On the experimental side of education: Interview with Davor Orlic

Our Person of the Week this week is Davor Orlic. He is one of the people redefining the limits of the field of open education in Europe. He is currently involved in four major projects:

• VideoLectures.net, a website run by the Josef Stefan Institute
• Knowledge 4 All Foundation
• Opening Up Slovenia initiative
• OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Conference

What do these four projects have in common? They are all finding new ways of using digital technology to improve teaching methodology. Furthermore, they are all making education in Europe more openly accessible. In this article, we’ll look at two of the innovations Davor is currently working on: turning video lectures into automatically transcribed databases, and turning the country of Slovenia into a living laboratory for open education experiments. More...