Nicole Allen is the Director of Open Education for SPARC. In this role, she leads SPARC’s work to advance openness and equity in education, which includes a robust state and federal policy program, a broad librarian community of practice, and a leadership program for open education professionals. Nicole joined
SPARC in 2013 to develop and launch a program on open education. Under her leadership, SPARC’s open education program has been a driving force behind numerous state and federal policy achievements, which include securing more than $50 million in federal appropriations for open textbook grants and establishing an open licensing policy at the Department of Education. Nicole has numerous projects under her direction, including
InclusiveAccess.org, the
OER Digest, and the administrative organizing of the
Open Education Conference.