Rory McGreal

Rory McGreal is a Professor of Computer Technologies in Education and the Associate Vice President of Athabasca University – Canada’s Open University based in Alberta, Canada. He is also a UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources. He was previously the Executive Director of TeleEducation NB, a bilingual New Brunswick e-learning network. He previously was a supervisor at Contact North, a bilingual 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 Award for Distance Education practitioner. 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 and application of learning objects. He is also researching how these would be applied and formatted on mobile devices for m-learning.

Publications

Research and Practice of E-Learning in Canada 2008
Research and Practice of E-Learning in Canada 2008
Rory McGreal, Terry Anderson. © 2009. 8 pages.
Any view of e-learning in Canada must be informed by the uniquely Canadian feature of provincial jurisdiction over education. Therefore any investigation of e-learning in Canada...