Short Bio

Mike Caulfield is currently an Instructional Designer at Keene State College.

Before that he was employed by MIT as Director of Community Outreach for the OpenCourseWare Consortium, and even before he was that Director of Online Communications for Keene State College. He is also a co-author of Keene State College’s current Academic Technology Plan.

He has worked in educational technology since 1997, with some forays into other things to pay the mortgage. Among projects from the late paleolithic were the Persona Project, an attempt to integrate English Composition classes with the creation and maintenance of a student-produced online encyclopedia (1997);  Transcript Media, a site which made public domain educational material available to P-12 educators (1997-2000);  GameGoo, some of the first commercially produced Flash-based educational games on the internet (1999); Columbia Online, a simulation-based online curriculum for Columbia University (2000-2003), and various e-learning projects for Fortune 500 companies. Since 2005 he has focused his energy on online communities and open education projects, most prominently as the first Director of Community Outreach for the OpenCourseWare Consortium, but also as a founder of a number of local and hyperlocal online communities. He is currently excited about keenecommons.net, a campus WMPU blogging site (you’re soaking in it).

Nationally, he is possibly best known as a co-founder of the online political community Blue Hampshire in 2006, a site described by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas as “one of the most influential blogs in the nation”, and one of eight blog communities chosen in 2007-2008 for syndication by Newsweek’s Ruckus Project.