Team

The ePortfolio California team is made up of experts in the field of educational technology who share a passion for improving teaching and learning.

As Director of the California Virtual Campus, Vicki Suter oversees the ePortfolio California Program.  Formerly, Vicki served as the Director of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) at EDUCAUSE, where she worked for five years with the membership to realize a vision of higher education as active and learner-centered, dynamic and lifelong, collaborative, cost-effective, high-quality and accessible. With the teams that she convened, she designed, developed, implemented and evaluated the Educause NLII annual conferences and focus sessions exploring emerging technologies such as electronic portfolios (eportfolios), collaboration and communication software, social media and mobile technologies. The Virtual Community of Practice project, designed and facilitated with a core group of practitioners, led to the emergence of the international Electronic Portfolio Action and Communication (ePAC) Community of Practice that continues to be a vibrant online community.

Dr. John Ittelson currently serves as the Director of Instructional Technologies for the California Virtual Campus (CVC), the technology innovation arm of the California Community College Chancellor's Office. He is also Professor Emeritus of Information Technology and Communications Design at California State University, Monterey Bay, where he was a founding faculty member. Dr. Ittelson represented the CSU, Chancellors Office as the lead on involvement with ePortfolio initiatives in the CSU System, and other national collaborative activities on ePortfolios. He currently sits on the Board’s of the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration, The California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and Access Monterey Peninsula.

Patty Donohue is currently exploring emerging technologies as Project Manager for the ePortfolio California Project, a statewide initiative of the California Virtual Campus. Prior to joining the CVC, Patty spent thirteen years leading the sales and marketing efforts for PLATO Learning’s science education catalog business. Patty has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Design from the California State University in Chico, where she currently resides with her son and daughter. “I’m intrigued by the opportunities that technology brings to education. The way we study, learn, and teach, are all being affected by new technologies. It’s an exciting time”.