Cable Green

Director of eLearning & Open Education, WA State Board for Community & Technical Colleges

Cable Green is the Director of eLearning & Open Education for the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC). He provides leadership for the college system on strategic technology planning, opening and sharing digital content, growing and improving online and hybrid learning, and implementing enterprise learning technologies and support services. Cable joined the SBCTC in 2007. Prior to this, he served as the Director of Technology for the Ohio Learning Network and Director of Educational Technology for the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy. Returning to the Northwest, he earned his BS in international affairs from Lewis and Clark College. He holds an MPC from Westminster College, a MA in communication from Ohio State University, and a PhD in educational technology from Ohio State. Cable is particularly interested in how digital networked technologies and open educational resources are changing higher education. He has a targeted interest in how educational technologies and connectivist pedagogies can be successfully combined to help learners create, manage, and contribute their work through open knowledge initiatives.