Friday, September 29, 2006

International speaker seminar series: Venus Seminars


On October 11th, the first of a series of video-conferenced and webcast seminars with renown international speakers - the so-called Venus-Seminars - welcomes the well-known scientist Ricardo Petrella. The intended audience for these seminars consists of students in higher-education, but also the general audience is targeted. This year's theme is "Global issues for the European citizen", and lists an impressive group of speakers, including Joanne Ciulla, Wolfgang Wessels, Jean-Jacques Cassiman, Stephen Downes and Derrick de Kerckhove.
Interested individuals can participate in the webcast, interested institutions with video-conferencing facilities can participate in the full session.

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Elise study and meeting day


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Originally uploaded by Smetty.
Last Thursday, the Flemish Elise community organised a study and meeting day in Leuven around practical examples of e-learning in higher and adult education. Chairperson of the day was Luc Vandeput, e-learning manager at Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven. Pity I couldn't be there, due to my broken ribs...