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Christine Geith, Ph.D.
Executive Director, MSU Global
Dr. Christine Geith is director of
Michigan State University’s MSU Global, the university’s entrepreneurial
business unit that works with partners across the campus and worldwide to
develop and market online institutes, programs and services. She is
responsible for developing strategic frameworks and business models and
leading all activities that impact revenue growth. This includes business
development, alliances and partnerships, product development, marketing,
sales and customer support. Dr. Geith has over fifteen years of experience
in online learning including four years as director of MSU Global Ventures
where she co-founded the award-winning Horticulture Gardening Institute and
led the development of numerous partnership training programs for clients
including the National Basketball Association and the World Bank.
Dr. Geith’s research interests include
cost-effectiveness and business models for online learning. She was one of
the first to pilot the Flashlight Cost Model and helped to refine its
methodology. She conducts cost studies for online learning, classroom
technology and software applications and leads activity-based costing
workshops for the TLT group. Her case studies have been published in the
Flashlight Cost Handbook and in the Sloan-C Series.
Prior to joining MSU, Dr. Geith was
executive director of e-learning at Rochester Institute of Technology, where
in 1991 she was instrumental in launching one of the first online degree
programs in the U.S. An Arena Award recipient from the Center for Digital
Education and senior associate of the TLT Group, she currently serves on the
advisory board of the National University Telecommunications Network. Dr.
Geith holds an MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in
higher education administration, curriculum and instruction from the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
