Amanda Coolidge

Amanda Coolidge is the Director of open education at Bccampus in British Columbia Canada. She leads the provinces initiatives in open education from open textbooks to open pedagogy and with a team of eight other people who work across British Columbia to enhance access for students. Amanda has a masters in educational technology and has had many years of experience as an instructional designer at various universities across Canada. Amanda has worked in open education in Calgary Alberta Nairobi Kenya and in British Columbia.As you will hear from her talk she has a very unique Story of growing up in six different countries. When Amanda is not at work she can often be found on the beaches and in the woods of British Columbia traveling with her family in their 32 foot fifth wheel RV. Amanda her husband and her son live in the RV six months of the year and enjoy everything there is about the outdoors and the opportunity to explore across North America. In addition to amandas  love of the outdoors she also is quite passionate about Jazzercise and in fact is going to be performing in the Disneyland parade next week in Anaheim with her Jazzercise team.