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Introductions of PC Members
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| Name | Affiliation | Introduction | Interest Areas |
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| Jill Abbott | SIFA | Learning Strategist for the SIF Association. Experience includes classroom teaching, curriculum and professional development, assessment and evaluation, standards based education, virtual education, change management, eLearning strategic visioning and development in the vendor and state and federal policy space, interoperability and education technology. | |
| Susan Adelmann | Follett | Sr. Product Manger, Follett Software TetraData warehouse and analytics. Focused on goals and growth measurement, K-12 continuous improvement practices, and effective ways to connect student learning gaps to educational resources. | All |
| Shota Aki | Skillsoft | Software Architect. Currently working on web services-based initiatives for deploying SkillSoft content and content-related services. Previously led, architected and developed on LMS and client-side projects at SkillSoft (1998). |
Primarily web services but as time permits would be interested in learning more about mobile and gaming initiatives as well. |
| John Alonso | Outstart | CTO and Founder. Very focused on bringing and promoting standards to corprate customers to the betterment of their business. Have been involved with many SCORM implemenations and a couple of CORDRA ones. OutStart provides several tools that have SCORM support embedded within them. | All |
| Warwick Bailey |
Icodeon | Director of Icodeon Ltd, Cambridge, UK. The Icodeon SCORM Player is a plug-in component that adds full SCORM functionality to existing e-learning systems. |
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| Frederick Banks | Boeing | R&D Software Engineer at Boeing, first involved with CBT at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign PLATO project (1972). | |
| Avron Barr | Aldo Ventures | Strategy consultant to software companies in Silicon Valley. LETSI organizer. | All |
| Bill Blackmon | |||
| Jeff Bradshaw | IHMC | ||
| Judy Brown | MASIE Fellow | Founder/Initial Director Academic ADL Co-Lab, University of Wisconsin System | Mobile |
| John Campbell | Imedia.it | Content Developer and active participant in ADL SCORM TWG. Experienced developing very complex SCORM 2004 S&N. Member of current ADL Technical Team with focus on instructional strategies and outreach efforts. |
All |
| Brian Caudill | JCA Solutions | ||
| Nag Chandrashekar | Saba | ||
| Ed Cohen | Plateau | ||
| Mike Collett | Schemeta, UK | ||
| Nina Pasini Deibler | SI International, Inc. | Wrote several sets of guidelines for non-technical SCORM users, teach SCORM workshops, assist clients with SCORM implementation strategies and LMS deployments. Background is instructional design and e-learning. | All |
| Rachel Ellaway |
Northern Ontario School of Medicine |
Assistant Dean and Associate Professor Education Informatics at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and Visiting Professor for Education Informatics at St. George's, University of London, UK. Co-chair of the MedBiquitous Virtual Patient working group, serve on the MedBiquitous Executive and am Chair of the AFMC's Informatics Resource Group. | learning, professional education, simulation, gaming, narrative |
| Andrew Evans | CDSM, UK | Product Manager for Pedagogue, CDSM's online SCORM conformant authoring tool. Software development background, have been working with SCORM for around 5-6 years. | |
| Ron Fitzgerald | MathResources, Canada | President of MathResources Inc. MRI builds educational math and science software, including a SCORM compliant middle-school math curriculum. MRI is currently interested in LMS's, SCORM compliant repositories and SCORM on mobile platforms. |
All |
| Mark Friedman | CTC | Advanced Technology support to JKDDC. Actively researching advances in eLearning for non-kinetic type training. | Gaming, Mobile, Small Group Training |
| Wayne Gafford | ADL All | ||
| Shane Gallagher | ADL | ||
| Ramesh Gopalakrishna | Adobe | Director of Engineering for Adobe Captivate. Adobe Captivate is rapid eLearning content creation application from Adobe. The group also owns defining and delivering eLearning products from Adobe. The focus is to help eLearning developers build and deliver SCORM compatible content. | |
| Jason Haag | CSC | Principal systems engineer on the U.S. Navy's eLearning program where he has been involved with implementing the SCORM for more than seven years. He is an ADL Sharable Content Object Model (SCORM) technical working group participant, represents the US Navy on the Defense Advanced Distributed Learning Action Team (DADLAT), member of the IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC). He also operates and maintains a free SCORM resource website, CONFORM 2 SCORM, http://www.conform2scorm.com. | Interoperability, Accessibility, User Interface Design & Usability, Competencies |
| Jackie Haynes | IAI | ||
| Michael "Lang" Holloman | CSC | Senior Systems Integrator for CSC / Navy eLearning NeL focused on delivery infrastructure of SCORM content, distributed content delivery, and media delivery platforms. 8 years developing commercial/non-profit/DoD engaging interactive content and CMS/E-Commerce systems. | S&N, dimensional UI content interaction, Social Media, distributed content, HD video content / delivery |
| Don Holmes | Imedia.it | CEO. Imedia.it is a content developer that provides immersive game like courseware. We have produced SCORM 2004 conformant courseware since 2005. | ALL |
| Matt Howard | eTech Ohio | CIO. Focused on successful classroom integration of LMS systems. Have worked with SIFA since 2002 on instructional services and assessment. eTech Ohio maintains the D3A2 Resource Exchange, a state-wide aggregation of public (free) instructional and assessment resources. Additionally, we maintain the educational and public broadcasting network. |
All, but emphaesis on classroom-focused tools to enhance student achievement. |
| Dan Ingvarson | MyInternet, Australia | Founder of early k-12 VLE software business - grew to 1,000,000 users in 6 countries. Developed and deployed SCORM 2004, SIF, Shibboleth, successful BECTA Learning platform conformance Sold business "myinternet", spent two years raising 4 children, now Independent consultant, appointed to write guide for Australian $1.2 Billion program of computers in schools spoke at World Forum, peak education ministers conference (60 ministers) 2008 advise businesses having to implement the realities of theoretical standards. |
All areas as impacted by k-12 needs, realities of what education systems are purchasing - and role of standards in that. |
| Michael Jay | Educational Systemics | Background in children and cognition and ex-Public School Educator. 25+ years experience in developing metadata specifications to describe learning, instruction, and instructional resources, in addition to curriculum, assessment, and curriculum standards development. Member of SIFA Board for 10 years and presently serving as Exec Board co-Chair. | Teacher professional development, student centered education, infrastructure to support addressing the needs of every learner |
| Paul Jesukiewicz | MTS | ||
| Tom King | Masie Fellow | Masie Fellow active in Consortium activities. AICC Communications Coordinator. Independent technical advisor, & consultant on corporate elearning and specifications. M.A. in Instructional Design with 20+ years experience developing and managing elearning materials. Instrumental in early implementations of LMS specifications for LAN and web-based systems. Long standing affiliation with Adobe through my work at Macromedia, Authorware Inc., Solis Design, and Lotus/IBM. | Mobile, Security, Social learning |
| Fanny Klett | Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany | Lead Business Area data Representation and Interfaces at Fraunhofer IDMT, Ph.D. in Electronic Media Technology from Ilmenau Technical University, serving on the Reviewer Board of IEEE Transactions on Education, and IEEE Educational Technology and Society Journal, Senior Member IEEE and Chair of the German Chapter of the IEEE Education Society, responsible as Chair EASC for the IEEE Region 8 educational activities in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Member of the Sponsor Executive Committee and Secretary of the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee, design of complex SCORM2004 compliant LMSs. | Interoperability, Metadata, Competencies, Assessment, Quality frameworks, User interfaces |
| Peter Lamothe |
Giunti Labs |
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| Scott Lewis | IEEE LTSC | ||
| Nigel Lin | Auto-Chlor | Dr. Lin received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) from Tamkang University, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 2005. He also acquired his M.Eng. and BS degree in computer science and information engineering prior to his Ph.D. degree. During his education years, he had received several academic awards and scholarships including one international bronze award of Brandon Hall Research in Innovative Technology for Pocket SCORM in 2005. He has also accumulated more than 12 years practical experience in information technology engineering. His primary interests are in software design and computer technology. Most of his designs are related to mobile computing, multimedia technology, network communication, and web computing. He enjoys in deploying his designs into real world for people to get benefits from technology. | All |
| Bill McDaniel | DERI, Ireland | ||
| Kiyoshi Nakabayashi | NIME, Japan | Professor of National Institute of Multimedhia Education (NIME). Working in the field of CAI and e-Learning since 1995. Introduced AICC CMI and SCORM spec. around 1998 to the LMS desinged in the NTT Lab. Also designed SCORM 1.2 and 2004 compliant LMSs. Engaged in e-Learning standardization activities in Japan through the activities of the e-Learning Consortium Japan (eLC), the Advanced Learning Infrasructure Consortium (ALIC), and ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36. | All |
| Keith O'Loughlin | Intuition, Ireland | Leads product management and development of a suite of learning products all built to SCORM standards - content authoring, LMS, CMS, and mobile learning delivery to PDA (BlackBerry, Windows Mobile). l | All (but particularly mobile) |
| Angelo Panar | CTC | Software Engineer working at CTC. Member of the ADL Technical Team since 2001. Contributing developer of SCORM 2004 and supporting products. Supported development and testbed implementation of the IMS Simple Sequencing Specification and its application within SCORM 2004. | |
| Jayashree Pandeya | Adobe | Engineering manager for Adobe Captivate. Adobe Captivate is rapid eLearning content creation tool from Adobe. | |
| Frank Polster | US Army | Currently interested in implementation of semantic technologies to facilitate search, gaming for leaders and small teams training and mobile computing as a distribution mechanism for training content |
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| Frank Pretty | Accenture, UK | Technology Strategist for Accenture Learning, member of IST/43 BSI committee for ITLET, 20+ Years in developing e-Learning content, currently working with SC36 on a variety of projects. | |
| Chris Raasch | ADL Academic Colab | ||
| Allyn Radford |
Learnilities |
Independent provider of solution architecture services for eLearning implementations. Involved in technology mediated learning since 1988. Background of implementation of SCORM-based projects across different sectors in Australia, Mexico and the US. Involved currently or in the past with OASIS DITA, SCORM Technical Working Group and LETSI, was an IMS Board Member, and have participated various working groups for specification/standards development. |
Content strategies and content models to support the 'ilities'. |
| Tyde Richards | Eduworks | Currently acting as LETSI Secretariat and Technical Roadmap WG chair and representing ADL in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36. Long history with learning technology specifications and standards development beginning in 1992 with AICC participation. Involved since inception with SCORM and also with stewardship discussions that eventually resulted in LETSI. |
All |
| Eric Roberts | IDA | ||
| Robby Robson | Eduworks | President and founder of Eduworks, chair of the IEEE LTSC, Co-chair of the LETSI Program Committee. Long history of research and innovation in the areas of competency-based learning, learning content reuse, semantic technology, and standards. | |
| Mike Rustici | Rustici Software | Owner of Rustici Software, a company that specializes in helping companies adopt SCORM. Co-chair of the LETSI Program Committee. |
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| Chris Sawwa | Meridian | Technical Director / Senior Architect. Lead architect on Meridian Global & SCORM. | All |
| Aaron Silvers | Grainger | Consultant, Enterprise Learning and Knowledge Management Strategy. Specific talent with tools and technologies to produce content and enhance instructional experience. Former Lead Content Developer for ADL Technical Team. | Interests include (but not limited to) User-centered Design (UCD), Social Media, Content Development, Collaboration, Learner Engagement, Tools and Technologies, Mobile |
| Suresh Susarla | |
Ex- Program Manager at Workforce ADL Co-Lab. Currently Product Manager at FedEx, consultant assisting in SCORM and eLearning strategies. |
All |
| Schawn Thropp | CTC | Director of Advanced Learning Technologies at CTC. Member of the ADL Technical Team since 2000. Lead developer of SCORM and SCORM Evolution tasks. Member of IEEE LTSC and have help developed all of the IEEE Standards and IMS Specification used in SCORM. | Competency, Learner Profiles, Web Services, Semantics, Web 2.0, Standards, Personalized Experiences. |
| Maria Vazquez Valdez | ILCE, Mexico | Editor at the Partnership Lab ADL-ILCE, in Latin American Institute of Educative Communication. Publishing director of a magazine about culture and education, with topics as e-Learning and SCORM. | |
| Tom Wason | IAI | Sr. Scientist, Intelligent Automation, Inc., Education and Training Technology division. Involved with IMS from the beginning. Involved with IEEE LTSC, LOM. |
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| James Xu | ADL | Gaming, Modeling, Simulation, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) | |
| Dan Young | SCCI | Sr. Learning Systems Architect, SCCI. Currently working in product management, multimedia evolution, standards research, business development, and technical infrastructures for e-learning. | |
| Chris Raasch |
AADL CoLab |
Lead Tech: Working with tool development and content integration, certifications, and SCORM training | Standards, Technology, Integrations, Certification, Tool Development, SOA, Mobile |
| Crispin Weston | SALTIS | Chairman of the UK-based Suppliers Association for Learning Technology and Interoperability in Schools - which is addressing the need for robust interoperability standards for teaching and learning in K-12. |
