[WSIS CS-Plenary] OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESSOURCES EVENT

[Meigs]

DEAR ALL
YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE PARALLEL EVENT MENTIONED BELOW, SUPPORTED BY
THE EDUCATION, ACADEMIA AND RESEARCH TASKFORCE
DIVINA FRAU-MEIGS
COORDINATOR, EDUCATION, ACADEMIA AND RESEARCH TASKFORCE

Parallel Event on Widening Access to Knowledge through Open Sharing: The
Growing Opencourseware Movement
14 November 2005
 
Monday, 14 November 2005, 15.00-19.00
Saint Augustin Conference Room, Kram Expo Centre
 
Draft Agenda
 
15.00- 15.30        Keynote address
Speaker: Peter Smith, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO
 
15.30- 16.40        Setting the Context: The World of Open Educational
Resources 
Moderator: Marshall Smith, Education Program Director, William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation
 
Panelists
o     Derek Keats, Executive Director of Information and Communication
Services, University of the Western Cape
o     Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School
o     Mike Pereira, Managing Editor, Development Gateway
 
16.40- 17.50        The Growing International Opencourseware Movement
Moderator: Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor and Faculty Advisor, MIT
OpenCourseWare
 
Panelists
o     Divina Frau Meigs, Professor, Université Paris 3-Sorbonne
o     James Yager, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Johns Hopkins
University 
o      Professor from the Japan OCW Consortium
 
17.50- 19.00        Benefits and Challenges to Using and Adapting
Opencourseware Materials
Moderator: Brendan Barrett, Academic Programme Officer, UNU
 
Panelists
o     Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo, Rector, African Virtual University
o     Elizabeth Longworth, Director of the Information Society Division,
UNESCO
o     Professor from the China OCW Consortium
 
 
 

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