Mike Caulfield is currently an Instructional Designer at Keene State College.
Before that he was Director of Community Outreach for the OpenCourseWare Consortium. He also is co-author of Keene State College’s current Academic Technology Plan.
He has worked in educational technology since 1997, with some forays into other things to pay the mortgage. Among projects from the late paleolithic are The Persona Project, an early attempt at student-driven open education (1997); Transcript Media, a site which provided scanned copies of materials from public domain encyclopedias for teachers to reuse (1997-2001); GameGoo, one of the first commercial Flash-based educational game sites on the internet (1999); Columbia Online, a simulation-based online curriculum for Columbia University (2000-2003); and Keeneweb, a campus WPMU blogging site (2007-present).
A serial online community builder, he built his first online community, FormerlyEmployedBy, in Zope in 2002. Other communities have included (I)NAMM (International Album Making Month), Citizen Keene (a hyperlocal community), and Keene and After (an Alumni networking site). He’s possibly best known as a co-founder of the online political community Blue Hampshire in 2006.
Open Education Projects
Persona Project, 1997.
Tran|Script Media, 1997-2000
KeeneWeb, 2007.
Director of Community Outreach, Open Courseware Consortium
Keene Learning and Teaching Commons.
Social Networks
FormerlyEmployedBy.com, 2002
Blue Hampshire, 2006 – present
Keene and After, 2008
Citizen Keene, 2008