NKI has established this Listserv list for European distance educators. The service is named ANDREA - A Network for Distance Education Reporting from European Activities. The list became fully operative in September 1994. ANDREA is established in cooperation with European Distance Education Network (EDEN).
EDEN has entered into a formal agreement of co-operation with the International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) in 1993. The agreement covers activities within the areas of exchange of information, conferences, seminars etc. consultancies, missions, programmes and projects, and a joint membership arrangement in Europe. Thus, EDEN has a special responsibility for distributing information on distance education and related fields to the European distance education community - including all parts of Europe.
Torstein Rekkedal, Director of Research and Development at NKI and member of the Interim Steering Committee of EDEN Academic and Professional Section, will act as ANDREA's formal editor. During its first phase Salvor Gissurardottir will serve as listowner and organizer of ANDREA.
The aim of ANDREA is to distribute information and facilitate communication among European distance educators.
This means that we will welcome information on distance education in general with main emphasis on Information from European organizations and information from other parts of the world of specific interest for Europe.
In addition to such information ANDREA can publish articles and research reports on distance education in abstract or in complete version.
ANDREA welcomes contributions and participation from European organizations such as for example EADTU, AECS, SATURN, Europace 2000 and others.
ANDREA will also establish contact with different national distance education organizations in Europe for supplying information of national activities to people in Europe.
Individuals may also send contributions to the listowner for possible publication in ANDREA.
ADVISORY BOARD OF ANDREA
Arthur S. Donald President, British Association for Open Learning
Valerio Grementieri President of Associazione CAMPO, Italy
Paul Held TRIBUNE/DELTA
Nazira Ismail Data and Communication Officer, ICDL (International Centre for Distance Learning)
Vladimir Kashitsin Director of the Association for International
Education, Russia
Kerry Mann Executive Secretary of EDEN
Jacques Perriault Chairman of the Interim Steering Committee for EDEN Academic and Professional Section
Andras Szucs Director, Hungarian National Council for Distance Education.
Henricus Verweijen Secretary of AECS (The Association of European Correspondence Schools)
Tamar Vinckel Project manager of Atena, France
Jan Wibe Chairman, IFIP TC3/WG3.6 Distance Learning
Ann Wickham EADTU Media and Technology Group
The members of the Advisory Board represent or are known to be active in different organizations related to distance education in Europe.
The members of the Advisory Board will be appointed for 1 year periods, the first period to last till end of 1995.
ANDREA is a moderated list. The address is: andrea@nki.no
Messages sent to this address will be received by the moderator for possible publication in ANDREA.
ANDREA plans to publish information on a regular basis.
Before you are allowed to post to andrea@nki.no, you must subscribe
to the list by sending an e-mail letter to Listserv@nki.no
with the following command:
subscribe andrea Your Name
New subscribers to ANDREA can receive previously published material by the following command to Listserv@nki.no
get andrea 94-sep (for all September entries from 1994 (that is: get andrea year-month(3 first letters)
Our hope is that ANDREA will develop to a major source of information
for European distance educators and others interested in distance
education and related fields in Europe.
Welcome to ANDREA
Yours sincerely,
Torstein Rekkedal (Editor) and Salvor Gissuradottir (Listowner)