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Susan Patrick is the President and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of the North American Council for Online
Learning (NACOL).
She served as the Director of the Office
of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education. As
Director, she published the National Education Technology Plan in
January 2005. Prior, Patrick served the State of Arizona
under Governor Jane Dee Hull as strategic communications manager and
legislative liaison for technology at the Government Information
Technology Agency. She received the 2001 Governor’s Spirit
of Excellence Recognition Award for the Telecommunications Open
Partnerships for Arizona (TOPAZ) initiative. Patrick also served
as Site Director for Old Dominion University’s TELETECHNET program
and taught as an Adjunct Faculty. Patrick holds a master’s
degree from the University of Southern
California’s Annenburg School for Communication
in Los Angeles and a bachelor’s degree from the Colorado
College.
Patrick was the first woman to play in
the men’s intramural football league at the Colorado
College.
Susan Patrick has published articles and appeared on national news
media such as CNN, Forbes, Newsweek, USA Today, US News and World
Report, ABC News, NBC, CBS, Christian Science Monitor, CSPAN2,
Computerworld, National Public Radio, Education Week, eSchool News,
Converge, American School Board Journal, Educational Technology Journal
and numerous other publications.
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