Online education leader and communications professional with proven record of scaling transformational ideas to achieve global results through effective strategic planning, leadership, process optimization, and assessment.Extensive team leadership experience addressing educational challenges on a global scale through online, in-person, and hybrid learning initiatives including the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab, OPENPediatrics, MITx, and MIT OpenCourseWare. Significant background in strategic planning, management, and evaluation/assessment; open education strategies and intellectual property rights; live and online event planning; and database implementation and management. Board and advisory work in organizations focused on digital learning and open education. Successful fundraising track record across grant writing, corporate sponsorship, and individual donation campaigns. Proven written and oral communication skills, with extensive presentation experience and publication history.HighlightsLeader of projects scaling to global impact, including MIT OpenCourseWare (grew from 50 to 2,000 published courses and to 27.9 M visits annually); OPENPediatrics (grew from 1,500 clinicians worldwide to a global community of 20,000); MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (grew from inception to 30+ members serving more than 1 M total learners).Innovations include development of novel social learning platform for OPENPediatrics, currently used by Pfizer, Dana Farber, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and others; a platform-less massive open online course using open educational resources that enrolled 13,000 learners and cost $4k to implement; and development, coding, and instruction for the first-ever online course offered by Emerson College.Led strategic planning processes for the OpenCourseWare Consortium and the North Bennet Street School, a nationally recognized craft trade school; collaborated as core leadership team member in strategic planning for MIT Jameel World Education Lab, MIT Open Learning, OPENPediatrics, and MIT OpenCourseWare.Managed teams and developed educational content and course production workflows for MIT OpenCourseWare, OPENPediatrics, North Bennett Street School, and MIT Jameel World Education Lab that increased output and reduced costs; developed mission-critical workflow and information management databases supporting these processes.
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