About the Author

About the Author

Jason Cole is a product development manager at The Open University in the UK, where he works on the development of the OU's course management system. Prior to joining the OU, he was the academic technology manager at San Francisco State University, where he initiated the process of upgrading the university from Blackboard to Moodle.

A member of the Moodle community, he has developed a student data integration tool for the system and contributed to discussions regarding a document management system and object model for Version 2.0. Jason earned a Ph.D. in educational technology from the University of Northern Colorado.