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BOARD
MEMBERS
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Young-Sung Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
- Chairman
Dr.
Young Sung Lee, M.D. Ph.D. has been leading MedRic (Medical Research
Information Center), a Ministry of Science and Technology funded
organization in S. Korea, focusing on research and development in
medical informatics, medical data visualization, telematics, Virtual
Reality-based medical training, and health communication and promotion
policies and programs. Dr. Lee is Professor of College of Medicine at
Chungbuk National University and a visiting scholar at Stanford
University Medical Media and Information Technology. He has lead many
global health literacy initiatives covering diseases such as AIDS,
Avian Influenza, cancer series (e.g., lung, colon, and breast cancer),
and other diseases such as pneumonia, malaria, tsutsugamushi fever,
haemorrhagic fever, and leptospirosis). He is currently serving as a
board member of the Korean Society of Medical Informatics.
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Paul Kim, Ph.D - President
As
the Chief Technology Officer for Stanford University School of
Education, Paul Kim is responsible for providing leadership in all
aspects of academic and innovative technology. He received
his Ph.D. in Educational Technology from University of Southern
California and has been collaborating with educational research and
development institutes such as U.S. Satellite Laboratories, Medical
Research & Information Center, and Korea Educational Research
and Information Service. Kim served as Vice President for
Vatterott College, MO and Chairman of the Board for Intercultural
Institute of California.
At Stanford, he teaches EDUC392 - Enterprising Higher
Education in the Digital Age, EDUC391– Web-Based
Technologies for Learning, EDUC480 & 490 Directed
Studies with topics such as Private Post-Secondary Education, Digital
Portfolios, and Concept-Map-based Assessment. His recent publication
topics include "Perspectives on a Visual-map-based Electronic
Portfolio System," "Effects of 3D Virtual Reality
of Plate Tectonics on Fifth Grade Students' Achievement and Attitude
Toward Science". His recent presentations include
"Assessment through Digital Portfolios", EDUCAUSE,
"Development of Large-Scale Stereo 3D Image DB Network for Medical
Education Using KOREN", Korean
Association for Educational Information &
Media,"Enterprising Higher Education with ICT", APEC
(Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Education Forum.
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Neha Taleja - Executive
Director
Neha Taleja is a financial content
developer for an educational technology firm. Her past experience has
been as a journalist covering the education sector and PR manager. With
an educational background in public relations, business management and
majors in finance, she is determined to use her diverse skill sets and
make a difference in the education system especially in her home
country – India. She is responsible for managing teams, executing and
coordinating projects and motivating a team of volunteers for the
organization.
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Kenneth Lee, Esq. - General
Counsel & Secretary
Kenneth
Lee is a founding partner of the Law Offices of Lee & Kim and
has over 20 years of experience representing foreign companies
conducting business in the United States.. For many of these
companies, Lee acts as outside general counsel providing a wide variety
of legal services for his clients. He also represents many
high-tech start-ups.
Lee
has taken an active leadership role in many non-profit organizations
including the Korea IT Network (founder, director and president);
Korean Americans for Political Empowerment (founder and president);
Korean American Professional Society (founding director); United Way,
Community Initiatives Committee; Advisory Board to the San Jose
Independent Police Auditor; among many others. As a member of
the California State Bar, Lee began his legal career with a large
international law firm in San Francisco specializing in the
representation of foreign companies (primarily from Asia). He
received his B.A. from Columbia University and his JD from New York
University School of Law.
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Tina Hong - Chief Financial
Officer
Tina
Hong is a CPA in private practice in Silicon Valley. She
provides her clients with year-round accounting, tax and financial
services, and she provides consulting services to many start-up
businesses. She has over 6 years of accounting and audit
experience with high-tech companies. Most of her clients are
individuals, partnerships, or corporations. Hong received her
B.S. in Accounting from San Jose State University and a B.A. in History
from Busan National University in Korea. She is fluent in
English and Korean.
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Deborah Todd - Board
Member
Deborah
Todd is an award-winning game designer, writer, producer, and director
in the interactive arena, and has worked with some of the industry’s
top publishers and Hollywood studios, including Disney Interactive,
Disneyland, Fox, DreamWorks, MGM/UA, Columbia, Warner Bros.,
Nickelodeon, Humongous Entertainment, The Discovery Channel, The
Learning Company, Mindscape, Broderbund, Houghton Mifflin Interactive,
McGraw-Hill, Thomson Higher Education, Cengage Learning, Random House,
and Stephen Spielberg's Starbright Foundation. She has designed games
on subjects ranging from early-learning reading and math, to algebra,
astronomy, and CAD engineering, and has worked with such major marquee
properties as Curious George, Blue’s Clues, The Pink Panther, and 101
Dalmatians. Her work has garnered the ABA Book Sellers Choice New Media
Award, the ComputEd Best Interactive Story Award, Child Magazine’s Best
Software of the Year Award, Parenting Magazine’s Software Magic Award,
and U.S. News and World Report’s Top 12 Titles of the Year.
Ms. Todd is a distinguished speaker and panelist at industry
conferences and film festivals worldwide, and an international
consultant and lecturer at universities. As a pioneer in the
convergence of Hollywood and games, she founded the WGA’s Northern
California Interactive Writers Caucus, created and co-wrote the monthly
column “alt.screenwriters” for Written By magazine, and is on the
steering committee for the WGA Video Game Writing Caucus. A prolific
writer, with 21 published titles in games, television, and non-fiction
books, her most recent book Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light
includes a forward by producer Jon Landau, who hails her as “a veteran
of two entertainment industries: Hollywood and video games,” stating
that “Throughout her career, Deb’s constantly innovated new ways to
deliver entertainment through gameplay…And from the start, she’s spoken
and written about the right ways to marry technology and entertainment
to create great games.” This book was recognized as one of the five
most important industry books of 2007, by Game Developers Magazine. Ms.
Todd lives in Marin County, California.
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Gordon
Freedman - Board Member
Gordon
Freedman has a thorough practice, academic and policy knowledge of K12,
higher education, government agencies, textbook publishing and
education technology vendors in the U.S. as well as in many other
countries globally. Freedman has held numerous executive positions
that, along with his extensive consulting with for-profits,
non-profits, and institutions, have influenced both the development of
education technologies and education policy and practice. Through his
research, writing, and participation in various settings, Freedman
firmly believes that major education transformations are underway in
each of the segments, and between the segments, and that these are
largely occurring without adequate planning, guidance, measurement,
public and expert comment, or social and technical architecture and
integration.
Freedman
is a visionary thinker who has led transformational efforts that
require the development of broad consensus with diverse groups to
achieve common objectives. Freedman’s knowledge and leadership in media
production, technology development, and organizational consulting has
placed him in a unique position to be a change agent who can stimulate
new levels of thought leadership and business activity. Freedman's
contact base and supportive relationships are extensive in most of the
areas of education. Freedman lives in Carmel Valley, CA with his wife,
a veterinarian, and their three boys.
Freedman
is involved with the local public schools and is a cofounder
and long-time board member of a K-8 Charter International School.
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Dr. Mark - Schlager -
Board Member
Dr. Schlager’s research focuses in the
application of cognitive and social learning theories to the
development of online strategies and technologies for teacher education
and professional development. As Director of the
internationally recognized Tapped InŽ online teacher community program (http://www.tappedin.org/)
and the NSF Centers for Learning and Teaching
Network (http://www.cltnet.org/),
he has developed and researched effective online strategies, services,
and technologies that enable education professionals to engage in a
wide range formal and informal collaborative learning activities.
Tapped In has been cited in the National Research Council book, How
People Learn (2000), the Web-Based Education Commission
(2000) report, The Power of the Internet for Learning:
Moving from Promise to Practice, theOpen University Press
Professional Learning Series book, Teacher Learning for
Educational Change (2002), and several text books
teacher education and professional development text
books. Dr. Schlager recently led the development of the
School 2.0 eToolkit site (etoolkit.org) for the U.S. Department of
Education. He has also consulted with commercial vendors, national
education organizations, university teacher education programs, and
education agencies on the design and implementation of online
strategies for teacher education, induction, and professional
development. His clients have included the Intel Education Web
Strategies Group, PBS TeacherLine, UNext, Council of Independent
Colleges, National Writing Project, National Commission on Teaching and
America’s Future, and Milwaukee Public Schools. Dr. Schlager has
published several articles on technology support for teacher learning,
and he has served on the Technology Board of Advisors for two U.S.
Department of Education Regional Education Laboratories. Dr. Schlager
earned his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of
Colorado, Boulder.
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Rosemary
Brebner, M.B.A - Board Member
Rosemary
Brebner, MBA has had a notable career involving several professional
roles in health care in the United Kingdom. Initially, as a
registered nurse, she was in involved in pioneering transplantation
research. Following this, Mrs. Brebner held a succession of
senior business roles in the pharmaceutical industry, ultimately
holding a position as Clinical Lecturer, working closely with leading
medical researchers in planning and operating clinical
projects. Mrs. Brebner then became a Research Fellow in
social science at the University of Edinburgh, working on a project
concerning acute care for elderly hospital patients.
Following from this, she was invited to join a team aiming to increase
entrepreneurship amongst researchers at the university. Since
moving to the USA in 2002, Mrs. Brebner has been very active in
community activities, including service to the Los Gatos Chamber of
Commerce and board membership of Los Gatos Museums.
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Susan J. Maunders - Board
Member
Susan
J. Maunders is a developer of award-winning educational media with a
long-standing reputation for creating designs that use media in
educationally innovative ways. She has written or produced over 200
multimedia titles and is President of Interactive Masters, a consulting
firm with a current focus on strategic planning and production of
educational media for adult and adolescent learners.
Maunders has
won numerous awards for her products and has judged many media design
competitions as an established expert in educational media. She is also
currently a Doctoral Candidate in Educational and Psychological Studies
at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is an active researcher
in the Learning Sciences, specializing in the design of virtual
learning environments for adolescents.
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Arafeh
Karimi, M.A., - Board
Member
Arafeh
Karimi is a professional
e-learning consultant and trainer. She holds a Master degree in
multimedia and e-learning technologies and currently works as the head
of Reasearch, Training and Consultancy Unit in the Asia Centre for
E-Learning (ACE) at Asia e University.
She has years of experience in teaching and
training in different educational levels and industries.
She is also actively involved in offering her expertise in various
online committees related to education and technology.
Arafeh
has delivered papers and run workshops for peer professionals at
international conferences. Among her publications topics are 21st
Century learning and teaching framework, Academic Facilitators'
motivation in Online Distance Learning, mobile learning
perceptions,e-learning challenges in higher education, Wiki as a
collaborative technology, digital narrative and virtual reality for
children.
Currently she is actively involve in various collaborative
research projects globally and collaborate with colleauges from various
countries to achive global learning experience.
Among her
professional interests are mobile learning and e-learning technologies,
instructional design and web 2.0 technologies, teacher empowerment and
competency, virtual reality and digital narrative for children, Game
design for blinds and Visually Impaired children and online k-12
education.
Her passion is sharing knowledge and implanting seeds of empowerment in
the lives of underserved children around the world.
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Vridhi Tuli, B.A., - Board
Member
Vridhi
Tuli is currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology with a
minor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford Univeristy. Her research
interests lie in promoting mobile education to rural and middle-class
segments in India, and other emerging economies. Vridhi is part of
various student groups on campus, serving as a coordinating officer for
BASES, Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students, and
as the past Programming Director of the Stanford Undergraduate
Psychology Association.
She enjoys yoga, teaching children, traveling and networking in the
Valley. She aspires to be an educational entrepreneur and is working
rigorously towards it.
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