[edtech] OpenCourseWare featured at UN World Summit in Tunisia

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OpenCourseWare
Widening Access to Knowledge through Open Sharing:
The Growing OpenCourseWare Movement

WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY (WSIS) PARALLEL EVENT ===============

		Monday, 14 November 2005
		15.00 -19.00
		Saint Augustin Conference Room at the Kram Expo Centre
		In Tunis, Tunisia

		* Refreshments will be provided

PROGRAMME ====================================================

15.00 - 15.30	Keynote address
		Speaker: Dr. G.M. (Mike) Reed, Director of the United 
Nations University
		International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST)

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:
Derek Keats, Executive Director of Information and Communication 
Services, University of the Western Cape
Paula Le Dieu, Director of Creative Commons International
Karen Lynch, Communications Director, Development Gateway Foundation

16.40 - 17.50	The Growing International OpenCourseWare Movement
Moderator: Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor and Faculty Advisor, MIT OCW

Panelists:
Yoshimi Fukuhara, Professer, Keio University
Divina Frau Meigs, Professer, Université Paris 3-Sorbonne
Mary Lee, Associate Provost, Tufts University, and Dean for 
Educational Affairs, Tufts University School of Medicine

17.50 - 18.45	Benefits and Challenges to Using and Adapting OCW Materials
		Moderator: Brendan Barrett, Academic Programme Officer,UNU

		Panelists:
Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo, Rector, African Virtual University
Elizabeth Longworth, Director of the Information Society Division, UNESCO
Chunyan Wang, Professor, Renmin University of China School of Law, 
and China and Project Representative for Creative Commons


18.45 - 18.50	Concluding Remarks


ORGANIZERS ====================================================

United Nations University	http://www.unu.edu
UNU Online Learning/Media Studio	http://www.onlinelearning.unu.edu
MIT OpenCourseWare		http://ocw.mit.edu
WSIS Education, Academia and	http://www.wsis-cs.org/caucuses.html
Research Thematic Caucus

Please visit UNU at ICT4ALL Exhibition booth 1201, 15-19 November 2005
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