OpenCourseWare featured at UN World Summit in
Tunisia
Hola a tothom:
Sembla que el OpenCourseWare del MIT continua creixent....
Seria xulo si la UB també hi participés a la llarga.... :-)
Copia de missatge a sota.
Fins aviat,
Xavi
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OpenCourseWare featured at UN World Summit in
Tunisia
OpenCourseWare
Widening Access
to Knowledge through Open Sharing:
The Growing
OpenCourseWare Movement
WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY (WSIS)
PARALLEL EVENT ===============
Monday, 14 November 2005
15.00 -19.00
Saint Augustin Conference Room at the Kram Expo
Centre
In
Tunis, Tunisia
*
Refreshments will be provided
PROGRAMME
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15.00 - 15.30
Keynote address
Speaker: Dr. G.M. (Mike) Reed, Director of the United
Nations University
International Institute for Software Technology
(UNU-IIST)
15.30 - 16.40
Setting the Context: The World of Open Educational
Resources
Moderator:
Marshall
Smith, Education Program Director,
William and Flora
Hewlett
Foundation
Panelists:
- Derek Keats, Executive
Director of
Information and Communication Services, University of the Western Cape
- Paula Le Dieu, Director of
Creative Commons International
- Karen Lynch, Communications
Director, Development Gateway
Foundation
16.40 - 17.50
The Growing International OpenCourseWare
Movement
Moderator:
Shigeru
Miyagawa, Professor and Faculty Advisor, MIT OCW
Panelists:
- Yoshimi Fukuhara,
Professer, Keio
University
- Divina Frau Meigs,
Professer, Université Paris 3-Sorbonne
- Mary Lee, Associate
Provost, Tufts University, and Dean for
Educational Affairs, Tufts University School of Medicine
17.50 - 18.45
Benefits and Challenges to Using and Adapting OCW
Materials
Moderator: Brendan Barrett, Academic Programme
Officer,UNU
Panelists:
- Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo,
Rector,
African Virtual University
- Elizabeth Longworth,
Director of the Information Society Division,
UNESCO
- Chunyan Wang, Professor,
Renmin University of China School of Law,
and China and Project Representative for Creative Commons
18.45 - 18.50
Concluding Remarks
ORGANIZERS
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Research Thematic Caucus
Please visit UNU at ICT4ALL
Exhibition booth 1201, 15-19 November 2005
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Xavier de Pedro Puente
Departament d'Ecologia
Universitat de Barcelona
Avda. Diagonal 645. 08028 Barcelona
Tel. 93 4021508 // Fax. 93 4111438
xavier.depedro@ub.edu
http://www.ub.edu/ecolo
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