Leaders & Legends of Online Learning

Named as “one of the 128 most important, influential, innovative and interesting thinkers on education of all time” (The Routledge Encyclopedia of Educational Thinkers, 2016), Distinguished Professor Emeritus Michael G. Moore is internationally recognized for establishing the scholarly study of distance education, nowadays widely referred to as e-learning and online learning, and for pioneering the practice of teaching online.

Adjunct Professor Diane Janes has a strong history as an online educator across Canada. Across her career to date she has worked in instructional design, online teaching and education leadership, and her breadth of scholarship and well-grounded perspective make this a very interesting interview.

Sandra Wills recently retired as Professor and Pro Vice Chancellor of Learning and Teaching at Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia. Sandra has as very broad experience across education spanning four decades and her work in multimedia, distance and e-learning is internationally recognised.

Mary Burgess speaks from a wealth of experience as an online education practitioner. Her work as Executive Director of BC Campus is well grounded, and so is her perspective of online education. Mary also has a deep commitment to open educational practice and the OER Consortium.

Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams is UNESCO Chair in Open Education and Social Justice. She was involved in the development of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, which inspired her subsequent local and international work. Cheryl has a deep history in technology-enhanced education and an ongoing commitment to open scholarship and practice.