Professor Asha Kanwar, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), will deliver a plenary talk at the 3rd International Conference on Open and Distance e-Learning (ICODeL) to be held on 26-28 November 2018 at the Garden Villa Hotel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Professor Kanwar is one of the world’s leading advocates of learning and development. Her engagement with distance education began when she joined Indira Gandhi National Open University as Professor and then continued to serve as Director of the School of Humanities and Pro-Vice Chancellor. She also served as a consultant in ODL at UNESCO’s Regional Office for Education in Africa (BREDA) in Dakar, Senegal where she was instrumental in placing ODL at the centre of ministerial deliberations and the agenda for the development of education in Africa. She joined COL in 2003 as Education Specialist, Higher Education, with the major responsibility of working with Commonwealth governments and organizations in policy and systems development, within the context of ODL. She became President of COL in 2012, after a six-year term as Vice-President. COL is an intergovernmental organization created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning and distance education knowledge, resources and technologies.
For the 3rd ICODeL, Professor Kanwar will speak on the conference theme “Technology-Enhanced and Inclusive Education in the Digital Age.” This three-day event will be attended by ODL and e-learning scholars and practitioners to share and reflect on experiences as well as collaboratively create and explore spaces and possibilities for ODeL for development. Interested participants may submit abstracts for paper and panel presentations until 30 July 2018. Details about ICODeL2018 is available at icodel.org.
