They do not necessarily read the relevant journals. They need some multi media instructional design skills. Professional teachers of the future need to have these skills to be comfortable with these media. They also need, as has been pointed out during this conference, skills of management for independent learning. They are dealing with learners who wish to be more independent.
Industry is heavily committed to open learning in some other parts of the world.
They have internalised it using the technology they have and they are getting on with the job. They do not necessarily talk about open learning, as Colin Sims mentioned in the panel discussion, but are getting on with it and doing it. In a sense they are beginning to see the education system as almost irrelevant. One large company in the UK has gone a step further. ICI is using open learning for skills training and they are setting up open learning centres for their workers for voluntary further study.