GUIDE Association

The Association

GUIDE Association - Global Universities in Distance Education - is a non-profit, non-political, non-secretarial organization, which is not aligned to any party ideology.

The Association finds its origin from the common need of distance universities (Open Universities) to promote and enhance education, by supporting research and increasing cooperation respecting cultural diversities of each member.

GUIDE Association originated from the need to strengthen the international cooperation between universities and institutions worldwide, which have the common goal of involving both young students, and citizens already working at various levels, in the knowledge acquisition processes, by creating a new university model, able to mix scientific mastery, with flexible knowledge methods.

GUIDE also intends to work towards internationalization of knowledge through these technologies, and through subsequent methods, which favor the exchange of ideas in a dynamic context, also able to create learning methods open to all situations and necessities.

NEWS / EVENTS

2008 Global Forum on Open and Distance Education, 19-21 October, 2008, Shanghai, China

A high level forum will be co-sponsored and co-organized by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), International Council of Open and Distance Education (ICDE), Chinese National Commission for UNESCO; Shanghai Municipal Educational Commission (SMEC), Shanghai Distance Education Group (SDEG)/Shanghai TV University (STVU), in cooperation with Commonwealth of Learning (COL), the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU), the Association of Global Universities in Distance Education (GUIDE) and National Modern Distance Education Society of Chinese Universities on 19-21 October 2008. The theme is “The Future of Open and Distance Education and the Building of Learning City: New Challenges, New Opportunities and New Strategies”.
The forum is featured with its immediate connection with ICDE SCOP and its Executive Board Session, Representation of keynote speakers from all continents, high level presence of UNESCO experts and officials, combination of theory and trends analysis with practical case studies, specially designed set of short briefing on learning city building in Shanghai, opportunities meeting with large number of Chinese counterparts and its well organized activities to know the city, people and Chinese society during and after the forum.

For more information, kindly go to the websites:

Forum Website: http://www.unescochair.org.cn/forum
SCOP Website: http://www.icde.org.cn/scop2008

ICELW 2008

International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace 2008, 12-13 June, New York (USA)
Conference Website: http://www.icelw.org

ICELW is the first international conference focused on e-learning
in the workplace.

With researchers and practitioners coming from around the globe -- and from university and business settings -- the ICELW community works to improve online learning so that it makes a measurable difference in workplace performance and morale.
By uniting the corporate and academic worlds, ICELW is creating a new synergy -- one with the unique capability to realize the vast potential of e-learning in business and industry.