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**''E-mailed on 05/06/09''
**''E-mailed on 05/06/09''


*'''Jonathan Emmons'''
*'''[http://cnx.org/member_profile/emmons Jonathan Emmons]'''
**Community Development Specialist, [http://cnx.org Connexions]
**Community Development Specialist, [http://cnx.org Connexions]
**Phone: (713) 348 - 2392
**Phone: (713) 348 - 2392
**Email: jonathan [dot] emmons [at] cnx [dot] org
**Email: jonathan [dot] emmons [at] cnx [dot] org
**''Conference Call Scheduled for 10am EDT on Monday, 03/25/09''
**''Conference Call Scheduled for 10am EDT on Monday, 03/25/09''
***[[Jonathan Emmons Interview Notes]]
**:[[Jonathan Emmons Interview Notes]]
 
*'''[http://cnx.org/member_profile/kef Kathi Fletcher]'''
**Project Manager, [http://cnx.org Connexions]
**Email: kef [at] rice [dot] edu
**:''Interview scheduled for August 26''
 
*'''[http://about.ck12.org/about-us/founders Neeru Khosla]'''
**Co-Founder and Executive Director, [http://www.ck12.org/ CK-12 Foundation]
**Email: neeru [at] ck12 [dot] org
**:''Interview scheduled for September 4, 2009''


*'''[http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Board/Bobbi Bobbi Kurshan]'''
*'''[http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Board/Bobbi Bobbi Kurshan]'''
**Executive Director, [http://curriki.org Curriki]
**Executive Director, [http://curriki.org Curriki]
**Email: bkurshan [at] curriki [dot] org  
**Email: bkurshan [at] curriki [dot] org  
***[[Bobbi Kurshan Interview Notes - August 17, 2009]]
**:[[Bobbi Kurshan Interview Notes - August 17, 2009]]
 
*'''[http://www.plotkin.com Hal Plotkin]'''
**Special Assistant, [http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/index.html?src=oc Office of the Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education]
**Trustee (former Board President), [http://www.fhda.edu/ 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
**:[[Hal Plotkin Interview Notes - August 10, 2009]]
 
*'''[http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Leadership Anne Schreiber]'''
**Chief Academic Officer, [http://curriki.org 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


*'''[http://cnx.org/member_profile/thierstj Joel Thierstein]'''
*'''[http://cnx.org/member_profile/thierstj Joel Thierstein]'''
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**Email: joel [dot] thierstein [at] cnx [dot] org
**Email: joel [dot] thierstein [at] cnx [dot] org
**Alt Email: joel [dot] thierstein [at] rice [dot] edu
**Alt Email: joel [dot] thierstein [at] rice [dot] edu
**''Proposed interview/call for week of 04/13/09''
**:[[Joel Thierstein Interview Notes - August 19, 2009]]
***[[Joel Thierstein Interview Notes]]


==Potential Contacts==
==Potential Contacts==
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**Phone: (510) 642 - 4343
**Phone: (510) 642 - 4343
**Email: dianeh [at] berkeley [dot] edu
**Email: dianeh [at] berkeley [dot] edu
*'''[http://about.ck12.org/about-us/founders Neeru Khosla]'''
**Co-Founder and Executive Director, [http://www.ck12.org/ CK-12 Foundation]
**Phone (General Office): (650) 494 - 1302 or (650) 494 - 1313
**Email (General Office): info [at] ck12 [dot] org


*'''Gary Lopez'''
*'''Gary Lopez'''
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**Email: MNelson [at] nacs [dot] org
**Email: MNelson [at] nacs [dot] org
**Other Websites: http://thecite.blogspot.com
**Other Websites: http://thecite.blogspot.com
*'''[http://www.plotkin.com Hal Plotkin]'''
**Special Assistant, [http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/index.html?src=oc Office of the Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education]
**Trustee (former Board President), [http://www.fhda.edu/ 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


*'''Terri Rowenhorst'''
*'''Terri Rowenhorst'''

Revision as of 15:24, 21 August 2009

Lists of previously contacted interviewees and potential contacts regarding trends in EM.

Contacted

  • 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
    • E-mailed on 04/21/09
  • 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

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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