Subject: KEYNOTE WELCOME TO THE AMERICAS FOR GLOBAL LEARN DAY II
Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 20:05:26 +0200 (MET DST)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 20:05:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de> To: roundtable@cni.org Subject: KEYNOTE WELCOME TO THE AMERICAS FOR GLOBAL LEARN DAY II Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980921200501.21501A-100000@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Dear ROUNDTABLE Listservs,
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
I will be in next mail, posting a reviews of some important sites
regarding the Global Learn Day II Project...Regards..Tireless Arun
Kindest Regards
Arun Tireless Tripathi
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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 Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Global Learn Day II, a worldwide
event 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.
Vancouver Canada to Florianopolis, Brazil; from Salt Lake City to
Monterey Mexico, universities and other forms of post secondary
education of varying degrees of virtuality are springing up like
mushrooms in the fertile 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 more 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 Sao Paulo, Brazil with
Dr. 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 exclusively 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
is 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, Farhad 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 by 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 in
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/publications/ptk/halflife.html and is
currently working with a number of Brazilian public and private sector
organizations to develop their distance learning programs.
Dr. Knight will speak to us from Sao 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 and 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 Sao 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 at
http://www.knight-moore.com/html/knight.html More information on Global
Learn Day II can be found at http://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
http://www.bfranklin.edu/gld98/media.html
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