The DE Hub and the UNE community will host four scholars from South America on 3rd and 4th May as part of the ‘Southern Skies Distance Education Academic Exchange’ project, funded by the Council on Australia and Latin America Relations (COALAR).
The Southern Skies project provides for academic exchange between four distance education universities in Australia and four distance education universities/organisations in South America to share information, establish links between the two regions, develop a series of case studies and examples of best practice in distance education and build capacity in the participating institutions.
The four visiting scholars are:
• Professor Fredric Litto – President of the Brazilian Association for Distance Education, Executive Committee IDCE and Formerly University of São Paulo, Brazil);
• Dr Stavros P. Xanthopoylos – Executive Director of the Online and Distance Education Centre at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil;
• Marta Mena – ICDE Latin America Network and University of Morón, Argentina; and
• Associate Professor Sara Perez – National University of Quilmes, Argentina.
The DE Hub would like to invite you to attend a series of seminars given by the visiting scholars on 4th May, from 9:00 to 11:00 am, at the Oorala Lecture Theatre.
Each scholar will give a 20 minute presentation on topics related to Distance Education in their country and in their institutions, including policies and practices. In addition, they will talk about the role that DE plays in meeting the needs of students, as well as the major factors and concerns affecting DE in higher education. There will also be time for questions/discussion and morning tea will be provided.
Please RSVP to dehub@une.edu.au by 30th April for catering purposes.
Originally posted to the UNE Official email list by the Professor Graham Webb, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, on behalf of the DE Hub team.
