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Börje Holmberg

Börje Holmberg (22 March 1924 – 10 April 2021) was a Swedish educator and writer. He was born in Malmö, Sweden, in March 1924 and wrote profusely on distance education in Swedish, German and English. A pioneer of distance education, and a former president of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), he was awarded honorary doctorates by Deakin University in Australia and the Open University in the United Kingdom. He was a member of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, an academy of sciences founded in 1792, a Knight of the Royal Order of Vasa, Sweden, as well as of the Order of the White Rose of Finland. Holmberg died in April 2021 at the age of 97. Provided by Wikipedia