Organizational Structure of Open Praxis
The Executive Board: Reidar Roll (Chair), Svein O. Haaland and David Sewart.
Their role is to give guidelines on main policy issues.
The Editorial Board: Svein O. Haaland (Editor), Yngve Nordkvelle, Brit Svoen, Reidar Roll, Nina Bagley and Ana Perona.
These people will actually do the job and implement the policies.
The Editorial Commitee; a broader advisory group:
- Arief Sadiman, Professor, Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia
- Bernard Loing, ICDE Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, France
- Gary Miller, Associate Vice President for Outreach and Executive Director for Continuing and Distance Education, Penn State University, USA
- Helmut Fritsch, Professor, FernUniversität, Germany
- Jan Atle Toska, Director, Norgesuniversitetet, Norway
- Janerik Lundquist, Chair International Committee,Nätuniversitetet,Sweden
Their role will be to help the Editorial Board to identify and find authors of articles and relevant issues that are of interest for OP audience and write articles themselves about trends, topics etc. from their part of the world.
The Correspondents; will send news at least once a year about their region. The correspondents will also help to identify trends, articles, relevant authors and events in the field of flexible learning and distant education:
- Aleksander Ivannikov, Executive Director, Informika, Russia
- Dale Holt, Head of Educational Design of the University's Learning Services division, Deakin University, Australia
- Fred Litto, President, ABED, Brazil
- Gilly Salmon, Professor, University of Leicester, UK
- Haydee Zenaida Azabache, Coordinator Pontificia, Universidad Católica PUCP Virtual, Perú
- Jose Escamilla, Dean Graduate School of Education, Universidad Virtual del Tecnológico de Monterry, Mexico
- Josep Duart, e-learning - UNESCO chair, Paco Rubio, Vice Rector for International Relations, UOC, Spain
- Liu Wenfu, Director, Education Administration Office, Shanghai TV University, China
- Maria Amata Garito, Director NETTUNO, MedNet'U Mediterranean Network of Universities, Italy
- Martine Vidal, Directeur de cabinet, CNED, France
- Tian Belawati, Vice President, Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia