User:Gordon L Freedman

As a keynote speaker Freedman has addressed a diverse group of organization globally including the Organization of Education and Cooperative Development, OECD (Ireland, Dominican Republic), the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Universities UK (UK), the Korean Education and Research Information Service, KERIS (Korea), the SURF Foundation (Netherlands), SENA National Training Service (Colombia), Chinese Association of Higher Education, Ministry of Education (People’s Republic of China), World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education (Netherlands), CONAHEC (Mexico), European Union eLearning Lisboa (Portugal), EDEN Online (Italy), Technologico de Monterey (Mexico).

Freedman has participated in the Forum on the Future of Higher Education at the Aspen Institute. He is as a board member of two P-20 non-profits advising state policymakers: Innovate Educate New Mexico, www.Innovate-EducateNM.org and the California K20 Education Technology Collaborative, www.K20CETC.org.

Prior to Blackboard, Freedman ran his own consulting business (Knowledge Base, LLC) focused on higher education, K-12, museums, education technology and the textbook industry. Freedman has helped a number of higher education institutions re-purpose their extended operations (Michigan State University, George Washington University, University of California system, California State University system). Freedman is co-founder of the International School of Monterey, a K-8 California Charter School. Prior to education, Freedman was an executive producer in television, film, and media, including ABC News. His feature documentary production of Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” won the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival.