Abstract:

Educational technology is a fast moving area that combines expertise from different areas. People often enter it from other fields, which provides a rich mixture of expertise. However it also means there is little shared knowledge or understanding. In this talk I will consider whether it is a discipline, an interdisciplinary field and how we should consider it as an area of practice.

Speaker bio:

Martin Weller is Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University. He chaired the OU’s first major elearning course in 1999 with 15,000 students and has led many of the strategic technology developments at the University, including being the first VLE Director. He is currently the Director of the OER Hub research team, which examines the impact of open educational practices.

His interests are in the changing nature of open education, digital scholarship and open educational practice. He blogs at edtechie.net