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Jenny Owens, ScD, MS, serves as senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at the ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø, as well as associate professor in the University of ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Owens previously served as vice provost of academic affairs and strategic initiatives at the University of ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø, Baltimore (UMB), associate dean of academic affairs in the School of Graduate Studies, and executive director of the Graduate Research Innovation District (Grid). As an educator and scholar-practitioner with a diverse career path in academia, Owens has a record of effective strategic planning, leadership, and management, resulting in innovative new services and academic programs. Before becoming vice provost at UMB, she was instrumental in the Graduate School’s growth strategy and successfully launched over 20 self-sustaining graduate programs, responsive to the evolving needs of the health and human services workforce in the state. Owens further has experience in student and academic affairs, admissions and enrollment, and accreditation, and she enjoys building new ventures from the ground up through creative partnerships and with a commitment to quality. Owens earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise and sport science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master’s in management and leadership from East Stroudsburg University, and a Doctor of Science degree in information and interaction design from the University of Baltimore. 

Michael Feldstein is Chief Accountability Officer at e-Literate, a mission-driven organization dedicated to helping higher education and the education companies that serve them continuously improve in their efforts to enable more students to succeed in a 21st-Century world. Previously, he was a Partner at MindWires Consulting, Senior Program Manager of MindTap at Cengage Learning and Principal Product Strategy Manager for Academic Enterprise Solutions (formerly Academic Enterprise Initiative, or AEI) at Oracle Corporation. Prior to that, Feldstein was an Assistant Director at the SUNY Learning Network, where he oversaw blended learning faculty development and was part of the leadership team for the LMS platform migration efforts of this 40-campus program. Before SUNY, he was co-founder and CEO of a company that provided e-learning and knowledge management products and services to Fortune 500 corporations, with a special emphasis on software simulations. He has also been the interim CLO at The Otter Group, a Senior Partner at Christensen/Roberts Solutions, and a Senior Instructional Designer at Raymond Karsan Associates. In previous lives, Feldstein has been a freelance writer, an English Ph.D. student, a middle school and high school teacher, a tire wrangler at a Yokohama Tire warehouse, and a professional loafer at Schooley’s Mountain County Park. Feldstein has been a member of the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors, a participant in the IMS, and a member of eLearn Magazine's Editorial Advisory Board. He is a frequent invited speaker on a range of e-learning-related topics having been invited to speak on topics including e-learning usability, the future of the LMS, ePortfolios, and edupatents for organizations ranging from the eLearning Guild to the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council, and has been interviewed as an e-learning expert by a variety of media outlets, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Associated Press, and U.S. News and World Report.

Phillip Long’s broad interests focus on leveraging technology to augment learning and benefit society. Long’s time is dedicated primarily to ‘passion projects’ through his appointment as a Senior Scholar at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University, and separately through RHz Consulting, his LLC. In June 2018, Long retired from his position as Associate Vice Provost and Chief Innovation Officer at the University of Texas, Austin, where he worked on Project 2021. While there, he provided leadership during the wind down of the Institute for Transformational Learning within the UT System and offered guidance to the university’s strategy for technology-enhanced learning, online learning including edX MOOCs, learning analytics, application of blockchains to education, and the design of learning environments. Long’s current research interests focus on active and blended learning pedagogies, credentialing linked to evidence of learning, open ledger (blockchain) applications, remote laboratories, emerging technologies and the analytics that can be captured by instrumenting interactions in both virtual and physical environments with the goal of informing learner decision-making. Long’s professional collaborations are eclectic and international, including leadership roles in the acronym soup of SoLAR, edX, the NMC, IMSGLOBAL and AAEEBL. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Nexford University, a competency-based educational program for English speakers primarily targeting learners developing countries. A lapsed biologist turned learning scientist, Long earned a Ph.D. in biology from Penn State University.

Ellen Wagner is the general manager of North Coast EduVisory Services, LLC, a consulting organization that works with higher education and corporate clients to make better strategic use of emerging technologies.  She currently supports the IEEE IC Industry Consortium on Learning Engineering. From 2016-2018, Wagner was Vice President, Research for Hobsons, an educational software company. She co-founded the Predictive Analytics Reporting (PAR) Framework and served as chief strategy officer from its inception in 2010 until its acquisition by Hobsons in 2016. Prior to PAR Framework, she was Vice-President for Technology at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, which included serving as Executive Director of WICHE’s Cooperative for Educational Technologies from 2009 to 2013. Wagner is the former senior director of worldwide eLearning, Adobe Systems, Inc. and was senior director of worldwide education for Macromedia, Inc. at the time of its acquisition by Adobe. As Chief Learning Officer at both Informania, Inc. and Viviance new education, AG, she supervised the developments of corporate education, learning content and courses, featuring programs including Novell, Inc. certifications and 12 of the original CBE programs offered by Western Governors University. Wagner’s prior career as a tenured university professor and administrator featured positions as Chair of the Educational Technology Program at the University of Northern Colorado, Academic Affairs Coordinator of Instructional and Research Technologies and Director of the Western Institute for Distance Education. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder.