A free content video streamed from Vimeo Cathy Casserly, Creative Commons.

Catherine Casserly is the former CEO of Creative Commons. Cathy’s career is dedicated to openness, and particularly to leveraging possibilities at the boundaries of formal and informal learning to equalize educational opportunity. She has been a long-time advocate of open educational resources (OER). As the Director of the OER Initiative at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation she managed investments totaling more than $100 million to harness the efficiency and effectiveness of knowledge sharing worldwide.

At the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Cathy spearheaded work in the areas of transparency and technology as a Senior Partner and the Vice President of Innovation and Open Networks.

She earned her Ph.D. in the economics of education from Stanford University and a B.A. in mathematics from Boston College.
Biography text adapted from Creative Commons

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