About Rick Lumadue

Rick Lumadue Phd, is the Associate Director of SkillsCommons, CSU Long Beach. Rick is responsible for managing and supporting the SkillsCommons collection and curation program. He provides guidance, recommendations, training, and professional development to faculty, program directors, administrators, technology staff, and college support staff for contributing and reusing Open Educational Resources in the Skills Commons repository.

Rick provided leadership, management, and commitment for SkillsCommons in working with the US Department of Labor’s Technical Assistance Adjustments for Community Colleges and Career Training (TAACCCT) Grant.  SkillsCommons is the largest Open Educational Resources (OER) project in the world. As Senior Program Manager for SkillsCommons, Rick was responsible for managing and supporting the collection and curation program for the 256 TAACCCT Grant Projects.  With over 700 institutions across all 50 states, he provided guidance, recommendations, training, and professional development to faculty, program directors, administrators, technology staff, and college support staff for contributing their Open Educational Resources into the Skills Commons repository. He also provided leadership in the coordination and management of CSU-MERLOT services with the Department of Labor and the various technical assistance organizations (e.g. JFF, Creative Commons, CAST) to ensure TAACCCT grantees successfully completed the requirements for their TAACCCT grant deliverables.

Prior to joining the CSU, Rick served as an assistant professor of educational leadership at Texas A&M University-Commerce where he was the architect and director of the Master of Science Global eLearning Program. He was the editor-in-chief of the International Peer-Reviewed Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) 2014-2016 and received the 2014 Sloan-C: Sloan-C Effective Practice Award and the 2014 MERLOT: Innovative Use of MERLOT Award. He is founder and editor-in-chief of the Global e-Learning Journal and has served on the editorial board of several journals. He is a prolific author who has published on a wide range of issues in higher education. Rick earned a PhD in Higher Education Administration at the University of North Texas.