Advisory Committee

This is a list of suggested members for the Advisory Committee, some of these people will be invited to take part in one or more of the key meetings which will be organised during ReViCa. The first of these will take place in June 2008, Lisbon, right before the EDEN conference. Please do not change the first table. If you have any suggestions to make, please add these to the second table below.

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Table I.

Title	First Name	Last Name	Institution	Country	Function	Experience	Suggested by
Dr.	Antti	Auer	University of Jyväskylä	Finland	Information Management Services, Chair of IT-Peda network		Anna-Kaarina Kairamo
	Ari-Matti	Auvinen [1]	HCI Productions	Finland	Managing Director		Anna-Kaarina Kairamo
	Tony	Bates [2]	Tony Bates Associates Ltd.	Canada	Independent Consultant		Paul Bacsich
	Peter	Baumgartner [3]	University of Krems	Austria			Theo Bastiaens
	Annemie	Boonen [4]	eLIG	Belgium			Helena Bijnens
	Houcine	Chebli	Virtual University of Tunisia	Tunisia			Cristina Stefanelli
Prof.	Betty	Collis	University of Twente	The Netherlands			Paul Bacsich
	Bas	Cordewener	SURF Foundation	The Netherlands	Manager of International Collaboration for the SURF Foundation	Bas has a good verview of activities within the Netherlands and the work of SURF in particular.Leads many of SURF's transnational activities.	Sally Reynolds
Sir	John	Daniel	Commonwealth of Learning	Canada			Helena Bijnens
	Derrick	de Kerckhove	University of Toronto	Canada	Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology		Helena Bijnens
	Christian	Depover	Université de de Mons, UTE	Belgium			Widad Benhabiles
	Jim	Devine	Dunlaoghaire Institute Art/Design/Technology	Ireland	IADT Director	very close to strategic thinking in Ireland vis-a-vis virtual campus and related activities, also an experienced reviewer and speaker on the European scene	Sally Reynolds
Dr.	Bakary	Diallo	African Virtual University	Kenya	Rector of the African Virtual University	Virtual campus in Africa in Francophone and Anglophone in particular and ICT4D Generally in Sub-Sahara Africa	Sally Reynolds
Dr.	Claudio	Dondi	SCIENTER	Italy	President of Scienter	Involved in numerous activities related to VC on both a European and International basis, particularly experienced in relation to policy and EU activities.	Sally Reynolds
	Tom	Dousma [5]	SURF	The Netherlands	Platform manager ICT and Education		Theo Bastiaens
	Jan	Eelen	K.U.Leuven	Belgium			Helena Bijnens
	Maria Amata	Garito	UNINETTUNO	Italy			Helena Bijnens
	Lawrence	Hamburg	Higher Education Academy	UK	Assistant Director e-learning		Paul Bacsich
	Jef	Haywood	University of Edinburgh	UK			Helena Bijnens
Prof. Dr.	Wilfried	Hendricks	IBI - Technische Universität Berlin	Germany	Professor at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) and Head of the IBI - Institut für Bildung in der Informationsgesellschaft e.V. (Institute for Education in the Information Society).	Has a very good overvew of activities in this field in Germany and active in many regional and national networks. Familiar with many of the National policy disussions.	Sally Reynolds
Dr.	Carl	Holmberg	Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning	Sweden	Adviser to the Director-General	Very experienced in Adult and Higher Education, strong on policy-related activities and very active at European level.	Sally Reynolds
	Áine	Hyland		Ireland	recently retired Deputy VC		Paul Bacsich
	Terence	Karran	Lincoln University	UK			Paul Bacsich
	Thierry	Karsenti [6]	Université de Montréal	Canada	Chaire de recherche sur les technologies dans l’enseignement		Widad Benhabiles
Dr.	Nikitas	Kastis	MENON Network & Lambrakis Research Foundation	Greece	Deputy Director General, Lambrakis and President of the MENON Network	Knowledgeable in respect to Greek activities, active at European level, interest in policy	Sally Reynolds
Prof.	Denise	Kirkpatrick	Open University	UK	Pro-Vice Chancellor, Learning and Teaching		Paul Bacsich
	Paul	Kirschner [7]	University of Utrecht	The Netherlands			Theo Bastiaens
	Piet	Kommers [8] [9]	University of Twente	The Netherlands			Theo Bastiaens
	Rob	Koper	Open University of The Netherlands	The Netherlands			Helena Bijnens
Dr.	Walter	Kugemann	Institute for Innovation in Learning (FIM-NewLearning), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany	Head of FIM-NewLearning	Active for many years at European and German level, quite familiar with German VC activities including the Bavarian Virtual University	Sally Reynolds
Ms.	Tae Rim	Lee [10]	Korea National Open University	South Korea			Theo Bastiaens
	Paul	Lefrere	Open University	UK			Theo Bastiaens
	Fred	Litto	ABED	Brazil	Founder and Scientific Coordinator of the “School of the Future” of the University of São Paulo, senior role in ABED	Knows the Brazilian VC and TeL context very well as well as Latin America generally, now actively re-engaged in ICDE	Sally Reynolds
	Pierre-Jean	Loiret [11]	Agence universitaire de la Francophonie	Canada			Widad Benhabiles
	Joost	Lowyck [12]	K.U.Leuven	Belgium			Helena Bijnens
Dr.	Jyri	Manninen	University of Helsinki, Palmenia	Finland	Research Director		Anna-Kaarina Kairamo
Prof.	Robin	Mason	Open University	UK	also evaluator of Swiss Virtual Campus		Paul Bacsich
	Herman	Maurer old bio German bio	University of Graz	Austria			Theo Bastiaens
Prof.	Terry	Mayes	Higher Education Academy	UK	head of the evaluation and support team for e-learning		Paul Bacsich
	Jef	Moonen	University of Twente	The Netherlands			Theo Bastiaens
	Fred	Mulder Dutch English	Open University of the Netherlands	The Netherlands			Theo Bastiaens
	Clive	Mulholland	University of Glamorgan]	UK	PVC at Glamorgan U		Paul Bacsich
	Morten Flate	Paulsen [13]	NKI Distance Education	Norway	Professor of Online Education, Director of Development		Anna-Kaarina Kairamo
	Daniel	Peraya	Université de Genève, TECFA	France			Widad Benhabiles
	Jim	Petch	Manchester University	UK	Head of Distributed Learning		Markus Bela
	Otto	Peters old bio	FernUniversität in Hagen	Germany	Professor Emeritus of Distance-Education Methodology		Theo Bastiaens
	Vanessa	Pittard	Becta	UK	Director of Research		Paul Bacsich
	Juha	Pohjonen [14]	University of Oulu,Open University	Finland	Development Manager		Anna-Kaarina Kairamo
	Garry [15] [16]	Putland	education.au, Education Network Australia (edna)	Australia	General Manager - Business Development	Garry is a key link with what is happening in all sectors in Australia including Higher education.	Sally Reynolds
	Malcolm	Read	JISC	UK			Paul Bacsich
	Vitor	Rocio	Open University of Catalonia	Spain			Theo Bastiaens
	Caitriona	Ryan	Higher Education Authority	Ireland			Paul Bacsich
Prof.	Gilly	Salmon	University of Leicester	UK			Paul Bacsich
	Albert	Sangrà [17] [18]	Open University of Catalonia	Spain	Director Educational Innovation and Methodology, Director of Edu Lab		Helena Bijnens
	Rolf	Schulmeister [19]	University of Hamburg	Germany			Theo Bastiaens
	Niall	Sclater					Helena Bijnens
	Peter	Scott	Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of the Open University	UK			Anna-Kaarina Kairamo
Dr.	Ramesh	Sharma	Indira Gandhi National Open University	India	Regional Director at Regional Center – Karnal of Indira Gandhi National Open University.	VC related activities in India	Sally Reynolds
	Talal	Sheik	Syrian Virtual University	Syria			Cristina Stefanelli
	Richard	Straub	eLIG		Secretary General		Helena Bijnens
	Josef	Strobl [20]	Salzburg University	Austria	Head of Z_GIS		Markus Bela
	András	Szûcs	Budapest University of Technology and Economics	Hungary	Secretary General	EDEN	Markus Bela
	Martin	Valcke [21]	Ghent University	Belgium			Theo Bastiaens
	Jef	Vandenbranden					Helena Bijnens
	Michiel	van Geloven	Digital University	The Netherlands			Theo Bastiaens
Prof.	Tapio	Varis [22] [23] [24]	University of Tampere, Faculty of Education	Finland	Professor of Vocational Education, with particular reference to Global Learning Environments and UNESCO Chair in global e-learning with applications to multiple domains		Anna-Kaarina Kairamo
Dr.	Erwin B.	Wagner and EDEN		Germany	Director of the Centre for Distance Learning and Continuing Education at Hildesheim University, Germany	particular experience of Multicampus VC in Germany	Sally Reynolds
	Jacques	Wallet	Université de Rouen, Campus numérique FORSE	France			Widad Benhabiles
Prof.	Herman	van der Merwe	Tshwane University of Technology	South Africa	Director of the Department of Telematic Education at Technikon Pretoria and Manager of the Centre for the Utilisation of Technology in Education (CUTE) in Technikom.	International expert on the utilisation and management of technology in education and serves on various national and international workgroups. Specific interest in mobile learning what is happening in South Africa.	Sally Reynolds
	Wojciech	Zielinski	Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz, Polish Virtual University	Poland	Pro Vice Chancellor for Information Systems (CIO) at The Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz (AHE) and co-author and a co-organizer of Polish Virtual University (PVU)	very knowledgable on developments in Poland and the set up and progress of the PVU	Sally Reynolds

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Table II: Suggestions that will be taken into account

Name	Institution	Country	Function	Experience	Suggested by

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