Welcome and Opening (8 min.)
together with
Introductory Keenote Speech: Position and Perspectives of European Policy in Open and Distance Learning

Erwin Wagner , President of EDEN

New Media in Higher Education, Lessons Learned from a German Government Program

Hans G. Klaus, Director, Government Program Implementation, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft

A Framework for European Comission Programme Funding - Policy Paper of the European Open and Distance Learning Liaison Committee

Peter Floor, Coimbra Group of Universities

Theme: Panorama of Research - Strategies, Conceptual Approaches and Activities of Learning Laboratories in Europe and the Policy Making Context

Session Chair: Ingeborg Bo, Executive Director, NADE

Research in the E-Learning Competence Center L3S

Wolfgang Nejdl, Managing Director, Learning Lab Lower Saxony and the Global Learning Network

UOC's Edu Lab: eLearning Research for Progress

Andereu Bellot for Albert Sangra, Academic Director, Edu Lab, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona

Research in ODL and eLearning at the Open University, UK

Alan Tait, Sub Dean, The Open University, UK, Faculty of Education and Language Studies

European Observatories on Information Society Technologies, Research and Education

Claudio Dondi, President, Scienter, Italy

European Educational System Indicators - Strategic Element in the Transition from Occasional Surveys to Policy Supporting Benchmarking Systems

Walter Kugelmann, FIM-Psychologie, University of Erlangen

Key Issues for Educational Research in Shorter and Longer Term. What are the Chances for Contributing to Policy Development?

Moderator: Walter Kugelmann

Panelists: Erwin Wagner, Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, H.G. Klaus, Peter Floor, Carl Homberg, Wolfgang Nejdl, Albert Sangra