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From august the 15th through the 17th, at the Virgilio Barco Public Library in Bogota, the Colombian Ministry of Education will be holding the seminar "Quality in e-learning: State of the art and perspectives". This event is an initiative of the National Program for Media and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Use in Education.

The main goal of this event is to present experiences related to e-learning quality assurance, as well as showing some representative tendencies that could change, in the mid-term, how e-learning and its quality assurance are conceived. The event will have keynote speeches about experiences in the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Canada. The main topics will be: state of the art on e-learning quality assurance, e-learning tendencies and K-12 classroom technology use.

Other topics to be covered will be: communities of practice, informal learning, teacher training for K-12 ICT use, personal learning environments and social communication and pedagogy: media at school.

This seminar will have the presence of speakers like Christian Stracke (Germany), whose speech will refer to the ISO/IEC standard for e-learning quality; Tony Bates (Canada), who will speak about institutional strategies for e-learning assurance implementation models, Christopher Dede (United States), who will speak about online teacher professional development (oTPD), Nancy White and Jay Cross (United States), who will talk about communities of practice and informal learning, respectively.

This seminar will be broadcasted through Colombia Aprende Educational Portal (www.colombiaaprende.edu.co). After the event, the conferences will be available for the academic community through the National Advanced Technology Academic Network – RENATA in Spanish (Red Nacional Académica de Tecnología Avanzada)