9:00 a 9:30 Opening Ceremony

9:30 a 10:30 Keynote Lecture:
Distance Education
Lucio Teles, Universidad de Brasilia. Brasil

10:30 a 12:30 Round table:
On site education versus distance education: nature, scope and limitations

Objective:
To identify and analyze the characteristics of distance education and evaluate them in comparison with on site education

Chairperson:Francisco Cervantes Pérez, CUAED, UNAM. México


Speakers:
Carmen Villatoro Alvaradejo, Coordinación del Bachillerato a Distancia (CBD). UNAM. México

Greville Rumble, Open University. Reindo Unido

Nestor Fernández Sánchez. Facultad de Psicología, UNAM. México

12:30 a 13:00 Coffee Break

13:00 a 15:00 Round table:
Educational contents in distance education at university level

Objective:
To analyze and discuss the minimum attributes that educational materials should contain in distance education.

Chairperson:Roberto Garduño vera, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (FFyL), UNAM. México

Speakers:
Eliane María Stuart Garcez, Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina. Brasil

Maria Elena Chan, Universidad de Guadalajara. México

Ana María Bañuelos Márquez, CUAED, UNAM. México

October 30

9:30 a 10:30 Keynote Lecture:
The university library as a support for distance education

Lesley Mutinta Moyo. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

10:30 a 12:30 Round table:
The library as a support for higher education and research.

Objective:
To contrast the current and future role of university libraries in the different distance models

Chairperson:Jaime Ríos Ortega, CUIB. UNAM. México

Speakers:

Corinne Laverty, Queen's University Library. Canada

Robert Newton, The Robert Gordon University. Aberdeen, UK.

Juan Voutssás Márquez, CUIB. UNAM. México

12:30 a 13:00 Coffee Break

13:00 a 15:00 Round table:
The binomial user-librarian in distance education

Objective:
To analyze the interaction among the core elements of library service in universities


Chairperson: Estela Morales Campos, Coordinación de Humanidades, UNAM. México

Speakers:
Adolfo Rodríguez Gallardo, DGB, UNAM. México

Leslie Shell, Arizona State University Libraries, USA

Brenda Cabral, CUIB/FFyL. UNAM. México