International workshop on doctoral education and e-supervision

The discussions that took place during the IAU-ACUP IDEA Workshop on Doctoral education and e-Supervision at the Universitat Oberta de Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, on 31 October can be followed online here. 
Since 2011, the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP) and the IAU brought together two projects: Innovative Approaches to Doctoral Education in Africa and the African-Spanish Higher Education Management Platform. One of the main outcomes of this collaboration is the development of the joint IDEA platform on innovative approaches to doctoral education. The joint initiative identified the issue of doctoral supervision as one of the key challenges African higher education institutions are facing. 
Through the recent Personal Learning Environment (PLE)-PhD project financed through the IAU LEADHER programme, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Kenyatta University (KU), ACUP and IAU looked at how digital technologies, more specifically the web 2.0 tools, can provide answers to the challenge during a one day Workshop on doctoral education and e-supervision. 
The workshop discussions and conclusions are available online at: http://plephd.blogs.uoc.edu/.