VI International GUIDE Conference 2013
Athens, 3-4 October, 2013
The Global Economic Crisis and its consequences on the national educational systems
Can online education contribute to overcoming the crisis?
The VI International GUIDE Conference, organized under the patronage of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Greece, will provide a comparative description of the structural conditions and issues resulting from the crisis, also analyzing the effects of governmental policies on new training and research strategies emerging from the national economies involved in the global finance system.

The 2013 edition of the conference will address the following topics:
- Analysis of the critical issues characterizing the various regional or macro-regional higher education systems;
- Comparison between innovative proposals and experiences concerning the articulation of the higher education systems according to local and regional needs;
- Analysis of the role of distance learning methods and technologies in designing new cost-effective higher education systems;
- Assessment and comparison of research results in the field of technological innovation for learning, as relates to the transformation of regional or macro-regional education systems.

