Proceedings
OPEN Forum 2008

The OPEN Forum offers the engagement of strong, insightful plenary speakers and emphasizes significant opportunity for dialogue.

	Nicole Allen
	Nicole Allen is the Director of the Make Textbooks Affordable Campaign for The Student Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs). She began her career in higher education advocacy as a student at the University of Puget Sound (just outside of Seattle, WA), where she led a statewide effort to stop a $12 billion cut to federal student aid programs. Following her graduation with a degree in Philosophy and Math, Ms. Allen worked as a student organizer for WashPIRG, during which time she played a key role in passing Washington state’s landmark textbook price-disclosure law. In her current role, Ms. Allen spearheads research, advocacy and program development for Make Textbooks Affordable, which is run on over 100 campuses nationwide.
	John Seely Brown
	Dr. John Seely Brown is the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation. In addition, he is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California. Prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)—a position he held for nearly two decades. While head of PARC, Dr. Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, and nano/mems technologies. He was a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). His personal research interests include the management of radical innovation, digital youth culture, digital media, and new forms of communication and learning. John, or as he is often called—JSB—is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and of AAAS and a Trustee of the MacArthur Foundation. He serves on numerous public boards (Amazon, Corning, and Varian Medical Systems) and private boards of directors. He has published over 100 papers in scientific journals and was awarded the Harvard Business Review’s 1991 McKinsey Award for his article, “Research that Reinvents the Corporation” and again in 2002 for his article “Your Next IT Strategy.” In 2004 he was inducted in the Industry Hall of Fame. With Paul Duguid he co-authored the acclaimed book The Social Life of Information (HBS Press, 2000) that has been translated into 9 languages with a second addition in April 2002, and with John Hagel he co-authored the book The Only Sustainable Edge which is about new forms of collaborative innovation. It also provides a novel framework for understanding what is really happening in off-shoring in India and China and how each are inventing powerful news ways to innovate, learn and accelerate capability building. JSB received a BA from Brown University in 1962 in mathematics and physics and a PhD from University of Michigan in 1970 in computer and communication sciences. In May of 2000, Brown University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science Degree. This was followed by an Honorary Doctor of Science in Economics conferred by the London Business School in July 2001. And in May of 2004 he received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Claremont Graduate School. In 2005 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan and delivered their commencement speech. He is an avid reader, traveler and motorcyclist. Part scientist, part artist and part strategist, JSB’s views are unique and distinguished by a broad view of the human contexts in which technologies operate and a healthy skepticism about whether or not change always represents genuine progress. www.johnseelybrown.com
	Casey Green
	Casey Green is the founding Director of The Campus Computing Project (campuscomputing.net), the largest continuing study of the role of computing, eLearning, and information technology in American higher education. Begun in 1990, Campus Computing is widely cited by both campus officials and IT industry executives as a definitive source for data, information, and insight about a wide array of campus IT planning and policy issues affecting U.S. colleges and universities. Mr. Green is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and published research reports and more than 80 articles that have appeared in academic and professional publications. In 2002 Mr. Green received the first EDUCAUSE Leadership Award for Public Policy and Practice. The award cites his work in creating The Campus Computing Project and recognizes his “prominence in the arena of national and international technology agendas, and the linking of higher education to those agendas.”
	John Leslie King
	Dr. John Leslie King is Vice Provost for Academic Information at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Professor in the School of Information, where he served as Dean from 2000 to 2006. In his current role he is helping to shape the mission of the University of Michigan and higher education as a result of the affordances of modern information and communication technologies. From 1980 to 2000 he was Professor of Computer Science and Management and Research Scientist in the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations at the University of California, Irvine. He has published over 150 scholarly books and articles on the relationship between technological change and social change, especially the role of information technologies in highly-institutionalized production sectors. Dr. King has been Marvin Bower Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School, Canon Visiting Professor at Nanyang Business School in Singapore, and Fulbright Distinguished Chair of American Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (University of Frankfurt, Germany). He was Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research, and an Associate Editor of ACM Computing Surveys and many other scholarly journals. He has served as Senior Scientific Advisor for cyberinfrastructure with the National Science Foundation directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, and is a member of the Council of the Computing Community Consortium. He was made Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2005, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007.
	M.S. Vijay Kumar
	Dr. Vijay Kumar is Senior Associate Dean and Director for the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education. Dr. 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 as at other institutions, Dr. Kumar provided leadership for units engaged in delivering infrastructure and services for the effective integration of information technology and media services in education. Dr. Kumar’s research, as well as his extensive engagement as advisor and consultant with academic and professional institutions, are directed toward strategy, planning and implementing innovations for education. He is actively involved in efforts, such as those supported by the Hewlett Foundation, and Curriki, to advance the use of Open Educational Resources for improving educational access and quality. He is a co-editor of a Carnegie Foundation book “Opening Up Education” (MIT Press, August 2008). He has authored numerous articles in the area of educational innovations and technology strategy. Dr. Kumar was the Principal Investigator of O.K.I. (Open Knowledge Initiative), an MIT-led collaborative project to develop an open architecture for enterprise educational applications. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and a member of the steering committee for I-Campus, the MIT-Microsoft Alliance initiative for educational technology. He is the Executive Officer for MIT’s Council on Educational Technology. Dr. Kumar also served on the Applications Strategy Council for Internet2, as Chair of the governing Board of the Seminars on Academic Computing (SAC) Snowmass, CO and NERCOMP, and as Trustee of the Corporation for Research and Education Networking (CREN). Dr. Kumar holds a doctorate in Education (Future Studies, focusing on educational computing and planning for technological innovations in education) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which was preceded by a MS in Industrial Management and a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering, both from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. Dr. Kumar is Honorary Advisor to India’s National Knowledge Commission and Advisor to the Open University of Catalonia.
	Philip Robb
	Philip Robb is the Director for Hewlett-Packard Company’s Open Source Program Office. In this role, he has responsibility for HP’s Open Source Review Board, the HP governing body for open source software integration, usage and deployment. Mr. Robb also manages HP product development teams focused on open source solutions and internal open source software analysis tools. In addition to his HP responsibilities, Mr. Robb is currently General Manager of FOSSBazaar.org. FOSSBazaar is an organization launched in January 2008 to share information and best practices for adoption and management of open source software by enterprises, institutions and governments. Prior to joining HP, Mr. Robb held senior management and technical positions at Critical Path, Fisher Scientific, Motorola and Honeywell-Bull. Mr. Robb holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Bowling Green State University and is working towards a Master of Computer Science at Colorado State University.
	Dev Prakash Sinha
	Dr. Dev Sinha is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oregon. Dr. Sinha is currently the chair of a university-wide committee whose charge is to address the issue of textbook prices. The committee is in the process of making specific recommendations on what can be done at a campus-wide level, of planning a significant effort to raise awareness of the issue, and of outlining desired actions that might be taken in concert with other universities. Dr. Sinha came to be active in this issue through his concerns about academic publishing in general, which in turn arose from his time as the Chair of the University of Oregon’s Library Committee. Through that service, he became aware of the unusually high rate of inflation in academic publishing. In his specialty, topology, there is a large community of people who have been active in academic publishing. The prevalent graduate textbook in the subject is available, free-of-charge, on-line. One of the open-access journals, Geometry and Topology, has been successfully running for over ten years now, and has led to the creation of Mathematical Science Publishers, a low-cost high-quality mathematics publishing house. Dr. Sinha is an active researcher in algebraic topology, regularly featured in international conferences. He became interested in topology at the “Massachusetts Institute of Topology,” from which he went to Stanford University to get his PhD. After a postdoctoral position at Brown University, he came to the University of Oregon. He has since served in a number of capacities, including in the Faculty Senate and as Director of Graduate Studies for his department.
	Kim Thanos
	Kim Thanos is founder and Principal of Thanos Partners, a company focused on increasing effective decision-making throughout the higher education technology community. Thanos Partners provides services to higher education institutions and the companies that serve them, in the areas of community development, market research and strategy development. Ms. Thanos has formulated market entry strategies, led product development and marketing initiatives, and developed best-in-class customer relationship programs for companies across higher education. Prior to creating Thanos Partners, Ms. Thanos was Vice President of Technical Services at Campus Pipeline (later acquired by SunGard Higher Education) managing the software QA, testing, technical support and professional services organizations. Before entering the higher education industry, she held a variety of marketing, operations and finance management roles in the high tech sector. Ms. Thanos holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University, and an MBA.
	Brad Wheeler
	Dr. Brad Wheeler is the Vice President for Information Technology & CIO, and Professor of Information Systems, at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Dr. Wheeler is highly regarded within the state of Indiana, nationally, and internationally for fostering new models of collaboration that have changed the economics of information technology in higher education. He also led University Information Technology Services at Indiana University in planning for a cyberinfrastructure to support the university’s goals for doubling funded research and scholarship, especially in the life sciences, an area critical to economic development in the state. Recognizing the importance of partnership to achieve this vision, Dr. Wheeler led a collaboration, for Indiana University, with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, Purdue University, and IBM that resulted in doubling the capacity of the Big Red supercomputer. Dr. Wheeler serves in leadership roles for over $20 million of shared university investments in open source software, serves on the board of the Sakai Foundation, and chairs the Kuali Project Board. As a Professor of Information Systems at IU’s Kelley School of Business, Dr. Wheeler teaches MBA courses in Executive Leadership of IT Strategy, and has taught e-business and e-learning courses for corporate/academic audiences in 26 countries on six continents. Dr. Wheeler is a worldwide spokesperson on behalf of the community source software development model. This engages academicians and software developers in higher education who collaborate on building software tailored to the unique needs of higher education. As Co-Principal Investigator for the Sakai Project and Vice-Chairman of the Sakai Board of Directors, Dr. Wheeler has promoted a better option for higher education beyond “build vs. buy.” Thanks to Dr. Wheeler’s leadership, Indiana University participates in several important new community source partnerships—with more than $20 million of pooled investments—that are bearing fruit nationally and internationally.
	David Wiley
	Dr. David Wiley is Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University. He was formerly Associate Professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University. Dr. Wiley has also been a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Visiting Scholar at the Open University of the Netherlands, and a recipient of the US National Science Foundation’s CAREER grant. He is the founder of OpenContent, coining the term “open content” and releasing the first open license for content in 1998 while a graduate student at Brigham Young University. His career is dedicated to increasing access to educational opportunity for everyone around the world.