COL supports and works collaboratively with regional, national and international open and distance learning professional associations.
Regional, national and international professional associations
(Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth)
African Council for Distance Education
Executive Director, ACDE Secretariat
P.O. Box 8023
00100 Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254-20-247669
Email: director@acde-africa.org
Web: www.acde-africa.org
Chairperson:
Professor Barney Pityana
Principal & Vice-Chancellor
University of South Africa
Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU)
Professor Li Ya Wan
Secretary-General, AAOU
c/o China Central Radio & TV University
No. 160 Fuxingmennei Street,
Beijing 100031,
CHINA
President, AAOU (2005):
Professor Zhang Yao Xue
President, China Central Radio & TV University
Tel: +86 10 6649 0607
Fax: + 86 10 6641 2407
Email: aaou@crtvu.edu.cn
Web: www.aaou.net
Association Africaine Francophone de Formation à Distance (ASSAFAD)
Monsieur I.K. Echene President, ASSAFAD 08 B.P. 562 Abidjan 08 COTE d'IVOIRE
Tel: +225 21 28 24
Fax: +225 21 22 25
Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-learning (ACODE)
(formerly NCODE - Flexible Learning Australia)
Susan Brosnan
Executive Officer
ACODE Secretariat
c/o Distance and e-Learning Centre
University of Southern Queensland
PO Darling Heights
Toowoomba, QLD 4350
AUSTRALIA
Chair (two-year term, 2004/2005):
Professor Denise Kirkpatrick
Director,
Teaching and Learning Centre
University of New England
Armidale, NSW
Tel: +61 7 4631 2715
Fax: +61 7 4631 2051
Email: brosnan@usq.edu.au
Web: www.acode.edu.au
The British Learning Association
(formerly the British Association for Open Learning Limited, BAOL)
Mr. Brian Merison
General Manager
Suite 12 Pixmore Centre
Pixmore Avenue
Letchworth, Herts SG6 1JG
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 1462 485588
Fax: +44 1462 485633
Email: info@british-learning.com
Web: www.british-learning.org.uk
Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE)
formerly the Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE) and the Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada (AMTEC)
Mr. Tim Howard
Executive Secretary, CADE
Suite 205
One Stewart Street
Ottawa, ON K1N 6H7
CANADA
President, 2005/2007
Mr. Bill Muirhead
Director
University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Durham College
2000, Simcoe Street North
Oshawa ON L1H 7K4
CANADA
Tel: +1 613 230 3630
Fax: +1 613 230 2746
Email: cade@csse.ca
Web: www.cade-aced.ca
Bill Muirhead (President):
Tel: +1 905 721 3163
Fax: +1 905 721 3140
Caribbean Association for Distance and Open Learning (CARADOL)
Mr. Wesley Barrett, Vice-President
Kingston, Jamaica
Formed in 2003
Fax: +876 922 6328
Web: http://cupide.dec.uwi.edu/reg-assoc.htm
Colombian Association for Distance Higher Education (ACESAD)
Dr. Alberto Malagón Plata
Presidente, ACESAD
c/o Universidad del Tolima
Barrio Santa Helena
Ibaqué, Tolima
COLOMBIA
Tel: +57 82 656088
Fax: +57 82 656086
Consortium International Francophone de Formation a Distance (CIFFAD)
M. Denis Lopez
Directeur
Direction Générale de l' Éducation, CIFFAD
École International de Boardeaux
15-16 Quai Louis XVIII
33000 Bordeaux
FRANCE
Tel: +33 56 37 50 59
Fax: +33 56 04 42 01
Email: zihindula_MUTABESHA@francophonie.org
Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ) - the New Zealand association for professionals working in flexible, open and networked education
Phyl Taylor
DEANZ Administrator
61 Heathridge Place,
Lincoln,
Canterbury 7608
NEW ZEALAND
President, from 2006
Carol Cooper
Manager
Teaching and Learning Services
Lincoln University
Lincoln, Canterbury
NEW ZEALAND
Tel: +64 3 325 7577
Email: www.deanz.org.nz/email.php
Web: www.deanz.org.nz
Carol Cooper (President)
Email: www.deanz.org.nz/email.php
Distance Education Association of Southern Africa (DEASA)
DEASA SECRETARIAT
c/o Institute for Continuing Education
University of South Africa
PO Box 392, Unisa
Pretoria 0003
SOUTH AFRICA
Chairperson, from 2004:
Ms. Frances J. Mensah
Director
Namibian College of Open Learning (NAMCOL)
Private Bag 15008, Katutura
Windhoek 9000
NAMIBIA
Tel: +27 12 429 6763
Fax: +27 12 429 3630/3221
email: mandeip@unisa.ac.za
Web: www.deasa.org.za
Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia,
South Africa and Swaziland
Distance Education Association of Tanzania (DEATA)
Dr. (Mrs) Eustella Bhalalusesa
Chairperson, DEATA
Lecturer and Director, Bureau of Educational Research and Evaluation
Faculty of Education
University of Dar es Salaam
P.O. Box 35094
Dar es Salaam
TANZANIA
European Association for Distance Learning (EADL)
Henricus Verweijen
Executive Director, EADL
Bastiengasse 41/1,
A-1180 Vienna
AUSTRIA
Formerly: Association of European Correspondence Schools (AECS)
Tel/Fax: +431 470 9192
Email: HenricusV@aon.at
Web: www.eadl.org
European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU)
Piet Henderikx
Secretary General, EADTU
EADTU Secretariat
P.O. Box 2960
6401 DL Heerlen
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: +31 45 576 2214
Fax: +31 45 574 1473
Email: secretariat@eadtu.nl
Web: www.eadtu.nl
European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN)
Dr. András Szûcs
Secretary General, EDEN
c/o Budapest University of Technology and Economics
H-1111
Budapest, Ergy JU 1
HUNGARY
Tel: +36 1 463 1628
Fax: +36 1 463 1858
Email: secretariat@eden-online.org
Web: www.eden-online.org
Formerly: European Distance Education Network (EDEN)
European Federation for Open and Distance Learning (EFODL)
Secretariat
c/o VDAB
Kongostraat 7
B-9000 Gent
BELGIUM
Attn.: Ms. Ann Decloedt
Tel: +32.9.265.49.04
Fax: +32.9.233.21.70
Email: adcloedt@vdab.be
Ghanaian Distance Education Association (GHADEA)
c/o University College of Education of Winneba
P.O. Box 25
Winneba
GHANA
Tel: +233 432 22361
Fax: +233 432 22268
Email: ucew@ug.gn.apc.org
Indian Distance Education Association (IDEA)
Dr. K. Murali Manohar
Secretary-General, IDEA
c/o School of Distance Learning and Continuing Education
Kakatiya University
Warangal, 506 009
INDIA Tel: +91 8712 79215
Fax: +91-8712-79216 / 78935
Email: kakatiya@ap.nic.in
Inter-American Distance Education Consortium (CREAD)
Dr. Armando Villarroel
Executive Director, CREAD
c/o The Pennsylvania State University
211 Mitchell Building
University Park, PA 16802-3601
USA
Tel: +1 814 863 0488
Fax: +1 814 86 3290
Email: axv4@omnibus.ce.psu.edu
Web: www.cde.psu.edu/DE/CREAD/cread.html
International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
Dr. Carl Holmberg
Secretary General, ICDE
Gjerdrums vei 12
N-0486
Oslo 4
NORWAY
Tel: +47 22 02 81 70
Fax: +47 22 02 81 61
Email: icde@icde.no
Web: www.icde.org
Jamaican Association for Distance and Open Learning (JADOL)
c/o The University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre (UWIDEC)
Mona Campus,
Kingston 7,
JAMAICA
President (from October 2004):
Ms. Vilma McClenan
Academic Programme Co-ordinator
The University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre (UWIDEC)
Mona Campus,
Kingston 7,
JAMAICA
Formed in 2000
Tel: +1 876-927-2831
Fax: +1 876-977-3494
Email: jadol@uwimona.edu.jm
Web: www.jadol.org.jm
Malaysian Association of Distance Education (MADE)
c/o: Pejabat Pendidikan Jarak Jauh
(Office of Distance Education)
Universiti Teknologi MARA
No. 1411, Intekma Resort & Convention Centre,
Persiaran Raja Muda, Seksyen 7
40000 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan,
MALAYSIA
Formed in May 2000
Tel.: +603-5513-2429
Fax: +603-5518-1247
Email: szarina@uitmflp.edu.my
National Association of Distance Education and Open Learning in South Africa (NADEOSA)
NADEOSA Secretariat (c/o SAIDE)
PO Box 31822
Braamfontein 2017
SOUTH AFRICA
President, NADEOSA:
Rachel Prinsloo
University of South Africa - UNISA
Tel: +27 11 403 2813
Fax: +27 11 403 2814
Email: info@saide.org.za
Web: www.nadeosa.org.za
Email: (Rachel Prinsloo)
RPrinslo@unisa.ac.za
National Distance Education Council
Mr. Chris Curran
Director, NDEC
National Distance Education Centre (exec. arm)
Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9
IRELAND
Tel: +353 704 5000
Fax: +353 836 0830
NODE Learning Technologies Network
(Network for Ontario Distance Educators)
Cathy Boak, Director
410 Dufferin Avenue
London, ON N6B 1Z6
CANADA
Tel: +1 519 457 4659
Fax: +1 519 457 4659
Email: cboak@theNode.org
Web: www.thenode.org
Open and Distance Education Association of Malawi
(ODEAMA)
ODEAMA Secretariat
c/o Florida Khumbo Banda
Domasi College of Education
PO Box 49
Domasi, Zomba
MALAWI
President: McLloyd Mwayi Polepole
GSESII Project
Secretariat:
Tel: +265 536 255
Fax: +265 536 240
President Email: polepole@gsesmw.org
Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA)
Secretariat: Prof. Ian Macdonald
Director, Teaching and Learning Centre
University of New England
Armidale, NSW 2351
AUSTRALIA
Email: odlaa@une.edu.au
President, ODLAA (2007/2009)
Dr. David Murphy
Tel: +61-433-962-264
Web: www.odlaa.org
Pacific Islands Regional Association for Distance Education (PIRADE)
Ruby Vaa
President, PIRADE
c/o The University of the South Pacific
(Director, USP Centre)
PO Box 3014
Apia, SAMOA
Tel: +685 20874 / 23454
Fax: +685 23424
Email: vaa_r@samoa.usp.ac.fj
Papua New Guinea Association for Distance Education (PNGADE)
Mr. Paraka M. Pena
President, PNG Association for Distance Education
(Director, Institute of Distance and Continuing Education, University of Papua New Guinea)
P.O. Box 6155
Boroko, NCD
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Tel: +675 326 7641
Fax: +675 326 2365
Email: paraka.m.pena@upng.ac.pg
Saskatchewan Association of Distance Learning
Mr. Terry Gove
Chairperson, Board of Directors
Saskatchewan Association of Distance Learning
c/o Cypress Hills Regional College
129 - 2nd Avenue N.E.
Swift Current SK S9H 2C6
CANADA
Tel: +1 306 773 1531
Fax: +1 306 773 2384
The West African Distance Education Association (WADEA)
Professor Miranda L.N. Greenstreet
President, WADEA
c/o Institute of Adult Education, University of Ghana
P.O. Box 31
Accra
GHANA
Fax: +233 21 667 707
Email: iae.ad@ug.gn.apc.org
Zambia Association for Distance Education (ZADE)
Dr. Richard Siaciwena
President, ZADE
c/o Directorate of Distance Education
(Director)
University of Zambia
PO Box 32379
Lusaka
ZAMBIA
Tel: +260 1 290719
Fax: +260 1 253952
Email: RSiaciwena@dde.unza.zm
Zimbabwe National Association of Distance and Open Learning (ZINADOL)
Mr. Naran Kala
Chairman, ZINADOL
88 Norfolk Road
Mount Pleasant
Harare
ZIMBABWE Tel: +263 4 301832
