Speeches & Presentations 2001

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Open and Flexible Learning: Commonwealth Experience and India’s Challenge: Inaugural Remarks at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Association of Indian Universities, Central University of Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India, 5 – 8 December 2001 by Gajaraj Dhanarajan (Professor Emeritus) President and CEO, Commonwealth of Learning.


Remarks: Remarks on receiving the Sir Edmund Hillary Humanitarian Award, The Granite Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 14 November 2001 by Mr. Lewis Perinbam, O.C., Senior Adviser, External Relations,Commonwealth of Learning.


Remarks: Remarks at the 2001 Convocation Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University on the occasion of the receipt of an Honorary Doctorate (D.Litt) Hyderabad, India, 25 November 2001 by Dr. H. Ian Macdonald, Chairman, Board of Governors, Commonwealth of Learning.


Changing Expectations of Global Education: Charting a New Course: Keynote presentation at the 15th annual IDP Education Australia conference University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 25 – 28 September 2001 by Gajaraj Dhanarajan (Professor Emeritus) President and CEO, Commonwealth of Learning.


Literacy as an International Challenge: Jomtien, Dakar and Beyond: Background paper prepared at the request of the The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association for its 47th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Darwin, Melbourne and Canberra, Australia (3 – 14 September 2001) by Gajaraj Dhanarajan (Professor Emeritus) President and CEO, Commonwealth of Learning.


Education and Training in Economic Development: Paper prepared for the Commonwealth Business Council by Dr. H. Ian Macdonald Chairman of the Commonwealth of Learning and President Emeritus, York University, Toronto, Canada, July 1, 2001.


Access to Education: A Guarantee of a Less Divided World?: Presented at the Sixth G. Ram Reddy Memorial Lecture, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India, 2 July 2001 by Dr. H. Ian Macdonald, Chairman, Board of Governors, Commonwealth of Learning.


Catching Up With eLearning: Implications for Education and Social Policy: Address delivered to the 10th AMIC Annual Conference, Manila, The Philippines (28 June 2001) by H. Ian Macdonald, Chairman, Commonwealth of Learning.


Internationalisation of education without commercialisation: Describes how COL serves the developing nations of the Commonwealth by Gajaraj Dhanarajan (Professor Emeritus), President and CEO, Commonwealth of Learning, May 2001.


Combating Poverty through Adult Education: Inauguration of the Dennis Irvine Lecture Series, Silver Jubilee Celebration, Institute of Distance and Continuing Education, University of Guyana (5 March 2001) by Gajaraj Dhanarajan (Professor Emeritus), President and CEO, Commonwealth of Learning.


Education and the Future of the Commonwealth: Fifth annual lecture of the Council for Education in the Commonwealth, House of Lords, London, United Kingdom (18 January 2001) by H.E. The Right Honourable Donald C. McKinnon, Commonwealth Secretary-General (courtesy of the Commonwealth Secretariat).


Online Learning – A Social Good or Another Social Divide?: Keynote address delivered at an International Conference on Learning and Teaching On-Line, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China (10 January 2001) by Gajaraj Dhanarajan (Professor Emeritus), President and CEO, Commonwealth of Learning.

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