Martin Weller is a Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University. He researches the application of new technology to academic practice. He leads the OER Hub research team, running a portfolio of projects examining the impact of open educational practices.
He joined the OU in 1995, as a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence. He chaired the OU’s first major elearning course, T171, in 1999 with nearly 15,000 students. This involved a number of strategic shifts in the OU to make it into an online provider. He was the first director of the VLE, recommending the adoption of Moodle. Martin is currently academic director for the Learning Design project and also Director of the OER Hub.
His research area is in open education and digital scholarship – Martins blog about this, and has authored two books, The Digital Scholar and the Battle for Open (both available under open licence).
Martin is a regular and reasonably well known blogger at Edtechie.net