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Etudes Board of
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Directors & Officers |
 John Wagstaff
Board Chair
Director, Information Technology Services
El Camino College |
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John Wagstaff has worked in
higher education for over thirty years, serving in Universities, Colleges
and Community Colleges throughout the country. He moved to California in
1992 to be the Director of Media, Learning and Information Resources at
Peralta Community College District. In 1996 he was appointed to be the
District's Director of Information Technology, Management Information
Systems. Since then, Mr. Wagstaff has served as the lead administrator on
all matters related to Information Technology including Enterprise
Resource Planning systems, technology planning, library automation and
operations, telecourse and online distance learning, and state and local
data/telephony network planning and implementation. He is an elected
member of the California Community Colleges Chief Information Systems
Officers Association.
In addition to chairing the Etudes Board of Directors,
Mr. Wagstaff also serves on two California Community Colleges Chancellor's
Office committees; the Telecommunication Technology Advisory Committee and
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 Diane Rosner
Vice-Chair
Dean of Instruction,
Lake Tahoe Community College |
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Diane Rosner received
her BA in Spanish from UCLA and her Master's in Spanish from the
University of Nevada, Reno. She has walked a mile in many shoes,
including adjunct faculty for 11 years, full time faculty for 14
years, and she currently serves as Dean of Instruction, all at Lake
Tahoe Community College (LTCC). She was one of the co-founders of
LTCC's internationally recognized Intensive Spanish Summer Institute (ISSI),
which just celebrated its fifteenth year.
In an attempt to combat declining enrollment, Diane
worked with Vivie Sinou to begin to identify the online teaching
"stars" and recruit them to teach for LTCC. After hiring a steady
stream of wonderful online instructors, LTCC began to turn the
declining enrollment trend around and is now garnering over $1
million/year through online courses.
Diane was one of the original steering committee
members for the Etudes project, and now serves as a board member for
Etudes.org.
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 Dr. Chuck Severance
Secretary
Ex-Director, Sakai, University of Michigan
Sakai Foundation
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Charles is currently a Clinical
Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of
Michigan. Charles also works with the IMS Global Learning Consortium
as the IMS Developer Network Coordinator. Previously he was the
Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation and the Chief Architect of
the Sakai Project.
Charles is the Author of the book High Performance Computing, Second
Edition, published by O'Reilly and Associates. Charles has a
background in standards including serving as the vice-chair for the
IEEE Posix P1003 standards effort and edited the Standards Column in
IEEE Computer Magazine from 1995-1999.
Charles currently is teaching in the University of Michigan School of
Information. Charles has also taught in Computer Science at the
University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Charles has a
B.S., M.S., and Phd. in Computer Science from Michigan State
University.
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 Dr.
Ed Gould
Superintendent/President
Imperial Valley College |
Dr. Ed Gould, a veteran California community college
leader has served as Superintendent/President of four community
college districts, Vice Chancellor of Student Services and Special
Programs for the California Community College System Office, and four
years as an Associate Dean for Higher Education Graduate Programs at
Capella University, a private for profit university, and two years as
a corporate executive for eCollege.
While at San Joaquin Delta College, Dr. Gould saw an experimental
online program grow from 50 students to 5,000 in a three year period
of time. He recognized the power of online learning to the adult
learner and went on a journey to discover how best to provide online
services to students.
He is a noted speaker on the future of education and
the impact that online learning in the future.
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 Eric
Ichon
Dean of Distance Learning & Instructional Technology
West Los Angeles College |
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Eric Ichon, the Dean of Distance Learning &
Instructional Technology for West
Los Angeles College (WLAC), has over 10 years of experience in
distance learning including instructional delivery via satellite,
videoconferencing and, of course, online. Dean Ichon joined the
faculty of WLAC as the Instructional Media Specialist in 1997 and
founded their Distance Learning Program in 1999. WLAC now has the
largest Distance Learning Program in the Los Angeles Community College
District (LACCD).
Professor Ichon received his Bachelor of Business Administration in
Management and his Master of Library and Information Science from the
University of Texas at Austin. In 1990 he moved to Los Angeles to work
as the Reader Services Manager for the Braille Institute. In 1995 he
joined the Immaculate Heart College Center as the Center Librarian.
Professor Ichon has chaired, and is currently a member of, the
LACCD Distance Education Committee and serves on the Instructional and
Student Services Technology Committee. Professor Ichon was one of the
original members of the ETUDES Advisory Board and now serves on the
ETUDES Board of Trustees.
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 Jon
Townsend
Professional Development
Coordinator
San Joaquin Delta College |
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Jon Townsend has worked at San Joaquin Delta College
since 1981 and is currently the Professional Development Center
Coordinator. He has held several other positions at the college
including Webmaster and adjunct Music Instructor. Jon has been
involved with online instruction at Delta College since its infancy in
1999, a program that by the Spring of 2009 has grown to 225 online and
53 Web enhanced sections. He is one of two Etudes trainers on campus
and is the primary faculty support person.
He is a CVC Certified Trainer (California Virtual Campus), a member
of ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) and holds
certificates in E-Learning Instructional Design, Designing Learning,
and Advanced Designing Learning.
Jon is co-recipient of the Technology 2001 Focus Award for the
“Deltaonline Project” presented by the Chancellor’s Office of the
California Community Colleges. The "Deltaonline Project" was the
college's first group of online courses.
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 Vivie Sinou
Executive Director (CEO)
Etudes, Inc.
(Non-voting officer) |
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Vivie leads,
manages, and supports the Etudes community and organization. She is responsible
for the strategic planning and vision of Etudes, as well as product management and development of
the Etudes-NG (Next Generation) software. Vivie formed the ETUDES
Consortium in 2002 and extended Course Management System (CMS)
services and support to distance learning programs to over 25 community colleges in California. In 2004,
Vivie led the adoption of the
Sakai
platform for Etudes, and was a
founding member of the
Sakai Board, representing community college needs.
In May of 2008, Vivie founded Etudes, Inc.,
and led Etudes from a campus project to a
non-profit 501(c)(3), public charity organization that leads open source development and offers e-learning services to higher education
institutions.
Vivie also spear-headed the
Sofia initiative for undergraduate education, and is
helping shape the vision of both open source and open education
resources. Vivie also spear-headed the
Sofia initiative for undergraduate education, and is
helping shape the vision of open source software and open education
resources.
Vivie was the recipient of the 2002 Technology
Leadership Award from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s
Office. She also received the League Innovator of the Year Award for
Foothill De Anza Community College District (2002).
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