Dave Cormier

Dave Cormier is a web projects lead at the University of Prince Edward Island, cofounder of Edtechtalk, and president of Edactive Technologies, a community learning consulting firm. He teaches academic courses in writing, emerging tech and culture. His major research interests include the placing open learning in a ‘postdigital’ context, the examination of planned and unplanned communities, rhizomes as a model for knowledge creation, and open-source multiuser virtual environments (MUVEs). He is also co-host of the AACE Global U – Social Media Seminar Series.

Dave can be found online at http://davecormier.com/edblog, http://twitter.com/davecormier and http://edtechtalk.com.

Prof. Andy Lane, OpenLearn

Professor Andy Lane has been at the Open University since 1983 and held various offices in the former Technology Faculty including being Head of the Systems Department, associate Dean and Dean. Promoted to Professor of Environmental Systems in 2005, Andy was appointed as Director of The Open University’s OpenLearn Initiative in 2006 and was elected as a Board member of the Open CourseWare Consortium in 2008. He has authored or co-authored many publications dealing with systems of open education, especially the use of Open Educational Resources.

Andy Powell, Eduserv

Andy Powell is the Research Programme Director at Eduserv. Prior to that he was Assistant Director (Distributed Systems and Services) at UKOLN, University of Bath. He was heavily involved in specifying the technical standards that underpin collaborative activities between the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the JISC-funded Resource Discovery Network (RDN), based largely on the IEEE Learning Object Metadata standard and the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

Andy blogs at http://efoundations.typepad.com.

Steve Ryan, ALT & London School of Economics and Political Science

Steve Ryan is the Director of the Centre for Learning Technology at the London School of Economics and Political Science ( http://www.lse.ac.uk/clt ). Steve has worked widely in education and has led or contributed to a number of national and international projects in the field of learning technology. His research interests focus on the impact of ICT on campus-based teaching and issues relating to reuse, repurposing, and learning design. He is also currently Chair of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT).

Jan Philipp Schmidt, P2PU Co-founder, Shuttleworth Fellow

Jan Philipp Schmidt is an Open Education implementer at University of Western Cape and United Nations University. He is the co-founded of the P2P University. Philipp is also a board member of the Open Courseware Consortium, as well as a Shuttleworth Foundation fellow. Based in Cape Town.

Philipp blogs at http://bokapp.net.

Dr. David Wiley

Dr. David Wiley is Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University, Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge, and Founder of the Open High School of Utah. He was formerly Associate Professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University. David has been a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Visiting Scholar at the Open University of the Netherlands, and a recipient of the US National Science Foundation’s CAREER grant. David is also the Founder of OpenContent.org and was recently named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. His career is dedicated to increasing access to educational opportunity for everyone around the world.

David blogs at http://opencontent.org/blog/.