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In 2007 Michael Moore gave keynote addresses to conferences in several countries and US States.  He also undertook a World Bank mission to Mozambique, to evaluate the progress of the Mozambique Distance Learning Network. Conference keynotes included addresses to the 4th International Conference on Open and Distance learning in Athens, Greece; to the 13th International Conference of the Brazilian Association for Distance Education in Curitiba, Brazil; to the European Distance Education Network conference in Naples Italy.Talks were given at university faculty training events in Brighton, UK (July 2007) and Athabasca University, Canada (September 2007).

In the US, speeches were delivered at the 2007 Arizona State Adult Education Conference in Phoenix. Arizona; to the  Association of Surgical Technologists in San Antonio, Texas; and the conference of the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities and Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education in Cincinatti, Ohio.

In the publication arena, the most important events of 2007 for Michael were the appearance of the Second Edition of The Handbook of Distance Education (Lawrence Erlbaum publishers), and the Portugese language edition of Moore and Kearsley’s textbook, Distance Education: a Systems View.

Peter Knight is the general coordinator of the e-Brasil project, organized byTelemática e Desenvolvimento Ltda, our Brazlian affiliate, launched the  in October 2005 at the 33^rd Annual Conference on Public Informatics.  The project has published three books, Rumo ao e-Brasil (Rio de Janeiro: Garamond, 2006) by Peter Knight; e-Brasil: Um programa para acelerar o desenvolvimento socioeconômico aproveitando a convergência digital  (São Cãetano do Sul, SP: Yendis, 2006) edited by Peter Knight and Ciro Fernandes; and e-Desenvolvimento no Brasil e no mundo: subsídios e Programa e-Brasil edited by Peter Knight, Ciro Fernandes and Maria Alexandra Cunha. This last and most complete work, with 61 authors and 40 chapters was published by  Yendis and the Brazilian Chamber of e-Commerce in September 2007, with book launchings in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília and Belo Horizonte in September and October, 2007. Peter made presentations related to the e-Brasil project at a large number of events in Brasil in 2006 and 2007. The project also initiated the e-Brasil Portal, the Brazil country gateway in the network of country gateways supported by the Development Gateway Foundation.

In 2006 Peter Knight, working with Hellerstein & Associates, completed pre-feasibility studies for Public Private Partnerships to develop e-government infrastructure projects in São Paulo and Ceará states, Brazil.

In October 2006  Moore was appointed an honorary professor of the Radio and Television University in Shanghai, China.

Michael Moore traveled to Australia and New Zealand in November 2005 where he gave keynote addresses to the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia annual conference, Adelaide, November 9^th 2005 and Vice-Chancellor's symposium, Massey University. Auckland, November 14^th, 2005 (also in Palmerston North and Wellington, Nov. 16 and 18). Photo shows him giving his keynote address on  "Towards best practice in distance education: the way forward" in Palmerston, NZ.

Peter Knight traveled to Bahrain in November/December 2004 and prepared a report “e-Training for Bahrain’s Civil Service: Proposed Action Plan 2005-2008"  for the Civil Service Bureau of Bahrain under a UNDP funded consultancy. See the executive summary and some photos. He returned in December 2006 and January and April/May 2007 to work on implementation of the project. 

Michael Moore’s text on distance education, (co-authored with Greg Kearsley in 1996), Distance Education: a Systems View (Belmont, Ca. Wadsworth Publishing Company) was issued in a second edition in 2005. Distance education: a systems view is widely regarded as the basic introductory text in the field and has been translated into Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

Peter Knight is co-author of a book on e-government in Brazil (e-gov.br: The Next Brazilian Revolution) published in January 2004 by Financial Times/Prentice Hall in Portuguese, organized by Telemática e Desenvolvimento Ltda. (TeD). See details on the book, its authors and collaborators (including photos), endorsements by leading Brazilian and international authorities, the table of contents, and some excerpts from the manuscript -- authors' presentation, preface, introduction, Chapter 3,and  conclusion at http://www.tedbr.com/projetos/e-dem.br/e-gov.br-english.htm.

Michael Moore's Handbook of Distance Education (co-edited with William Anderson, Erlbaum Associates, 2003) received the Outstanding Book Award from the Design and Development Division of the Association for educational Communications and Technology (Chicago, October 2004) and the Charles A. Wedemeyer Publications Award for the outstanding publicaiton of 2003-4 from the University Continuing Education Association's Distance Education community of practice.

In 2002, Michael Moore was inducted into the United States Distance Learning Association’s Hall of Fame, photo on the right below shows Michael with John Flores, Executive Director, USDLA). Then in 2004Michael was recognized with an Outstanding Leadership Award from the Mid Atlantic Region of the University Continuing Education Association. The photo to the left shows Michael with  UCEA President James