On April 12, 2013, Academic Computing staff from UMass Amherst attended The 21st Century Classroom: Online and Blended Learning, a one-day conference sponsored by UMassOnline and the Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Chair, Jeannette E. Riley.
The keynote speaker for the event was Dr. Cable Green, Director of Global Learning from Creative Commons. Dr. Green delivered an informative and inspiring talk about how open licensing, open educational resources, and open policies have the potential to significantly improve access to quality higher education and research resources.
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About Cable Green
Dr. Green works with the global open education community to leverage open licensing, open educational resources, and open policies to significantly improve access to quality education and research resources so everyone in the world can attain the education they desire. Cable has 15 years of academic technology, online learning, and open education experience in higher education and recently led a project to build and share a general education curriculum under the CC BY license. Cable holds a PhD in educational psychology from Ohio State University.