Short profiles
TNU is a centre for collaborative learning. It is a network of universities and outside experts. TNU is rooted in the University of Amsterdam. It offers innovative courses online addressing the learning needs of a worldwide audience of professionals and students.
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (www.irc.nl) facilitates the creation, sharing and use of knowledge so that sector staff and organizations can better support poor men, women and children in developing countries to obtain water and sanitation services they will use and can sustain. IRC does this by improving the information and knowledge base of the sector and by strengthening sector resource centres in the South.
Authors:
Dick de Jong, jong@irc.nl,
Peter Bury, bury@irc.nl,
Ingeborg Krukkert, krukkert@irc.nl,
References
Bury, Peter, 2000, Electronic Distance Learning Concept Note, internal document, IRC, 2000
Dick de Jong and Mona Hansen, November 2001, Lessons learned from an Internet-based course on dynamics of the water sector
