KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Internationally known experts in the field of Open Learning and Distance Education, as well as outstanding representatives from business and politics are invited as Keynote Speakers for the Plenary Sessions and as Main Speakers for specific areas of the World Conference. They will provide - from their particular viewpoint (educational, entrepreneurial and political) - their reflections and visions on the future of the university, the school and the workforce training sector. Special emphasis will be placed on the effect of the new technologies, media and soft-/teachware on the further development of education and training. The potential of both the open distance learning and the new information and communication technologies will be explored and unfolded for the bridging of space and time by multimedia supported, synchronous and asynchronous teaching, training and learning in a networked world.
The following persons have confirmed their participation as Keynote Speakers in the Plenary Session of the 19th World Conference, Vienna 1999:
- (Mr) Dr.
Roland Deiser, President, DaimlerChrysler University, Stuttgart (Germany)
- (Mr)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. José L. Encarnação, Prof. Dr.-Ing. José L. Encarnacao, Professor at the
TU Darmstadt and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt
- (Mr) Ed
Kozel, Chief Technical Officer, Cisco Systems (United States)
- Markku
Markkula, Member of the Finnish Parliament, Secretary General of IACEE -
International Association for Continuing, Engineering Education, Helsinki
(Finland)
- (Ms)
Prof. Emma Nardi, Professor on Experimental Pedagogy, Roma Tre University (Italy)
- (Mr)
Juan Carlos Tedesco, Director, UNESCO IIPE, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- (Mr) Prof. Francis A. Waldvogel, President, Board of Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, Zürich/Lausanne (Switzerland)
To be updated on availability of new information (outline of speech, photo, CV).
