Since May 1996, Michael Moore has provided assistance to several units of the World Bank to support the Bank's increased activity in distance learning and technology enhanced education. To date this activity has included:

• Principal consultant to Human Development Department in designing and developing GlobalDistanceEdNet, part of the Bank's Knowledge Management System, providing Internet access to authoritative information about distance education as a developmental strategy.
• Principal consultant to the Bank's Learning and Leadership Center in designing and developing the Bank's first distance learning course. This was for Bank and other specialists in multicurrency lending.
• Support for the ProQualidade teacher training project in Minas Gerais, Brazil, a project for which Peter Knight has also provided support;
• Support for the Proformação teacher training project, aimed at training 70,000 underqualified teachers in Northern, Central Western, and Northeastern Brazil. See a presentation on Proformação by Michael Moore and Alvana Bof delivered by Michael Moore at the 20^th Global Conference of the International Conference on Open and Distance Education in Dusseldorf, Germany in April 2001.
• Support for the Egypt education project, presenting a distance education strategy for in-service teacher training
• Planning and implementing two-day pre-conference symposium on distance education at 18th World Conference of the International Council on Distance Education.
• Support to Colloquium on distance education and teacher training at the Global Knowledge 97 conference, June 22-25. Toronto
• Support to various Human Development projects including Education and Training Network, workshops on Technology and Learning, and various papers and publications on technology, education and distance education.

In July 1997, Peter Knight visited Korea with a group of Brazilian State Secretaries of Education and federal education sector officials hosted by the Korean Educational Development Institute. This study tour was organized by the World Bank's Latin America and the Caribbean Region. See photos here.

Peter Knight also provided support to the World Bank Project, African Virtual University, under the infoDev program.

In April, 2000 Peter Knight and Michael Moore traveled to Lima, Peru to work on preparation of the Second Education Quality  Improvement Project with that country's Ministry of Education. As currently envisaged, the project involves distance education at the secondary level for schools in Peru's interior using satellite technology, video, print materials, and in the future, the Internet, including at some remote locations using solar energy where there are no connections to the power grid. There are also computers in schools programs at the primary and secondary level.

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