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# Susan Metros

## Ohio State University

Susan E. Metros is Deputy Chief Information Officer and Executive Director for e-Learning at The Ohio State University. She also holds the faculty appointment of Professor of Design Technology. As Deputy CIO, Metros is responsible for leading staff in designing educational technology solutions and developing collaborative programs, guidelines, policies and strategies that extend e-learning to Ohio State's more than 50,000 resident students and to remote students within Ohio and beyond.

In her role of educator and designer, she teaches visual communication courses and has served as principal designer on several award winning interactive multimedia and Web-based projects. She has served on numerous international and national committees and task forces and published and presented widely on the role of e-Learning in redefining teaching and learning. Most recently, she has played a leading role in Ohio State's Knowledge Bank Network project and, on the international level, is chairing the National Learning Information Infrastructure's work group on Learning Objects.