<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:17.1200008392334px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Colleagues,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">I am writing as one of the members of the scientific committee of a forthcoming research conference on distance education, to let you know about the conference and to invite you to submit your paper to the conference.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">The conference, entitled ‘Distance Education: a brave new world?’ will take place online on 20 and 21 October 2022, and it will be bilingual, in English and French. It is co-organised with the French National Centre for Distance Education (<i>Centre National d’Enseignement à Distance</i>, CNED) and the French academic journal <i>Distance and Mediation of Knowledge</i> (<i>Distances et Médiations des Savoirs, DMS</i>), with the Open University as the third co-hosting institution. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">The focus of the conference will be the challenges and opportunities of distance education in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and of its aftermath. It will reflect on the diversity of models of distance education and their relative effectiveness, shortcomings, affordances. The conference will also focus on the theme of sustainability in relation to distance education and education policies, and on social justice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">I attach the English version of the call for papers which contains some additional information and a more comprehensive list of conference themes. You can also check out the conference website at: <a href="https://distance-2022.sciencesconf.org/" title="https://distance-2022.sciencesconf.org/"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://distance-2022.sciencesconf.org/</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>We look forward to receiving your papers for the conference.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best wishes,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Prithvi, on behalf of the Organising Committee</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Distance Education Conference 2022.</p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">-----------------------------<br><b>Dr Prithvi N. Shrestha (he/him/his), SFHEA</b><br>Senior Lecturer | School of Languages and Applied Linguistics<br>Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies | The Open University | Milton <br>Keynes MK7 6AA | United Kingdom<br>Direct line: +44(0) 1908 654265<br>Work details: <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/people/pns52" target="_blank">http://www.open.ac.uk/people/pns52</a> <br>Current Projects:  IELTS research (Bangladesh & Nepal); ETS/ TOEFL iBT and EMI (Nepal & Sweden)<br>Research: <a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/pns52.html" target="_blank">http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/pns52.html</a>  <br></div><div dir="ltr">Twitter: @pnshrestha  <<a href="https://twitter.com/pnshrestha" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/pnshrestha</a>></div><div><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prithvi_Shrestha" target="_blank">ResearchGate</a> | <a href="https://open.academia.edu/PrithviShrestha" target="_blank">Academia.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4971-8051" target="_blank">ORCiD</a></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/events/eltons-innovation-awards/eltons-innovation-awards-2019/excellence-course-innovation-2019-finalists" title="https://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/events/eltons-innovation-awards/eltons-innovation-awards-2019/excellence-course-innovation-2019-finalists" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ELTons Award 2019 Finalist - Excellence in Course Innovation</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px"><span style="color:rgb(32,56,100);font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">(British Council)</font></span></span><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Recent
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<p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Shrestha, Prithvi (2020). </span><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783030558444" target="_blank">Dynamic assessment of students’ academic writing: Vygotskian and Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives</a></span></i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783030558444" target="_blank">.</a> Cham: Springer.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium"></span><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>