CIO Executive Staff

Director of
External Affairs

445 Baker Systems Eng.
1971 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: 614-292-9148
Fax: 614-688-4226
E-mail: escovitz.1@osu.edu

Responsibilities:

• Use the architecture of distance education to promote Ohio State's land-grant mission as a gateway to the 21st century.
• Promote and nurture distance education linkages between Ohio State and business, professional organizations, government, and service agencies.
• Assist the CIO in defining the external outreach agenda for distance education to promote partnerships and collaboration within and beyond the local community.
• Help translate technology, campus research, and knowledge to the regional and global distance education markets.
• Connect and extend the university distance education resources to support outreach and engagement initiatives.
• Provide leadership and support for inter-institutional collaboration and synergies for distance education efforts.
• Foster and encourage distance education efforts that promote efficiencies in the delivery of learning through technology and result in cost savings to the university.
• Work with the CIO and staff to develop grants and contracts that promote distance education.
• Serve as a university liaison with the public and private sectors that contribute to joint ventures for distance education enterprises.

External Funding and Grant Development
Transportable Satellite Internet System (TSIS)

• Co-Director

Knowledge Bank

• Planning Committee/Partnerships

Ohio Learning Network

• Academic Outreach Committee

American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)

• ADEC Program Panel
• Principal Contact Officer
• Distance Education Collaboratory (co-chair)

Funded Collaborative Efforts

• 2002 The American Distance Education Consortium Agriculture Telecommunications Program
• 2002 The American Distance Education Consortium, "The Design and Development of a Tachyon Transportable Satellite Dish: A Consumer Premises Equipment (CPE) System
• 2001 Ohio Board of Regents Technology Initiatives Grant Program, "Information literacy and scientific literacy: foundations for a K-12 curriculum,"
• 2001 Pew Foundation Grant Program in Course Redesign (Statistics 135)
• 1999 Ohio Board of Regents Efficiency Challenge Grant Program, "Extending Ohio's access to global cultural knowledge through distance learning technology