It was a private chat over dinner so I don't want to attach this person's name to a particular opinion, but there's no secret that we've been doing outreach with Jisc (jisc.ac.uk) which employs some very influential people in the education sector.
The higher education system here in the UK is rather top-down compared to, say, the US, so my education outreach work has targeted management, national advisory bodies and people whose research area is open education, as well as university teaching staff.

On 11 March 2013 21:02, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <tom@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi, Martin.

May you share with us who is this education consultant?

Tom

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Martin Poulter <infobomb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, very exciting to see progress.
>
> MOOCs are just taking off here in the UK and there's a lot of interest, a
> lot of both good and bad experiences being reported. Institutions are keen
> to get on the bandwagon. I think news of a Wikipedia MOOC would generate a
> lot of interest from the UK.
>
> One very influential education consultant told me recently that Wikimedia
> would be the ideal, credible entity to *provide* MOOCs, being
> institution-neutral and noncommerical, but as the proposal discussion notes,
> we don't really have the infrastructure ourselves yet.
>
> On 8 March 2013 00:53, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <tom@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Good grades for a conservative minded movement. :)
>>
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants_talk:IEG/Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Courses&curid=2202378&diff=5305686&oldid=5270318
>>
>> Congrats, Sage.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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