LEVERAGE - Education in the Communication Age

An international conference on broadband communications in education and training, "LEVERAGE - Education in the Communication Age", will take place in Cambridge, UK, on 7-8 January 1998. The conference is the first to be organized by the LEVERAGE (Learn from video extensive real ATM gigabit experiment) project, a project supported by the Community's specific RTD programme in the field of Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS). In the LEVERAGE project academics and industrialists from throughout Europe have been collaborating to develop a combination of cutting-edge technology and innovative pedagogy. This conference will offer delegates a chance to learn more about the work of LEVERAGE (including hands-on demonstrations of the system) as well as the opportunity to hear international speakers who will present and discuss the major issues for the use of advanced communication technologies in education and training. Mr. Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, Head of Division responsible for the Community's Telematics Applications programme, will be one of the principal plenary speakers at the conference.

The LEVERAGE conference panel would welcome offers of papers related to network-based learning and teaching (in any discipline) from either the pedagogical or technical angle. Some poster sessions will also be held. Following the event, speakers will be invited to provide a brief summary of their paper for the LEVERAGE conference report which will be published on the LEVERAGE World Wide Web site.
For further information, please contact:

LEVERAGE Information Unit
Ms. Phillipa Wright
Head of Information Services
Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research
20 Bedfordbury
London WC2N 4LB
UK Tel. +44-171-3795101; Fax +44-171-3795082
E-mail: leverage@cilt.org.uk

Further details are also available on the World Wide Web at:

http://www.dit.upm.es/~leverage(opens in new window)