Colin Fredericks
Manager Of Instructional Technology at Harvard University
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolColin Fredericks is a manager of instructional technology at Harvard Online with 12 years of experience designing and deploying high-quality online courses and educational tools. He leads a team of instructional technologists while remaining hands-on—coding in JavaScript and Python, implementing accessible tools, and touching every course before it launches. A frequent edX contributor and one of the platform’s most experienced course authors, he has contributed back-end work to the Open edX codebase, including partial credit grading logic. He authored institutional AI policies for staff and learners and oversees vendor integrations for data science programming environments. Outside work he writes roleplaying games, bikes, cooks, learns French, and has an uncanny talent for inventing accurate and memorable team names.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts AmherstMS, Physics, MS, Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteHigh School, High School at Northfield Mount Hermon
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Github Skills (15)
openedx10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
webservice9
backend9
data-service9
javascript7
fortran6
html6
css6
python-docx6
ada6
cobol6
backward-compatibility6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
Jun 2015 - Jun 2021
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 11 PRs, 153 comments in 6 years
Contributions summary:Colin primarily worked on the back-end logic and functionality of the Open edX platform, as evidenced by the code changes within `common/lib/capa/capa/responsetypes.py`. Their contributions focused on implementing partial credit grading schemes for various question types. They also made changes related to JavaScript input and the removal of references to Google Plus.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
Colin-Fredericks/Colin-Fredericks.github.io
Apr 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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