Dr. Ihor Bogdan Katerniak <ik@litech.net>
Docent Antti Kasvio <ttanka@poph.uta.fi>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Dr. Paul Lefrere <p.lefrere@open.ac.uk>
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP <daj@utk.edu>
Dear Ihor:
==========
(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).
(2) As I informed to you in
my previous msg, when we visited IREX office in
Washington,
D.C. on 10/19th, they told us that this program provides up
to US$10,000
per application.
They also
told us that you can submit your application for the travel
expenses
of your Ukrainians attending our workshop at the Open
University
in U.K. (which is to be held after April, 2000).
Therefore,
I would suggest that you concentrate on it, i.e., use the
money
(up to US$10,000) to bring as many Ukrainian colleagues as
possible
to the Open University.
Dear Antti and Paul:
====================
(3) David Johnson recently
told me that he is suggesting his Bulgarian
colleagues
to join in your European Group, and to attend the workshop at
the Open
University -- he will then suggest his colleagues to apply for
the travel
grant to the IREX, too.
Dear Ihor:
==========
(4) Pls send me the draft
of the letter of support so that we can work
together
for refinement, and I will then ask Tapio, Antti and Paul to
send it
to you.
(5) My comments to your draft application are in << >>.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Subject: LETTER(S) OF SUPPORT
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 13:22:17
+0200
From: Ihor Katernyak <ik@litech.net>
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>,"Takeshi
Utsumi, Ph.D."
<utsumi@columbia.edu>,
Tapio Varis <tapio.varis@uta.fi>, Paul Lefrere
<P.Lefrere@open.ac.uk>,
ttanka@uta.fi
Dear friends,
As you know from my previous letters
I would like to take
part in IREX Targeted Exchanges
Program . My application is
attached to this letter below (Grant
application due date:
January 14,2000). April 1, 2000
is earliest grant start date.
This grant I could use for cover
my travel expenses on our
Workshop in Open University and
for visiting some US institutions.
The selection IREX committee will
consider the following
criteria when evaluating applications:
1. The expected impact at local
institutions in improving
their humanities and social sciences
disciplines (Curriculum
development, Teaching technologies
including distance
learning or computerized classrooms,
Departmental
administration, Educational services
and the market,
International program development
Standardized testing, Community
outreach and public relations);
2. Stated need for in-country research
or collaboration;
3. Strong host institution letters
of support.
Can I ask you to send me a LETTER(S)
OF SUPPORT FROM HOST
INSTITUTION(S) indicating why proposed
activities are needed:
List name, address, phone number,
and e-mail address of the
person(s) writing the letter(s)
of support. Letters of support need not be
confidential, and should be attached
to this application.
Thank for your cooperation,
Ihor
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IREX Targeted Exchanges Program
Ihor Katernyak, Ph.D.
CURRENT WORK ADDRESS:
Position/Title _Director and docent__
Place of Employment _Lviv Institute
of Management__
Department _Technology Promotion
Center_________
Street___57 Chornovil Ave.____________________________
City __Lviv___ State________ Country
___Ukraine_________
Index/Zip Code___2900000_______
Telephone_380 322 522681_
Fax__380 524463_________________
E-mail ik@litech.net
PROPOSAL TITLE:
Distance learning development in
business and project management
<<Ihor:
You may change this to;
Workshop at Open University/U.K. to discuss the distance learning
development
in business and project management." (3 days)>>
EXCHANGE INSTITUTION(S). Please
list the institution(s) you wish to
be affiliated with during your
travel grant. If there are more than
two institutions, please list on
a separate sheet of paper.
Institution:__University of Tampere,
Global University System
Street Address P.O.Box 607 FIN-33101
City Tampere State_______
Country FINLAND Index/Zip
Code______________
Contact Person_P. Tapio Varis,
Ph.D, Title Acting President, Global
University System; Chairman,
GLOSAS/Finland; Professor
Department_Media Culture and Communication
Education Hypermedia
laboratory
Telephone_+358-3-215 6110
Fax: +358-3-215 7503
E-mail _ tapio.varis@uta.fi
Institution:_ Open University_
City Milton Keynes
State____________
Country _UNITED KINGDOM__
Index/Zip Code_ MK7 6AA__Contact Person Dr. Paul
Lefrere Title Senior Lecturer
Department Institute of Educational
Technology
E-mail p.lefrere@open.ac.uk
Telephone_ +44-1-908 65 33 88
Fax +44-1-908 67 28 02
Institution: Consortium for Affordable
and Accessible Distance
Education (CAADE) at GLObal
Systems Analysis and Simulation
Association in the U.S.A.
(GLOSAS/USA).
Street Address 43-23 Colden Street
City Flushing State
NY 11355-3998 Country U.S.A
Index/Zip Code______________
Contact Person_ Takeshi Utsumi,
Ph.D., Title President Emeritus of
Global University System (GUS)
and Chairman of GLOSAS/USA
Department___________________________________________________
Telephone 718-939-0928
Fax 718-939-0656
E-mail utsumi@columbia.edu
10. Please check all areas of study
in which you wish to concentrate:
Curriculum development
Teaching technologies including
distance learning or computerized
classrooms
Departmental administration
Educational services and the market
International program development
Standardized testing
Community outreach and public relations
11. TEACHING/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
List courses you have taught
or are teaching in the humanities
and social sciences, or other
appropriate professional activities.
Attach a separate sheet of
paper, if necessary.
Innovations and Project management.
12. LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY EVALUATION:
Please indicate which languageyou propose
to use as a means of communicating
during your project.
It is recommended that the applicant
have some proficiency in the
native language of the country
that will be visited. (Those traveling
to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia,
and/or Ukraine may substitute
Russian for the native language.)
I. Language English
II. Please evaluate your present
ability to write, speak, and
understand the language listed
above by circling the appropriate
selection below. See explanation
of rating scale in the application
instructions.
Fluent Good Fair Poor Beginning
Speaking 1 2 3 4 5
Listening Comprehension 1 2 3 4
5
Reading 1 2 3 4 5
Writing 1 2 3 4 5
III. List language courses taken
to date in reverse chronological
order:
Business English in the Lviv Institute
of Management- 1995-1997.
13. LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT WAIVER:
If you feel that no foreign language
knowledge is necessary for the
realization of your project, please
explain why. How will communication
and collaboration with the host
institution(s) and colleague(s)
be facilitated without knowledge of
the local language?
Not Applicable at this time - this
proposal concerns a project using
English; all the prospective partners
are sufficiently competent in English
14. PROJECT GOALS AND OUTCOMES:
Please list your project's goals and
anticipated outcomes, keeping in
mind that the principal outcome
must be to strengthen the humanities
and social sciences in
institutions of higher education
in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia,
Russia, and/or Ukraine. Attach
one additional typewritten sheet of
paper, if necessary.
This project will develop distance
learning between Ukraine and
participating schools in Finland,
the U.K. and the US. The end
product will be a joint proposal
for fund raising which includes a detailed
plan for the Europe Group of the
Global University System,
e.g., a feasibility study, design
of infrastructure and
administrative structure, selection
of courseware, etc.
GOALS:
- To explore a possible solution
to the serious problem of the
present widespread lack of awareness
of market oriented approaches by
Ukrainian professionals, which
partially explains the slowness of
change of the economic system in
the Ukraine.
- To implement our proposed solution
(which involves a new and
different approach to business
education, using distance learning
through the INTERNET, to provide
wider and cheaper access, more
rapidly and efficiently, to usable
knowledge).
- To use our approach to help to
train a core group of business
people, which will guarantee the
promotion of marketing reform in
Ukraine and the NIS.
- To evaluate our approach, particularly
as the basis for a
sustained, countrywide Ukrainian
system for distance learning through
the INTERNET.
PURPOSES:
* to acquire skills in the administration
of distance learning
programs, in teaching technologies
and in Web-learning course design,
from participating schools outside
of Ukraine;
* to conduct research and analysis
of education environments,
existing methods of distance learning
and technical possibilities;
* to develop collaborative proposals
for a feasibility study, the
design of infra- and administrative
structure, selection of
courseware, etc.
PROPOSED PROCEDURES:
* visits to administrators of distance
learning departments at the
participating schools;
* holding seminars and collaborative
workshops in Ukraine;
* attending relevant conferences;
* meeting and collaborating with
instructors in Project Management
courses;
* collaborative work with experts/designers
of Web-learning courses
with their mirror system in Ukraine;
* conducting a short research project;
* constructing joint proposals
for partnership and fund raising;
* holding a workshop at Open University
in the U.K. for discussing
the above.
PROPOSED PARTNERS:
* Global University System (Finland),
* University of Tampere (Finland),
* Open University (U.K.),
* Distance Education Network of
European Association for
International Education at University
of Art and Design - Helsinki (Finland),
* Consortium for Affordable and
Accessible Distance Education (CAADE)
at GLObal Systems Analysis and
Simulation Association in the U.S.A. (GLOSAS/USA).
15. PROJECT PRODUCTS: Please list
the products that will result from
this grant. Products can include,
but are not limited to, new course
curricula, university outreach
programs, textbooks, draft articles
for publications, research reports,
or collaborative proposals for future projects.
* Research report
and collaborative proposals for Distance Learning
Development
in Ukraine, particularly for Project Management courses.
* Plan, program
and fund raising proposal for the workshop/conference on
Emerging Global Electronic Distance Learning/01 in Ukraine".
<<Ihor:
I added
the second in the above.>>
POSSIBLE FUTURE PROJECTS WITH IREX:
(1) for establishing partnership
relations with educational
institutions in other countries
for the two-way international exchange of
knowledge, professional experience,
managing and technical know-how.
(2) for the dissemination of new
curricula over affordable Internet
as developing international partnerships
in social science, business,
and in cultural understanding and
exchange. Also, for expanding the
Global University System in Ukraine
and developing a network of
centers for technical and informational
support in all regions of Ukraine.
16. TIMELINE: Please attach a detailed
timeline of your proposed
project. Remember that all grants
may not begin before April 1, 2000,and must
be completed no later than December
31, 2000.
<<Ihor:
Add here
The workshop at the Open University is to be held as soon as
this grant
is made.">>
17. BUDGET: Please fill out the
attached budget form. If more room is
needed for travel, please attach
a separate sheet of paper.
<<Ihor:
Pls figure
this out with your travel agency.>>
18. PAST GRANTS: Please list all
past IREX or US government grants
you have received, including years.
Community connection program, 8 weeks internship in Chicago.
19. LETTER(S) OF SUPPORT FROM HOST
INSTITUTION(S): List name,
address, phone number, and e-mail
address of the person(s) writing
the letter(s) of support. Letters
of support need not be
confidential, and should be attached
to this application. Please
provide an English translation,
if necessary.
1.
2.
3.
20. CURRICULUM VITAE/RESUME: Please
attach a current c.v./resume in
which you include, in reverse chronological
order, your employment
record and all educational and
professional schools attended above
the high school level.
<<Ihor:
You may
need to attach those of all of your team members who will be
attending
the workshop at the Open University.>>
Application Checklist
INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT
BE CONSIDERED.
All applications must include:
_ Type-written, completed application;
_ Three copies of all application
materials;
_ Index codes for all addresses
and city and country codes for all
telephone and fax numbers;
_ A current curriculum vitae (c.v.)
or resume;
_ Letter(s) of support from host
institution(s) with an English
translation attached, if
necessary;
_ Completed budget proposal form;
and
_ A detailed project timeline.
21. SIGNATURE:I certify that the
information given in this application is
complete and correct and that I
have enclosed all necessary attachments, as
checked above.
__________________________________________
________________
(Signature) (Date)
APPLICATION
Deadline: January 14, 2000
TARGETED EXCHANGES PROGRAM Budget
Proposal
Item Itinerary (travel sections
only) Total Cost
International Travel: Trip One
International Travel: Trip Two
International Travel: Trip Three
Local Travel: Trip One
Local Travel: Trip Two
Local Travel: Trip Three
Per Diem (housing, meals, and incidentals)
-Duration of grant (# of days) x
per diem amount (100/day maximum)
Materials and Research Fees
Visa Costs
Insurance (budget $50 for those
traveling outside of the US; $200 for
those traveling within the US)
GRAND TOTAL
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List of Distribution
Dr. Ihor Bogdan Katerniak
Director
Lviv Institute of Management-LIM
Technology Promotion Center
57 V.Chornovil Ave.
Lviv 79058 Ukraine
Tel: +380-322-52 2681
Fax: +380 322-52 2682
Fax: +380-322-52 4463
ik@litech.net
tpc@lim.lviv.ua
http://www.lim.lviv.ua/
http://www.uar.net/conference/
http://www.lim.lviv.ua/english/de/
Docent Antti Kasvio
Research Director
Information Society Research Centre
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 607
FIN-33101 Tampere
FINLAND
Tel: +358-3-215 7633
Tel: +358 40 5551362
Fax: +358-3-215 7932
ttanka@poph.uta.fi
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor
Acting President, Global University
System
Chairman, GLOSAS/Finland
Professor and Chair
Media Culture and Communication
Education
Hypermedia laboratory
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 607
FIN-33101 Tampere
FINLAND
Tel: +358-3-215 6110
GSM: +358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-215 7503
tapio.varis@uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~titava
Dr. Paul Lefrere
Senior Lecturer
Institute of Educational Technology
Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44-1-908 65 33 88
Fax: +44-1-908 67 28 02
p.lefrere@open.ac.uk
http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP
Board member of GLOSAS/USA
Former President of Fulbright Association
Professor of School of Planning
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Tenneseee
108-I Hoskins Library
Knoxville, TN 37996-4051
USA
Tel: +1-423-974 5227
Fax: +1-423-974 5229
daj@utk.edu
http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E.,
Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
*
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and
Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) *
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award
for Excellence in Distance Education *
* Founder of CAADE
*
* (Consortium for Affordable and
Accessible Distance Education) *
* President Emeritus and V.P. for
Technology and Coordination of *
* Global University
System (GUS)
*
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing,
NY 11355-3998, U.S.A.
*
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Fax: 718-939-0656
(day time only--prefer email) *
* Email: utsumi@columbia.edu;
Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676
*
* http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/
*
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