Next Speaker in UMassOnline’s Speaker Series: Michael Feldstein of Oracle Corp.
Posted on July 22, 2010 by Patrick.Masson
As you may have noticed, UMassOnline in July started a new series of events to feature learning technology and trends experts at brief local lectures to which everyone with an interest is invited to attend at no cost. Our first speaker, Professor James Dalziel, Director, Macquarie ELearning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE) Macquarie University Sydney, NSW Australia presented in July on learning design, identity management, technical standards and open community, content and software in education. Now we’re happy to share that on Thursday, August 5, 2010, our next speaker in the series will be Michael Feldstein, Principal Product Manager for Academic Enterprise Solutions (formerly Academic Enterprise Initiative, or AEI), Oracle Corporation.
About Michael Feldstein
Prior to working at Oracle, Michael was an Assistant Director at the SUNY Learning Network, where he oversaw blended learning faculty development and was part of the leadership team for the LMS platform migration efforts of this 40-campus program. Prior to that, he was co-founder and CIO of MindWires, a company that provided e-learning and knowledge management products and services to Fortune 500 corporations, with a special emphasis on software simulations. He has also been the interim CLO at The Otter Group, a Senior Partner at Christensen/Roberts Solutions, and a Senior Instructional Designer at Raymond Karsan Associates. In previous lives, Michael has been a freelance writer, an English PhD student, a middle school and high school teacher, a tire wrangler at a Yokohama Tire warehouse, and a professional loafer at Schooley’s Mountain County Park.
Michael is a member of the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors and also its Product Council. He currently is a participant in the IMS as a member of its Learning Technology Advisory Council (LTAC) and has been a member of eLearn Magazine’s Editorial Advisory Board. Michael is a frequent invited speaker on a range of e-learning-related topics. Most recently, he has been invited to speak on topics including e-learning usability, LMS evaluation methods, ePortfolios, and edupatents for organizations ranging from the eLearning Guild to the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council, and has been interviewed as an e-learning expert by a variety of media outlets, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Associated Press, and U.S. News and World Report.
Michael was a very early participant in Open Source Learning Management Systems projects, having been one of the early participants (and the only non-technologist participant at the time) of the OpenACS community in early 2000—the community that would eventually spawn the GPL-licensed dotLRN Learning Management System. He is currently a member of Sakai’s Product Council.
How to Register to Attend
The event will take place at the Cermax Conference Center, 280 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA. Click to learn more and to register for the event.
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