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Charles Vest
Dr. Charles M. Vest is President of the
National Academy of Engineering and President Emeritus of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As president
of MIT, he was active in science, technology, and innovation
policy; building partnerships among academia, government
and industry; and championing the importance of open, global
scientific communication, travel, and sharing of intellectual
resources. During his tenure, MIT launched its OpenCourseWare
(OCW) initiative, a web-based publication of virtually all
MIT course content, making it open and available to the
world.
Visit http://www.nae.edu.
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Mohammed T. Al Sellemi, Director, Human Resources Services Department,
Saudi Aramco
Mohammed is the Director of the Human Resources Services Department of Saudi Aramco. He has held several positions during his 21 years of service with Saudi Aramco, which include but are not limited to, VP of Human Resources , PETRORabigh, Executive Director of Industrial Services and Executive Director of Human Resources of Al-Khafji Joint Operations (KJO).
Mohammed is a member of the Steering Committee of the King Abdulla Education Tatweer Project. He served as an Executive Board Member of the International Federation of Training & Development Organizations (IFTDO) and an Executive Board Member of the Asian Region Training and Development Organizations (ARTDO).
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Catherine Casserly
Dr. Catherine Casserly is a senior partner
at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
where she is responsible for strategic management of new
program initiatives and leading Carnegie’s work in
open educational resources. Prior to joining Carnegie, Cathy
was director of the Open Educational Resources Initiative
at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where she managed
a portfolio of grants to improve teaching and learning through
the equalization of knowledge.
Visit http://www.carnegiefoundation.org.
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Milton Chen
Dr. Chen is a Senior Fellow at the George
Lucas Educational Foundation. He worked as executive director
of that foundation for 12 years before becoming a senior
fellow in early 2010. His background includes: director
of research, Sesame Workshop; asst. professor, Harvard Graduate
School of Education; and education director, KQED-San Francisco
(PBS). Dr. Chen is currently writing a book, Education
Nation: Seven Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools
(Jossey-Bass, 2010).
View http://www.edutopia.org.
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Gajaraj Dhanarajan
Dr. Gajaraj Dhanarajan is the recently
retired Vice Chancellor of the new Wawasan Open University
in Malaysia. He was previously President of the Commonwealth
of Learning and CEO of the Open University of Hong Kong.
As one of the world’s leading advocates of and experts
on Open and Distance Learning, he has contributed to global
discussion on the subject and further, associated with the
work of international development agencies.
Visit http://www.wou.edu.my/mozilla/about_overview.aspx.
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Bakary Diallo
Dr Diallo joined the African Virtual
University (AVU) in 2005 and was appointed as Rector in
April 2007. AVU is an Intergovernmental Organization based
in Nairobi Kenya, specializing in Open, Distance and E –Learning
methodologies. Its mission is to facilitate the effective
use of these methodologies in African tertiary education
and training institutions. Dr. Diallo has been working in
the education sector for the last 19 years as a secondary
school teacher, an academic, a consultant, a project administrator
and a researcher.
View http://www.avu.org.
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Andy DiPaolo
Dr. Andy DiPaolo is the founding Executive
Director of the Stanford Center for Professional Development
and Senior Associate Dean of the Engineering School at Stanford
University. He is responsible for leading one of the largest
university continuing education organizations and distance
education networks in the United States, delivering graduate,
technical professional and management programs worldwide.
Dr. DiPaolo led the team to develop Stanford Online, the
first system designed to use streaming technology to deliver
academic courses on the internet and led Stanford’s
efforts to create the world’s first online graduate
engineering degree.
Visit http://scpd.stanford.edu.
Visit http://see.stanford.edu.
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Muhammad Kashif Farooq
"Implementation of BLOSSOMS in Pakistan"
M Kashif Farooq is currently working as Assistant Program Manager at Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB). He did research with Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in areas such as e-Learning and e-Governance. PITB is contributing its efforts for IT interventions in academia at different levels. LUMS and Punjab Government are the partners of BLOSSOMS. He is involved in a Public Private Partnership project for the IT setup at 400 public colleges to provide IT education and e-learning.
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Robert Hawkins
Robert Hawkins is Senior Education Specialist
at the World Bank Institute focusing on Science and Technology,
ICT in education, and open, distance and e-learning initiatives.
He has managed a number of projects in the Bank, including
the ICT for Education component of the Education program
in the World Bank Institute, the Africa Virtual University
project and the World Links for Development project. Before
joining the Institute, Robert spent four years working for
the World Bank Africa region, promoting ICT connectivity,
policy, and capacity building.
Visit http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi.
Visit http://www.urgentevoke.com.
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Michael
B. Horn
Michael Horn is the co-founder and Executive Director, Education,
of Innosight Institute, a not-for-profit think tank devoted
to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems
in the social sector. He is the coauthor of Disrupting
Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the
World Learns (McGraw-Hill: June 2008) with Harvard
Business School Professor and bestselling author, Clayton
M. Christensen, and Curtis W. Johnson, president of the
Citistates Group.
Visit
http://www.michaelbhorn.com.
Visit
http://www.innosightinstitute.org.
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Said Jahama
Dr. Jahama is the General Manager of
E-learning Arabia, a company working in the education technology
field and based in Amman, Jordan. This company has worked
with MIT BLOSSOMS in developing animations to enhance the
learning videos. Said has many years of computer science
experience in the academic field as well as in the software
industry.
Visit http://www.e-learningarabia.com.
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M.S. Vijay Kumar
As Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate
Education and Director, Office of Educational Innovation
and Technology, MIT. Dr. Vijay Kumar provides leadership
for sustainable technology-enabled educational innovation
at MIT. In his prior roles at MIT as Assistant Provost and
Director of Academic Computing, as well at other institutions,
Vijay provided leadership for the effective integration
of information technology and media services in education.
Visit http://mit.edu/vkumar/www.
Visit http://oeit.mit.edu.
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Patricio López
del Puerto
Dr. Patricio López del Puerto
is President of the Virtual University of the Tecnológico
de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – a position he
has held since 2002. Since its
founding in 1989, the Virtual University has consolidated
itself as a pioneering institution in distance education
on the American continent, offering graduate academic programs,
continuing education programs, programs for elementary and
secondary school teachers and programs for the development
of marginalized communities.
Visit
http://www.ruv.itesm.mx/portal/principal/qs/english.
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Naveed Malik
Dr. Malik is the founder-Rector of the
Virtual University of Pakistan. He was the principal architect
and developer of the Punjab University’s computerized
examination system and was also responsible for the design
and implementation of that university’s fiber-optic
campus-area network. Dr. Malik is currently coordinating
the PANdora Project, an IDRC funded multi-country research
effort in distance learning technologies and is also the
BLOSSOMS Project Manager for Pakistan.
Visit http://www.vu.edu.pk.
Visit http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-92674-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html.
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Cliff Missen, Director of the WiderNet project of the University of Iowa Graduate Program
Launched in 2000, the WiderNet Project, a service program based at the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science, is improving digital communications in developing countries. The project trains computer technicians and coaches decision-makers at universities in the developing world, providing on-site hands-on training, cutting-edge research on information technology issues facing the developing world, and donating new and refurbished computer equipment to partner universities. Over 3,600 technicians, decision makers, and librarians have been through our training programs across Africa. The WiderNet Project also provides millions of digital educational resources to those without adequate Internet connectivity via the innovative eGranary Digital Library.
Visit http://www.widernet.org/.
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David Pritchard
Dr. David Pritchard is currently the
Cecil and Ida Professor of Physics at MIT and has a life-long
interest in teaching problem solving in physics. This led
to the collaboration with his son, Alex, on CyberTutor.MIT,
an interactive web-based program, which is dramatically
superior to written homework in raising students’
exam scores. This past year ~150,000 students used this
learning tool in physics and another ~600,000 in Astronomy,
Chemistry, and Biology.
Visit http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/pritchard_david.html.
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Rana Abu Zeid Qubain
Rana Abu Zeid Qubain is General Manager
of Investment World for Development and Technology, a company
specialized in providing IBM business and technical services,
using local expertise to deliver comprehensive solutions
to the educational market of Jordan. She is Project Manager
for one of the major national initiatives in Jordan, “The
National Employment and Training Train the Trainer’s
Project”, which includes training 15000 trainers and
trainees over a 3-year period. Ms. Qubain is also the MIT
BLOSSOMS Project Manager in Jordan.
Visit http://www.iwdtcompany.com.
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Andrew W. Reynolds
Andy Reynolds is Deputy Science &
Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State at the U.S.
Department of State. In that position, he leads efforts
to augment S&T personnel and literacy at the Department,
to strengthen outreach to the domestic and international
S&T community, and to foster mid- to long-term strategic
planning to address science, engineering and technology
issues in foreign policy at the State Department and within
the U.S. government.
View http://www.state.gov/g/stas/115992.htm.
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Sean M.
Rowland
Dr. Sean Rowland is founder and President of Hibernia College
in Dublin, Ireland, an international, third-level, online
college offering accredited, niche-focused educational programs.
Working with global partners from the public and private
sector, Hibernia offers accredited, online postgraduate
courses in financial management, pharmaceutical medicine,
post-primary teacher education and hospitality management,
respectively. The program for which the college is currently
best known is its Higher Diploma in Primary Education; these
graduates are highly sought after by many schools around
Ireland.
Visit http://www.hiberniacollege.net.
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