A growing number of students need to be educated, academic staff need to be up-skilled and solutions need to be invented to address the pressing development challenges embodied by the Millennium Development Goals. Can universities of the 21st century afford to go on business as usual?

This interactive seminar proposes to explore the different facets of this question with the participants. E-learning can be a powerful innovation agent provided that it is considered strategically in relation with the whole university system: integrating technological, pedagogical, organisational, economical dimensions and their interrelation. How can e-learning lead to transform education institutions into global learning organisations? The participants will search for solutions.