Featured Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Shifting to Open Digital Public Goods

Dr. Cable Green, Director of Open Knowledge, Creative Commons 

Dr. Cable Green works with open education, science and research communities to leverage open licensing, content, practices and policies to expand equitable access and contributions to open knowledge. His work is focused on identifying complex problems (e.g., UN SDGs) where open knowledge is a critical part of the solution, and then opening that knowledge to help solve the problem. Cable is also a leading advocate for open licensing and procurement policies that ensure publicly funded education, science and research resources are freely and openly available to the public.

Cable has 25+ years of digital learning and open education experience and helped establish the: Open Course Library, Open Up Resources, CC Certificate, CC Open Education Platform, Institute for Open Leadership, UNESCO Recommendations on OER and Open Science, Open Climate Campaign, Open Climate Data Project, CC consulting services, Digital Public Goods Standard, and multiple other initiatives. Cable holds a PhD in education psychology from Ohio State University, and enjoys motorcycling and skiing in the mountains with his family in Washington State.


Pre Conference Workshop

 Better Courses and How to Build Them: Hands-on with OLI Torus

Erin Czerwinski, Carnegie Mellon University

Erin Czerwinski, is the Manager, Learning Engineering and Technology Enhanced Learning Product, for The Simon Initiative and The Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University.  Erin also serves on the steering committee of the IEEE IC Consortium for Learning Engineering (ICICLE), has authored several chapters in The Learning Engineering Toolkit (Goodell & Kolodner 2023), and is the Chair for the 2023 ICICLE Conference. Erin has deep expertise defining and using learning science methodologies, best practices, and product quality guidelines to deliver impactful learning experiences. She has over fifteen years of experience effectively designing, implementing, evaluating, and improving online courses, curricula, and platforms. Erin has provided curriculum leadership at Western Governor’s University, and was the Director of Learning Engineering at Acrobatiq, Inc. after serving in a Learning Engineering position with CMU’s OLI. She holds an MS in Education from Duquesne University, specializing in instructional technologies.


Pre Conference Workshop

 Better Courses and How to Build Them: Hands-on with OLI Torus

Hal Turner, OLI Partner and Community Manager 

Hal works with partners to help them create and/or teach with learning materials on the OLI platforms, and to expand their use. He also oversees customer support and technical support for OLI.


Pre Conference Workshop

Domain of One's Own Unleashed: Empowering Educators to Innovate Using SUNY Create. 

Ruth Carpenter, SUNY Binghamton

Ruth Anne Carpenter is a Digital Scholarship Librarian at Binghamton University where they help develop digital scholarship initiatives that promote innovative research and creative engagement in and outside of the classroom. Their research interests revolve around exploring the intersections of technology, social justice, digital humanities and project management. 


Pre Conference Workshop

Domain of One's Own Unleashed: Empowering Educators to Innovate Using SUNY Create. 

Ed Beck, SUNY Oneonta

Ed Beck has been working in the Educational Technology field since 2013. His current position is at SUNY Oneonta as the Open & Online Learning Specialist. He works with faculty on the development of online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses. Some of his interests include scaffolding digital competencies across the curriculum and the exploration, adoption, and creation of high quality open resources. He is one of the co-founders of the SUNY Create initiative that invites students to build a web presence using open source tools.