Global Learn Day X

For a thousand very compelling reasons we are absolutely delighted that Michael Coghlin, from Adelaide, Australia will be our Keynoter. These are warm and friendly waters “down there”, last visited by me when Michael arranged for me to do a keynote/webcast in front of a large crowd in Melbourne. (more…)

Final instructions for all Moderators, Keynoters and scheduled speakers are noted here. (more…)

Michael Coghlan is not only a long time advocate of distance learning, especially for English language instruction, he is also one of the nicest men you will ever meet.

Here is more informaation on how to listen –which basically boils down to listening inside the telephone room or listening to the audio on a “stream” where the voices come to from players are eithe Windows Media or Real Player (more…)

John Southworth, A man of many hats. Here, in “The Okinawa Group” as moderator and leader of the parade. (more…)

We have made a special effort to find extraordinary podcasters using this brand new - or not so new - medium. One of them is David Noble who will be showcased during our European segment (more…)

Pam McLean, who will appear in the African Segment, helps to coordinate various networking and fundraising efforts on behalf of organizations as mentioned her note to us. (more…)

This is an updated page for John Southworth that revises and improves that which is found here. Viewers during and after the event are encouraged to visit this page; however do to the press of time and John Southworth’s departure from Hawaii to Okinawa (today), we feel “safer” posting this as an update, while keeping that previously prepared for this very, very hard working professional. (more…)

If you view Lee Baber’s blog page you will find a work and academic history as deep and rich as any of the speakers on our voyage. But that blog site won’t tell you is this woman is warm, caring, a musician at heart and knows more about art than a whole lot of museum directors. Maybe the best thing you can do is just listen to this very nice piece which tell s you a lot about her! (more…)

Post GLD - Buthaina Al-Othman recording from GLD Ten. Listen here
Naturally, we are pleased and proud to feature a dozen or more luminaries as we make our way around the world. These men and women will be enormously helpful to increase our broadcasting reach; and that, we say, will help us meet the goal of the event: To increase access to affordable education worldwide. Having said that, if I were to make a small wager at this instant in time for which speaker — or speakers — would have the most impact, my wager would be on two women who hail from the Middle East.

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