Dr. Takeshi Utsumi
President, Global University in the USA (GU/USA)
Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
43-23 Colden Street, #9-L
Flushing, NY 11355-3998, USA

Dear Dr. Takeshi Utsumi:

I would like to invite you to the fourth annual conference of the TeleLearning NCE. The TeleLearning NCE is a Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence established in 1995. Twenty three universities and over 100 companies, government departments and schools are working with our organization to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of networked learning using collaborative learning and knowledge building models in K-12, Post-secondary Education and Workplace Training. The NCE is led by Dr. Linda Harasim. Further information about our organization can be found at http://www.telelearn.ca.

The conference, TeleLearning'99, is being held in Montreal, Quebec, November 6th to 9th. Our conference keynote speakers are John Gage, the Chief Researcher and Director of Sun Microsystems; Roxanne Hiltz, Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Science Lessons at the New Jersey Institute of Technology; and Murray Turoff, Distinguished Professor, Computer and Information Science at the Now Jersey Institute of Technology. The three panel tracks are Research Advances, Preparing Postsecondary Institutions, and Global Best Models. Further information about our conference is available at http://www.telelearn.ca/conference.

We have heard much about your work and look forward to an opportunity to learn more about your vision for the Global University and discuss possible avenues for collaboration. If you traveled to Canada, meetings could be also scheduled with Canada's CIDA and representatives of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

I hope that you will be able to attend. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can provide further information. Thank you,

Joanne Curry
Executive Director