Welcome to Buddy Project: The Next Generation of Teaching and Learning

Marvin Bailey is the President of the Corporation for Education Technology (CET), serving in that capacity from 1990-93 and 1999 through the present. CET today operates various K12 training and web-based support programs in Indiana targeted at improving teacher and student technology skills. He also recently served as President of the Center for Interactive Learning & Collaboration (CILC), a K12 videoconferencing services organization he founded in 1994 and served as President of from 1999-2005. Mr. Bailey’s interests in education began taking shape during his 30 year career with Ameritech (now AT&T) where he retired as the Vice President of Educational Initiatives in 1999. In his last assignment at Ameritech, he was involved for four years in policy activities in Washington, D.C. There he worked with members from the telecommunications industry, the education community and the FCC to shape the Telecommunications Act’s provisions for education discounts, commonly known as the “e-rate.” Prior to that role, he had served in a variety of operating capacities at Ameritech in Indiana, including Director of Strategic Planning and Director of Construction & Engineering Services.

Among other achievements, while at Ameritech from 1993-1999 he created the concept for the CILC and helped to deploy one of the nation's largest two-way interactive distance learning networks over fiber optics connecting 350 schools and content providers. That effort was originally funded by $45 million in grants from Ameritech to provide distance learning classroom equipment, training and support for Indiana schools. Later as President of the CILC, he guided the firm into a transition as a national services provider and CILC was named as the most outstanding K12 videoconferencing provider in the nation by the U.S. Distance Learning Association in both 2004 and 2005. Earlier, from 1989-1993 on a leave of absence from Ameritech, he served for the first time as the President of the CET, a not-for-profit K12 technology firm he established with the Indiana General Assembly to manage the Buddy System Project. The highly acclaimed and award-winning Buddy project was the nation's first and largest computer-in-the-home educational project. By providing personal computers to students and their families, Buddy extended classroom learning into the homes of over 5000 Indiana inner-city and rural families in 50 schools during Bailey’s first assignment there.

In 2006-7 he chaired the Indiana Education Technology Council as an appointment from Governor Mitch Daniels and State Superintendent Suellen Reed. The Council developed a comprehensive Indiana K12 strategic technology plan under his guidance.

Mr. Bailey received a B.S. degree in Industrial Management from Purdue University in 1969. In 1991, Governor Evan Bayh awarded him the State’s highest honor, the "Sagamore of the Wabash" for his innovative efforts with Buddy and for service to the community. In 1995, he was also awarded the Indiana Telecommunications Association's highest award for leading efforts to establish a new state appropriation of $20 million annually for education technology and for another bill which established tax credits for recycled computers to K-12 schools. In 1990, he was awarded Junior Achievement's National Bronze Leadership Award and its Man-of the-Year title in 1989. He has been listed in the "Who's Who of Information Technology" by the Indianapolis Business Journal. His current and past affiliations include:

National

• National Alliance for Business, Education Policy Council
• U.S. Distance Learning Association, Board of Directors
• U.S. Council on Competitiveness, advisor to booklet “Winning the Skills Race”
• Progressive Policy Institute, Technology/New Economy Advisory group
• National Employer Leadership Council, Board of Directors
• Computerworld National Advisory Board on Computer Recycling

Indiana Higher Education

• Purdue University: Dean’s Advisory Council, School of Education
• Ball State: Advisory Council, Center for Information and Communications Sciences
• Butler University College of Education: Chairman, Board of Visitors

Indiana K-12

• Education Technology Council, Chairman
  Junior Achievement, Board member (20 years)
• Indiana Distance Learning Association, Board member & President
• Techpoint Foundation, Board member
  Net Literacy, Board member
• Dollars for Scholars, Board member
• Indiana Humanities Council- Smart Desktop, Board member
• Indiana Alliance of Business Leaders and Educators, Board member
• Mayor of Indianapolis Charter Schools Advisory Board of Directors
• Parent Power, Board member

Links:

• Corporation for Educational Technology
• Board of Directors
• Annual Report