A free content video streamed from blip.tv Cable Green, Creative Commons.

As Director of Global Learning, Cable Green leads the Education projects at Creative Commons. He mixes digital technologies, open licensing, standards and policies to significantly improve access to quality, affordable, open educational resources. Cable is a strong advocate for open policies that ensure publicly funded education materials are freely and openly available to the public that paid for them.

Previously, as Director of eLearning & Open Education for the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges, he led a project to build and share highest enrolled courses under a CC BY license. They call it the “Open Course Library.”

He also served as the Director of Technology for the Ohio Learning Network and Director of Educational Technology for the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy where he built Ohio State’s first online doctoral program. He earned his PhD (educational technology) from Ohio State University, MA (communication) from Ohio State, MPC from Westminster College, and BS (international affairs) from Lewis and Clark College.
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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 Alison Snieckus.

I live in the USA, near Trenton, New Jersey. I am trained in educational measurement, and worked at Educational Testing Service (ETS, the makers of the famed SAT, TOEFL, GRE....) from 1986 to 2000. I joined WikiEducator in January 2009 and my participation in the community has changed my beliefs and vision for education. I volunteered to assist with the design, authoring and editing of the OCL4Ed course materials.

When my oldest child became discontent in public school, we decided to go it alone, to "homeschool," without any particular specified curriculum. And so, I gave up my job at ETS, happily because I disagree with yearly standardised testing in elementary and secondary schools as the primary measure of accountability, which was just coming into fashion. Both of my sons are now in college: oldest is studing electrical and computer engineering (in Massachusetts) and second son is a plebe midshipman at the United States Mercant Marine Academy.

In 2009-2010, I taught a hybrid course in Introductory Statistics to secondary students who homeschool. The online portion of the course is provided by Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative. In Fall 2010 and Fall 2011, I taught Statistical Methods II for the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

A free content video streamed from blip.tv Paul Stacey, BCcampus.

Paul is the Director of Curriculum Development at BCcampus where since 2003 he has been leading an annual publicly funded Open Educational Resources initiative where all the content is open licensed. The BCcampus OER initiative emphasizes inter-institutional collaboration and partnerships among all the public post secondary colleges and universities for development of online learning resources. Development is focused on giving students access to more programs that will help them complete degrees, diplomas and certificates.

Since 2003, the Online Program Development Fund has invested $9 million. The main outcomes to date are:

• 144 grants awarded (2003-2010)
• 100% participation across the post-secondary system
• 83% partnerships - mostly inter-institutional but also with K-12, health authorities, not-for-profits, professional associations, e-learning companies, First Nations, foundations, amongst others.
• 47 credentials developed in whole or part via OPDF
• 355 courses, 12 workshops, 19 web sites/tools and 396 course components (learning objects, labs, textbooks, manuals, videos) developed across almost all academic fields of study
• 100% licensed for open free sharing & reuse by all post-secondary

Paul writes about online learning, educational technology and all things open on his blog at http://edtechfrontier.com.