Professor Asha Singh Kanwar, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth of Learning, will serve as one of the plenary speakers for the 5th International Conference on Open and Distance e-Learning (ICODeL 2023). Professor Kanwar will speak for the second Plenary Session focusing on Sustainability and Education.
An expert in open distance and technology-enabled learning, open educational resources, quality assurance, gender and organizational development, Professor Kanwar has published various papers and articles and is a recipent of several international awards including the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) Prize of Excellence, and the Meritorious Service Award conferred by the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU). Professor Kanwar was a former senior consultant at UNESCO’s Regional Office for Education in Africa (BREDA) and is a current member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies and Education (ITTE). She obtained her undergraduate, Master’s and MPhil degrees from the Panjab University in India and a DPhil from the University of Sussex, UK.
With the theme “Sustainability in Education: Intersection, Ideation, Innovations”, ICODeL 2023 will be held in a hybrid format on 22-23 August 2023. ICODeL 2023 is part of the Tri-conference co-organized by the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), Philippine Society for Distance Learning (PSDL), UPOU Foundation, Inc, and Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA). More information is available on https://icodel.org/.
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