Kathleen S Ives Editor

Kathleen S. Ives, D.M. has worked in online technology for over 30 years in the non-profit, higher education, and corporate arenas.

Dr. Ives currently serves as a member of the Senior Staff for the National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET) and the Director of Higher Education Transformation as the organization develops tools, programs, and best practices to advance the workforce agenda by supporting educational systems and employers in building talent pools relevant to today's business needs.

She also serves as Strategic Advisor for Packback, an education technology company that builds smart discussion communities via artificial intelligence to allow professors to promote and assess critical thinking in students. Previously, Dr. Ives served as the Online Learning Consortium's (OLC) Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director where she led the organization to become a fully, self-sustaining member association.

Additionally, Dr. Ives serves as adjunct faculty in organizational leadership and management communications at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Dr. Ives began her career at CBS and helped develop the service that evolved into Prodigy. She then spent fourteen years designing and implementing consumer online information services, first at AT&T and then at Verizon, where she spearheaded the development of the nation's first online Yellow Pages product, now called superpages.com.

She has degrees in communication, communication management, and organizational leadership from the University of California at Davis, the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, and the University of Phoenix-Online, respectively.

Deborah Seymour, Ph.D. has worked in the public, for-profit, and non-profit association sectors of higher education. She is owner and principal of Higher Education Innovation Consulting, LLC. Dr. Seymour has written extensively on higher education policy and competency-based education. She taught in both the City University of New York and University of California systems, as well as specializing in online program development at Laureate Education, Inc. More recently, Dr. Seymour was Chief Academic Innovation Officer at the American Council on Education and Vice President of Programs and Research at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. She has degrees in mass communication, business management, and theoretical linguistics from Hunter College of the City University of New York and the Graduate School and University Center, the City University of New York, respectively.