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Thomas P. Mackey

Vice Provost for Academic Programs, SUNY Empire State College

Vice Provost for Academic Programs, SUNY Empire State College Thomas P. Mackey, Ph.D., is Vice Provost for Academic Programs at SUNY Empire State College. He developed the metaliteracy framework with Trudi E. Jacobson and published their co-authored book entitled: Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners (2014) for Neal-Schuman/ALA Publishing. They published four co-edited books about faculty-librarian collaboration, and just completed a new manuscript Metaliteracy in Practice to be published later in the year. Tom and Trudi worked with colleagues from SUNY Empire State College and the University at Albany to develop three Metaliteracy-inspired MOOCs and a competency-based digital badging system. Tom is a member of the Editorial team for Open Praxis, the peer-reviewed, international, open access, scholarly journal about research and innovation in open, distance and flexible education published by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE). He may be contacted by e-mail at Tom.Mackey@esc.edu.