Recently I interviewed Nicolas Nova, editorial manager of LIFT, at the Mobile City Conference in Rotterdam, NL. The topics covered in this interview are: The future of education and learning, blended-learning, remote-accessed field trips, communication, collaboration, the changing roles of teachers & professors, surveillance, privacy and The Lift Conference. I was very impressed with Nicolas's reflections on the topics mentioned above and I make this interview available to the lift community in order to inspire thought and discussion on the topics Nicolas addresses.

An enhanced podcast can be obtained here: http://www.mamk.net/?p=727

Kushtrim Xhakli works at the IPKO Institute in Kosovo. He speaks about how innovative projects can transform education.

Ewan McIntosh is the National Adviser for Learning and Teaching Scotland, the education agency responsible for curriculum development. He talks about how social media creates open education.

While education has a cost it is priceless. The bono pro initiative supports deserving students who could otherwise not attend tertiary education in Switzerland through honour loans.

bono pro supports financially students (up to CHF 5'000 per year over a 3 year period) through a donors syndicate (individuals and institutions). It also offers practical support to students through a network of coaches/mentors.

bono pro is based on the values of community and solidarity. By signing the bono pro charter, beneficiaries make the moral – but not legal – commitment to contribute to the fund at a later stage. In other words, it is not a loan, rather a gift with thin strings attached.

bono pro is a private, non-profit-making association, independent of any political and religious affiliation. It was founded in Decembre 2006 by Marc Laperrouza et Ralph Hefti.

Find out more at www.bonopro.org.

Sugata Mitra is a Professor of Educational Technology at the Newcastle University. He presents about "Outdoctrination: Society, Children, Technology and Self Organisation in Education" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 20007.