John Wagstaff has worked in higher education for over thirty years, serving in Universities, Colleges and Community Colleges throughout the country. He moved to California in 1992 to be the Director of Media, Learning and Information Resources at Peralta Community College District. In 1996 he was appointed to be the District's Director of Information Technology, Management Information Systems. Since then, Mr. Wagstaff has served as the lead administrator on all matters related to Information Technology including Enterprise Resource Planning systems, technology planning, library automation and operations, telecourse and online distance learning, and state and local data/telephony network planning and implementation. He is an elected member of the California Community Colleges Chief Information Systems Officers Association.

In addition to chairing the Etudes Board of Directors, Mr. Wagstaff also serves on two California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office committees; the Telecommunication Technology Advisory Committee and the System-wide Architecture Committee.

Diane Rosner received her BA in Spanish from UCLA and her Master's in Spanish from the University of Nevada, Reno. She has walked a mile in many shoes, including adjunct faculty for 11 years, full time faculty for 14 years, and served as Dean of Instruction at Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC) for six years, retiring in 2010. She was one of the co-founders of LTCC's internationally recognized Intensive Spanish Summer Institute (ISSI), which just celebrated its eighteenth year.

In an attempt to combat declining enrollment, Diane worked with Vivie Sinou to begin to identify the online teaching "stars" and recruit them to teach for LTCC. After hiring a steady stream of wonderful online instructors, LTCC began to turn the declining enrollment trend around and is now garnering over $1 million/year through online courses.

Diane was one of the original steering committee members for the Etudes project, and was one of the founding members of the Etudes Board of Directors in 2008.

Todd Finnell is Vice President of Technology for the Imperial Community College District in Southern California. He is currently President-Elect for the California Education Technology Professionals Association (CETPA), teaches graduate studies in Teacher Education at San Diego State University and serves on numerous local and state committees. Previously, Finnell served on the Board of Directors for the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and as CEO of the California K-12 High Speed Network. He has served in education as teacher, counselor, and administrator prior to moving into education technology administration.
 

Professor Ichon has chaired, and is currently a member of, the LACCD Distance Education Committee and serves on the Instructional and Student Services Technology Committee. Professor Ichon was one of the original members of the ETUDES Advisory Board and now serves on the ETUDES Board of Trustees.
 

Jon is co-recipient of the Technology 2001 Focus Award for the “Deltaonline Project” presented by the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges. The "Deltaonline Project" was the college's first group of online courses.
 

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Vivie leads, manages, and supports the Etudes community and organization. She is responsible for the strategic planning and vision of Etudes, as well as product management and development of the Etudes (Next Generation) software. Vivie formed the ETUDES Consortium in 2002 and extended Course Management System (CMS) services and support to distance learning programs to over 25 community colleges in California. In 2004, Vivie led the adoption of the Sakai platform for Etudes, and was a founding member of the Sakai Board, representing community college needs.

In May of 2008, Vivie founded Etudes, Inc., and led Etudes from a campus project to a non-profit 501(c)(3), public charity organization that leads open source development and offers e-learning services to higher education institutions. Vivie also spear-headed the Sofia initiative for undergraduate education, and is helping shape the vision of both open source and open education resources. Vivie also spear-headed the Sofia initiative for undergraduate education, and is helping shape the vision of open source software and open education resources.

Vivie was the recipient of the 2002 Technology Leadership Award from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. She also received the League Innovator of the Year Award for Foothill De Anza Community College District (2002).
 

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