Stephen Carson

fiction, composition, open educational resource

Stephen Carson is External Relations Director for MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu). His responsibilities include sustainability initiatives; strategic partnerships with other organizations; MIT OCW's support of opencourseware projects at other institutions; special projects in priority areas; and project evaluation. Stephen is also currently serving as the first president of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. Stephen has previously served in numerous other positions on the senior management and publication teams for MIT OCW. In the early stages of the program, Stephen developed a mission-critical workflow tracking database still in use; implemented a department liaison program that remains OCW's key interface with academic departments; and managed the publication of 100 of the first 500 courses to be published on the site. Prior to joining the MIT OCW team, Stephen served as Associate Director of Emerson College's Division of Continuing Education in Boston, where - in addition to managing core academic activities of the division - he developed and taught Emerson's first asynchronous, Web-based distance learning course. Stephen earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, and taught creative and expository writing there for five years.

Scott Siddall

EDUCAUSE, Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges, National Shellfisheries Association

Environmental studies, in particular the tragegy of the commons in marine resource management, Socio-cultural dynamics of online collaboration

Richard Scullin

The International Association for Mobile Learning, MobileActive.org, MobileEd.org, mLearn 2009

Richard Scullin is founder of MobileEd.org and Open Mobile Learning. Richard has teaching experience at the secondary and collegiate levels (English language and literature), as well as professional experience in media and communications, venture capital and entrepreneurship, and mobile learning.

Ken Graetz

EDUCAUSE, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, New Media Consortium, American Psychological Association

collaboration, teamwork, groups, communication, cognition, emotion, attitudes, psychometric, assessment

Ken Graetz received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. Specializing in Social Psychology, his research interests include team and group dynamics, social cognition, psychometrics, and computer supported collaborative work. A faculty member for 10 years at the University of Dayton, Dr. Graetz taught such courses as Experimental Psychology, Team and Group Dynamics, Interpersonal Processes, and Statistics. He also served as the Director of Collaboration Technology and eLearning in the UD Ryan C. Harris Learning and Teaching Center. Dr. Graetz joined Winona State University in 2002 and now serves as the Director of Teaching, Learning, and Technology Services. He is engaged currently in the development of learning opportunities for faculty and staff, academic technology project management and support, and numerous research and development projects.

C. Sidney Burrus

IEEE, AAAS, ASEE

Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, Technology in Education, Connexions

PhD in EE from Stanford, 1965 BA, BS, MS from Rice, 1957, 58, 60 EE Faculty at Rice, 1965 to present Maxfield & Oshman Professor Emeritus, 1996 to present Fellow of IEEE and AAAS Over 200 papers and 5 books published Various teaching and research awards Dean of Engineering at Rice, 1998-2006

Jean-Claude Guédon

Canadian federation for the Humanities and the Social Sciences - VP (Dissemination of research), SDH/SEMI Society for Digital Humanities - Former co-chair

History, sociology, history of science, literature, epistemology

Jean-Claude Guédon is Professor of comparative literature at the Université de Montréal

Laura Blankenship

Web 2.0 and Liberal Arts, Writing and Technology

Laura is Senior Instructional Technologist in Information Services at Bryn Mawr College. She is completing her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition with a focus on using technology in writing instruction this May.

Eve Gray

Publishing, scholarly publishing, electronic publishing, academic textbooks, Open Education Resources, Copyright, Creative Commons, Open Access, Africa

Eve Gray is an International Policy Fellow with the Open Society Institute, Budapest in the Open Information Working Group. She is based in Cape Town and is affiliated to the Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town, as an Honorary Research Associate.

Eric Kansa

Society for American Archaeology, American Schools for Oriental Research

archaeology, natural history, anthropology, public health, folksonomy, social software

Eric C. Kansa is cofounder and Executive Director of the Alexandria Archive Institute and chief developer of "Open Context" (www.opencontext.org/database/browse.php), an online system for sharing primary field data for archaeology and other environmental and social sciences. This follows a position on the faculty of Harvard University, where he served as Lecturer and Undergraduate Tutor for the Department of Anthropology. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a BA in Cultural Anthropology and continued his education at Harvard University beginning in 1995. There, he earned his doctorate in 2001 and has focused his archaeological research on the interactions between ancient states and neighboring societies. His current efforts focus on open dissemination strategies, information architectures for the social sciences, and intellectual property frameworks for online scholarship. These efforts work towards enhancing the research value and creative potential of world cultural heritage. I am currently the volunteer head of the Society for American Archaeology's Digital Data Interest Group.

Denise Troll Covey

Amercian Library Association (ALA) - LAMA, ACRL, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Digital Library Federation (DLF), NISO Standards Development Committee, EDUCAUSE

Digital libraries, scholarly communication, copyright, public policy relevant to digital libraries

Denise Troll Covey is Principal Librarian for Special Projects at Carnegie Mellon.

Peter Suber

Philosophy, law, computer science.

Peter Suber is a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College and the Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge.