Open SUNY COTE PD Associate: Karen

Karen Gardner-Athey is the Training Coordinator and Open Educational Resource (OER) Professional Development Facilitator at the SUNY Office of Library and Information Services (OLIS). She received her MLIS from UCLA and a MS from Syracuse University. She also has a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Training the Trainer from the Education Department at Elmira College. She has been with the OLIS for the past 15 years where her primary focus is library systems training and support as well as OER activities. She has been an online instructor of COTE OER courses for the past year.