Karim Gherab-Martin
A number of Common Ground Publishing’s key international partners and staff have come together in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois this week to discuss vital connections between conferencing, publishing, learning, and transformative media in the US and abroad. Visiting international staff include Karthek Krishnan of the software development consulting firm Mahaswami, Bangalore, India; Karim Gherab-Martin, Director of Common Ground Publishing-Spain, Portugal, and Latin America (Madrid, Spain); and Paresh Shah, Director of Common Ground Publishing-South Asia (Mumbai, India).
The week will culminate in education research partners Eugenia Arvanitis of the Greek Ministry of Education and Chryssi Vitsilaki, Vice Rector, University of the Aegean, Greece discussing the success of their Spring 2011 trialing of Common Ground Publishing’s Learn
ing by Design web-planning and curriculum delivery environment, held in three clusters of schools in Greece (located in Patra, Thessaloniki, and Rhodes). Drs. Arvanitis and Vitsilaki will present at the University of Illinois College of Education with Dean Mary Kalantzis, who, with Common Ground Publishing president Bill Cope, has led the project. The foundational work for this project was funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education, and the Greek trials by the Pedagogical Institute of Greece and the Ministry of Education, Greece. (Friday, October 21, 2011; 1:30-2:30 p.m.; Room 166 Education Building)
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