People and organizations to contact

[mikaelkaron]

This is a short list of people to contact once Open Learning has something to show:

Evangelists

• Johnny Lee
  • His TED talk Johnny Lee demos wii remote hacks inspired core parts of open-learning interface
• Salman Khan
  • His TED talk Let's use video to reinvent education inspired core parts of git4ol
  • Founder of the Kahn Academy
• Sugata Mitra
  • His TED talk Build a school in the cloud won him the 2013 TED prize
  • Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England

Entrepreneurs

• Tim Ferris
  • Start-up angel investor and author of the 4h book series

Press

• Howard Husock
  • Contributor at forbes.com
  • Involved with the manhattan institute social entrepreneurship initiative
• Clayton Christensen Institute
  • Authors of Is K–12 blended learning disruptive?
    An introduction to the theory of hybrids

[mikaelkaron]

@open-learning/pr Please add to this list when you come across interesting organisations and individuals