M.S. Vijay Kumar

Senior Associate Dean and

Director, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology,

Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bldg. NE-48, Room 3-007, Tech Sq

Cambridge, MA 02139

617-***-**** (voice) / 617-***-**** (facsimile)

email: abo5wc@r.postjobfree.com

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ed. D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1986

Dissertation: "Introducing Technological Innovations for Education in a Developing

Country -Implications for Planning"

M.S. Industrial Management - Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Madras, India, 1978

Dissertation: "Systemic Planning for Higher Education Administration"

B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, IIT, Madras, India 1975

Professional Experience

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA

Senior Associate Dean and Director, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology,

Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education (January 2007-present

)

Assistant Provost, November 1999-December 2006

Director of Academic Computing, May 1996- December 2006

Principal Investigator, The Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI), supported by the Andrew W.

Mellon Foundation

Influence and implement the Institute's strategic focus on educational technology.

Promote and support the integration of information technology activities and services in

MIT education. Leadership for Academic Computing in ACCORD (a coordinating framework for

academic technology support), Information Services and Technology (IS&T) and the Academic

Media Production Services (AMPS) in the Provost's office. Executive Officer, Member: MIT

Council on Educational Technology (MITCET) with key roles for infrastructure, strategy and

grant allocation; ICampus (Microsoft-MIT alliance) Steering Committee; MIT"s IT

Architecture Group (ITAG); Faculty Policy Committee (2004-2006); Faculty Advisory

Committee for MITOpenCourseware (OCW)

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley,MA

Director of Academic Computing, July 1991-May 1996

Associate Director, Computing and Information Systems, December 1993-1996

Acting Director, CIS 1994, Director of Academic Computing ( 1991-'94)

Providing vision and direction to the college's efforts in integrating information

technology across the curriculum; organizing and managing support for academic

departments, faculty and students' information technology needs; serving as a catalyst for

innovative and creative applications of technology in education; devising and implementing

comprehensive strategies for effective and efficient use of information technology.

University of Maine at Machias, Machias, ME

Director of Academic Computing, Assistant Professor Computer Applications - September

1987 - 1991

University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Group Leader, Automated Information Systems, Housing Services, May 1981 - August 1984

Systems analysis and design of computerized information systems for inventory, purchase

and maintenance; statistical analyses for planning

at Mount Holyoke: a curriculum development effort for International Relations faculty

using on-line resources, supported by the Hewlett Foundation; the New Media Center

initiative ; the Pew supported Technology Seminar Series for faculty to explore the

transformations in pedagogy and scholarship through the use of information technology

(1993-1995);

at the University of Maine, Machias: Development of interfaces for networked resources

(supported by AT&T); STILE - a project for training teachers in the use of technology

(supported by IBM) and the development of Maine's Instructional Telecommunication Project

( partly supported by Annenberg/CPB)

at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: "The Microcomputer Experience" an

innovative program for teachers and children at the School of Education, (1982);

"Electronic Aids for Literacy" project sponsored by the Center for International

Education, USAID and Texas Instruments, Inc., that explored the feasibility of hand-held

devices for literacy education in schools in Lesotho, Southern Africa,(1983-84)

for EDUCOM:: Valuable Viable Software in Education, Case Studies and Analysis that led to

the book by that name, published by McGraw Hill-Primis, (coeditor) and the Joe Wyatt

Challenge project - 101 Success Stories .

Professional Activities

Lumina Foundation, Advisor Next Generation of Student Support

Educational Development Center, Inc., Board of Trustees, 2010

Qatar Foundation International, Advisor, Chair of Working Group for Educational

Technology and Innovation, 2010

Singapore University for Technology and Design, Advisor for IT, 2010

Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Open education and technology strategy

Massachusetts STEM Advisory Council, Subcommittee on Infrastructure an Sustainability,

2010

UNESCO, Communication and Information Sector, Strategy for Open Suite (OER, Policy and

Technology), 2009

University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Advisor for educational innovation and technology

strategy, 2007-present

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, Advisory Committee for Computing Services,

October 2006.

National Knowledge Commission, India, Advisor, December 2005-present

Ecole Polytechnic Federale Lausanne, Switzerland, Academic Communications and Planning,

June 2006

University of California, Berkeley, External Review Committee for IT, 2005.

OECD, Barcelona, October 26-28, 2006

Applications Strategy Council, Internet2, Member, 2004-2007

CURRIKI Global Education Learning, Advisory Board, 2004 - Present Advisory Board, 2004

National Academy of Engineering, Member Expert Steering Committee, Workshop on

Interoperability, November 2002

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Online Edition, Member, International

Editorial Board

Corporation for Research Education Networking, Trustee, 1998-2001;

CAUSE Recognition Committee member (1997-2000)

NLII Teaching and Learning Bridge Task Force

Industrial Liaison Program, MIT

Ivy+ Academic Computing Directors, member (1996-present)

CAUSE Professional Development Committee member (1998-2000)

Seminars on Academic Computing, Chair, Governing Board, 1995-1997, Board Member 1994-

1997, Program Committee Chair, 1994-1995, 1999.

New England Regional Computing Program, NERCOMP, Board Member,- present, Chair 1997-1998,

Program Committee Chair,1995-1998

American Association for Higher Education's (AAHE)Teaching, Learning and Technology

Group.

Advisory Board - NIIT, India

Apple Higher Education Advisory Board,1997-1998

EUIT, Educom Steering Committee, 1993

FAPESP,TIDIA,Sao Paulo, Brazil, Program and Project Review for Advanced N, December, 2003

Ecole Poytechnic Federale Lausanne, Switzerland, Chair of External Review (audit)

Committee for IT, November 2002

University of California, Los Angeles, Educational Technology strategies, October 2002.

University of California, Berkeley, External Review Committee for Educational Technology

Keene State College, New Hampshire, Planning for Educational Technology

Annenberg CP/B Seminar on Video for Faculty Development, California State University,

Hayward, April 1995: The potential of WWW for faculty Development

Follett Corporation, Chicago, January 1995: A Strategic Planning exercise for "the future

of the book"

Academy for Educational Development, Washington, D.C. January 1986:Preliminary study for

Automated System Development for Scholarship Processing and Tracking, Ministry of

Education, Zimbabwe.

Several Colleges and K-12 systems in the Northeast :Planning for integrating computers

and communications in the educational process; developing collaborative projects and

grants; teacher training in technology use.

Publications and Reports

"The Open Quality Connection", Bolcetin IESALC Informa No. 209 Open Educational

Resources, UNESCO-IESALC,September 2010.

"EDU Tech Cover Story and Interview: Open Knowledge is the Future, Volume 1, Issue 3,

January 2010, EDU &nbsp

"Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education

through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay

Kumar (Eds), MIT Press, November 2008. .

"Open Educational Resources in India*s National Development", Open Learning special issue

on OERs, UNESCO, March 2009.

"The Case for Open Education Resources Distance and Distributed Education to Support the

Growing Knowledge Economy in India, Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition,

Volume I, Information Science Reference, Hershey PA, 2009.

"From Open Resources to Educational Opportunity", ALT-J, Research in Learning Technology,

Vol.

Education: New Connections between Content, Curriculum and Community., Open University of

Israel, Tel Aviv, February 9, 2010.

Open University of Israel, National Broadcast, " Network Enabled Open Education: Changing

the landscape of learning opportunity, OUI, Tel Aviv, February, 8, 2010

" Scaling Excellence: the Grand Opportunity of Open Education in India, C-DAC, Hyderabad,

India, November 5-6, 2009

Symposium on Implications and Implementation Strategies for NKC Recommendations on

Distributed Educational Opportunity, ?Open Education Resources for Network enabled

Education, IGNOU, Habitat Center, New Delhi, August 20-21, 2009

Blackboard Developers Conference Keynote, " Towards Blended & Boundary-less Learning

Experiences, Washington, DC, July 2009

Sakai2009, Keynote, " Learning OUTed: Open Ubiquitous Transformational, Cambridge, MA,

July 2009

MACLearning Annual Conference, Keynote Presentation, "Open, A New Deal for Education,,

MIT, March 27, 2009.

5th GLOBE-NIME seminar "Open, A New Deal for Education, Keynote Presentation,, Tokyo,

Japan February 2008

EADTU, UNESCO, Open Educational Resources for National Development in India, Paris, March

12-13, 2009

PAN IIT, Technical Education 2020 Session, Keynote presentati, " Educational Technology

at MIT, ", 2008, Madras December 20th, 2008

THE OPEN FORUM,Keynote Presentation, "The Path to Open: Tenets for Institutional Planning

in an Era of Open,PALM SPRINGS, CA, November 14, 2008

IT WorldEdu Summit 2008, "Leadership of educational innovation with ICT support",

Barcelona, 30th October, 2008

Open Ed Tech, UoC, Barcelona, November, 2008

Asia-Pacific Leaders Forum on Secondary Education, New Skills for a Global Innovation

Society, Panelist: Technology's role in Improving Access and Quality, New Delhi, India,

MArch 24-26, 2008

Open Learn, Open University, UK, Research Panel,, Panel (Moderator), "Opening Up

Education: Removing Barriers, Fostering Participation, and Promoting Sustainability,

October 30, 2007

Open Innovation in Education, Univu>ersity of Tokyo August 25, 2007

International Society for the Scolarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) 2007

Conference, Featured Panel Session,, Sydney, Australia,, Jul 2-5,2007

Internet2 Fall 2004 Meeting, Austin, TX, The Role and Value of Advanced Networking in

Teaching and Learning, September 28, 2004.

EDUCAUSE 2004, Denver CO "The CMS and Beyond

ALT-C (Association for Learning Technology) Conference, Bristol, U.K., Keynote

Presentation, "From Open Resources to Educational Opportunity". September 2004

TERENA Networking Conference, 2004, Rhodes, Greece, Keynote Presentation,, From Open

Resources to Educational OpportunityJune 9, 2004.

Common Solutions Group Meeting, Harvard University, Pervasive Computing to Abundant

Educational Opportunity at MITSeptember 2004.

EDUCAUSE 2002, Atlanta, Visions for Technology enabled Education

University of Maryland, Open Frameworks for Educational Applications - Towards a

Sustainable Ecology, June 3, 2002.

University System of Georgia, Open for Education, April 1-2, 2002.

Coalition for Networked Information, Washington D.C., "Infrastructure Strategy for

Sustainability and Boundariless Education, April 15, 2002.

National Competitiveness Network, Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI)University of Warwick,

England, MIT's Open Knowledge Initiative,December 10, 2001.

Telelearning 2001, Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada, MIT, the Internet and Educational

Entropy,November 12, 2001.

Harvard-ABCD Group, Transforming Educational Interactions through Technology- the MIT

Experiments and Experience,November 21, 2001.

Center for Studies in Higher Education, University Teaching as E-Business? Research and

Policy Agendas,October12, 2001.

Seminars on Academic Computing, Snowmass, CO, OCW: A Strategy for Educational

transformation,August5, 2001.

Association for Pacific Rim Universities, Kyoto, Japan, Bold Experiments for Launching

the Global University,May 12, 2001.

NASA Langley Research Center, Next Generation Learning Systems, Sustainable Pathways for

New Learning Systems,September 21, 2000.

Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, March 25, 2000, The Challenge of Cyber-

Education,

Thinking Globally Acting Locally

Distinguished Lecture Series Tata Infotech and IEEE, Mumbai, India, May 3, 1999,The

Future of IT in Education

Common Solutions Group Group, Information Systems at MIT - An Organizational

Perspective,October1998

Information Futures Institute

Educom 98, Emerging Models for Faculty Support

ED-MEDIA/ED-TELECOM 98, Freiburg, Germany, June 24, 1998

UCISA, Jersey, U.K., Keynote presentation Quality, Virtuality and Reality

Workshop on Advanced Engineering Education,NASAEngineering Educational Environments for

Tomorrow

CAUSE '97, Current Issues Session on Faculty Support

Educom- Itech '97

Seminars on Academic Computing, Snowmass, Colorado, August 1997, Quality, Virtuality and

Reality

Syllabus Workshops, Ft. Lauderdale, March 97, Institutional Support Strategies

CAES, Distance Education Conference, MIT, November 1996, The Reality of Implementing

Virtuality

Educom96, Philadelphia, A Slow Revolution Speeds Up -AAHE's Teaching Learning Technology

Roundtables

Syllabus 96, Sonoma State University, July 1996, Meaningful Support for Technology in

Education

EDUCOM 95. Portland, Oregon, October 1995,

American Association for Higher Education, Annual Conference, Washington D C, March 1995

Technology Seminar at Mount Holyoke

EDUCOM 94, San Antonio, October 94, Crafting the New Learning Enterprise: Tales from the

Log

American Association for Higher Education, Annual Conference, Chicago, March 1994,

Successful Teaching in the Brave New world

NERComp Hypermedia SIG Conference, Mount Holyoke College, March 93, Institutional

Strategies

EDUCOM '92, Baltimore, Maryland, October 29, 1992, Focus on Communities: Can Connectivity

Support Community?

EDUCOM '92, Baltimore, Maryland, October 29, 1992, Valuable & Viable Types of Curricular

Software

League of Innovation for Community Colleges, San Diego, November 1991, What kinds of

software have influenced the curriculum: Report from the Valuable, Viable Software Project

League of Innovation for Community Colleges, San Diego, November 1991,A Vision for the

Future of Higher Education.

EDUCOM '91, San Diego, October 91, Moving from Myth to Vision: Educational Uses of

Information Technology

Seminars on Academic Computing, Snowmass Village, Colorado, August 1991, Distance

Education Opportunities: An Ounce of Image IS Worth a Ton of Text

National Educational Computing Conference, Phoenix, AZ, June 1991, Two to Tango

A Bridge to Tomorrow, Third Annual Conference on Emerging Technologies in Education and

Training, University of Maine at Augusta, September 1989, Technology Promoting Academic

Excellence, Excellent Academics Promoting Technology

New England Regional Computing (NERCOMP), Faculty Development and Academic Computing

Seminar, Bryant College, November 1988,Promoting Technology Use in Educational

Environments: The Organizational Focus

EDUCOM '88, Campaign for Excellence, Washington, D.C., October 1988,Technology in

Education: Planning Themes and Paradigms

Courses Taught and Doctoral Committees

Doctoral Thesis Committee: Peggy McCready, University of Pennsylvania (ongoing, 2012;)

Katie Livingdton Vale (Ph D.Boston University, 2009);

Harvard University Extension:

Open Education Practice and Potential; Directing Reading and Research Project (Spr 2012)

University of Maine at Machias:

Instructional Computing (Fall 1990); Introduction to Computing (Fall'98. '99); Survey of

Operating Systems (Spring '87. '89)' Survey of Data Communications (Spr '87. Spr '89);

Introduction to Programming Languages (Fall '86);Independent/Directed Studies: Integrated

Applications (Summer '98);Unix Communication (Spr '98); Advanced Database

Applications(Spr'98,Summer '98)' CAD Curriculum for High Schools (FAll '87); Fundamentals

of Unix Systems Administration (Fall '87)

University of Massachusetts Amherst (Graduate TA):Insructional Applications of Computers

(Fall '82, Fall '83) Introduction to Future Studies;(Fall '82) Graduate Seminar in Future

Studies(Spr '83)

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