Rory McGreal
In addition to being the associate vice president at Canada’s Open University, Rory is also a UNESCO/COL chair in open educational resources. He was previously the executive director of TeleEducation NB, a bilingual New Brunswick e-learning network. He also was previously a supervisor at Contact North, a distance education network in Northern Ontario. He has also worked abroad in the Middle East, Seychelles (Indian Ocean), and Europe. He has been honored with the Wedemeyer Excellence in Distance Education Award. He researches the implementation and management of distance education systems and networks from technological, pedagogical, and policy perspectives. His present research interests include the use of open educational resources and standards in technology-assisted learning, particularly in the development/application of learning objects. He is also researching how these would be applied and formatted on mobile devices for m-learning.