Dr. Eric E. Fredericksen is the Associate Vice President for Online Learning and Professor in Educational Leadership at the University of Rochester.

Eric has more than 30 years of leadership experience in online education in positions at the University of Rochester, Cornell University, and the State University of New York System Office.

His research includes studies of the student and faculty experience in online courses, and more recently Leadership for Online Learning in Higher Education through the national CHLOE project. Eric served on the Board for the Online Learning Consortium, was President 2018-2019, was honored as a Sloan-C Fellow, and received the Gomory-Mayadas award for Excellence in Online Educational Leadership.

Richard has nearly 30 years of experience in higher education research, consulting, and policy. From 2015-2019, Richard was also Director of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, a think tank, part of Tribal Group, focused on global developments in online learning, internationalization and commercial activity and partnerships. Prior to Eduventures, Richard was North America Director for i-graduate, working with clients of the International Student Barometer, the world’s largest survey of the international student experience. From 2005-2013, Richard led Eduventures online higher education practice.

Richard is also co-founder and co-director of the CHLOE (Changing Landscape of Online Education- an annual survey of Chief Online Learning Officers) Project with Quality Matters and EDUCAUSE. He has also worked as a researcher in the School of Education & Continuing Studies at the University of Surrey in the UK and as a policy analyst at the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. He has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from King’s College London and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cambridge.