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 Relive the 23rd ICDE World Conference online

The 23rd ICDE World Conference was held in the city of Maastricht, The Netherlands, 7-10 June 2009, hosted by OpenUniversiteit Nederland, and was attended by over 500 participants.

The opening and closing ceremonies, plenary sessions, panel debates and the ICDE Prize of Excellence award ceremony are available to view online.
 
Photo galleries from each day of the conference are also available to browse.
 
 
                                                                             Updated 17 June 2009
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New Member Offer

ICDE are pleased to annouce that new membership applications received from 7 June 2009 will be applicable for the following offer:

Apply now for 2010 membership and receive complimentary membership for the remaining months of 2009.
 
                                     Apply for membership of ICDE
 
                                                                                          Updated 5 June 2009
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News from Members

  • Warsaw School  of Computer Science win New@Poland award for the project Poland Open Computer Science Academia  Press release
  • Newsletter from South African Institute for Distance Education
  • The National Association of Distance Education and Open Learning in South Africa (NADEOSA) announces its annual conference and AGM scheduled for 17-18 August, 2009 at the Unisa Sunnyside Campus in Pretoria. The conference theme will be: The changing faces of Distance Education and Open Learning.  Registration and further details
  • The 15th CIED – Brazilian International Congress of Distance Education entitled 'The Search for Innovations  in the Teaching-Learning Process: Identifying and Disseminating Innovations in Distance Education' will be held at  Fortaleza, Brazil on 27-30 September 2009. Fortaleza - in the State of Ceará - is on the northern cost with direct flights from Miami and Lisbon. See the call for papers in the most recent ABED newsletter.
  • The 2009 Horizon Report analyzing the impact of new technologies in the field of higher education has been published. The project is a collaboration between the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative and New Media Consortium in collaboration with The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).   Spanish edition   English edition 
  • The 23rd AAOU Annual Conference will be held 3-5 November 2009 in Tehran, Iran, hosted by Payame Noor University
                                                         Updated 2 July 2009
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June/ July issue of Innovate published

Innovate focuses on the creative use of information technology to enhance education and training in academic, commercial, and governmental settings. The journal is published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA. Innovate
 
                                                                                     Updated 3 June 2009
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UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education

This UNESCO World Conference on the theme of “The New Dynamics of Higher Education and Research for Societal Change and Development” will tackle Higher Education’s role in addressing major global challenges as well as societal commitment and social responsibility.
 
Parallel sessions will be held on: internationalization, regionalization and globalization; equity, access and quality; and learning, research and innovation.
 
Each theme will be studied from different angles including: the possibilities offered by ICT and open and distance learning (ODL), including open educational resources (OERs); public and private roles and responsibilities; the emergence of new models and approaches; the implications in terms of funding and investment; and the implications in terms of governance and management.

The World Conference will be held at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 5-8 July 2009.

 
                                                                                Updated 13 May 2009
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Publication of Handbook of International Associations in Higher Education

This new handbook from the Academic Cooperation Association presents one hundred higher education associations from various continents, as well as their global counterparts. The handbook seeks to showcase the interlinking relationship between networks and to provide information for future cooperation, partnerships and effective networking.

The project is supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation through the ASEM Education Hub (AEH).

Further details         Order form

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Open Praxis: first issue of 2009 now published

This issue includes:
  • The Learning City: papers from the 2008 ICDE SCOP meeting and the Global Forum in Shanghai 
  • Final report from the ICDE Task Force on Open Educational Resources.
  • Portfolio assessment in open and distance learning in Mauritius

Open Praxis website

                                                                     Updated 27 March 2009
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Global Forum on Cross-Border Higher Education

A Global Forum on Cross-Border Higher Education entitled ‘Global Connections – Local Impacts:  Best Practices, Models and Policies for Cross-Border Higher Education’,  will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 21-24 October 2009.
 
The organisers are The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education and the University of Nottingham, Malaysia,  who aim to offer a venue for global colleagues to discuss ideas, strategies and best practices in internationalism and cross-border higher education.
 
 
                                                                                 Updated 13 May 2009
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ICDE Environmental Scan

What should ICDE focus on? Where should our priorities be among such a variety of vital tasks? The development of the Environmental Scan started last year when the ICDE Executive Committee invited Ms Pamela Walsh from Athabasca University to work with us on the question -  In what context will ICDE work in the coming years?
 
Now we present the final document Global Trends in HIgher Education, Adult and Distance Learning
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Education Journals

UNESCO present a selection of online journals on education, with links to abstracts, table of contents listings and subscription information. Free access is also available to full text in some cases. UNESCO.org
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