executive Director, ccLearn
- Email: ahrash [at] creativecommons [dot] org
- Sent list of formal interview questions on 04/30/09
- 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?
- Her research focuses on 'creative industries,' such as book and magazine publishing, asking:
- Phone: (617) 495 - 6080
- Email: aelberse [at] hbs [dot] edu
- E-mailed on 04/21/09
- Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School
- Chester E. Finn, Jr.
- President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- Phone: (202) 223-5450 w / (301) 656-4489 h
- Email: Cefinnjr [at] aol [dot] com
- E-mailed on 05/06/09
- 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
- Kathi Fletcher
- Project Manager, Connexions
- Email: kef [at] rice [dot] edu
- Interview scheduled for August 26
- Neeru Khosla
- Co-Founder and Executive Director, CK-12 Foundation
- Email: neeru [at] ck12 [dot] org
- Interview scheduled for September 4, 2009
- Bobbi Kurshan
- Executive Director, Curriki
- Email: bkurshan [at] curriki [dot] org
- Hal Plotkin
- Special Assistant, Office of the Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
- Trustee (former Board President), Foothill-De Anza Community College District
- Hal is a long-time advocate of OER and has an intimate knowledge of OER initiatives in the California public education systems.
- Phone: (650) 326 - 9673
- Email: hplotkin [at] plotkin [dot] com
- Anne Schreiber
- Chief Academic Officer, Curriki
- Email: aschreiber [at] curriki [dot] org
- Scheduled for Thursday, August 27 at 12 noon EDT
- To discuss core content standards being developed for Curriki's OER
- Joel Thierstein
- Executive Director, Connexions
- Email: joel [dot] thierstein [at] cnx [dot] org
- Alt Email: joel [dot] thierstein [at] rice [dot] edu
Potential Contacts
- 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
- 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
- Director, California Open Source Textbook Project
- 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
- Co-Founder, Flat World Knowledge
- 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
- Professor, Fordham University
- Melissa Hagemann
- Program Manager, Information Program, Open Society Institute
- Email: mhagemann [at] sorosny [dot] org
- 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
- Director of eLearning, Washington State Board of Community & Technical Colleges
- 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
- Executive Director of MERLOT
- 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
- Researcher at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley
- Gary Lopez
- Executive Director, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
- MITE is the organization behind the National Registry of Online Courses
- Email: glopez [at] montereyinstitute [dot] org
- Executive Director, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
- 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
- Professor, Caltech
- Andrés Monroy-Hernández
- PhD Student, Lifelong Kindergarten Group, MIT Media Lab
- Lead Developer, Scratch
- Email: andresmh [at] scratch [dot] mit [dot] edu
- Mobile: (617) 715 - 5147
- 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
- Digital Content Strategist, National Association of College Stores
- Terri Rowenhorst
- NROC Membership Director, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
- Previously, Terri has worked with Pearson's Learning Network, Harcourt College Publishers, and McGraw-Hill Higher Education.]
- Email: trowenhorst [at] montereyinstitute [dot] org
- NROC Membership Director, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
- 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/
- Professor, Brigham Young University
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