Beginning in 2001, Peter Knight began a program to develop e-learning projects in Brazil, building on the ideas in his paper The Half-Life of Knowledge and Structural Reform of the Education Sector for the Knowledge-Based Global Economy. That paper suggested that progress in realizing the potential cost-savings and quality improvements made possible by the application of advanced information and communications technologies would be fastest in the private sector providing training to members of the labor force.

As part of that program, Peter Knight accepted the invitation of VPLAB Sistemas, a São Paulo firm, to give a full-day mini-course entitled Métodos, Técnicas e Ferramentas para Planejamento e Design em Projetos de e-Learning on April 3, and also to make a keynote presentation to a one-day conference e-Learning 2001 on April 4. 

The mini-course had 22 participants, including a group of five from Petrobrás (the Brazilian state petroleum company), representatives of a number of private sector firms (including Sun Microsystems, Módulo e-Security, COPEL, Ericsson, and Enertec do Brasil), government agencies (including SEBRAE, SUDENE, and SENAI), and private sector universities and training organizations (including UNINOVE, Open School, and House of English). Here are a few photos from the course.

Members of Petrobrás team prepare their presentation	Peter Knight presenting to the mini-course participants
Second working group prepares presentation	Third working prepares their presentation

The keynote presentation was entitled e-Learning, Empresas e Mercado Global and is available in the presentations section of this site. Here are two photos

Peter Knight answers questions after the keynote presentation

Seminar participants

[e-Government in Brazil] [e-Learning in Brazil] [Brazil CAE] [Brazil PPPs]

[African Cultural Heritage] [Consultancy]