Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:13:38 -0400
From: "Peter T. Knight" <ptknight@ibm.net>
Organization: Knight-Moore Telematics for Education and Development, CDI
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>, utsumi@columbia.edu
Subject: Lessons from the Tampere conference

Dear Tak,

I've been following in the background, very sorry I was not able to attend. As one of those who recommended to infoDev that they finance the project (on being asked to review your proposal), I was hoping they would send me. As it turned out, I ended up leaving my vacation in Maine to assess the distance learning capabilities of two US universities who may be involved in national training project.

In any case, I have been asked by infoDev to look at a number of projects involving education and training to try to draw out the major lessons learned which may be of more general interest. These can include lessons about the infoDev grant-making process itself, but perhaps more importantly, lessons learned from the projects themselves. The Tampere project is among those I am to review.

While I have still not seen the precise terms of this job, it is on a fairly short fuse. Thus I wanted you to be thinking of what you believe you and the participants in Tampere learned that is of greatest interest to those interested in the use of ICT in education. I am not interested in 50 pages, but rather a short concise statement of the most important findings which deserve broader review than a formal report is likely to get.

I will of course supplement this request by a more detailed one in the near future if that is required.

With best regards, and congraulations for your tenacity and entrepreneurship in bringing the conference, for which I remember planning began back at the Academy for Educational Development years ago!

Of course, you are free to solicit the opinions of your participants as well -- but I must stress, the Tampere conference is one of approximately eight projects I am reviewing, so I want to keep the findings concise and powerful.

With best regards,

Peter

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