Bradley C. Wheeler
IU Vice President for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer | Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
Bloomington, IN, UNITED STATES
Dr. Brad Wheeler leads university-wide IT services for IU's eight campuses.
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- Professor of Information Systems
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Biography
Dr. Brad Wheeler leads university-wide IT services for IU's eight campuses. He has co-founded and led open source software and service collaborations such as the Sakai Project, Kuali, and the HathiTrust. He also developed IU's eTexts initiative and implemented a cutting-edge delivery model to tackle the high costs of textbooks for students. Most recently, he co-founded Unizin, a consortium of universities seeking to exert greater control and influence over the digital learning landscape.
Industry Expertise (2)
Education/Learning
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Areas of Expertise (8)
Net-enabled Organizations
Open Source Software
Innovation with Digital Networks
CIO Executive Leadership
Executive Leadership of IT Strategy
Executive Programs in Business-IT Effectiveness
Cybersecurity
It Strategy
Accomplishments (5)
Leadership Award, EDUCAUSE (professional)
2013
CIO 100 Award, CIO Magazine (professional)
2012
Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers in Public Sector Innovation, Government Technology (professional)
2012
12 Tech Innovators Who Are Transforming Campuses, The Chronicle of Higher Education (professional)
2012
CIO 100 Award, CIO Magazine (professional)
2009
Education (3)
Indiana University, Kelley School of Business: Ph.D., Information Systems 1993
Oklahoma State University: MBA, Business Administration 1989
Oklahoma State University: B.S., Business Management 1987
Media Appearances (3)
Brad Wheeler named interim dean for IU School of Informatics and Computing
IUPUI Newsroom online
2015-10-21
Bradley C. Wheeler, Indiana University vice president for information technology and chief information officer, has been appointed interim dean of the IU School of Informatics and Computing effective Nov. 1, subject to approval of the Board of Trustees...
CTO of the Year: Brad Wheeler
Indianapolis Business Journal online
2015-08-12
Indiana University’s Brad Wheeler has been on the forefront of developments in digital textbooks, virtual software delivery, open-sourced software, and innovative learning environments across eight campuses...
Open-Source Software for College Administrators Reaches ‘Tipping Point’ After 10 Years
The Chronicle of Higher Education online
2014-04-28
Ms. Foutty and Brad C. Wheeler, Kuali’s chairman, who is chief information officer at Indiana, say barriers like perceived risk prevent many institutions from considering Kuali software. They also note that decision makers at some institutions struggle to move their thinking beyond the RFP process; no requests for bids are involved in adopting Kuali software, because it is built and controlled by the institutions themselves. "If you already own it, you decide to use it or decide not to, but you don’t have to compete," Mr. Wheeler says. "That has been a big step for lots of people to get their head around."...
Articles (5)
Speeding up on Curves
EDUCAUSE
2014 I've always been fascinated by curves. Curves are an interesting way of looking at both changes and constants. Curves often obscure what lies around the bend, and they have the ability to surprise, delight, and terrify those who are trying to successfully navigate them...
The Marketecture of Community
EDUCAUSE
2012 Socrates argued that the unexamined life is not worth living. For the past decade, the two of us—along with many colleagues, organizations, and commercial firms—have been immersed in the booming, buzzing confusion that is the community landscape of higher education. We have communities that build software (e.g., Jasig, Kuali, Moodle, Sakai), communities that buy together (e.g., Internet2, Net+), and communities that create services unique to the academy (e.g., Digital Preservation Network, DuraSpace, HathiTrust).1 Some of these communities are thriving as they solve common institutional problems, whereas some remain short of their aspirations. For others, it is still far too early to discern if they will reach critical mass and succeed...
Fixing the High Price of Textbooks
Indiana University
2012 The economics of college textbooks are structurally flawed and are failing students, authors, professors, and publishers. While it seems counterintuitive, the path to digital learning materials such as e-textbooks will likely increase rather than reduce students’ costs because current models for selling printed textbooks are being applied to their evolving digital counterparts...
Shaping the Path to Digital: The Indiana University eTexts Initiative
EDUCAUSE
2012 The rising cost of college textbooks has long been a burden for students, often motivating them to seek creative ways to get around this expense. Though digital textbooks—with their ability to provide cheaper, easier, and better access to content—have been around for years, the use of digital textbooks for academic purposes is still not widespread...
The Game Has Changed
EDUCAUSE
2012 Colleges and universities have long competed against one another, measuring themselves in comparison to each other and holding tightly to their idiosyncrasies as defining elements of their status. But today, the distribution and reuse of information digitally via the Internet is rapidly changing the game, rewarding those who instead aggregate and scale toward a common infrastructure. It is becoming increasingly clear that neither the challenges that confront colleges and universities nor the solutions to those challenges are unique to each institution...
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