 Susan Patrick was named the President and Chief Executive Officer of the North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) in September 2005.
She is the former Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education. As Director, she published the National Education Technology Plan, Toward a New Golden Age in American Education: How the Internet, the Law and Today’s Students Are Revolutionizing Expectations in January 2005. Patrick managed the federal government’s educational technology policies and produced two Secretary’s Technology Leadership Summits: Empowering Accountability and Assessment Through Technology and Increasing Options through E-Learning. She served as Co-chair of the federal government’s Advanced Technologies Working Group for Education and Training; and served as a member of the Secretary’s Rural Education Task Force.
Patrick served Governor Jane Dee Hull of the State of Arizona as Strategic Communications Manager and legislative liaison. She managed legislative technology policy, media and strategic communications for the Government Information Technology Agency. She received the 2001 Governor’s Spirit of Excellence Recognition Award for the Telecommunications Open Partnerships for Arizona (TOPAZ) initiative.
In the late 1990s, Patrick was Site Director for Old Dominion University’s TELETECHNET program, managing a distance learning campus in Richmond, Virginia and opened the first site in Arizona. She taught as an Adjunct Faculty.
Patrick holds a master’s degree from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles and a bachelor’s degree from the Colorado College.
Patrick was the first woman to play in the men’s intramural football league at the Colorado College.
Susan Patrick has published articles and appeared on national news media such as CNN, Forbes, Newsweek, USA Today, US News and World Report, ABC News, NBC, CBS, Christian Science Monitor, CSPAN2, Computerworld, National Public Radio, Education Week, eSchool News, Converge, American School Board Journal, Educational Technology Journal and numerous other publications |
