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Prof. Victor B. Lawrence <[email protected]>

Dr. Ali Mostashari <[email protected]>

P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D., Professor <[email protected]>

References:

(a) “Innovation Imperative: Change Everything: Online Education as an Agent of Transformation”
By CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN and MICHAEL B. HORN
The New York Times, November 1, 2013
<http://tinyurl.com/pdafxv6>

Dear E-Colleagues:

(1) You may be interested in reading the Reference (a) above.

Dear Victor and Ali:

(2) It refers to the invention of steam ship, which event originated your Stevens Institute of Technology, which is now located on a hill overlooking the spectacular Manhattan skyscrapers and beautiful Hudson River.

Dear Tapio:

(3) I am very happy to hear that the UNESCO extended our Global University System (GUS) program till 2017.

We are very lucky to have strong cooperation of the people at the Stevens Institute of Technology for the development of our GUS.  Let’s follow the suggestions made in the Reference (a) above.

Best, Tak

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ANNEX I

From: Tak Utsumi <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:57:34 -0400
To: Tapio Varis <[email protected]>, Roger Boston <[email protected]>
Cc: Tak Utsumi <[email protected]>
Conversation: UNESCO and GUS
Subject: UNESCO and GUS

Dear Tapio:

(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I below).

(2) My wholehearted congratulations to your obtaining the extension of your UNESCO agreement.

(3) I would be very happy if you can restore the web site of our 1999 summer workshop at your university as before including photos and video, since it was a very historical event as the initiation of our GUS.  

BTW, it might be easier for you if you link to photos and videos at Roger Boston’s web site — see below red marked one.  However, I would strongly suggest that you should notify Roger of your link so that he would not erase them in the future without knowing their linkage to yours.

Roger Lee Boston
Rockwell Chair/Instructor
Distance Education/Technology Center
Houston Community College System
4310 Dunlavy Street
P.O.Box 7849
Houston, Texas 77006
USA
Tel: +1-832.654.5627
     +1-713.718.5260
Fax: +1-713.718.2030
[email protected]
[email protected] (secondary)
http://tc1.hccs.cc.tx.us
http://tc1.hccs.cc.tx.us/hist/yr99/finland/ -- Tampere event
http://tc1.hccs.cc.tx.us/hist/yr00/brazil/ -- Manaus event

(4) I shall wait for the award soon — thanks a lot!

Best, Tak

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ATTACHMENT I

From: "Tapio Varis" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (20131027) Tapio's presentation at the National Software Conference 2013 at Tinapa, Nigeria on 22-23 October
Date: October 31, 2013 at 3:18:08 PM EDT
To: Tak Utsumi <[email protected]>
Cc: Tapio Varis <[email protected]>


Dear Tak,

Your Award was sent by mail from the University of Tampere. I hope it
will arrive safe to you.

Please find attached my new Unesco Chair information. The Agreement
with UNESCO was renenewed for 4 years till 2017. They were very
satisfied with our work. I will prepare a new www-page including our
1999 EGEDL conference and a link to your sources.


<http://tinyurl.com/k7g2czp>

Yours,

Tapio

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List of Distribution

Prof. Victor B. Lawrence
Associate Dean: Special Topics
Batchelor Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Burchard Building, Room 205
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Ph.: 201 216-5636
Cel: 732-407-9500
Fax.: 201 216-8246
[email protected]
http://www.ece.stevens-tech.edu/iNetS/people/LawrenceVita.html -- brief bio
http://www.stevens.edu

Dr. Ali Mostashari
Associate Professor (Research), School of Systems and Enterprises
Director, Center for Complex Adaptive Sociotechnological Systems (COMPASS)
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201-216-8723
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://stevens.academia.edu/AliMostashari
Bio and photo: <http://tinyurl.com/8vf69c4>
Letter of support: <http://tinyurl.com/9ztnj7c>

P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D., Professor
Acting President, Global University System
UNESCO Chair in Global e-Learning with applications to multiple domains
Emeritus Professor and Chair of Media Education
Research Center for Vocational Education & Hypermedia Laboratory
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 229
FIN-13101 Hameenlinna
FINLAND
+358-3-3551-3608
Tel: +358-3-614-5608--office in Hameenlinna
Tel: +358-3-215 6243--mass media lab in Tampere
GSM: +358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-614-5611 or +358-3-3551-3611
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.uta.fi/~titava
www.ecml-eu.org -- about ECML project.
http://www.uta.fi/conference/mediaskills/

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