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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:50:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: [ifets] KEYNOTE WELCOME TO THE AMERICAS FOR GLOBAL LEARN DAY II
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Dear IFETS List Members,
Tireless Tripathi once again, try to divert the brilliant educative minds
of Teachers, Educators and Administrators, to read the following postings.
Please participate in this project. Global Learn Day II Project
is coming nearer and nearer..Captain Hibbs and Dr. Riddell wants Fresh
Tireless Sailors for this project..For complete details, Please visit the
site at http://www.bfranklin.edu/gld98/joinus2.htm =20
I will be in next posting posting a reviews of some important sites
regarding the Global Learn Day II Project...Regards..Tireless Arun
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Contact: Linda Riddell
llr@lightlink.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 12, 1998:
PETER KNIGHT OF KNIGHT MOORE http://www.knight-moore.com
TELEMATICS FOR EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT
INCORPORATED
TO PRESENT KEYNOTE WELCOME TO THE AMERICAS FOR GLOBAL LEARN DAY II
Peter T. Knight, will contribute a keynote address on Welcome to the
Americas from S=E3o Paulo, Brazil, on Global Learn Day II, a worldwide even=
t
on October 11 featuring the elite of distance education.
Global Learn Day II will be "part expedition, part exhibition, part
experiment and all conference" according to Linda Riddell Communications
Director for the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Global Education who
organize the event. "It promises to be a landmark event in
education history," she says.
From=20Vancouver Canada to Florianopolis, Brazil; from Salt Lake City to
Monterey Mexico, universities and other forms of post secondary education o=
f
varying degrees of virtuality are springing up like mushrooms in the fertil=
e
must of cyberspace. Using both asynchronous
(web based text, graphics, audio and video; listserves, etc.) and
synchronous (videoconferencing, chat rooms, audioconferences) technologies
is easily feasible within the Americas, where time zones do not vary by mor=
e
than five hours at any time of year. But some of these virtual universities
are seeking a truly global reach. What will determine success or failure in
the hemispheric and global markets? How can your institution become
internationally competitive in this new market for learning? These will be
some of the questions addressed in the keynote
address by Dr. Knight.
"We are particularly pleased to be linking up in S=E3o Paulo, Brazil with D=
r.
Knight, Co Director of Knight Moore Telematics for Education and
Development, now associated with Communications Development Incorporated
(CDI) http://cdinet.com with headquarters in Washington, DC and offices in
New York, San Francisco, and London.
A veteran of over twenty years at the World Bank http://www.worldbank.org,
Dr. Knight founded its catalytic Electronic Media Center in 1994 after six
years as chief of the
macroeconomics division of the Bank's Economic Development Institute
http://www.worldbank.org/edi. Then in 1997 left the Bank to work exclusivel=
y
in the field of electronic distance learning in collaboration with one of
the pioneers of modern distance education, Professor Michael G. Moore.
Professor Moore http://www.knight-moore.com/html/moore.html is also
director of the American Center for the Study of Distance Education at
Pennsylvania State University and Editor of the American Journal of
Distance Education.
Dr. Knight has been involved in promoting electronic distance learning,
particularly in Brazil, Russia, South Africa countries he believes are
"destined to leapfrog into 21st century learning systems".
A macroeconomist by training and an accomplished linguist who speaks
French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian as well as English Dr. Knight i=
s
acutely aware of the economic implications of the information and
communications technology revolution for the
globalization of markets for learning and training services. He calls
himself an information age change agent and connector, and passionately
advocates the use of electronic learning systems to
promote the international competitiveness of nations, companies, and
individuals in today's global economy. Together with Professor Moore, Farha=
d
Saba, and John Hibbs all involved in Global Learn Day II he is
developing a series of workshops, live interactive TV performances, and
global webcasts on how to enter the global market for distance learning
PLANNED to take place in 1999 and 2000.
Among his accomplishments in this area, he stimulated the formation of the
Telematics for African Development Consortium
http://www.saide.org.za/homepage.htm based in South
Africa and promoting the use of information and communication technologies
to promote economic and social development throughout Africa; helped
establish the Russian National Training Foundation www.ntf.ru, a grant and
loan making organization with headquarters
in Moscow and affiliated Regional Training Foundations in Moscow, Saint
Petersburg, and Nizhny Novgorod now active in the area of distance learning=
;
helped organize two major conferences on distance education in Russia held
in Moscow in 1994 and 1996; pioneered public affairs TV broadcasting in
Russia on economic reform through documentaries and dramatic serials
broadcast on major national channels; promoted the African Information
Society Initiative http://resources.bellanet.org/partners/aisi (AISI) led b=
y
the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, through
producing television programs and videos and helping engage the World Bank
as a major member of AISI; helped stimulate the current intense interest i=
n
distance learning at the World Bank through his own activities and by
bringing in Professor Michael Moore to spend a sabbatical year within the
Bank; helped organize a major conference on Education in the Information
Age last year in Cartagena Colombia for the Inter American Development Bank=
,
contributing a now published paper "The Half Life of Knowledge and
Structural Reform in the Education Sector" http:www.knight-moore.com/public=
ations/ptk/halflife.html=20
and is currently working with a number of Brazilian public and private
sector organizations to develop their distance learning programs.=20
Dr. Knight will speak to us from S=E3o Paulo, Brazil, just prior to an
international conference on distance education organized by the Brazilian
Association for Distance Education http://www.futuro.usp.br (ABED). Brazil,
with a population of 165 million is a continental sized country with a huge
educational deficit and strong technological potential. Brazil is a world
leader in the use of educational television, and is rapidly ramping up its
activities in web based learning. It has a major national program to link
schools with educational television and also to put computers in schools an=
d
link then to the Internet.
Knight Moore * Telematics for Education and Development and CDI are
exploring formal strategic alliances with ABED and the School of the Future
at the University of S=E3o Paulo http://www.futuro.usp.br/; Gilat
Communications Limited http://www.gilat.net/engeneer/home/htm of Israel, a
provider of state of the art distance learning systems TrainNet (TM) and
LearnNet*; and TrustWorks Systems, a Netherlands based
Russian owned firm providing secure virtual private network solutions which
can be used in Internet based training systems.
More information about Dr. Knight is available=20
at www.knight-moore.com/html/knight.html
More information on Global Learn Day II can be found at
www.bfranklin.edu/gld98/media.html
or by sending an e mail to mediakit@jjplaza.com for an instant detailed
response.
Welcome aboard!
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Global Education
4241 Jutland Drive, Suite 2000, San Diego, CA 92117
Voice: 619 230 0212, Fax: 619 230 0212
www.bfranklin.edu/gld98/media.html
Email: mediakit@jjplaza.com for instant summary of Global Learn Day II
To receive future press releases via Email:
SEND YOUR EMAIL TO: listcaster@listserv.rogersu.edu
IN THE BODY OF THE MESSAGE TYPE: SUBSCRIBE GLD2 News
Linda Riddell, R.D.
Director of Communications
GLDII
llr@lightlink.com
www.bfranklin.edu/gld98/media.html
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Kindest Regards
Arun Tireless Tripathi
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ARUN KUMAR TRIPATHI,c/o Braun,Luetgenholthauser Strasse 99
44225,Dortmund,Germany EDUCATOR: WEB SITE REVIEW WRITER
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