Member of the Board

MartinWeller

Member of the Board

Martin Weller is Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology, at the Open University. He was the Chair of the Open Programme, the Open University’s flexible, multi-disciplinary degree, and the Director of the GO-GN, a global network of Doctoral students in the area of open education. He developed the OU’s first fully online course in 1999, which attracted over 15,000 students annually.

He was the OU’s first VLE Director, and the Director of the OER Hub team, who undertook research into aspects of open education.

Author

The Digital Scholar

He is the author of numerous books including The Digital Scholar, 25 Years of Ed Tech and Metaphors of Ed Tech. He maintains a popular blog at blog.edtechie.net.

Credentials and Associations

Open education advocate

He was the President of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) for five years and held honorary chairs in open education from both ICDE (the International Council for Open and Distance Education) and Commonwealth of Learning.