Dwayne K. Buttler serves as the first Evelyn J. Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication at the University of Louisville and holds a faculty appointment as a Professor in University Libraries. Much of his work focuses on the complex interrelationship of copyright law, licensing, and activities at the core of the university and library mission—teaching, learning, and scholarly communication.
Liz Milewicz holds a post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University, where she manages the NEH- funded African Origins Portal, an extension of Voyages that will engage public assistance in discovering the ethno-linguistic origins of Africans caught up in the slave trade. As a Research Associate with Emory University Libraries, she has worked with the DLF on inter-institutional efforts to promote use of OAI, best practices for shareable metadata and MODS, and assessment activities.
David Eltis is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History, Emory University. He has a Ph D from the University of Rochester, (1979). He is the author of Economic Growth and The Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1987) which won the British Trevor Reese Memorial Prize, and The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (Cambridge, 2000), awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize, the John Ben Snow Prize, and the Wesley-Logan Prize. He is also winner of the John T.
R. Michael Tanner is Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Provost Tanner joined UIC in 2002 after a thirty year career at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was Executive Vice Chancellor for nine years, serving as chief operating officer for a campus of 11,500 students. In 2000, Dr. Tanner led the creation of the University of California Silicon Valley Center, a satellite campus for 2,000 students at the NASA Research Park in the NASA Ames Research Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
David Shulenburger is APLU’s first Vice President for Academic Affairs. His immediate areas of concentration are on accountability and assessment in higher education and on the economics of higher education. Before joining A۰P۰L۰U in June, 2006, David Shulenburger was Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Kansas.
The University of North Texas hosted a one-day Open Access Symposium on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at the Denton campus. The event featured both nationally and internationally recognized leaders in the open access movement. The symposium was intended as a catalyst to move UNT and other academic institutions in Texas forward in consideration of institutional open access policies.
STEVAN HARNAD was born in Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University. Currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec à Montréal and Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at University of Southampton, UK, his research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. Founder and Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), he is Past President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science, and author and contributor to over 300 publications, including Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech (NY Acad Sci 1976), Lateralization in the Nervous System (Acad Pr 1977), Peer Commentary on Peer Review: A Case Study in Scientific Quality Control (CUP 1982), Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition (CUP 1987), The Selection of Behavior: The Operant Behaviorism of BF Skinner: Comments and Consequences (CUP 1988), Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing (1995), Essays on the Foundations and Fringes of Cognition (in prep) and Cognition Distributed: How Cognitive Technology Extends Our Minds (Benjamins 2008)
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Open Education is becoming more widely adopted every day. However, until now, Open Education has been relegated to the periphery of education, used primarily in a supplemental capacity. New initiatives like the Community College Access Project and the Department of Labor portend to move Open Education from the periphery of education to the mainstream. As Open Education crosses the chasm from periphery to mainstream, it has the capacity to address a whole new set of challenges and provide a step change in the quality and availability of education.
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