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St. Paul's Convent School is also holding a "Digital Carnival" to co-incide with the Symposium and delegates are welcome to attend this event which will showcase IT applications from various schools in the Wanchai District and the Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi). There will also be IT vendors and booksellers participating. The Carnival will open officially at 1:45 pm.

8:30 - 9:15 am

Registration

9:15 - 9:20 am
Welcome: Dr David Murphy, President, HK Web Symposium Consortium
9:20 - 9:50 am
Opening Address: Trends and Issue in Global e-Learning
Speaker:
Professor Leung Chun Ming, Vice President (Technology & Development), OUHK
9:50 - 10:30 am

Keynote: Open Educational Resources
Speaker: Dr. Sally Johnstone, Director of the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET), Boulder, Colorado, USA

10:30 - 10:50 am

Break for drinks

10:50 - 11:30 am
Keynote: The many faces of an LMS
Speaker: Dr. Enrico Canale, Head of Courseware Development within the Teaching, Learning & Research Support Department, The University of Melbourne
11:30 am - 12:10 pm

Keynote: Institutional Knowledge Management - Building a "Knowledge Bank" at the Ohio State University
Speaker: Professor Joe Branin, Director of Libraries, The Ohio State University

12:10 - 1:45 pm

Symposium Lunch*
(*for invited guests and paid-up registrants only)

2:00 - 3:45 PM
Parallel session panels
Panel 1
[School Library]
Challenges for library consortia providing e-learning support
(Chair: Dr. Tony Ferguson, President of the Hong Kong Library Association and Chief Librarian, HKU)
Panel 2
[G7 Theatre]

Global trends of e-learning for quality education: a school perspective
(Chair: Sr. Margaret Wong, Principal, St. Paul's Convent School)

Panel 3
[G5 Conference Room]

Getting an international qualification without leaving home and job
(Chair: Dr. F.T. Chan, Associate Professor & Head, Information Technology, HKU SPACE)

3:45 - 4:00 pm

Refreshment break

4:00 - 6:00 pm

Closing Plenary session: Chair: Mr. Nigel French

  1. “Thoughts on theme and issues addressed from the IW3C2 perspective” by Mr. Mr. Bebo White, Member, International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2)
  2. Reports from panel chairs
  3. Report, with student participation, from Professor Carmel McNaught, Chair of the on-line forum "Educational narratives and reflections in the time of SARS" held in May 2003
  4. A presentation and closing remarks by Nigel French, Founding President of the Consortium and former UGC Secretary General
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