Description of The IDEA Consortium LLC
The IDEA Consortium began in 1996 as a series of informal conversations at Normandale Community College in Bloomington MN about Instructional Design and the uses, abuses,challenges and problems of testing in a technology enabled educational environment. Principals of the IDEA Consortium included Bruce Lindgren, John O'Brien, Tina Stavredes and Mary Jacobson. Each has gone on to new ventures. Bruce left his faculty position and moved to Northwest Wisconsin. There he kept the IDEA Consortium name alive and has continued to enlarge and expand on seminal concepts; particularly the notions of Access to Educational Oppoortunity through technology and New World Learning. A Web presence for the IDEA Consortium (ideaconsortium.com) was established in 1998 as an adjunct to Bruce's business -- B.Lindgren CONSULTING . It served as a tool or mechanism for organizing and networking the experiences of others who might contribute to school/educational reform through applications of digital technology. In 2003 he registered the IDEA Consortium as a Limited Liability Company (LLC) in the State of Wisconsin and registered ideaconsortium.org and ideaconsortium.net to support new concepts for leveraging and advancing the foundations. Of particular importance was the growth of open-source software and the philosophical underpinnings of the open-source community. The LINUX operating system is the most visible open-source software and has stimulated and enabled a huge host of applications.
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