Rory McGreal

Job Position: Professor & Associate VP Research
Organization: Athabasca University
About Me: 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.