Professor Ebba Ossiannilsson's work picks up on national and international agendas associated with online and distance education. Her work on quality, benchmarking in open online learning and OER is particularly noteworthy, as is her untiring work across multiple professional associations.
Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/039-Ebba-Ossiannilsson-final.mp3 | recorded May 2020
Ebba's profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebbaossiannilsson
Ebba's blog: https://i4quality.se/blog/
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Twitter: @EbbaOssian
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ebba.ossiannilsson
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ebba_Ossiannilsson
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebbaossiannilsson
SlideShare: https://www.slideshare.net/EbbaOssiann
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Professor Börje Holmberg is a pioneer in the area of distance education – and his perspectives on learning design, education and a system and the guided didactic conversation translate directly into effective online education. Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/048-B-rje-Holmberg.mp3 | recorded August 2020 Börje's Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rje_Holmberg Farhad Saba's (DistanceEducator.com) introduction: https://distance-educator.com/introduction-to-distance-education-theorists-and-theories-borje-holmberg/ Free to access article related to the Guided Didactic Conversation: Holmberg, B. (1983). Guided didactic conversation in distance education. In D. Sewart, D. Keegan, and B. Holmberg (Eds.), Distance education: International perspectives (pp. 114-122). London: Croom Helm. ...
Professor Martin Weller is Professor of Educational Technology with The Open University UK. Martin has a long history in elearning and is well known in the blogosphere for his EdTechie blog (now in its 12th year). Martin has a zeal for open education and social networking that keeps him connected. We chatted in the Jennie Lee building at the Open University. Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/006-Martin-Weller-Final.mp3 | recorded October 2018 Martin’s online profile: https://iet.open.ac.uk/people/martin.weller Martin’s blog: http://blog.edtechie.net/ Key publications: The Battle for Open (open access book): https://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/10.5334/bam/; an OOFAT report considering models of open, online, flexible and distance education globally: https://www.icde.org/models-for-online-open-flexible-and-technology-enhanced-higher-education; different interpretations of open education (2018 article): http://oro.open.ac.uk/54670/ Open access works: http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/mjw5.html Further links of interest: Martin is Director of OER Hub (http://oerhub.net/) which has researched the impact of open educational resources (see http://oerhub.net/research-outputs/reports/); he is also Director of the GO-GN network, a global community of OER PhD researchers: http://go-gn.net/ Twitter: @mweller ...
