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COSTP: Consults and Advisories

A partial list of COSTP’s educational consults, advisories, contracts, and other activities:

1) Advisory to General Education and Learning Community (GELC) staff- assigned by Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy (Sun sponsored GELC at that time) to do discovery on the best way to move forward toward open source K-20 textbook production and collaboration.

2) Connexions Project: Advisory with Connexions principals on key structural needs for successful publication and adoption of open source K-20 textbooks.

3) Soros Open Access Initiative: Advisory to the OAI board on strategies to accomplish the sustainable publishing and distribution of OER, worldwide.

4) Gates, MacArthur, Hewlett, and Annenberg Foundations: Advisories on the importance of funding curriculum *materials* innovation, in addition to funding for pure curriculum innovation. The Hewlett Foundation, and others, went on to fund the Connexions Project, and other projects dedicated to creation and distribution of Open-licensed educational materials and courseware.

5) Utah Open State Courseware Project: Advisory to help UOSCP understand the vagaries of textbook production, market realities, and channel innovation necessary to make open source K-20 textbooks a viable undertaking.

6) Wikipedia: Advised Wikipedia on licensing strategies and K-20 OER deployment and sustainability tactics. Created “wikiversity” project within Wikipedia. Invited to participate by Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales.

7) Venture Capital: Several advisories to the venture capital community on for-profit-based educational materials distribution options available to social entrepreneurial investors. A partial list includes Sun Microsystems Corporate Venture Capital Group, New Schools Venture Fund, Compass Technology Ventures, Revolution Ventures, Generation Investment Management (UK), and others.

8) California State Education Department; California State Board of Education; California Teacher's Union; various California State Legislators: Advisories and consultations on strategies for sustainable creation, deployment and use of OER.

9) Creative Commons: Advisory on the creation and construction of Creative Commons educational and other licenses.

10) Advisory to K-20 open source projects based in India and South Africa.

11) Eduventures, Boston, MA: Advisories on open content strategies.

12) East China Normal University, Shanghai, China: Advisory and consulting on utilization of open source educational materials for industrial park education

16) Hewlett-Packard Imaging Group, Palo Alto, CA: Advisory on the growth of open content and its impact on self-printing.

17) California Community College Open Textbook Collaborative: Senior Research and Project Consultant to The Hewlett Foundation-funded collaborative, founded by Martha Kanter, current United States Undersecretary of Education.

18) CourseLoad: Consulted on strategic frameworks for deploying CourseLoad’s portable platform content services to K-20 institutions.

19) eBook Lab Italia: Presentation on OER and the Future of Open Technology in Education to major Italian and European publishers.

20) Italian Publishing Association: Presentation on the future of Educational Technology in Publishing to major Italian publishers.

20) Institute for the Study of Knowledge and Management in Education (ISKME): Consult and advisory on creating systems that leverage ISKME research.

22) 20 Million Minds Foundation: Advisory on sustainable creation and deployment of OER.

22) Private equity investment groups (under NDA): Several consults re: market opportunities in K-20 educational publishing, OER, educational technology in education - educational publishing and educational service futures.

23) Content creation contractors (under NDA): Several advisories on creation and deployment of sustainable content creation models Open Educational Resource-based organizations.

 


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