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Digital Inclusion: An International Perspective
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 1:00pm EST
This webinar has been recorded and is now available in the Archived Webinar section of the Knowledge Center for downloading. Thanks for participating.
What
are other countries doing about making sure all students have access to a 24/7
digital learning environment? Join this webinar to hear about 1:1
projects in Ireland and Denmark, their goals to provide technology for all
of their students, and their focus on changing instruction in the
classroom.
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Keith Krueger, Chief Executive Officer
Consortium for School Networking
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Conor Galvin
UCD-University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Galvin leads or contributes to various Education, ICT, Public Policy and Development Practice programmes at University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and the UN Training School Ireland.
His research interests include the politics of professionalism,
literacy in an information age, e-learning, schools ICT and the impact
of new and emergent technology on learning and society. Dr Galvin is a
member of the Minister for Education’s Strategy Group on Education ICT
(Ireland). He led the evaluation of the €1.5m Diageo Liberties Learning
Initiative, Dublin, designed and developed the case-based monitoring
approach used by the EUN eTwinning
initiative, was external evaluator on the EU funded DigEuLit project
and recently completed a research evaluation of the €2.8m CONNECT
School project, Ireland. He also acted as an Assessor on a number of EU
actions relating to the Information Society - including eLearning and
MINERVA - and have been National Delegate (Ireland) to an OECD summit on
the Information Society & Education. In January 2009, he was
invited to join the Scientific Board of the ShareTec Project – an EU-funded digital repository project. He has been a director of Action Lesotho, Ireland, since 2009 and an adviser to the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GESCI) – a UN sponsored agency working out of Ireland - since 1995.
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Leo Hojsholt-Poulsen
UNI-C
Denmark
Leo Højsholt-Poulsen is head of education at UNI-C and is responsible for EPICT – European Pedagogical ICT Licence® the national/European teacher training programme; and the national repository of learning resources, Materialeplatformen.emu.dk. He is also the coordinator of EdReNe – Educational Repositories Network. Before joining UNI-C. Højsholt-Poulsen was the managing director at Orfeus where he focused on ICT in education, educational software; e.g. coordinator of Multimedia Hans Christian Andersen, Safeway and EPES-European Pool of Educational Software. His educational training is in physic and mathematics.
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