Rory McGreal

Rory McGreal is a Professor and Associate VP, Research at Athabasca University – Canada’s Open University. Previously, he was the executive director of TeleEducation New Brunswick, a province-wide bilingual (French/English) distributed distance learning network. Before that, he was responsible for the expansion of Contact North/Contact Nord (a distance education network in the remote region of Northern Ontario – serving remote native reserves and small mining towns). Rory was the founder of the world’s first e-learning website for TeleEducation NB and one of the world's first metadata learning object repositories. He is the recipient of the Wedemeyer Award as a distance education practitioner.

In 2002, Rory was honoured as recipient of the Wedemeyer Award for Distance Education Practitioner. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on e-learning. In 2004 he edited the book Online Education Using Learning Objects.

His personal page is at http://www.athabascau.ca/research/staff/rorymcg.php

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