The first week and a half has been a very intensive and interactive week for the 15 participants coming from 12 different countries. The map here shows you the geographical diversity. Not only diversity in countries, but also in professional background, experience in e-learning, expectations and planned e-learning projects. We are looking forward to welcome the participants next week in Turin where several important e-learning topics will be explored. Some impressions and statements of last week:

• Technology is changing at a very fast speed
  
• Accessibility can not be defined in terms of infrastructure and connectivity alone
  
• How to cope with the digital divide?
  
• What about the digital immigrants and the digital natives?
  

Next weeks we will focus on instructional design and based on specific e-learning models explore the added value of virtual learning environments and social software. A lot is still to come.

To end this newsflash with the African quote of the week in the forum : “When you climb an Iroko Tree, you must come down with enough firewood”. Have an interesting course next week in Turin.