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[Kent Brooks]

About Kent

Kent Brooks is the IT Director at Casper College in Casper Wyoming, is a blogger on various technology topics for his own blog KentBrooks.com, a contributor to MoodleNews, and Wes Fryers Internationally acclaimed "Speed of Creativity" blog.  He served as the Chief Technology Officer/ Dean of Distance Learning at Western Oklahoma State College in Altus Oklahoma  for 15 years. While at Western he led an effort to transform a struggling rural institution to a significant distance learning provider(24 online students in 1999 to over 5000 in 2010).  He was an instructor, department chair and computer coordinator at the University of New Mexico – Gallup Campus prior to coming to Altus.  While in New Mexico he was actively involved in the Los Alamos National Laboratory EDUNET program which sought to bring telecommunications technologies to the four corners area of the US.  Kent has been heavily involved in numerous teacher-training projects and efforts to bring networking and telecommunications technologies to rural areas.    His grant writing efforts have brought over $50 million dollars to equip rural schools, tribal complexes and museums across the US with distance learning technologies.  Kent's work interests include the acquisition of technology and training resources for rural under served communities.  More specifically his work interest and focus is on the "open" or "free" software movement and its impact on delivery of technological services in education.

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