Louis
Fox
In his day job, Louis Fox is Vice Provost for Partnerships and Learning Technologies
at the University of Washington, where he has been for the last twenty years
and has held numerous academic and administrative posts, all with obscure
titles. The office he leads connects the research and education expertise
of the UW to a range of communities – locally, statewide, nationally,
and internationally; and develops and diffuses new learning technologies.
Lacking hobbies, Fox also leads a national Internet2 K20 Initiative,
which brings together Internet2 members (180 research institutions) with primary
and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and museums to
get new technologies—advanced networking tools, content, and applications—into
the hands of innovators, across all educational sectors in the United States,
as quickly and as “connectedly” as possible, and to link these
innovators to similar communities around the globe. At the request of Washington
Governor Gary Locke, Fox recently relinquished the last shreds of a normal
life and accepted a new role as founding CEO of the Washington Digital
Learning Commons, a distance learning initiative to support students
and teachers in Washington State.
