Parallel Working Session Abstracts

TEACHING & LEARNING

RESEARCH

OUTREACH & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT & INNOVATION 

CROSS CUTTING THEME 

Teaching & Learning

Peter Scott - Open University, UK

New Channel Thinking: YouTube, iTunes and the live and online world 

Charles Quist-Adade - Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada

The Classroom without Walls in the Global Village: Linking Ghanaian and Canadian Students in the virtual classroom 

Dr. (Ms) Kamal Singh - Sant Gadga Baba Amravati University, India

Role of Virtual Learning Environment in changing the traditional learning methods 

Professor LEUNG Chun-Ming - The Open University of Hong Kong

New Perspectives on Learning: e-learning to m-learning

Laura Czerniewicz - University of Cape Town, South Africa 

The University of Cape Town's Centre for Educational Technology: Lessons learnt 

Professor Bob Moon - The Open University, UK

Rethinking the role of the University in teacher education: the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) experience

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Research

Thomas Fogwill - Meraka Institute of the CSIR, South Africa

scubuntu: a free and open desktop computing environment for researchers and scientists 

Professor Dawie de Jongh - Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics, North West University, South Africa 

Research innovation serving the financial industry: The Ultimate Alpha System 

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Outreach & Community Engagement

Professor Robert Cormack FRSE - UHI Millennium Institute

Overcoming the Tyranny of Geography: the Evolution of the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland 

Sir John Daniel & Dr Krishna Alluri - Commonwealth of Learning

University-Community Links for Rural Prosperity

L. K. Maheshwari - Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India

A case study of educational innovations at BITS, Pilani, through use of ICT 

Dr Don Olcott Jr, MEd, Ed.D, FRSA - The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE)

Going Global: Opportunities and Challenges for Open and Distance Learning

Dr Ashok Patil - Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Education in Rural India: Problems & Prospects 

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University Management & Innovation

Margaret O. Adeogun - University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, Kenya

Emerging University Library Services in an Ever-Changing and Knowledge- Intensive Learning Environment

Martin Belcher - International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications

Strategic Bandwidth Management, enabling ICTs for optimal impact 

Sir John Daniel & Mr Paul West - Commonwealth of Learning

The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth

Mr Paul Duldig MEc MAICD -The University of Adelaide, Australia

University Corporate IT - Is this the Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?

Piyushi Kotecha - Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA)

Addressing the digital divide in the Southern African Universities 

L.K Maheshari - Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India

"Online Testing" in the admission process 

Bhule Mbambo-Thata - University of South Africa

Information technology for 21st Century African libraries: bringing the learning and research community into digital learning spaces

Kay Moore - Learning and Teaching Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

A Strategic approach to Building the Digitally Fluent University 

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Alex Parrillo - Jenzabar Inc.

Enabling Community Engagement through Non-Traditional Administrative Systems & Campus-wide Portal Solutions

Cross Cutting Theme

Tim Gore - The Centre for Indian Business, The University of Greenwich, UK

Globalisating knowledge

Dr Don Olcott Jr, MEd, Ed.D, FRSA - The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE)

Global Connections - Local Impacts: Trends and Developments in Internationalism and Cross Border Higher Education 

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