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Keynote Speakers |
| Keynote Speakers |
| 1. Dr John AINLEY |
| 2. Professor Asha Singh KANWAR |
| 3. Dr Seiji UTSUMI |
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Dr John Ainley is Deputy CEO (Research) of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and Research Director of the National and International Surveys Program.
His research interests span several areas. His research on post-compulsory education and training has involved analyses of the progress of young people in Australia through school, further education, training and work, studies of influences on subject choice in the senior secondary years and the progress of students through the senior secondary years. John used longitudinal research methods to study the development of literacy over the first five years of school. His research on information and communication technology in education has encompassed case studies of innovative teaching and learning practices in schools and a national survey of ICT literacy in Australian schools. He has surveyed in the East Asia and Pacific region to assess knowledge needs and access to the global development learning network.
John is a member of the Education and Training Statistics Advisory Group of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Consortium Advisory Group for the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children and the Youth Advisory Group for the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. He is editor of the Australian Journal of Education and a member of the editorial boards of Education Research and Evaluation and the Education Research Review. He was a member of a group that conducted a national study of the impact of educational research. He has been a visiting scholar at the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research in San Francisco and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
Dr John AINLEY
Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Research)
ainley@acer.edu.au
Australian Council for Educational Research
19 Prospect Hill Rd, Private Bag 55, Camberwell, Victoria, 3124, AUSTRALIA
Phone: + 613 9277 5555
Fax: + 613 9277 5500
http://www.acer.edu.au
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Professor Asha Singh Kanwar became Vice President of the Commonwealth of Learning on 1 April 2006. She joined COL as Education Specialist, Higher Education, on 1 March 2003 with the major responsibility of working with Commonwealth governments and organisations in policy and systems development, within the context of open and distance learning (ODL).
Before joining COL , Professor Kanwar was a consultant in open and distance learning at UNESCO's Regional Office for Education in Africa (BREDA) in Dakar , Senegal . During this assignment, her task was to promote and co-ordinate open and distance learning (ODL) in Sub-Saharan Africa and she was instrumental in placing ODL at the centre of ministerial deliberations and the agenda for the development of education in Africa . The West African initiative led to the establishment of an ODL Resource Centre at BREDA and later to the development of a regional Centre of Expertise at the National Open University of Nigeria.
Dr. Kanwar's engagement with distance education began when she joined Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) as a Reader in 1988. In 1992 she was appointed Professor and 1996 was designated Director of the School of Humanities . In 1999, she became Pro-Vice Chancellor of IGNOU.
Professor Kanwar has over 30 years of experience in teaching, research and administration. In addition to the several books, research papers and articles to her credit, she has made significant contributions to gender studies, especially the impact of distance education on the lives of Asian women. These studies have established that better educational opportunities and access to new technologies have made substantial differences to the attitudes, values and concerns of Asian women.
A recipient of several awards and fellowships, Professor Kanwar brings with her the experience of having studied and worked in different contexts, both developing and developed. She received her undergraduate, master's and MPhil degrees from the Panjab University in India . She was awarded a scholarship for a DPhil programme at the University of Sussex , which she completed in 1986. She was also a Fulbright Fellow for post-doctoral research at Iowa State University, where she was later invited to teach, and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leiden, the University of Toronto and the Open University of Hong Kong.
Professor Asha KANWAR
Vice President
akanwar@col.org
Commonwealth of Learning
1055 West Hastings, Suite 1200 , Vancouver , BC V6E 2E9 , CANADA
Phone: +1 604 775 8226
Fax: +1 604 775 8210
http://www.col.org/akanwar
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Dr. Seiji Utsumi obtained a B.S degree (1969), and B.A degree at Kyoto University , and his Ph.D (2000) in International Cooperation in Education, from Osaka University .
Utsumi has been working as the Educational Expert and Development Specialist for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in various developing countries for past 25 years. Whilst carrying out these roles, he has lived in Malaysia , Turkey and Afghanistan .
He became a Professor at Osaka University in 1996 and is currently Professor of the Graduate School of Human Sciences.
He has published extensively in the areas of Educational Development and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) policy. His area of research interest includes Educational Development, Cultural Change and recently, International Educational Cooperation for Post-conflict in unstable nations and societies.
From 2002 to 2003, he lived in Afghanistan as Adviser to the Minister of Education. In 2005 and 2006 he carried out research in Kenya , Rwanda , Afghanistan and other countries. Currently, he has responsibilities with the Japan International Cooperation Agency's (JICA) Technical Cooperation Projects in Education in Bolivia , Guatemala , Mongol and Afghanistan .
Dr Seiji UTSUMI
Professor of Graduate School of Human Sciences
seiji@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp
Osaka University
1-2 Yamadaoka Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, JAPAN
Phone: 81 -6-6879-8064
http://www.hus.osaka-u.ac.jp/english/index.htm
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