My first ever overseas conference was EDEN 1996, which took place at Futuroscope, in Poitiers, France. I travelled across to Paris and then caught the fast train down to Poitiers. I knew no-one in the field of distance education, and I was very new to the discipline, but somehow I managed to make friends at the conference that have lasted a life time.<\/p>\n
When my time came to speak, I shared the stage with Gilly Salmon and Sally Reynolds. I have met up so many times with them since, in various parts of the world. I travelled back to Paris with Uli Bernath, again a great professional acquaintance. The EDEN conference launched my career, and now 25 years later, I can look back on so many wonderful EDEN events all across Europe, in Dublin, Helsinki, Oslo, Napoli, Budapest, Valencia, Oxford, Bruges, Barcelona and Lisbon, and reflect on a time well spent learning from others. My Senior Fellow award, given to me in Jonkoping, Sweden was one of the crowning achievements of my academic career.<\/p>\n
I cannot thank the EDEN community enough for all of the wonderful opportunities you have given me. Long may you continue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My first ever overseas conference was EDEN 1996, which took place at Futuroscope, in Poitiers, France. I travelled across to Paris and then caught the fast train down to Poitiers. I knew no-one in the field of distance education, and I was very new to the discipline, but somehow I managed to make friends at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"My first ever overseas conference was EDEN 1996, which took place at Futuroscope, in Poitiers, France. I travelled across to Paris and then caught the fast train down to Poitiers. I knew no-one in the field of distance education, and I was very new to the discipline, but somehow I managed to make friends at the conference that have lasted a life time. \r\n\r\nWhen my time came to speak, I shared the stage with Gilly Salmon and Sally Reynolds. I have met up so many times with them since, in various parts of the world. I travelled back to Paris with Uli Bernath, again a great professional acquaintance. The EDEN conference launched my career, and now 25 years later, I can look back on so many wonderful EDEN events all across Europe, in Dublin, Helsinki, Oslo, Napoli, Budapest, Valencia, Oxford, Bruges, Barcelona and Lisbon, and reflect on a time well spent learning from others. My Senior Fellow award, given to me in Jonkoping, Sweden was one of the crowning achievements of my academic career.\r\n\r\nI cannot thank the EDEN community enough for all of the wonderful opportunities you have given me. Long may you continue! ","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-europe.eu\/30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-europe.eu\/30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-europe.eu\/30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-europe.eu\/30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-europe.eu\/30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eden-europe.eu\/30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/eden-europe.eu\/30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-europe.eu\/30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-europe.eu\/30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-europe.eu\/30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-europe.eu\/30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}