Mark McBride
SUNY System Administration
Library Senior Strategist
Albany, New York
Mark is currently the Library Senior Strategist in the Office of Library and Information Services at SUNY System Administration. In his role at the SUNY System, he works to align the goals of the SUNY Libraries with the broader system priorities. He is an Open Education advocate and believes in the unfettered access to content for researchers and learners. Mark is at the center of the Open Educational Resource and Open Access efforts in SUNY.
He is co-founder of the Open Education Research Lab at the University at Buffalo and his research interests focus on the impact OER has on teaching and learning. He serves on the Open Education Advisory Council for SPARC, the Executive Council for the Courseware in Context (CWiC), the Board of the SUNY Libraries Consortium, and the Innovative Instruction Research Council (IIRC) for SUNY.
