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EDEN’s platform for growth and inspiration
The European Distance and E-Learning Network – EDEN strives to foster the professional development of educators and e-learning professionals by matching their training needs with the most state of the art offers. While the initiative is still in its piloting phase, our aim is to create an informal, non-comprehensive content multiplier portal that provides direct access to – both online and face to face – training opportunities. We wish to take advantage of EDEN’s partnerships with internationally known training provider institutions and organisation. By curating external parties' relevant resources our objective is to guide teachers, trainers and other educational professionals to participate in valuable continuous professional development opportunities.
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Training hub is a category that includes portals that offer many training opportunities and resources.
Training courses
Stand alone online training courses on various topics for personal development. Includes language courses and instructional videos as well.
Webinars
Hear the experts lecturing first hand about contemporary educational topics interacting with participants during a series of webinars.
Tools
Tools, plugins and any other applications that could be integrated into the work of educational professionals.
Short learning courses awarded with micro-credentials
Micro-credentials got more and more attention in restructuring the Higher Education in Europe. The European Skills Agenda for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience also proposed the development of an European approach to micro-credentials as one of its 12 flagship actions. To foster the development of this approach, a European Consultation Group on Micro-Credentials discussed the core terminology underpinning micro-credentials, and contributed to a first identification of critical building blocks which should be features in a European approach for micro-credentials in higher education in the EU.
EDEN supports the above initiatives by providing expert support and performing research in this area. As part of this effort we try to collect information from our members and partners to characterize their progress in developing and applying micro-credentials in their own institutions.
You can find the collected list of short learning courses recognized with micro-credentials here.
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2021 European Online and Distance Learning Week
EDEN is proudly hosting the European Online and Distance Learning Week (EODLW) for the sixth time! The event is organised in partnership with the Open Distance Learning Association in Australia (ODLAA) jointly with Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ) who are launching the Asia-Pacific Online Distance Education (APODE) Week and with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), who will be holding its National Distance Learning Week[…]
ChildCA webinars
The reference frame is the CHILD C.A. project aimed to improve children’s care in Central Asia (CA) countries through a modern and innovative postgraduate training of the specialists devoted to their care. Developing Teaching and Learning Opportunities and Facilities in Children Care 13 May 2021, 11:00 CEST Medical Faculties and Digital Education 27 May[…]
EDEN webinar series: Time for Action in Shaping HE 4.0
Life and education in pandemic is going on, after a year now we have gained significant experience, offered numerous researches and analysis, reflected on steps taken. We know what we could have done better, we have ideas on how to do better, how to reset the education for the digital age and now it is[…]
2021 Open Education Week
EDEN is proudly endorsing the acclaimed and traditional Open Education Week #OEWeek in 2021 as well. The online webinar series organised by EDEN arching through five days (March 1–5) are coordinated by The Open Education Global, an association of universities, colleges, schools and organisations from all over the world that are committed to the ideals of open education.[…]
EDEN NAP Webinars 2021
By organising the NAP webinar series and the #EDENChats, the NAP Steering Committee contributes to the global discussion about the most timely issues in the field of open education, digital teaching and learning, use of OER and innovative pedagogies. These discussions are open for any E&T stakeholder interested in the ODL field. The webinar recordings[…]
2020 European Online and Distance Learning Week
Dear EDEN Members, Partners, Friends, With the European Online and Distance Learning Week (EODLW) having come to an end, EDEN wish to thank all the participants, moderators, panelists, organisers and partner institutions for supporting us in hosting an incredibly insightful and significant online event series, for the fifth year already. From November 2-6th (+9th) we had a[…]
EDEN webinar series: Education in time of a new normal #onlinetogether #covid19
These #onlinetogether #covid19 webinars are especially developed for these uncertain times, featuring experts and experienced practitioners within the field of open, distance, and e-learning. These weekly, one-hour webinar sessions will be held every Monday at 17:00 CEST, starting on March 30, 2020. Each webinar will consist of a brief presentation addressing the webinar topic, that[…]
EDEN webinar series: Education in time of a pandemic #onlinetogether #covid19
In these times of lockdown due to the Coronavirus COVID-19, face-to-face educational functions and activities are being moved online, using remote working sites and tools. Many of us are struggling with the adjustment to working and teaching online, especially those who have always taught in a traditional classroom and are now being asked to rapidly regroup[…]
2020 Open Education Week
This year’s EDEN Open Education Week was a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal was to raise awareness for the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide, the free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now. With the success of the previous years’ Open Education Weeks in the background,[…]
EDEN NAP Webinars 2020
By organising the NAP webinar series and the #EDENChats, the NAP Steering Committee contributes to the global discussion about the most timely issues in the field of open education, digital teaching and learning, use of OER and innovative pedagogies. These discussions are open for any E&T stakeholder interested in the ODL field. The webinar recordings[…]
EDEN NAP Webinars 2019
By organising the NAP webinar series and the #EDENChats, the NAP Steering Committee contributes to the global discussion about the most timely issues in the field of open education, digital teaching and learning, use of OER and innovative pedagogies. These discussions are open for any E&T stakeholder interested in the ODL field. The webinar recordings[…]
2019 European Distance Learning Week
In 2019 EDEN hosted the fourth year of the European Distance Learning Week (EDLW) in cooperation with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) – and our Special Partner for this year: the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA). During the European Distance Learning Week, participants have access to daily online webinars and[…]
2019 Open Education Week
Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide, the free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now. With the success of previous years’ Open Education Weeks in the background, EDEN once again[…]
Open Education Week 2018
Founded in 2013 by the Open Education Consortium, the goal of Open Education Week is to raise awareness and showcase impact of open education on teaching and learning worldwide. Open Education Week has become one the most foremost global events recognizing high achievement and excellence in open education. During the Open Education Week, EDEN offered[…]
European Distance Learning Week 2018
With the success of the European Distance Learning Weeks (EDLW 2016 and 2017) in the background, EDEN organised the high profile online event again in November 2018 in cooperation with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), which was holding its National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) in parallel with the EDEN event. This year 8 webinars[…]
MODERN project webinar
The “MODERN project – Useful toolkit demonstration to evaluate and use digital tools in educational scenarios” webinar was held on 21 May, 2018 at 16:00 CEST. MODERN project aimed at helping teachers and trainers incorporate new digital and mobile learning tools into day to day teaching and training delivery. The webinar presents the results of[…]
Recognition of Valid and Open Learning
In the framework of the ReOPEN project a platform for non-formal open learning curriculum development with learning validation and recognition instruments in place (learner credentials, digital badges, learning path recognition and assessment tools) has been realized. The project partners developed 3 training materials and trained teachers as well as teacher trainers at C-VET organizations, companies, HE[…]
Open Education Week 2017
Open Education Week’s goal is to raise awareness about free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere right now. We want to highlight how open education can help people meet their goals in education, whether that’s to develop skills and knowledge for work supporting formal studies, learning something new for personal interest, or[…]
2017 NAP SC webinars
In 2017, the EDEN Network of Academics and Professionals organised 5 webinars dealing with relevant topics in the field of education. The virtual events offered presentations and discussions with great experts from all over the world. The power of silent learners in a group Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 15:00-16:00 CET How do we recognize silent[…]
2017 European Distance Learning Week
Organised by EDEN – European Distance and E-Learning Network In cooperation with the National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) in the US, organized by the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) Save the date – November 6-10, 2017 This year 5 webinars with 393 registered participants were held. The participants came from 44 different countries including[…]
The Perspectives of the European instructional designer
The webinar was run by Denes Zarka, ICT-enhanced learning designer on 26 October 2016 as part of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) ASCILITE LIVE! webinar series. This webinar focused on the problems and solutions of a learning designer in the context of open learning. He explored what “open” stands[…]
The use of Open Badges to recognise non-formal and informal learning
Soft skills such as communication, teamwork, creativity and entrepreneurship are more and more in demand on today’s labour market and they may prove to be the decisive factor between two candidates with equivalent qualifications and experience. But how can we measure, improve and publicly display these skills in CVs or e-Portfolios? The ERASMUS+ funded eLene4work[…]
WHAT and HOW to Teach with Video
A 4-week MOOC is to start in January based on the book by Jack Koumi Designing video and multimedia for open and flexible learning (2006, reprinted 2009). The MOOC includes powerful teaching/learning roles for which video is potentially capable as well as pedagogic design principles to achieve this potential. WHAT to teach with video: Powerful[…]
2016 European Distance Learning Week
Organised by EDEN – European Distance and E-Learning Network In cooperation with the National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) in the US, organized by the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) Save the date – November 7-11, 2016 After a successful partnership between EDEN and USDLA in organizing National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) in the US[…]
How to Improve Soft Skills to Ensure Better Employability and the potential of open badges in recognizing skills development
Soft skills such as communication, teamwork, creativity and entrepreneurship are more and more in demand on today’s labour market and these competencies may prove to be the distinguishing factor between two candidates with equivalent qualifications and experience. How can we measure these skills? How can students and young workers demonstrate these skills in a CV[…]
National Distance Learning Week in the USA
The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) annual National Distance Learning Week will be held on 7-11 November, 2016. After our successful collaboration last year, EDEN is yet again pleased to be the global partner of the event, contributing with several webinars on educational leadership (HE focus), home and hospital education and teacher creativity (K12[…]
Preparing Higher Education leaders to become the change makers of the university of tomorrow
The 1st D-TRANSFORM leadership school will be a unique opportunity to update leaders and senior managers in European higher education institutions with knowledge, skills and attitudes which they need to have in order to make effective decisions about the use of digital techniques in learning and teaching, drawing on expert presenters including from innovative universities.[…]
Content analysis and critical thinking – An Assessment Study
The lecturer, Antonella Poce was speaking about the project of the University Roma Tre that assessed the following hypothesis: with providing further cultural insights according to well-defined models on which to undertake guided discussions, the critical thinking skills of students increase. The students’ written productions were treated with a lexicometric analysis using the Taltac software,[…]
Planning a project
This module is addressed to teachers in secondary (high school, general or vocational educational establishments) or higher education whose students are preparing to undertake a mobility period abroad. It is also hoped that this module will raise interest among teachers who are keen to improve their knowledge in the field of mobility project planning. Learning[…]
Intercultural skills
This module is addressed to teachers in secondary (high school, general or vocational educational establishments) or higher education whose students are preparing to undertake an international mobility. We would also like to arouse interest among teachers who are keen to improve their knowledge in the field of intercultural competences. The teacher-activities are mainly addressed to[…]
ICT for education and virtual exchanges
This module is aimed at secondary education teachers (secondary school, general or vocational teaching establishment) or higher education, where learners are preparing for international mobility. It will also interest teachers who wish to further their knowledge on the subject of virtual exchanges. Learning objectives (skills and competences) At the end of this module, the learners[…]
ODS Technology Developers Academy
The Technology Developers Programme provides theoretical and practical training to developers in content use and content discovery (metadata, vocabularies, protocols, and registries). Available through the ODS Training Academies established by the Open Discovery Space project.
ODS Teachers Academy
This training framework is targeted to both non-technically oriented teachers as well as to IT-coordinators.The modules are self-contained for flexibility and offer individual learning paths, to take into account different levels of ICT competence and experience with metadata and repositories. Some modules assume little experience with ICT and provide a general practical introduction, others build[…]
EMPORT – Improve employability and enhance European competitiveness through the acquisition of language and cultural competences in Portuguese
A multimedia-rich free short language courses specifically designed for people who want to develop or expand their businesses in Portuguese speaking countries. EMPORT can not only help you learn the necessary basic business vocabulary and idioms, but does this with special focus on cultural variants of the language, like Brazilian, Angolan, etc. in an interactive,[…]
ODS Content Providers Academy
This training framework is aimed at training content providers, considering that a Content Provider (CP) is any organization that provides metadata that enables access to digital content for its use in the Open Discovery Space portal (ODSP). A content provider not necessarily hosts the learning resources that it is contributing to the ODSP -acting as[…]
TALOE web-based tool for learning assessment
The web tool is developed to help teachers and trainers decide on the assessment strategies to use in their online courses. The tool is envisaged to be used by teachers either to check if the exsting assessment methods of their course or module are in line with the stated learning outcomes or to be advised[…]
Be aware what you are asking for! Assessment criteria and analytics
The lecturer, Blaženka Divjak (professor at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics) discussed how assessment guides student learning in higher education. She highlighted the importance of designing an assessment that encourage deep approach to learning as well as assessment methods that are clearly connected with intended learning outcomes of the study program or the[…]
Mind the Gap! Perceptual differences and learning
The lecturer, Steve Wheeler (associate professor of Learning Technology in Plymouth Institute of Education, Plymouth University) discussed different gaps teachers and students face every day – generational gaps, gaps in understanding, expectation gaps, gaps in literacy, intention gaps – which can be widened or narrowed by using technology. He also explored flipped roles, digital assessment and[…]
Composing assessment for the multimodal classroom
The lecturer, James Lamb, Assistant Director of Lothians Equal Access Programme for Schools (LEAPS), in Edinburgh, argued that the increasingly digital nature of teaching and learning in higher education calls us for to fully consider the possibilities of multimodal assessment and feedback. He began with a short presentation where he contextualise the subject though reference[…]
A journey through the assessment and feedback landscape: from principles to effective practice
Dr. Gill Ferrell, Consultant at Aspire and Board Director of EUNIS, presented the outcomes of a 3 year programme of activity to enhance assessment and feedback practice in the UK. The programme involved over 30 universities working directly with around 2,200 staff and more than 6000 students covering all of the main academic disciplines. Dr.[…]
Reflections on collaborative assessment: materiality, dialogue and group connoisseurship
Two lecturers, Clara O’Shea, Associate Lecturer with the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, and Tim Fawns, Programme Coordinator for the MSc in Clinical Education at the University of Edinburgh, presented three productive challenges when tackling group work in digital environments: the role of the material in the learning assemblage; the tension[…]
Assessment Strategy: Managing and Supporting Assessment Designers
The presenters from Dublin City University, Elaine Walsh and James Brunton introduced their project launched in 2012 by the humanities programme team of the Open Education Unit, aimed at enhancing the quality of assessment writing. In 2014 the team developed an online assessment writers resource and delivered associated training workshops. One of the main realisations[…]