This month we talk with Robin Ball, Learning Services Manager of BECTA, about the Learning Platform Spec, open source, interoperability, pedagogy, training, NAACE and local services.

Prior to joining Becta, Robin spent a number of years seconded from a Midlands university providing educational support for the development and deployment of learning platform technologies. He also workedalongside a number of local authorities and regional broadband consortia creating commissioned digital content.

For the past two years he has worked as Becta’s Learning Services Manager, responsible for the development of advice and guidance relating to learning platforms. Robin is a qualified primary teacher.

You can hear the interview here. We apologise for the quality of the interview but we were Skyping Robin on his mobile phone to hands free in his car before a meeting at BECTA.

This podcast was sponsored by Pteppic.net – the number one UK partner for Moodle.