Poitiers Keynote Speeches

The momentous, visionary and sometimes critical keynote speeches of the Fifth Open Classroom Conference in Poitiers have left their fingerprint on the sensitive contemporary issues of ICT and the school level open learning. Most of their PowerPoint presentations can be read online.

Nikitas Kastis
Chair, EDEN Open Classroom Working Group
Carl Holmberg
EENet and Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning
"The Open Classroom 2005 – Learning Equity, Innovation & Quality for the 21st Century School"

Brendan Tangney
Co-director, Centre for Research in IT in Education, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
"Mobile Technology? E-Learning?? Teacher Professional Development???"

Harald Gapski
European Centre for Media Competence, Germany
"New Literacies and Media Competences for the 21st Century "

Bertrand Dory
The eLearning Industry Group, Intel – IT Innovation Centre
"Accelerating eLearning Adoption"

Jacques Wallet
University of Rouen, France
"Three Wishes around the Research on Emerging Open Learning Settings"

Bernard Cornu
Institut National de Recherche Pedagogique, France
"Being a Teacher in the Knowledge Society"

Leo Hojsholt-Poulsen
European Pedagogical ICT Training Programme, Denmark
"Multifaceted Roles for Teachers: Learners and Facilitators in the EPICT School-based Training Model"

Vittorio Midoro
Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche (CNR), Italy
"uTeacher - a European Project on Teachers' Professional Profile in ICT for Education"