Conference Papers & Presentations

More papers and links will be added as we receive them from the speakers 

FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER

Inaugural Ceremony 

Professor Sukhadeo Thorat - Chair of the University Grants Commission, India

Emerging Issues in Indian Higher Education - Approach and Strategy under 11th Plan

Keynote Speaker - Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, CBE

Unavoidable circumstances prevented Lord Puttnam from attending the conference, however, a copy of his address is available here. 

Plenary 1

Professor Brenda Gourley - The Open University, UK

Higher Education for a Digital Age 

Plenary 2 

Professor Sugata Mitra - University of Newcastle, UK

This Technology is for Everyone  - Professor Mitra's talk is available to download from www.ted.com

Georges Malamoud - Agence Universitaires de la Francophonie

Digital campus: a tool for networking communities 

Parallel Working Session - Research: Using ICT in Research
 

Dawie de Jongh - North West University, South Africa

Research innovation serving the financial industry: The Ultimate Alpha System 

Trading Performance Evaluation 

Thomas Fogwill - Mereka Institute of the CSIR, South Africa

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

Parallel Working Session - Outreach & Community Engagement: Reaching the hard to reach

Ashok Patil - Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, India)

Dazzling Technology; Unequal World; Seismic Shift in higher education vis-a-vis education in rural India:problems and prospects

John Daniel - Commonwealth of Learning

University-Community Links for rural prosperity

(Text Version)

Parallel Working Session - University Management & Innovation: The Changing University Library 

Margaret Adeogun - University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, Kenya

Emerging univeristy library services in an ever-changing and knowledge-intensive learning environment 

Buhle Mbambo-Thata - University of South Africa

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

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SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 

Plenary 5 

Gordon Freedman - Blackboard

Unlocking the Global Education Imperative: Core Challenges and Critical Responses 

(Text Version)

Parallel Working Session - Teaching & Learning: Virtual Learning Environments 

Professor C. M. Leung - Open University of Hong Kong

New perspectives on learning: from e-learning to m-learning 

Links to: 

Smart Learning Space

Law E-Courses

Using PDAs

Laura Czerniewics - University of Cape Town, South Africa

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

Parallel Working Session - Outreach & Community Engagement: Opportunities & Challenges 

Don Olcott - Observatory on Borderless Higher Education

Going Global: Opportunities and Challenges for Open and Distance Learning

Parallel Working Session - University Management & Innovation: Delivering Distributed Learning 

John Daniel - Commonwealth of Learning

The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth

(Text Version )

Piyushi Kotecha - Southern African Regional Universities Association

Addressing the digital divide in the Southern African universities

Martin Belcher - International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) 

Strategic bandwidth management; enabling ICT's for optimal impact 

SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER

Plenary 6

Dr Len Shaffrey - University of Reading, UK

Advancing the Science of Climate Prediction: Achievements and Challenges 

Parallel Working Session - Teaching & Learning  

Bob Moon - The Open University, UK

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

Ann-Marie Furney - New South Wales Department of Education and Training/Tandberg

Interactive Classrooms Project in New South Wales 

Parallel Working Session - Cross-Cutting Theme: Globalising Knowledge 

Tim Gore - University of Greenwich, UK

Globalising Knowledge

Don Olcott - Observatory on Borderless Higher Education

Global Connections - Local impacts: trends and developments in internationalism and cross border higher education

Laura Czerniewics - University of Cape Town, South Africa

Online conferences for growing communities 

Parallel Working Session - University Management & Innovation: Reaching all parts of the university 

Kay Moore - Sheffield Hallam University, UK

A strategic approach to building the digitally fluent university

Jason Howard - StudyLink

Digital conversion and the paperless admissions office