normal_fredy-valenzuela-0212The DEHub team have won a grant that will enable UNE to undertake an exchange with Latin American Colleagues around distance education in 2010, which will demonstrate how DEHub connects distinguished postgraduate students from Latin America, Dr Fredy-Roberto Valenzuela (BEPP: Translator) and Carina Bossu (PhD candidate) with our three sector partners.
Southern Skies Distance Education Academic Exchange $74,140. An academic exchange between four distance education universities in Australia and four distance education organisations in Latin America to share information, establish links between the two regions, develop a series of case studies and examples of best practice in distance education and build capacity in the participating institutions.
The Australian section of the exchange will take place in the four DEHub institutions in Australia (UNE, CQU, USQ and CSU). The Latin American section will take place in the University of Moron and the National Uni-versity of Quilmes in Argentina and the University of Sao Paulo and the Online-Distance Education Unit at Fundagao Getulio Varqas in Brazil. Contact Professor Belinda Tynan at: belinda.tynan@une.edu.au , or Dr Fredy Valenzuela at: fvalenz2@une.edu.au