Interview with Professor Rory McGreal
Channel: Danielle Dubien
Date: 2017-01-28

This video is a recording of an interview I did with Professor Rory McGreal as a part of the pilot study of my PhD project entitled: Open Educational Practices Related to Instructional Design Applied in a Context of Organisational Change in Higher Education. The purpose of this interview was to learn about the OERu’s course development procedures and organisational culture.
Rory McGreal is a member of the Board of Directors of the OER Foundation, a founding partner of the Open Education Resource universitas (OERu), and is actively involved in contributing to the OERu's bank of courses. 
He is the UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning 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). And, he is a co-Editor of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL), and founder of the OER Knowledge Cloud. Formerly, he served as the Associate Vice President Research. 
This paragraph and a lengthier explanation of Dr. McGreal’s experience are offered at this site:  https://unescochair.athabascau.ca/team/chairholder