The OCWC Board of Directors is delighted to announce that Mary Lou Forward, of Brattleboro, Vermont, has accepted its offer of the OCWC Executive Director position. Mary Lou comes to us from SIT Study Abroad, where she has served as Academic Dean of African Studies since 2000. In that role, she provided academic and strategic leadership for 29 accredited undergraduate study abroad programs in Africa, leading SIT’s incorporation of technology and distance learning in international programming and developing innovative opportunities to collaborate across countries and between diverse student groups.
Prior to that, she served for six years as Academic Director for SIT’s Madagascar program, developing, revising and evaluating curricula for interdisciplinary undergraduate programs in Environmental Studies and Cultural Geography. Mary Lou has her BA in Psychology from Rutgers University (1988) her MA in International Administration from the School for International Training (1994) and is ABD in Environmental Studies. Although not formally joining the OCWC staff until July 15, Mary Lou will be consulting informally with the board and staff over the coming weeks.
As you may be aware, the position of Interim Executive Director has been filled for the past nine months by Terri Bays of Notre Dame. Terri will be stepping down on July 15th, but remaining with the Consortium on a part-time basis as Special Projects Manager to support Mary Lou as she settles in. The Consortium could not have succeeded as it has in the past year without Terri’s tireless efforts to move the organization forward.
Please join the members of the Board in welcoming Mary Lou and thanking Terri for her effort.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kaplan Higher Education today announced that it has joined the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC), making select Kaplan University courses and teaching materials available for free online. Through a new website, lifelong learners, students and faculty across the world can access select Kaplan University courses anywhere Internet access is available. Courses currently offered include Academic Strategies for the Business Professional, Nursing Fundamentals and Forensic Biology and Impression Evidence. Continue reading ‘Kaplan Higher Education Joins the OCWC’
Today is Mike Caulfield’s last day working on the OCWC staff. We thought we had successfully stolen Mike from Keene State, but they sneaked up on us from behind and stole him back with an offer of a pivotal role as an Instructional Designer in a Teaching and Learning Center for which he helped write the proposal. Rest assured that plots are already in development to get an OCW project going at Keene so that we can retrieve Mike as a committee member!
Mike came on board last fall as our Director of Community Outreach, and in nine short months has done a great deal to increase awareness of OCW and to support both current and potential OCWC members. We are very sorry to see Mike go, and we’re sure you will want to join us in thanking him for his work, his enthusiasm, and his fine company.
Best wishes, Mike!
Just a note that since the conference in Monterrey a number of slidesets have gone up on Slideshare. If you are interested in seeing some of them check them out, using the tags below:
http://www.slideshare.net/tag/ocwcglobal2009
http://www.slideshare.net/tag/ocwc
And for those of you who presented, but have not furnished slidesets, post them on Slideshare and tag them with the ocwcglobal2009 tag.
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