Abstract: Education is a key area for development at an individual, community, national- and international level. Skilled people are employable and thereby generate their own professional identities, businesses and livelihoods. Although efficient and large-scale education is vital for building up stable knowledge economies, many countries have weak educational structures and lack basic resources. However, indiscriminate acceptance and use of e-learning can increase the digital divide rather than reduce it. In this talk, we discuss emerging issues from which we develop theoretical assumptions aimed at suitable approaches for effective adoption and utilization of e-learning to support teaching and learning processes. In particular, we present some recent initiatives for efficient e-learning undertaken by Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University (DSV).

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Ekenberg has been working with development cooperation (EU, World Bank, Sida, WHO, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs), including technical infrastructure development, IT policies and organization development as well as human resources. Ekenberg has been project leader, manager and coordinator of around 20 major national and C:\Program Files (x86)\Eudora\attach\liten xlove ekenberg.jpginternational projects and has authored or co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers as well as three books. Ekenberg is Full Professor in Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, Full Professor of Information Systems at The Swedish Royal Institute of Technology as well as Guest Professor in Computer Science at Mid Sweden University. He has a Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Sciences as well as a Ph.D. in Mathematics. He his currently head of Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, consisting of around 200 employees, 80 PhD students and handling around 4500 undergraduate students.