July 20, 2008
HOME > Products > Announcements
Michael Sullivan Announces Resignation from AIT
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—Michael F. Sullivan, executive director and chief operating officer of the nonprofit Agency for Instructional Technology, has announced his resignation from AIT, effective January 3, 2003. He will begin his duties as director of education at a credit counseling firm in Arizona on January 6, 2003.
Sullivan was appointed AIT’s executive director in July 1990, and during his 12-year tenure guided the Agency through rapidly changing times, from the end of the consortium process which had funded the development of many major projects. Partnerships and sponsorships became the name of the funding game in education, and AIT pursued those paths through the ’90s, forging links with Thomson South-Western, Great Plains National, TVOntario, McDougal-Littell, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, the National Council on Economic Education, National Educational Service, and most recently onCourse.
Sullivan directed the development of the first-ever comprehensive online curriculum for elementary grades, The Learning Odyssey (TLO), in 2000 and oversaw the launch of the Agency’s award-winning journal, TECHNOS Quarterly, in 1992, which signaled the establishment of AIT’s TECHNOS® Press.
“The past twelve years have seen the maturation of instructional technology from an exciting experiment to a routine and accepted activity. It has been challenging and fun to be a part of this transition,” Sullivan says of his days at AIT. “It’s rather remarkable that AIT still exists while virtually all of our competitors from the 1980s have disappeared, but we have an understanding board of directors that realizes we are more about mission than money, and we have had many talented and dedicated employees who have done great work.”
Sullivan had served as director of strategic planning and development at UNISYS Corporation in Bluebell, Penn., from 1988 to 1990. Previous to his employment at UNISYS, he was assistant state superintendent for instructional technology in Maryland. He is co-author of Maryland Education Technology Network Resource Book for the Maryland Department of Education. (See “Michael Sullivan Resumé,” below.)
For more information about the Agency for Instructional Technology, visit the Web site at www.ait.net or call 1-800-457-4509, ext. 207.
Michael F. Sullivan Resumé
Experience
-
July 1990–January 2003. Agency for Instructional Technology, Bloomington, Indiana; Executive Director
- 1986–1990. UNISYS Corporation, Bluebell, Pennsylvania
1988–1990. Director, Strategic Planning and Development
1987–1988. Product Marketing Manager
1986–1987. Senior Education Consultant
-
1974–1986. Maryland State Department of Education, Baltimore
1980–1986. Assistant State Superintendent in Instructional Technology
- 1973–1974. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg; Graduate Assistant
- 1972–1973. Wayne Country (West Virginia) Schools
- 1969–1972. Ohio Schools, English and Speech Teacher
1974–1980. Specialist in Instructional Design
Education
-
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg—Ed.D., Instructional Technology, 1976
-
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio—M.Ed., Curriculum Development, 1971
-
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio—B.S., English and Speech, 1969