Prasena provides the only official Shadow Website for the upcoming international ICLORD conference in Bangkok, Thailand

On April 20 we had in Bangkok for 3 hours a international Webcast session where we connected from Bangkok to remote speakers. You can (re-) listen to all these 5 different webcasts at any time. The recorded session is soon available from here The 6 speakers will be (see for more information here below): Andrew Pincon from the USA Rama Raghu Iyer from India Lukas Ritzel from Switzerland Richard Watson Todd from Thailand Mark Esposito from Switzerland

ICLORD Research Conference 2005 On "Learning Organizations in a Learning World" Check below to read more about the discussion papers and presentations produced by Prasena, as International Advisor and Plenary Speaker of the Conference:

LATEST (April 21, 2005) : One of the particpants Prof Dr Perla Rizalina M Tayko and her group concluded with an attempt at creating an opportunity to learn through interactive dialogue but generative of the meaning drawn from each one and crafting a "collective framework" towards becoming a learning organization. Click here to see their findings in some slides (the other members of this workshop have been Dr. Nishi Jain; Sirichai Preudhikulpradub; Dr. Miguel Udtohan; Dr. Dharam Parkash; Hassan Jantan Suvaluk Asavasanti

All Live from Bangkok:
Dr. BK Passi, Prasena's Think Tank member and Initiator of the ICLORD and President of the All India Association for Educational Research
"The opening address" of the conference is available here in paper format and here as an online flash animated Presentation more about Prof Dr BK Passi (Oasis Voice page)

Prasena as well covered the last AIAER conference hold in January 2005 in India with Dr Passi's presentation available online.

Dr Noel Jones, Chairman VoxWorld Co-ops - presentation entitled
"Ireland - Celtic Tiger & Learning Organization" - click here to see the slides online. eMail Dr. Jones

Isabelle Michelet, Director Research, Prasena - Paper entitled
"Become a Learning Organization or Die" - In her introductory address, Isabelle Michelet will analyze the meaning of the term "learning organization", clarify the concept in the global perspective of socio-economic change, and explain the challenges that the participants of the Conference will be invited to reflect on. Click here to see the slides online and here to download the supporting paper . More about I. Michelet

Dr Hashi Passi - Paper entitled
"A Journey of Learning from Learning- Life searching happyness" - (That Moved Through Technology, Leisure, Engagement, Challenge, Meaning). This paper is a story of a learning life based upon social and personal experiences that emanated from philosophical analysis, historical readings, and personal experiences. The story of this learning has three phases; preparation, formulation, and experimentation. The process outcomes are embedded along the journey and product outcomes are given at the end. More about Dr Hashi Passi's paper click here - more about Dr Hashi Passi, click here!

Virtually through Webcast from the USA:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Andrew Pincon - Information & Communication Technologies - Mr. Pincon has over 30 years of experience in international engineering and business. He is Chairman of the Inner City Computing Society, a non-profit technology infrastructure organization providing design/build, turn-key infrastructure services to US Computer Training Centers (CTC). He is also Chairman of the Digital Workforce Education Society, and President and CEO of Alado Development Ltd, a consulting engineering practice, with clients like the US Small Business Administration, the IL Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, OSHA, US Postal Service, Compaq Computer Corp. and Qwest Telecommunications. He is a member of Illinois Governor's Small Business Task Force and the Illinois eGovernment Working Group and he is on a number of other Chicago and Illinois technology committees. A Pincon's presentation online, click here! Contact A Pincon

Virtually through Webcast from the USA:
John Hibbs, Global Learn Day Guru - on the topic of:
‘Learning Organization in a Learning World’ The Inextricable Links and the Trojan Mice - In this piece, John Hibbs proposes an on-line, on-going, global discourse triggered by "American neo conservative, hegemony ambitions". Click here to download the Abstract. John Hibbs will use following links during his presentation:
About the Institute ( bfranklin.edu) , About Global Learn Day (bfranklin.edu/gld), About a long term stint abroad (bfranklin.edu/champions), Three months abroad? ---Celebrating The Franklin Tercentenary ( bfranklin.edu/ambassadors and ben300.com) - More about John Hibbs

Virtually through Webcast and Live from Bangkok:
Lukas Ritzel, Director Infostructure, Prasena - Usage of Collaboration technologies in Education.
"From Tradition to Cyber-Age in a Year" - How to come closer to the dream of a Learning Organization in one-year time and with limited investment. Case study of one of Switzerlands top Hotel and Business Management schools.- click here to download the supporting paper (needs Acrobat Reader) or here to watch the online presentation. Contact: L O Ritzel for inquiries and questions on DCT or the presentation done. More about the author

More links used during LOR presentation: BlogPage teacher sample - BlogPage student sample - WebCollaborator - Online Survey creator - LOR own Information and Communication Technology webpage used during the 10 weeks ICT course with links to all the 10 weeks objectives during the course - Collection of most usefull websites BestOfTheWeb - Best Collaboration tools available on the Web - Sample of Flash online teaching story - Sample of Internet Quiz on various topics - Sample of PowerPoint learning Quiz to repeat the topic from the class before - Sample of a 3 weeks Project assignment (only active during the real Project term weeks... if you want a sample contact me at l.ritzel@dct.ch - more information and usages of the WebCast used at DCT and during the conference, click here and follow up on Archives - Global Learn Day at ABAC with visuals - Our work during the World Summit of the Information Society with the Digital Diaspora Network Roundtable, click here - More about Prasena's activities, events and conferences are available at Prasena's Virtual_U page

Virtually through Webcast and Live from Bangkok:
Rama Raghu Iyer, Specialist Learning and Design from NIIT Ltd - on the topic of:
'Semiotic Dialogues' - Click here to enjoy Rama Raghu Iyer's Presentation online. Contact: riyer@niit.com

Virtually and Life from Bangkok:
Richard Watson Todd, Liberal Arts Faculty at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok Thailand on the topic of:
'Empowering Students to Change the Real World' - University education, especially in a country like Thailand where seniority is respected, needs to avoid two potential pitfalls. Firstly, tertiary education runs the risk of becoming engrossed in academic issues and divorced from reality with the consequence that assignments for students become exercises in academic theorising rather than tasks which effect change in the real world. Secondly, there is a danger that students and others in subordinate positions, perhaps overly respectful of their seniors, do not attempt to speak up and change the status quo when such changes are necessary. This presentation reports on two attempts to overcome these potential problems as part of postgraduate programmes in English education at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. Click here to enjoy R W Todds Presentation online. Contact: R W Todd

Virtually through Webcast from Lucerne, Switzerland:
Dr. M Esposito, Prasena's Think Tank member on the topic of:
“Emotional Intelligence and Andragogy”: The Adult Learner - Emotional intelligence, a type of social and personal intelligence, is important in managing interpersonal relationships and interactions, especially in the business and educational sphere.. Educators, that involve frequent contact and interaction can benefit from the application of multiple intelligences. This presentation examines how and to what extent emotional intelligence can benefit the educational relationships, and identifies a clear spectrum of action plans. The analogy with the use of andragogy will then, reinforce the study to the adult educational module and its applications in some leading edge case studies. Results showed that all educators, to a certain degree, utilized emotional intelligence to offer more personalized and effective solutions for the learners. Click here to listen to Marks presentation Webcast and click here to download the supporting paper. Contact: Dr Mark Esposito

Book of all research papers soon available: The delegates of the conference deliberated upon different aspects of learning centeredness of education. About 200 papers of good quality were presented. Now, these papers are in the form of a book called Learning Centered Education and it is available from the College of Education Tirunelveli

Technology support:
Prasena & DCT International support the CIDLOR conference with their Webcast technology. A VOIP tool at www.alado.net/dctwebcast.htm

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