Interview with Murray Goldberg
As part of my masters class with Dr. Rick Schwier at the University of Saskatchewan, I was required to interview an educational technologist who had made a significant impact on the field. I chose to interview Murray Goldberg.
Murray is a computer scientist who began teaching at UBC in 1989, and went on to create the popular course management system WebCT. Murray tells stories of the early days of WebCT and how it went from a small research project to a multinational company. The interview has been broken down into small parts below. Note that this is a temporary storage location for the interview. It will eventually be hosted in a virtual museum of educational technology.
1. Beginnings - Context and the origins of the idea for WebCT (5:59)
2. WebCT is born (3:12)
3. Creation of the WebCT company (2:17)
4. UBC as an enabler for the WebCT business (1:31)
5. About the company (1:23)
6. Early WebCT Community (3:04)
7. Sasan (partner and former student) (0:57)
8. Did WebCT fulfill the vision that you had for it? (3:41)
9. Future of Blackboard/WebCT (4:00)
10. Being a part of the Ed Tech community (1:06)
11. Current big issues in educational technology (2:44)