Conference on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East 2011

4th Annual Conference on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East , that will be held this year in the context of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University Annual Congress 2011, in Dubai, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and President of HBMeU .

The theme of the 2011 e-Learning Conference, In Search of New Paradigms for re-Engineering Education, reflects one fundamental question on the agenda of XXIst century educators, stakeholders and governments, facing the exponential increase of demand for access to quality education at reasonable cost.

The historian of science Thomas Kuhn gave paradigm its contemporary meaning when he adopted the word to refer to the set of practices that define a scientific discipline at any particular period of time:

* what is to be observed and scrutinized;

* the kind of questions that are supposed to be asked and probed for answers in relation to this subject;

* how these questions are to be structured;

* how the results of scientific investigations should be interpreted;

* how is an experiment to be conducted, and what conceptual tools are available to conduct the experiment.