David Porter, Ed.D. Email & Phone Number

North Vancouver, Canada

• Working with institutions, governments and organizations, I use strategic foresight to provide navigation and guidance to achieve organizational goals within a dynamic and challenging education landscape. My experience.
• Climate adaptation up-skilling pathways: Research and design with the Resilience by Design (RbD) Lab at Royal Roads University.
• Upskilling for Canada's Climate Transition: Research initiative for the Academy for Sustainable Innovation and RbD Lab, funded by Future Skills Centre.
• Pilot project on assessment of micro-credentials for stacking and laddering aimed at academic credit, for Thompson Rivers University - Open Learning, funded by the BC Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future.

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Worked in British Columbia with the Commonwealth of Learning leading its higher education initiatives. COL.org is an international organization that leads open learning and educational development activities across the countries of the Commonwealth. There is no better time than now to be promoting education and training opportunities to enable empowered.

Toronto, Canada Area

Delighted to have taken on a wonderful role at Humber College where I provided leadership for the institution's Innovative / Flexible Learning Strategy. In this role, I collaborated with leaders across Humber’s academic division, ETS, International and other departments, as well as with external partners, to ensure we are meeting our industry and community.

Toronto, Canada

Honoured to have been CEO at eCampusOntario.ca during its start-up phase (2016-2020) to lead, build and expand the influence of the successful not-for-profit corporation whose membership is composed of all publicly-funded colleges and universities in Ontario, Canada.This role provided a tremendous opportunity to help more Ontario students get access to.

Burnaby, BC, Canada

I joined the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) on June 15, 2015 as its Associate Vice-President Education Support and Innovation. I had an amazing ride for 15 months, met some very talented people, and marvelled at the depth of professional knowledge in the organization. I was the lead for the development of a renewed Learning and Teaching.

Vancouver, BC And Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Consultant to the Mongolian sub-project of the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) global project. http://roer4d.com

Vancouver, BC

Co-authored and co-taught the elective course, ETEC 522 - Ventures in Learning Technology.

Burnaby, BC

In 2014-15, Simon Fraser University conducted a Task Force on Flexible Education (TFFE) and I was the project manager working from the SFU Burnaby Campus. http://flexed.sfu.ca

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Lead executive for BCcampus.ca, an Expedia-like service portal for higher education that provides connections to programs, courses, services, and resources for British Columbia learners and educators.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Consultant to DREAM IT Project now ONE Mongolia - http://www.one.mn funded by International Development Research Centre of Canada http://idrc.ca.

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Burnaby, BC, Canada

Doctor Of Education (Ed.D.), Educational Leadership

Open educational practices and policies

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Curriculum And Instruction

Educational technology specialist: computer-based writing (composition) and revision practices

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Anthropology

North American Prehistory