Participants

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  TJ Bliss @tjbliss

  TJ is the Director of Development and Strategy at Wiki Education. Prior to joining Wiki Education TJ was a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation managing the set of OER grants as well as the Director of Assessment at the Idaho State Department of Education.

  • Open Educational Practice: Unleashing the Potential of OER
  • Ignite Introduction
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  David Deschryver @ddeschryver

  Dave is the Senior Vice President & Co-Director of Research for Whiteboard Advisors. In this role Dave focuses on complex market research and analysis on emerging markets in the education sector.

  • Ignite Introduction
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  David Harris @OpenStax

  David is the Editor In Chief, OpenStax, Rice University. Recently at OpenStax David is heading up the Assessment Network (AN) project which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with Google. The goals of the AN are to determine models for the sharing of assessments across the community, leveraging data to inform the improvement of assessments, and to investigate sustainable economic models for the network.

  • Designing the Future of Education
  • Ignite Introduction
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  Jared Knowles @jknowles

  Jared is the founder of Civilytics a data analysis consulting firm that develops and promotes for open data/analytics solutions in education and the social sciences. Prior to founding Civilytics Jared was a data scientist at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction where he oversaw the development and implementation of an open source statewide dropout early warning system and advised the agency on the design of the state school accountability system.

  • Ignite Introduction
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  Margaret Nipson @HarvardCEPR

  Meg is a research manager at Harvard's Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR). As part of her work with the CEPR Meg oversees OpenSDP an online, public repository of analytic code, tools, and training intended to foster collaboration among education analysts and researchers in order to accelerate the improvement of our school systems.

  • Ignite Introduction
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  Marc Oswald @TAOTesting

  Marc is the CEO of Open Assessment Technologies (OAT), where he is responsible for the business strategy of TAO, the world’s leading Open Source e-Testing platform that is being used to conduct OECD’s PISA and PIAAC studies around the globe. Marc’s involvement with Free Open Source Software began in early 2008 when he joined Olocity Corp. as Entrepreneur in Residence with the goal to prepare the company for venture capital investment. Since then, Marc has been a regular participant in the Open Source CEO Events hosted by the Olliance Group (now part of Black Duck Software) and DLA-Piper.

  • Ignite Introduction
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  Richard Patz @richpatz

  Rich is a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley, a past president of the National Council on Measurement in Education, and a former executive at ACT and McGraw-Hill Education. His experience includes supporting and leveraging open technologies and content in the context of commercial enterprises and non-profits. Rich acquired OpenEd for ACT, oversaw McGraw-Hill’s use of open source technology platforms for assessment, and now advises companies and governmental agencies working on these issues.

  • Ignite Introduction
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  Brandt Redd @BrandtRedd

  Brandt is Chief Information/Technical Officer for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), where he oversees online services for members and directs the deployment of an open technology platform to support next-generation assessments. Prior to Smarter Balanced, he served as Senior Technology Officer for Education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

  • Ignite Introduction
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  Jared Robinson @tjaredrobinson

  Jared is the Assistant Director of Research and Data Analytics for the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative at Michigan State University (MSU). Prior to joining MSU, Jared was the Assistant Director in the Office of Educator Talent at the Michigan Department of Education (MDE). In this role, Jared leads a team of researchers and practitioners to ask and answer questions about best practice in educator evaluation, teacher recruitment/retention, and the pursuit of equitable access to education for Michigan students. Before joining the MSU/MDE teams, Jared worked on the research side of research-practice partnerships. Through research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Jared worked with the Open Education Group to explore the impact of open educational resources (OER) on student learning outcomes in secondary and post-secondary education.

  • Ignite Introduction
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  Jutta Treviranus @juttatrevira

  Jutta is the Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) and professor in the faculty of Design at OCAD University in Toronto. Jutta established the IDRC as an international center of expertise in the inclusive design of emerging digital systems, networks and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute, a multi-university regional centre of expertise. Jutta founded and directs a graduate program in inclusive design at OCAD University. Together with Gregg Vanderheiden, she is the co-director of the Raising the Floor Consortium that coordinates the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) project. She leads many international multi-partner open source research networks that have created broadly implemented innovations that support inclusion e.g., Fluid Project and Floe Project.

  • Big Ideas Lecture Series - Inclusive Design
  • Ignite Introduction
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  David Wiley @opencontent

  David is Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, an organization dedicated to increasing student success, reinvigorating pedagogy, and improving the affordability of education through the adoption of open educational resources by schools, community and state colleges, and universities. David is also currently the Education Fellow at Creative Commons, an Ashoka Fellow, and adjunct faculty in Brigham Young University's graduate program in Instructional Psychology and Technology, where he leads the Open Education Group (and was previously a tenured Associate Professor).

  • Education is Sharing
  • Reflections on 20 Years of Open Content: Lessons from Open Source.
  • How Is Open Pedagogy Different?
  • Ignite Introduction

Participants (who couldn't attend)

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  Richard Baraniuk @rbaraniuk

  Richard is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and the Founder and Director of the open education initiatives OpenStax and Connexions.

  • The birth of the open-source learning revolution
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  Adam Blum @adamblum

  Adam is the CEO and Founder of OpenEd, the largest open-educational resource library with over a million assessments, videos, and homework. In 2016, ACT acquired OpenEd.

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  Cable Green @cgreen

  Cable is the Director of Open Education at Creative Commons, where he's a leading advocate for open licensing policies in education. Cable works with the global open education community to leverage open licensing, open content, and open policies to significantly improve access to quality, affordable, education and research resources so everyone in the world can attain all the education they desire.

  • The State of Open Education
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  Jaison Morgan @JaisonMorgan

  Jaison is the CEO of Common Pool and Co-Founder/CEO of Rampit. Through the use of "Incentive Engineering", Jaison is a leading authority in the use of large scale incentive systems -- design competitions used to build communities of focused participants who have the skills and tenacity to solve complex problems."

  • Creating Innovation with Prizes
  • Incentive Engineering