The Universitas 21 E-learning Conference The Future of E-learning Has Arrived! took place at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico at the end of November 2006 and has been hailed a great success by all who attended.

Prior to the conference, delegates had the opportunity to visit Tecnológico de Monterrey’s outstanding Virtual University and learn about the way in which the university teaches across its 33 campuses and beyond. The delegates then travelled to the Guadalajara campus, where the main conference took place. In just under two days, 19 delegates presented a variety of papers and case studies on the subject of e-learning, alongside two highly motivating key-note speeches by Professor Murray Goldberg, creator of WebCT and adjunct professor at UBC and also Professor Jan Herrington, who was beamed in from the University of Wollongong, Australia to give her fascinating talk on authentic assessment in e-learning by video conference.

As well as hearing some very interesting discussions and presentations, delegates also had some excellent networking opportunities and strong working relationships were formed among the participants which will help to further strengthen the international links created by the U21 network.