Keynote SpeakersDuring plenary sessions the following key speakers will address the main theme of the event "Researching and promoting access to education and training: the role of distance education and e-learning in technology-enhanced environments." Conference Inaugural - 20 October, Monday
"Introduction, Michel Moreau"
Mariana Patru
UNECO, Paris, France
Jan de Groof
College d'Europe a Bruges, Universite d'Anvers, Belgium
What Perspectives for Human Rights Dimensions in Distance Education ?
Sara Guri-Rosenblit, Open University Israel, Raanana, Israel
Université Louis Pasteur,ULP Multimedia Strasbourg is recording all the plenaries and some parallel sessions of EDEN Fifth research workshop, and will broadcast them the following day on www.canalc2.tv
Plenary Session I - 21 October, Tuesday
Representatives of scientific distance educatin journals worldwide:
Alan Tait (EURODL) Barbara Spronk (IRRODL), Bruce Chaloux (JALN), Martine Vidal (Distances et savoirs)
In 2007, 6 scholarly journals with international influence and readership in Europe, North America, Asia, launched a common call for papers :
What is the role of distance education in the implementation of the "right" or "access" to education ?
In 2008, the anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with article 26 declaring the right to education, more than 40 articles in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, selected by the 6 journals make a unique set of references and can be freely accessed at www.distanceandaccesstoeducation.org
Come and meet the editors of the journals on Tuesday at the morning plenary, and discuss with some of the authors of the articles at the two following parallel sessions.
Plenary Session II - 21 October, Tuesday
"Infromation Technology and Media Applications in Support of Educational Access"
Insung Jung, International Christian University, Japan
Matti Sinko
TKK Dipoli, Finland
Do We Recognise Our Coordinates and the Bearings of the ICT Compass Needle in the Education Landscape?
Plenary Session III - 22 October, Wednesday
"Enhancing Access to Education - Institutional Strategies and Cases using distance and E-Learning"
Susan Aldridge University Maryland University College, USA
Li Yawan, China Central Radio and Television University, China
Pietro Sicuro, Organisation Internationale de la francophonie, France
Closing Plenary - 22 October, Wednesday
"Reflections from Conference Rapporteurs"
Genvieve Jacquinot GRAME, Universite Paris 8, France
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