The International Association of Universities (IAU), at the invitation of the International Association of the Presidents (IAUP), held in May 2001 a joint meeting with IAUP and the European Universities’ Association (EUA), in Skagen, Denmark, in one of the prestigious residences of the University of Aalborg, the Klitgarden Refugium.  The general theme “Sharing Knowledge and Experience in Implementing ICTs in Universities” was discussed by some 20 participants from around the world.  

Roundtable Papers

1. Higher Education and the Vision of  E-Learning (rtf, 76 kb)
Daniel Apollon (University of Bergen, Norway)

2. Transforming Classroom Professors into Virtual Class Mentors (rtf, 88 kb)
Fabio Chacón, PhD (Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, USA)

3. Taking E-Learning Education into the Future: The Global Knowledge Hall (rtf, 770 kb)
Ng S. T. Chong, (United Nations University/ Institute of Advanced Studies, UNU/IAS)

4. Guidelines and Principles for Distance Learning (rtf, 124 kb)
Spencer A. Freund (California State University, Sacramento, USA) 

5. Cooperation Mechanisms between Universities in the Swiss Virtual Campus Project (rtf, 532 kb)
Professor Bernard Levrat (University of Geneva, Switzerland, Switzerland)

6. Interactive Knowledge Base on Universities using Information Technology (pdf, 660 kb)
Giovani Malnati (Istituto Superiore “Mario Boella”)

7. Ulysses: Creating a Ubiquitous Computing Learning Environment (pdf, 196 kb)
Robert W. Mantha, (Université Laval, Québec, Canada)

8. Virtual Universities Challenges facing the Traditional University (rtf, 128 kb)
Tom Nyvang (Aalborg University, Denmark)

9. Building a Typology for the Comparative Analysis of Virtual Universities Worldwide (rtf, 2.12 Mb)
José Silvio (International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, IESALC – UNESCO)

Rountable Report (rtf, 118 kb)