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08:00
Registration
09:00
Opening (8 minutes per guest)
Prof. Ailton Nazareno Soares, Rector of UNISUL
Dr. Laura Ricci, on behalf of Prof. Alessandra Spremolla Briganti, General Secretary of GUIDE Association
Dr. Frederic Litto, President of ABED (Associação Brasileira de Educação a Distância)
Dr. Beatriz Fainholc, Director of CEDIPROE and GUIDE Representative for Latin America
Dr. Jucimara Roesler, Director of UnisulVirtual
09:45
1: Virtual Higher Education Trends (45 min. + 15 min. questions)
Prof. Michael Moore – Penn State University – USA
10:45 - Café
Coffee Break
11:00
2: Round Table: Virtual Education in Latin America (20 min. per speaker + 15 min. questions)
Dr. João Vianney Valle dos Santos – Hoper Group – Brazil
Dr. Claudio Rama – Observatorio de Tendencias de la Educación Virtual em América Latina – Uruguay
Dr. Frederic Litto – ABED – Brazil
Moderator: Dr. Susane Martins Lopes Garrido – UNISINOS – Brazil
14:00
3: E-learning, Blended Learning and M-learning: characteristics and problems (20 min. per speaker + 15 min questions)
Dr. Beatriz Fainholc – CEDIPROE – Argentina
Dr. Ilaria Mascitti – USGM (Univeristà degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi) – Italy
Dr. Rafael Morales Gamboa – UDG – Universidad de Guadalajara – Mexico
Coordinator: Dr. Fernando Jose Spanhol – UFSC – Brazil
15:35
4: Views on Common Spaces of Distance Higher Education in the MERCOSUR (20 min. per speaker + 15 min. questions)
Dr. Enrique Martínez Larrechea – UDE (Universidad de la Empresa) – Uruguay
Dr. Augusto Manuel Clave Perez-Lindo – UNLZ (Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora) – Argentina
Coordinator: Dr. Beatriz Fainholc
16:30
Coffee Break
16:45
5: Crossborder E-learning: linguistic, cultural and technological problems (20 min. per speaker + 15 min. questions)
Dr. Marcelo Fabián Maina – UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) – Spain
Dr. Andreia Inamorato dos Santos – The Open University UK – UK
Dr. Enrique Martínez Larrechea – UDE (Universidad de la Empresa) – Uruguay
Coordinator: Dr. Ademilde Silveira Sartori – UDESC – Brazil
Day 2 - 15th October – Friday
09:00
6: Interdisciplinary Investigation in Virtual Higher Education (15 min. per speaker + 15 min. questions)
Dr. Beatriz Fainholc – CEDIPROE / GUIDE Association – Argentina
Dr. Carla Pampaloni – USGM (Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi) – Italy
Dr. Rafael Morales Gamboa – UDG – Universidad de Guadalajara – Mexico
Coordinator: Dr. Denia Falcão de Bittencourt – UnisulVirtual – Brasil
10:00
7: Round Table – Social Networks and Social-Cultural-Educational Networking (15 min. per speaker + 15 min. questions)
Dr. Jucimara Roesler – UnisulVirtual - Brazil
Dr. Marcelo Fabián Maina – UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) – Spain
Prof. Anna Beatriz A. Waehneldt – SENAC – Brazil
Moderator: Dr. Mauro Faccioni Filho – UnisulVirtual - Brazil
11:00
Coffee Break
11:15
8: Round Table: Open Educational Resources for Virtual Learning: what works and what doesn’t (15 min. per speaker + 15 min. questions)
Dr. Josie Taylor – The Open University UK – UK
Dr. Andreia Inamorato dos Santos – The Open University UK – UK
Dr. Frederic Litto – ABED – Brasil
Dr. Andrew Law – The Open University UK – UK
Moderator: Prof. Murilo Matos Mendonça – UnisulVirtual – Brazil
14:00
9: Round Table: Thinking the University of the Future: formative strategies for distance education and building network knowledge (30 min. per speaker + 30 min. questions)
Dr. Carla Pampaloni – USGM (Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi) – Italy
Dr. Augusto Pérez Lindo – UNLZ (Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora) – Argentina
Dr. Laura Ricci – USGM (Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi) – Italy
Moderator: Prof. Victor Henrique Moreira Ferreira – UnisulVirtual – Brazil
16:00
Coffee Break
16:15
10: Round Table: Lessons Learned and the Virtual Higher Education Scenario (20 min. per speaker + 20 min. questions)
Prof. Michael Moore – Penn State University – USA
Dr. Claudio Rama – Observatorio de Tendencias de la Educación Virtual em América Latina – Uruguay
Moderator: Dr. Jucimara Roesler – UnisulVirtual - Brazil
17:15
Close
Dr. Laura Ricci, on behalf of Prof. Giovanni Briganti, Head of the International Relations Department, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi – Italy
Dr. Beatriz Fainholc, Director of CEDIPROE and GUIDE Representative for Latin America – Argentina
Dr. Jucimara Roesler, Director of UnisulVirtual – Brazil