Board of Directors
Sakai Foundation Board of Directors
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Josh Baron |
Josh Baron, Marist College - Board ChairAs Director of Academic Technology and eLearning at Marist College, Josh Baron is responsible for supporting a wide range of instructional technology initiatives, including distance learning, faculty training, and student support. He also plays a leadership role in strategic planning for the College in areas of academic and information technology. Before coming to Marist, Josh was the associate director of instructional technology at Stevens Institute of Technology. In this capacity, he helped lead a $10 million U.S. Department of Education technology initiative working both at the K-12 and college level. He was also a member for the Stevens WebCampus initiative and developed one of the first Stevens online graduate courses. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering and holds a Master of Arts degree (online) in Educational Technology Leadership form George Washington University. - Board term ends Dec 2010, Board Chair term ends Dec 2010 |
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Ian Boston |
Dr. Ian Boston, University of CambridgeDr. Ian Boston from the University of Cambridge, UK, has been involved in Sakai from the early days. He was responsible for early Sakai tools including RWiki and Search. He took responsibility for the Portal and Kernel in Sakai 2.x and latterly is the re-implementation of Sakai 3. Ian has a background in mechanical engineering and parallel computing. First degree being in Engineering Design and Manufacture. He holds a PhD in parallel computing and engineering stress analysis. Following his PhD he joined Professor Tony Hey’s group at the University of Southampton to lead research projects in High Performance Computing. In the mid 1990’s he became interested in the startup activity in Silicon Fen around Cambridge and became actively involved in startup companies, sitting on a number of Boards as investor representative and technical innovator. One of those board positions became full time and he became CTO of Procession plc a London based Software House supporting enterprise processes in large organizations world wide. With arrival of a family he joined Caret at the University of Cambridge as CTO, although he still maintains an active involvement in some of the earlier startups. Ian is an overseas member of the Australian Computer Society, a committer and PMC member at the Apache Software Foundation with the Apache Sling and Apache Shindig projects. In his spare time he enjoys offshore sailing, windsurfing and surfing. - Board term ends Dec 2012 |
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Michael Feldstein |
Michael Feldstein, Academic Enterprise Solutions at Oracle Corp.
Michael Feldstein is author of the e-Literate weblog and Principal Product Manager for Academic Enterprise Solutions at Oracle Corporation. Prior to working at Oracle, Michael was an Assistant Director at the SUNY Learning Network, where he oversaw blended learning faculty development and was part of the leadership team for the LMS platform migration efforts of this 40-campus program. Prior to that, he was co-founder and CIO of MindWires, a company that provided e-learning and knowledge management products and services to Fortune 500 corporations, with a special emphasis on software simulations. He has also been the interim CLO at The Otter Group, a Senior Partner at Christensen/Roberts Solutions, and a Senior Instructional Designer at Raymond Karsan Associates. In prior lives, Michael has been a freelance writer, an English PhD student, a middle school and high school teacher, a tire wrangler at a Yokohama Tire warehouse, and a professional loafer at Schooley’s Mountain County Park. Michael was a very early participant in Open Source Learning Management Systems projects, having been one of the early participants (and the only non-technologist participant at the time) of the OpenACS community in early 2000—the community that would eventually spawn the GPL-licensed dotLRN Learning Management System. He is currently a member of Sakai’s Product Council and regularly presents at Sakai conferences. Michael has been a member of eLearn Magazine’s Editorial Advisory Board and is currently a participant in the IMS as a member of its Learning Technology Advisory Council (LTAC). He is a frequent invited speaker on a range of e-learning-related topics including e-learning usability, LMS evaluation methods, e-learning interoperability stnadards, ePortfolios, and edupatents for organizations ranging from the eLearning Guild to the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council. He has been interviewed as an e-learning expert by a variety of media outlets, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Associated Press, and U.S. News and World Report. - Board term ends Dec 2012 |
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Maggie Lynch |
Dr. Maggie Lynch - Board Vice Chair - Term Ends 31 Dec 2010
Dr. Maggie McVay Lynch has over 30 years in education, with the past two decades working online in some capacity. Her background includes K-12, higher education, and private industry. She has personally developed over 200 online courses for colleges, universities and private industry and supervised the development of thousands. She has taught both face-to-face and fully online courses in Psychology, Education, Business Administration, and Management Information Systems. Her educational background includes a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Psychology, and a M.S. and Ed.D. in Instructional Technology and Distance Education. Dr. Lynch has worked both in academia and in the software industry, giving her a unique perspective on the application of technology and education in a variety of environments. She is currently the Dean of Academic Technology and Distance Education at College of the Redwoods, where she provides strategic direction and support for administrators, faculty and students engaged in teaching and learning with technology. She has consulted widely with other higher education institutions around the world regarding e-learning systems development and management. Outside of her many contracts in the U.S., her consulting has taken her to Australia, Canada, China, England, Germany, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and the United Arab Emirates. Work with Sakai: Dr. Lynch has been a part of the Sakai community since 2002, and has been a frequent presenter at both Sakai conferences and other e-learning conferences. Her most recent contributions have been as part of the Teaching & Learning Group, developing the evaluation rubric for the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award and providing input to a number of pedagogical and user-related issues. In 2008 she received recognition as a Sakai fellow. Publications: Dr. Lynch has over 50 publications in peer reviewed journals and chapters in books. In addition, the following three textbooks are still in print and frequently used in higher education programs.
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Stephen Marquard |
Stephen Marquard, University of Cape TownStephen is Learning Technologies Co-ordinator at the University of Cape Town (UCT), responsible for campus-wide learning educational technology applications. UCT deployed Sakai in February 2006, where it is now used by 90% of the 22,000+ student body. Stephen combines organizational leadership and strategy experience with insights gained from the trenches in managing the development, delivery and support of software systems in service of the university’s core business of teaching and learning. He was awarded a Sakai Fellowship in July 2008 for significant contributions to the Sakai community. Prior to joining the University of Cape Town in 2005, Stephen’s involvement with the intersection of education and ICTS started in the early 1990s when he formed the first schools network in Africa. Stephen convened and produced 4 precedent-setting conferences on educational technology in primary and secondary education in South Africa between 1995 to 2001, and was instrumental in the formation of SchoolNet South Africa, an award-winning national organization which worked to address digital divide access issues and developed innovative e-learning approaches for the professional development of teachers. Stephen subsequently worked as an international consultant in educational technology in Africa and South-East Asia for clients such as UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning. - Board term ends Dec 2011 |
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John Norman |
John Norman, University of CambridgeJohn is the Director of the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies and 'Head of e-Learning' at the University of Cambridge. CARET provides infrastructure and support to the campus for the use of technology in teaching, learning and research, including the deployment of Sakai campus-wide. Prior to this he had experience as an engineer and medical devices entrepreneur on 3 continents. John chairs the advisory board for OSS-Watch and is an advocate for open standards and open source software in higher education. - Board term ends Dec 2011 |
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Chuck Severance |
Chuck Severence, University of MichiganI have been involved in Sakai from the beginning as the Chief Architect of the Sakai Project and later the first Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation. More recently I have had the opportunity to go back into the classroom as a full-time faculty member in the University of Michigan School of Information where I use Sakai on a daily basis. I teach courses in Technology Literacy, Web Site Development, and Social Computing. I work closely with graduate students in the School of Informatics and talented undergraduates in the Informatics concentration. In addition to teaching, I work as a consultant with the IMS Global Learning Consortium where I help in the development, promotion, and dissemination of existing and emerging standards for the portability and interoperability of both data and software. I have spent the last two years refining and improving standards such as Learning Tools Interoperability, Common Cartridge, and Learner Information Services. I currently serve on the Board of Directors of the Etudes non-profit corporation which contributes Melete, JForum, and Mneme to the Sakai community. I continue to contribute technically to the Sakai product as a committer. I tend to focus my technical efforts on Melete, the Sakai portal, the E-Mail Archive tool, and the upcoming IMS Basic LTI tool for the 2.7 release. While I no longer work full-time on Sakai, having summers off allows me some flexibility in doing technical work on Sakai. In addition, I recently completed a new Sakai tool that enables instructors to establish simple navigational connections between sites, allowing them to construct simple hierarchies of Sakai sites. I have also written a book on "Using the Google Application Engine", published in 2009 by O'Reilly and Associates. This compliments my previous book on "High Performance Computing", also from O'Reilly and Associates, published in 1998. My research focus is the application of technology to teaching and learning. I am exploring how Open Educational Resources (OER) can be best re-used and remixed in new educational contexts. My research has developed a simple, embeddable Collaboration and Learning Management System, using JavaScript which is called CloudSocial (www.cloudsocial.org). My interest in OER has lead me to work with the Rice University Connexions project (www.cnx.org) - I am writing my next text book titled, "Technology Literacy" using Connexions and it will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution license and my students will be able to get a printed copy of the book for less than ten dollars. The book will be an experiment in open content and knowledge creation by bringing in my students as co-authors - so they not only use the book during a semester, but they also improve the book for the next semester. You are welcome to find out more about me by looking at my personal web site - www.dr-chuck.com . You can find out about the software I have written over the years, online copies of my television programs from the mid-1990's, and my blog posts for the past six years. If you look closely, you can even see me riding a dirt bike, playing hockey, singing the blues, and driving a stock car. - Board term ends Dec 2012 |
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Jutta Treviranus |
Jutta Treviranus, Toronto UniversityTreviranus established and directs the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto, an internationally recognized centre of expertise on barrier-free access to information technology. She has more than 25 years of research, clinical and management experience in the field of access technology. Jutta has lead a large number of national and international multi-partner research projects (including The Inclusive Learning Exchange (TILE), the Canadian Network for Inclusive Cultural Exchange, the Network for Inclusive Distance Education, CulturAll, Stretch and the Barrierfree project), that have led to a range of broadly implemented technical innovations. She has published in many areas related to alternative access. She is chair of the Web Access Initiative, W3C, Authoring Tool Working Group, chair of the IMS AccessForAll Specification Working Groups, Project Editor within ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36, as well as a member of a number of key advisory panels and task forces. Among her awards, the ATRC was honored with the American Foundation for the Blind Access Award (1998), the Trophee de Libre for Open Source Development, and the Dr. Dayton M. Forman Memorial Award. Jutta holds faculty appointments in the Faculty of Information Studies, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto. - Board term ends Dec 2010 |
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