A free content video streamed from blip.tv Vasi Doncheva, NorthTec.

Life long and wide learner eager to expand and extend capabilities of self and others. Passionate about finding new ways to effectively use technologies to engage and inspire learners and create accessible and affordable learning opportunities for diverse and widely dispersed communities.

Currently leading the development and implementation of flexible learning initiatives at NorthTec, fostering innovation and creativity through innovative use of technology in teaching and learning as well as support services in higher education.

To connect with Vasi you can visit her user page on Wikieducator or follow @playice_nz on twitter.

A free content video streamed from blip.tv Wayne Mackintosh, OER Foundation.

Wayne is the founder of WikiEducator and founding director of the OER Foundation. He is coordinating the establishment of the OER university, an international innovation partnership which aims to provide free learning opportunities for all students worldwide with pathways for OER learners to achieve credible credentials. Wayne is also director of the International Centre for Open Education at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the OER Foundation and is the holder of the Commonwealth of Learning Chair in OER at Otago Polytechnic.

Wayne is a member of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons New Zealand and the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

A free content video streamed from blip.tv Rory McGreal, Athabasca Univeristy.

Professor Rory McGreal is the UNESCO/COL Chairholder in Open Educational Resources. He is a professor in the Centre for Distance Education at Athabasca University – Canada’s Open University based in Alberta, Canada. He is also the director of the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI). Formerly, he served as the Associate Vice President Research.

He was previously the Executive Director of TeleEducation NB TéléÉducation, a bilingual (French/English) province-wide distance learning network. In this capacity, Rory McGreal’s team implemented the world’s first distance education website, a learning management system and the TeleCampus, a comprehensive learning object metadata database of online courses. For these and other accomplishments, he was given the prestigious Wedemeyer Award for Distance Education practitioner in 2002.

Professor McGreal served on the Canadian Federal Information Highway Advisory Committee, on the Board of the TeleLearning Research Network of Centres of Excellence, the Commonwealth of Learning’s Knowledge Management Group and the Education Steering Committee for CANARIE, Canada's broadband research network. Presently, he is a representative to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, on the Advisory Board of the Canadian Virtual University. Internationally, he is a member of the Global Advisory Council of the Observatory of Borderless Higher Education, a Director of the OER Foundation, and a member of the Distance Education Hub, Advisory Group, Australia. He is on the editorial board or a reviewer for a variety of scholarly journals. He has been an invited Keynote at more than 40 Canadian and international conferences.

A free content video streamed from blip.tv Matt McGregor.

Matt McGregor is the Public Lead for Creative Commons in Aotearoa New Zealand, which supports open licensing and open educational resources in New Zealand schools.

Before working with Creative Commons, Matt worked as an ESL, SAT and literacy teacher in Vancouver, Canada and taught undergraduate English at the State University of New York, Albany. Back home in New Zealand, Matt spent several years tutoring English and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.

When he’s not talking about Creative Commons, Matt writes reviews and essays for a variety of publications, including The Literary Review, The Millions, The Rumpus, Bookslut, Warscapes, Media Commons and The Monthly Review.

A free content video streamed from Vimeo Mark Osborne.

Mark is Deputy Principal at Albany Senior High School on Auckland's North Shore, New Zealand. He has worked in the areas of creative commons and OERs for a number of years and promotes the use of OERs in schools as a way of sharing and reusing resources and as a means to facilitate collaboration between schools.

Albany Senior High School is also an open source school, using almost exclusively free software and the combination of free access to information and free access to software tools makes a powerful combination.

Mark's background is as an English and history teacher, but he has worked in libraries and information technology quite a number of years.