EDEN Fellows
The purpose of the EDEN Fellow scheme is to provide validation and support to professionals in Europe in this field, and to enhance their mobility within Europe through a respected scheme of recognition. The first Senior Fellow and Fellow Awards were presented at the 2007 Annual Conference in Naples.
Board of EDEN Fellows’ Council
The Council of EDEN Fellows has been established in 2018, and includes all Fellows and Senior Fellows of EDEN – it has an advisory role in the EDEN Community, a think tank for future visioning, and as ambassador of EDEN. It is governed by the Board of the Council:
Don Olcott, Jr.
CHAIR OF THE BOARD
Global Higher Education Consultant, Romania
Deborah Arnold
VICE-CHAIR OF THE BOARD
National and international projects coordinator, AUNEGe, France
Albert Sangra
UNESCO Chair in Education & Technology for Social Change, UOC professor and researcher, Catalonia’s Government Industrial Doctorates Programme Director, Spain
Christian Schumann
Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau, WHZ Institute for Management and Information, Germany
Diana Andone
Director of the eLearning Center at the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Wim Van Petegem
Expert Multicampus & Engineering Education, KU Leuven, Belgium EURODL Editor in Chief
António Teixeira
Professor of Education and Distance Learning at Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Inés Gil Jaurena
Faculty of Education at the National Distance Education University (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia-UNED), Spain
EDEN Fellows by year
| Fellows | Senior Fellows |
2021
| Fellows | Senior Fellows | |
| Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl, Dublin City University, Ireland | Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| Giselle M. S. Ferreira, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Diana Andone, Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania | |
| Elena Caldirola, University of Pavia, Italy | Timothy Read, UNED, Spain | |
| Teresa Romeu, Universitat Oberta Catalunya, Spain | ||
| Daniel Domínguez, UNED, Spain |
2020
| Radu Vasiu, Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania | Airina Volungeviciene, Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas, Lithuania |
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| Ulf Sandström, Swedish Association for Distance Education | Antonella Poce, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy | |
| Maria Rosaria Re, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre | Josep M. Duart, Universitat Oberta Catalunya | |
| James Brunton Dublin City University | ||
| Covadonga Rodrigo, UNED Spain |
2019
| Ines Gil-Jaurena, National Distance Education University, UNED, Spain | Andras Benedek, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary | |
| Maxim Jean-Louis, Contact North, Canada | Montse Guitert Catasus, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain | |
| Ildiko Mazar, Knowledge Innovation Centre, Malta | ||
| Paul Prinsloo, University of South Africa, South Africa | ||
| Margarita Tereseviciene, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania |
2018
| Svetlana Knyazeva, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education, Russian Federation | Lisa Marie Blaschke, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany | |
| Francesco Agrusti, Universita degli Studi di Rome Tre, Italy | Alfredo Soeiro, University of Porto, Portugal | |
| Josep Maria Duart, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain | Fabio Nascimbeni, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja – UNIR, Spain | |
| Mark Nichols, the Open University UK, United Kingdom | Don Olcott Jr., Global ODL Consultant, Romania |
2017
| Mark Brown, National Institute for Digital Learning, Ireland | Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom | |
| Alastair Creelman, Linnaeus University, Sweden | Wim Van Petegem, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium | |
| Eva Szalma, Centre for Learning Innovation and Adult Learning, Hungary | Gila Kurtz, The Center for Academic Studies or Yehuda, Israel | |
| Anca Cristina Colibaba, EuroEd Foundation, Romania | Jack Koumi, Educational Media Production Training, United Kingdom |
2016
| Antonella Poce, Universita degli Studi di Rome Tre, Italy | Antonio Teixeira, Universidade Aberta, Portugal | |
| Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Aalborg University, Denmark | Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, Canada | |
| Torhild Slaatto, Flexible Education Norway, Norway | Alan Bruce, Universal Learning Systems, Ireland | |
| Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany | Deborah Arnold, University of Burgundy, France | |
| Belinda Tynan, The Open University, United Kingdom | ||
| Paul Bacsich, Sero Consulting Ltd., United Kingdom |
2015
| Helga Dorner, Central European University, Hungary | Albert Sangra, Fundacio per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain | |
| Timothy Read, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain | Terry Anderson, Athabasca University, Canada | |
| Ene Koitla, Information Technology Foundation for Education, Estonia | Roberto Carneiro, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Portugal | |
| Irina Smirnova, Moscow State University of Economics, Russian Federation | ||
| Yaacov Katz, Bar- Ilan University, Israel | ||
| Margarida Carmo, Universidade Aberta, Portugal |
2014
| Sandra Kucina Softic, University of Zagreb, Croatia | Tony Bates, Tony Bates Associates Ltd., Canada | |
| Ebba Ossiannilsson, Swedish Association for Distance Education, Sweden | ||
| András Benedek, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary | ||
| Marci Powell, Drexel University Online, USA |
2013
| Ilse Op de Beeck, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium | Sofoklis Sotiriou, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece | |
| Bill McNeill, The College of Estate Management, United Kingdom | Morten F. Paulsen, Campus NooA, Norway | |
| Ari-Matti Auvinen, HCI Productions Ltd., Finland | ||
| Thomas Kretschmer, University of Duisburg- Essen, Germany | ||
| Grainne Conole, University of Bath, United Kingdom | ||
| Sonia Hetzner, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
2012
| Lisa-Marie Blaschke, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany | ||
| Fabio Nascimbeni, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, Spain | ||
| Diana Andone, Politechnica University of Timisoara, Romania | ||
| Laszlo Komaromi, Dennis Gabor College, Hungary | ||
| Andrea Karpati, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary | ||
| Michael Auer, Carithia Tech Institute, Austria |
2011
| Jim Devine, DEVINE Policy/Projects/Innovation, Ireland | ||
| Ilaria Mascitti, Universitya Telematica Guglielmo Marconi, Italy | ||
| Natalia Tikhomirova, Moscow State University of Economics, Russian Federation | ||
| Rafi Nachmias, Tel Aviv University, Israel | ||
| Andy diPaolo, Stanford Center for Professional Developmet, USA | ||
| Tapio Koskinen, Aalto University, Finland |
2010
| Airina Volungeviciene, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania | Michael G. Moore, Studiesenteret.no, Norway | |
| Antonio M. Teixeira, Universidade Aberta, Portugal | Alan Tait, The Open University, United Kingdom | |
| Don Olcott Jr., United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) | Martine Vidal, Centre National d’Enseignement à Distance, France | |
| Eva Sandor-Kriszt, Budapest Business School, Hungary | ||
| Deborah Arnold, University of Burgundy, France | ||
| Berit Johnsen, Norwegian Ministry of education and research, Norway |
2009
| Dénes Zarka, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary | Ulrich Bernath, Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Research in ODL, Germany | |
| Thomas Fischer, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece | ||
| Anna Grabowska, PRO – MED Co. Ltd, Poland | ||
| Mehmet Kesim, Anadolu University, Turkey |
2008
| Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom | Walter Kugemann, Institute for Learning Innovation (FIM – NewLearning), Germany | |
| Alfredo Soeiro, University of Porto, Portugal | Torstein Rekkedal, NKI Distance Education, Norway | |
| Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany | ||
| Sally Reynolds, Audiovisual Technologies Informatics and Telecommunication, Belgium | ||
| Montse Guitert, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain | ||
| Adriana Gnudi, Universita degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy | ||
| Costas Tsolakidis, University of the Aegean, Greece |
2007
| Henrik Hansson, Stockholm University, Sweden | Carl Holmberg, International Council for Open and Distance Education, Sweden | |
| Gila Kurtz,The Center for Academic Studies or Yehuda, Israel | Erling Ljosa, Founding President of EDEN, former Director of NKS, Norway | |
| Christian-Andreas Schumann, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany | Claudio Dondi, MENON Network, Belgium | |
| Wim Van Petegem, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium | Erwin Wagner, University of Hildesheim, Germany | |
| Ulrich Bernath, Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Research in ODL, Germany | Peter Floor, former Secretary General of the Leiden University, Member of the Distance Learning Task Force of the Coimbra Group of Universities, long standing member and in 2003 -2007 Chair of the European ODL Liaison Committee, The Netherlands | |
| Roni Aviram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel | Sir John Daniel, President of the Commonwealth of Learning, former Vice-Chancellor of the OU, UK | |
| Sarolta Zárda, Dennis Gabor College, Hungary | Ingeborg Bo, Executive Director of the Norwegian Association for Distance Education, retiring President of EDEN, Norway | |
| Stavros Savas,Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece | ||
| Danguole Rutkauskiene, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania | ||
| Jolanta Chec, Natioanal Institute of Telecommunication, Poland | ||
| Nikitas Kastis,MENON GR Research, Greece | ||
| Alan Bruce, Universal Learning Systems, Ireland | ||
| Albert Sangra, Fundacio per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain | ||
| Anne Gaskell, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom | ||
| Sofoklis Sotiriou, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece | ||
| Jeanne Schreurs, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium |