Apereo Board Candidates 2023

2023 Apereo Board Candidates

The Apereo Foundation holds elections for open positions on its Board of Directors annually. The duties and responsibilities of board members, together with rules governing their election are set out in Article 5 of the Apereo by-laws. If you have any questions regarding these duties and responsibilities, please contact the Executive Director - Patrick Masson via email ed[at]apereo[dot]org

The following candidates have been nominated for a second term membership on the Apereo Foundation Board of Directors in the 2023 Board elections. Apereo elections occur online via Helios Voting. The voting period opens on June 5th, 2023, and will close on June 19th, 2023.

Inge Donkervoort - DLearning (NLD)

Current Apereo Board Director
Organizational Member Seat
First elected, June 2020
Current term, July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2023

Inge is running for a second term, July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026.

Inge Donkervoort lives in the Netherlands (Europe) and has been trained as a teacher. After a few years she started working as a consultant for the government and in businesses. She became interested in applying ICT for online communication, collaboration and online learning with schools, governments, health care institutions and companies. In 2010 she started her own business in online learning. Inge is the director/owner of DLearning. She develops online learning materials for companies and institutions she works with and teaches them how to use Xerte and other tools considering their goals and target group. 

Since 2009 Inge has been involved in the Xerte project working on various elements including the translation tool - the internationalization part. For two years now Inge has been working on learning analytics and adaptive learning connected to Xerte. 

Her vision and mission is "open source unless there is no other option". One of the great values of, for example, Xerte / open source is the share and reuse principle. So many beautiful online learning resources are being made that can be (re)used by others. Why reinvent the wheel when you don't have to? 

Inge has been instrumental in creating the Board onboarding process, making it easier for "new board members to get up to speed."

Sam Lee Pan - University of Cape Town (ZAF)

Current Apereo Board Director
Organizational Member Seat
First elected, June 2020
Current term, July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2023

Sam is running for a second term, July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026.

Sam Lee Pan has worked at the University of Cape Town (Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching) since 2014: starting as a Senior Learning Technologies Consultant and moving into her role as Learning Technologies Operations Manager. She is currently Acting Learning Technologies Co-ordinator for the cluster in the department (April - June 2023), and served this acting role previously during emergency remote teaching in the pandemic (Jan - Sept 2020). Her team maintains and supports the learning management systems, Vula (Sakai-based) and Amathuba (Brightspace), lecture recording system (Opencast-based) and various other educational technologies, including piloting a range of Apereo projects (e.g. Xerte, OnTask, OAE). Adopting the Tsugi framework has been vital in some of the custom LTI tool used in production.

Sam has a diverse background having completed a Masters in Environmental and Geographical Science, and worked in the field of Geographical Information Systems. Her passion has always been open source, and she has previous experience working with FOSS GIS and Open Educational Resources. She feels that collaboration is vital for adaptation and growth. She is also passionate about user support and enabling those to use the tools available to them. Having completed a PG Dip in EdTech after her Masters, she seeks to understand the power of technology in education. She also works closely with the developer and learning designer teams to move towards the goals of improving teaching and learning.

Stuart Phillipson -  University of Manchester (GBR)

Current Apereo Board Director
Organizational Member Seat
First elected, June 2020
Current term, July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2023

Stuart is running for a second term, July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026.

Stuart Phillipson has worked in Higher Education and at the University of Manchester for some time now, including roles in eLearning, Digital Learning, Dev-Ops and IT Management. Over the last decade, he has worked on a variety of open source projects, and the most significant of these has been deploying and running one of the world’s largest lecture capture systems, operating entirely on open source software. This has provided him with a wide range of experience in terms of commissioning open-source projects, funding their development, acting as a product owner and a keen community member.
 
Stuart finds that working with open-source software is a transformative experience. He says, "the sharing of knowledge, experience and expertise is often a key aspect of what makes open-source products so strong, their communities are the driving force behind their prosperity and something that he has not found to exist in the closed source world. Collaboration within and between open-source communities is something I am enthusiastic to develop and promote, knowing how much it has benefited myself and the institutions I have worked for."