The 22nd AAOU Annual Conference Agenda
14-16 October, 2008

Oct.14. 2008£¨Tuesday£©

Time

Content

Place

09£º00¡« 22£º00

Registration

Saixiang Hotel
Front hall on the first floor

12£º00¡« 13£º30

Buffet Lunch

Saixiang Hotel
Cafeteria on the first floor

14£º00¡« 16£º00

AAOU Executive Board Meeting

Saixiang Hotel
Hai He hall on the 3rd floor

16£º00¡« 16£º30

Tea Time

Saixiang Hotel
Garden hall on the 3rd floor

16£º30¡« 17£º30

AAOU General Board Meeting

Saixiang Hotel
Hai He hall on the 3rd floor

14£º00¡« 17£º00

Poster Presentation & AAOU Culture Show

Saixiang Hotel
Conference hall and Lobby on the 3rd floor

18£º30¡« 19£º30

Opening Ceremony

Saixiang Hotel
Main conference hall on the 3rd floor

19£º30¡« 21£º00

Welcome Dinner Banquet & AAOU Night

Saixiang Hotel
Main conference hall on the 3rd floor

15.Oct.2008£¨Wednesday£©

Time

Content

Place

09£º00¡« 22£º00

Registration for unregistered delegates

Saixiang Hotel
Front hall on the first floor

08£º30¡« 09£º15

Keynote Speech 1
Title: New trends and challenges for internet use in Asian distance education
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Atwi Suparman
President of the AAOU
Rector of Universities Terbuka in Indonesia

Saixiang Hotel
Main conference hall on the 3rd floor

09£º15¡« 10£º00

Keynote Speech 2
Title£ºThe Future is now: Open and Distance Higher Education Today
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Frits Pannekoek
President of ICDE
President of Athabasca University in Canada

Saixiang Hotel
Main conference hall on the 3rd floor

10£º00¡« 10£º30

Tea time

Saixiang Hotel
Garden hall on the 3rd floor

10£º30¡« 11£º15

Keynote Speech 3
Title: Distance Education Across Borders
Keynote Speaker:
Sir John Daniel
President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning

Saixiang hotel
Main conference hall on the 3rd floor

11£º15¡« 12£º00

Keynote Speech 4
Title: Mission of Open University: China Perspective
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Daokai Ge
Former President of the AAOU
President of CCRTVU

Saixiang Hotel
Main conference hall on the 3rd floor

12£º00¡« 13£º30

Buffet Lunch
Due to the short break time, participants living in Hongbaoshi Hotel and Tiancai Hotel could have a rest after lunch at the cafeteria on the first floor of Saixiang Hotel.

Saixiang Hotel
Cafeteria on the first floor

14£º00¡« 14£º45

Keynote Speech 5
Title: New Trends in Lifelong Learning and Distance Education in Light of the Japanese Experience
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Hiromitsu Ishi
President of The Open University of Japan

Saixiang Hotel
Main conference hall on the 3rd floor

14£º45¡« 15£º30

Keynote Speech 6
Title: Open Education Resources¡ªConcept, Status and Frontier
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Fun-Den Wang
Chairman and President of IET Foundation and IET, Inc
Chairman of China Open Resources for Education
Honorary Professor of Colorado School of Mines in U.S.A

Saixiang Hotel
Main conference hall on the 3rd floor

15£º30¡« 16£º00

Tea time

Saixiang Hotel
Garden hall on the 3rd floor

 

16£º00¡« 16£º45

Keynote Speech 7
Title: Facilitating Experiential and Existential Learning Through Distance Education
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Peter Jarvis
University of Surrey
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences

Saixiang Hotel
Main conference hall on the 3rd floor

16£º50¡« 17£º30

Conference Exchange Speeches:
1. Prof. Anuwa Ali, President of The Open University Malaysia (20 mins.)
2. Prof. Yan Bing, Vice-president of CCRTVU, Director of NCODE (20 mins.)

Saixiang Hotel
Main conference hall on the 3rd floor

17£º30¡« 18£º45

Due to the short break time, participants living in Hongbaoshi Hotel and Tiancai Hotel could have a rest after dinner at the cafeteria on the first floor of Saixiang Hotel.

Saixiang Hotel
First floor

18£º45¡« 21£º00

Dinner Banquet by Tianjin Municipal Education Commission

Saixiang Hotel
Main conference hall on the 3rd floor

 

Oct. 16. 2008(Thursday)

Time
Content
Place

09£º00¡« 12£º00

Registration for unregistered delegates

Saixiang Hotel
Front hall on the first floor

08£º20¡« 12£º45

Parallel Seminars: English Group    Chinese Group

8 parallel seminar rooms on the 3rd and the 2nd floor of Saixiang Hotel

12£º45¡« 13£º50

Buffet Lunch
Due to the short break time, participants living in Hongbaoshi Hotel and Tiancai Hotel could have a rest after dinner at the cafeteria on the first floor of Saixiang Hotel.

Saixiang Hotel
Cafeteria on the first floor

14£º00¡« 17£º00

Closing Ceremony and Awards Presentation

Saixiang Hotel
Main conference hall on the 3rd floor

17£º10¡« 18£º30

Buffet Dinner

Saixiang Hotel
Cafeteria

19£º30¡«

Performance Show

Tianjin Zhonghua Theater

Oct. 17. 2008(Friday)

Time

Content

Place

Morning

Cultural Trips ?(Selective Sightseeing)

The Travel Free of Charge:
    One-day Trip of Tianjin Landscape

Self-supported Travel including the following scenic spots:

  1. Two-day tour to Beijing (Olympic Gymnasium, Imperial Palace, Badaling Great Wall, etc.)
    One-day tour to Ji Xian County
  2. (Huangyaguan Great Wall, Panshan Mountain, Temple of Solitary Joy, and other Natural Scenery)

Tianjin
Beijing

Issued Date: 26 September,2008