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NEWS
RELEASE
For immediate release
March 28, 2001
Contact North/Contact Nord Will Represent Ontario at a Summit of Presidents of the World Leading Open and Distance Education Institutions in Germany
On April 2, 2001, Principals and Chief Executive Officers of the world leading open and distance education institutions will be gathering in Neuss, Germany, for an International Council for Open and Distance Education’s (ICDE) Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) summit.
Contact North/Contact Nord’s President & CEO, Maxim Jean-Louis has been invited to SCOP to share with the elite group of decision-makers Northern Ontario’s and Canada’s interests and suggestions on how to meet the growing needs of today’s learners through technology in education.
Contact North/Contact Nord is Canada’s Largest Distance Education & Training Network. Part of the network’s mandate is to help increase access though distance education and to share its expertise internationally, nationally and provincially.
"My participation in this upcoming ICDE world forum figures amongst the network’s collaborative mission to share our expertise and experience," comments Maxim Jean-Louis. "Other countries we have had the privilege to work with, in the past year, include China, Guyana, South Africa, and Britain. Moore recent work in distance education included Jamaica, St Lucia, St Vincent, and Dominica."
Maxim Jean-Louis is also President of Collège des Grands Lacs, a French language college in Toronto. The Collège des Grands Lacs of Applied Arts and Technology is dedicated to the excellence of French-language education in the Central-South-Western region of Ontario.
SCOP offers opportunities for access to the latest developments and trends in distance and e-learning institutions around the world in areas such as policy, strategy, technology, innovations, management, quality insurance and market approach.
SCOP is a closed forum of policy level decision-makers of ICDE member institutions for exchange of information, sharing of expertise, building cooperation and establishing advocacy activities.
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