Dr Tannis Morgan is doing some wonderful online learning work, building on a firm understanding of distance education theory and a dedication to open learning and OERs. Tannis and I connected over Skype, where it was easy to sense the blue-sky Vancouver day.
Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/002-Tannis-Morgan-Final.mp3 | recorded May 2018
Tannis’s online profile: https://homonym.ca/about/
Tannis’s works: https://homonym.ca/presentations-and-publications/
OER language blog mentioned: http://oloer.opened.ca
Twitter: @tanbob
Professor Rory McGreal is an open education resources and open access champion, and is an early innovator with networked learning. He is known internationally for his work, and has had both Commonwealth of Learning and ICDE chairs is recognition of his ongoing advocacy. This interview CC-BY. Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/033-Rory-McGreal-Final.mp3 | recorded September 2019 Rory's profile: https://unescochair.athabascau.ca/team/chairholder Nominated links (free to access, OER): https://unescochair.athabascau.ca/publications Please note that this episode is released CC-BY (our normal licence is CC-BY-SA). ...
Professor Alan Tait is Professor Emeritus with the Open University UK, with multiple international involvements including with EDEN and the ICDE. This interview took place following Alan’s keynote at the 2018 EDEN conference in Genoa, outside on a hot Italian afternoon. Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/003-Alan-Tait-Final.mp3 | recorded June 2018 Alan’s profile: Alan Tait is Emeritus Professor of Distance Education and Development at the Open University UK. From 2013-2015 Alan was Director of International Development and Teacher Education, and before that was Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academic) at the Open University UK 2007-2012, and from 2004-2007 Dean of the Faculty of Education and Language Studies. He was Editor of the European Journal of Distance and E Learning (EURODL) 2005-2013, was from 1989-1998 Editor of Open Learning, was President of the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) from 2007-2010, and Co-Director of the Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning 1988-2013. In 2012 Alan was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Moscow State University for Economics, Statistics and Informatics, and appointed Visiting Senior Online Consultant at the Open University of China in 2013. Alan is founding Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Learning for Development (www.jl4d.org), produced from the Commonwealth of Learning; Visiting Professor, Amity University, India; Distinguished Visiting Professor Open University of Hong Kong; Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Distance Education at the University ...
Dr Dianne Conrad is a retired but active scholar and teacher in online education following a long post-secondary career at Canadian universities. Dianne’s multiple publications […] ...
