Learning Without Frontiers' What's New
With the current update (30 October 1999), we have included two new documents, updated the activities page and corrected a whole range of new links in our links section.
Documents:
- Learning together in an environment
of shared resources:
Challenges on the horizon of the year 2020 (a PDF document). By Jan Visser as a contribution to the preparation by UNESCO of the report "UNESCO: Horizon 2020."
What does it mean to be learning in the perspective of Horizon 2020? Both the schooling tradition and many of the alternative pathways to learning that complement it, such as much of the distance education tradition, still treat knowledge as something independent of the relationship between the beholder and her or his world. Fundamental changes are required in the ways in which, both at individual and societal levels, learning and the conditions that promote and facilitate it are being conceived. - Changing Learning Environments: the real and not so real of reality and virtuality (a PDF document). An increasing number of virtual providers of education emerge. Other, already existing, institutions add virtual dimensions to their more traditional forms of educational delivery. What does it all mean? How real are those virtual institutions? What distinguishes them from the institutions (providers of face-to-face education and distance education) we are used to? How should these developments affect us? Can lessons be learned? This paper tries to address some of these questions while raising other ones.
Below is an overview of the added/edited links which you can also find through the Links Index page.
- 1999 New Frontiers in Learning Conference
- Averroès Foundation
- AVIVA, Women's World Wide Web
- Conectándonos al futuro
- Critical approaches to Culture, Communications and Hypermedia
- Distance Education at a Glance
- Fundación Omar Dengo
- Global Knowledge Partnership
- Information and Communication Technologies in the Education System in Denmark
- International Telecomunication Union
- Learning Development Institute
- Nelson (De Luca) Pretto
- Techknowlogia
- The Benjamin Franklin Institute of Global Education
- The Exploratorium
- The International Development Research Centre
- The Internet University (or New Promise)
- The World Wide Web History Project
- UNAIDS
- UNESCO Preventive Education Section
- United Nation Population Found
- World Web Wide Consortium