Educational leader and practitioner scholar with 30 years of management and teaching experience at major universities and unique international environments.

Having taught his first online course in 1996, Ken Udas has served in a variety of leadership, management, and teaching roles in universities with dedication to high quality, high access, and low barrier educational programming including Comenius University, Slovakia, UMUC, the Open Polytechnic of NZ, the State University of NY, PennState World Campus, UMassOnline, and most recently the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Ken co-chairs the Online Learning Consortium International Conference, Research Track is co-founder of the Educause Constituency Group on Openness, and the Jasig 2-3-98 project that are focused on the emergence and adoption of open and agile technologies, practices, policies, and initiatives, and how they affect the delivery and support of education and maintains active roles in a number of openness advocacy projects. He also serves on the international advisory board of WikiEducator. Dr. Udas has written and presented extensively on the topics of distance education, technology, and openness.