Monday, May 17 - 8:45 AM

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• James Taylor, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
• Sustainable Higher Education Learning Futures
• A recent analysis of demographic trends produced projections that, at current rates of world wide growth, the number of students in post-secondary education will more than double in less than ten years. Read More »

Tuesday, May 18 - 8:45 AM

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• Asha Kanwar, Commonwealth of Learning, Canada
• Towards Sustainable OERs: A Perspective from the Global South
• Professor Asha Singh Kanwar became Vice President of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) on 1 April 2006 and assumed additional responsibility as Programme Director in April 2007. She is specifically responsible for stakeholder engagement and programme direction. Read More »

Wednesday, May 19 - 8:45 AM

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• Jerome Glenn, Executive Director, The Millennium Project, USA
• Increasing Individual and Collective Intelligence
• The accelerating rate and complexity of change should make the changes of the past 25 years appear slow compared to the next 25 years. The emerging knowledge economy will require a far more intelligent and knowledge world labor force than did the industrial or agricultural economies. Read More »

Thursday, May 20 - 8:45 AM

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• Anuwar Ali, Open University Malaysia, Malaysia
• Teaching Learning Framework through the Power of Innovation
• In an increasingly globalised and competitive world in which borderless education, internationalisation and positioning have become important components of national policy initiatives, we would expect more radical changes taking place in higher education. Read More »

Tuesday, May 18

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• Jon Baggaley, Athabasca University, Canada
• Global Educational Technology: A Luddite View
• The paper will use Ludd’s archetypal negative perspective on technological innovation, to explore how the potential of current educational technology trends might be improved.  The speaker will stress the lessons of distance education projects that he has advised in 14 Asian countries from 2004-10. Read More »

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• Merry Merryfield, Ohio State University, USA
• Beyond Dichotomies: Rethinking the World Through New Technologies
• This presentation discusses current research on how primary sources on the Web, online projects (such as iEARN) and new communication software (such as Skype) are changing the ways in which students are thinking about the world. Read More »

Wednesday, May 19

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• Jan Herrington, Murdoch University, Australia
• Authentic Mobile Learning: The Affordances of Mobile Technologies in Authentic Learning
• Mobile technologies afford the design and creation of truly innovative authentic learning designs. In this presentation, the theoretical foundations of this approach will be explored. Read More »

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• Paul Kim, Stanford University, USA
• Mobile Innovation and Global Education Ecosystem
• The presentation will focus on contextualized innovations designed to increase access to education for the underserved and enhance learning and assessment through mobile technology models for both formal and informal learning scenarios. Read More »

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• Ümit Kartoğlu, World Health Organization, Switzerland
• Key elements in experiential learning: "Pharmaceutical cold chain management on wheels" as a case study
• A unique WHO/PDA learning opportunity, "Pharmaceutical Cold Chain Management on Wheels" is used as a case study to show how learners grasp and transform their experiences while working with mentors and peers. Read More »

Thursday, May 20

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• Colin Latchem, Open Learning Consultant, Australia
• Distance and Blended Learning in Asia: An Overview
• The presentation will describe some of the outstanding and unique achievements in Asian distance, blended and e-learning. It will consider the issues of e-readiness and e-learning readiness, quality assurance and accreditation, organizational change, cultural appropriateness and scholarly practice in ODL/ICT. Read More »

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• Sugata Mitra, Newcastle University, UK
• An Alternative Schooling: Self Organising Systems in Education
• This talk is based on four premises. These premises are proposed based on experimental results, often referred to as ‘the hole in the wall’ experiments, as well as more recent experiments that will be discussed. Read More »

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• Cathleen Norris, University of North Texas, USA
• Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan, USA
• Educating the Mobile Generation: It is Inevitable that Cellphone Computers will be Used in Education
• Teaching 21st century skills in K-12 requires the use of 21st century tools. The cellphone computer – not the laptop – is the quintessential 21st century tool. Read More »