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Wikimedia Foundation Director Named to OpenEd Board
Lila
Tretikov,
executive director of the Wikimedia
Foundation, has been named to the
OpenEd Board of Directors. OpenEd,
founded in 2012, is a free service offering a large catalogue of
educational
videos, games and assessments designed to help teachers find the right
resources to teach Common Core standards.
Tretikov
was named the executive
director of the Wikimedia Foundation in May, succeeding Sue Gartner.
Most
recently, Tretikov was chief
information officer for SugarCRM.
She began her career with Sun Microsystems before
founding GrokDigital, a
technology marketing company. Tretikov has wide
experience with open source implementation and programming.
Adam
Blum, CEO and co-founder of
OpenEd, said Tretikov's expertise will help OpenEd in its mission to
provide open
source, modern teaching tools and resources to educators.
"As
a true veteran in the Open
Source space, Lila's experience and advice is invaluable in OpenEd's
mission,"
Blum said.
Tretikov
said, "OpenEd is
changing K-12 education by helping teachers build curricula for today's
students. I am very excited by what this means and am looking forward to
bringing my expertise to help change the future of learning."
OpenEd
offers teachers and parents
free tools to find video, games and assessment that enhance lesson
plans. Its
assessment creation tools allow teachers to create assessments while
associating resources to individual questions. The result is the ability
to
instantly create a personalized learning plan for each student.
The
Wikimedia Foundation is a
nonprofit organization that encourages the growth, development and
distribution
of free, multilingual, educational content. It operates a number of
collaboratively edited reference projects, including Wikipedia.
Tretikov
has co-authored several
patents in intelligent data mapping and dynamic language applications.
She is
also an advisor to the board of the Zamurai Corporation.
In
May, Tretikov was named by Forbes
magazine to its list of "The
World's 100 Most Powerful Women."
About the Author
Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.