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In January 2002 Professor Brenda Gourley became The Open University's fourth Vice-Chancellor, the first woman to lead Britain's largest university.
Both The Open University and Prof. Gourley have a social justice agenda, recognition of increasing global interconnectedness, and a belief in education as a tool to tackle the growing inequalities of the haves and the have-nots in the global society. Recognising the particular challenges of the twenty-first Century, Prof. Gourley is a sought-after speaker on a wide range of issues that affect higher education institutions and society more widely. Some recent contributions to conferences include `Will eLearning Deliver on its Promise?', `The Digital Divide as a Development Issue', and `Moving Open and Distance Learning to Centre Stage'.
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Prof. Dr. Rolf Schulmeister is professor for university didactics at Hamburg University. He is director of the interdisciplinary Centre for University Didactics (IZHD). His research focuses on multimedia and e-learning. The “Master of Higher Education”, a unique programme to qualify young academics for teaching at universities has been developed at the IZHD and has been running very successful for a couple of years. Recent publications include "Grundlagen hypermedialer Lernsysteme" (2002); "Virtuelle Universität - Virtuelles Lernen" (2001), "Lernplattformen für das virtuelle Lernen" (2003).
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 | Prof. Dr. Erwin Wagner, University of Hildesheim, Germany. He is director of Centre for Distance Learning and Advanced Training, University of Hildesheim, is responsible for the development and delivery of Distance Education, e-learning study programmes and advanced training courses as well as student support services; he is project manager of multi-university "Virtual Campus" framework and coordinator of VIA-online, Center of Competence in Online Distance Learning; he was President of European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and is Member of the Advisory Board to the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (http://www.obhe.ac.uk/). |
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