Listen to this episode for a journey through open education history with Martin Weller, who retired in June 2024 from a 30 year career at the Open University. We spoke with Martin in late May to learn more about his educational journey from working class roots to professor of educational technology – starting in 1995 at the OU, in f all things, as a lecturer in artificial intelligence (we honor Martin’s request not to talk much about AI). You will appreciate Martin’s humble and easy going manner considering also his numerous accomplishments in the field, including an early vision for what the 1990s web could mean for distance education, pioneering one of the earliest large scale open courses before there was an acronym for it, his leadership of the very successful Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN), plus his series of published books, fed by his passion for blogging. And in the episode you might even get a bit about metaphors, dogs, hockey, and sharks. We were joined in the studio by Martin’s long time colleague, and friend, Clint Lalonde (BCcampus). In the OE Global Voices podcast studio with left to right, Martin Weller, Clint Lalonde, and Alan Levine (who apparently did not read the red plaid shirt memo) An hour conversation could barely cover Martin Weller’s many achievements but this should provide a clear sense of his perspective, and as well, what he plans to do in his “post-OU” career. Episode 72 Transcript