ISSUE47: SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2007

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UNU puts forward four-point plan on e-learning

United Nations University has advanced a four-point plan to transform the World Wide Web into a Global Learning Space, through the promotion of openness and collaboration on content, software and network infrastructure.

Participants use UNU Media Studio to join Council  of Europe event via video conference.

The plan was unveiled when the UNU Media Studio participated via video conference in an event called Realising the Full Potential of E-learning at All Levels of Education, organized by the Committee on Culture, Science and Education at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

The four UNU recommendations were:

• Devote more overseas aid to improving Internet connectivity for universities in Africa. The average African university has the same bandwidth capacity as an European household, but pays 50 times more than its educational counterparts in Europe. 
• Support the notion of an Information Society Open to All. This makes both educational and economic sense, especially for Europe, which has the highest number of open source software developers in the world.
• Investigate the role of educational fair use in the area of intellectual property and copyright and promote new models of copyright such as Creative Commons.
• Consider the merits of transforming the European Credit Transfer Scheme (or something similar) into a global initiative that would further support inter-institutional networking and the emergence of common approaches to online learning amongst universities worldwide.

All written contributions and conference videos are available on the Council of Europe website.

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