James
K. Chang CEO/Founder, GKE & COMWEB
President, GKE Foundation jchang@gke.com
Mr.
James K. Chang is Founder/CEO of the COMWEB Technology
Group and Founder/CEO of GKE (Global Knowledge
Exchange). He has more than 25 years experience in
the start-up of technology-based ventures. In his
current role, James Chang is
responsible for the overall design and marketing of
technology-based learning systems and is a pioneer
in US and international
educational technology implementation and strategies.
He works personally with selected major educational
institutions around the
world. He is engaged in assisting China’s power
industry in the development of its Corporate University
and Learning Support System. He is involved in many
distance learning programs around the world including
the scheduled opening of a GKE Shanghai Learning Center
to augment GKE’s Beijing offices. He is the Co-founder
of GKE Beijing, LearningDigital in Taiwan, and Schoolpia.net
in Korea. He is a Board of Trustees member of CODE,
a consortium of over 30, Eastern United States, higher
education institutions.
James
Chang pioneered COMWEB’s “KnowledgeWEB”
system. He is actively involved in multimedia classroom
design projects in
educational institutions around the world. Today there
is an installed base of more than 3,000 COMWEB technology-based
classrooms around the world. As CEO of COMWEB and
GKE, James is involved in “re-engineering school”
projects around the world. He has created a best-in-practice
Learning Technology Architect Team (TAG) and a world
class caliber team of GKE Expert Consultants that
has been actively serving the education community
in re-engineering schools and corporate training for
21st Century lifelong learning environments. James
Chang is a frequently sought, national and international
speaker on the subject of how to plan, design, and
reengineer the classroom and school for the 21st Century
as well as international educational strategies.
James
Chang created GKE to provide innovative consulting,
coordinated services, and powerful, strategic alliance
capabilities to
international, education technology ventures. GKE
is both a company and an alliance. As Founder/CEO
of GKE, James is responsible for developing strategic
relationships with partners around the world and for
shaping GKE’s international corporate vision.
Joint ventures include GKE/USA, GKE/Taiwan, GKE/Korea
and GKE/China. GKE is rapidly developing into a Gateway
to the Pacific Rim for the US “learning industry.”
James’ educational vision includes a comprehensive
“knowledge management and learning system, think-tank
level consulting and international educational services
alliances for the 21st Century. To assist that visionary,
international goal, James has created the GKE Foundation,
and he serves as the GKE Foundation’s President
of the Board.
Co-Founder
and Director of DSET Corporation (1988 ~ 1993)
James co-founded and was Director of DSET Corporation
(Distributed Software Engineering Tools), the developer
of a suite of object-oriented CASE tools and a pioneering
company in the new Telecommunications Management Network
(TMN) industry. DSET works for many of the leading telephone
companies in the world and, to date, has completed 100+
large-scale projects. DSET is headquartered in Bridgewater,
New Jersey, with branch offices in Texas and California.
In 1996 DSET was voted "Best Private Company of
the Year" by the New Jersey Technology Council
and, in March 1998, became a NASDAQ public company.
During the year 2000, DSET was ranked as one of the
top 100 emerging high-tech companies by Business
Week, and it has become a leading e-business for
the telecommunications industry.
