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 (NDLW). A special webinar contribution by ICDE is also planned.

This week will be an excellent opportunity to reflect on the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and to discuss how education should look like in the post pandemic era. During EODLW, you will have access to daily online webinars and panel sessions of expert scholars and practitioners, who will present best practices and expertise in online and distance education and discuss with the audience on the challenges in shaping the future of education and how we can fully harness the potential of new models of online and distance learning.

Highlights

Georgi Dimitrov, Head of Digital Education at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC), together with Sandra Kucina Softic, President of EDEN, will intervene in the session: ‘A Report Card on the Crisis: What is the Legacy of the Great Onlining of Higher Education?’

Students’ perspective will be addressed in the panel discussion: ‘Student Voice on the Opportunities and Benefits of Online and Distance Education during the Pandemic’ lead by Airina Volungeviciene, President of EDEN Digital Learning Europe.

Blackboard Europe will present the topic ‘Digital Leadership in Transformative Times’ that will identify common institution-wide challenges and suggest how we can consciously support innovation while keeping education’s ever-changing landscape in focus.

Many more attractive sessions will be disclosed in the final programme!

All webinars at EODLW 2021

Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 14:00-15:30 CET

Practices in Digital Education for Universities

Moderator: Vlad Mihaescu

Description:

The disruption in education due to the Covid pandemic highlighted the importance of practices in digital education and, in the end, influencing the education policies of many universities. For many university professionals, new theories and pedagogies related to digitalising education have become more actual than ever before.  However, for many, there is still relevance in transferring theories into practice and offering their students the best digital educational experience.

This panel proposes a discussion on good practices of integrating digital education in higher education institutions. The speakers are going to showcase various tools, applications, methodologies, research and project results with the purpose to support those attending with the best ideas to take home in their institutions.

Speakers:

• Diana Andone
• Edmundo Tovar
• Alfredo Soeiro

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Thursday, November 4, 2021, 11:00-12:30 CET

Stepping up to the plate! How technology has supported ODL during and after the pandemic

Moderator: Alastair Creelman

Description: 

The pandemic caused by COVID19 brought about an acceleration in the already existing transition from traditional face-to-face classrooms to online and distance education. The initial switch to “emergency remote teaching”, in fire-fighting mode, gave way gradually to finer-grained and more sophisticated e-learning scenarios, mixing synchronous and asynchronous practices with multimodal resources. While educationalists have quite rightly been very visible during this period, supporting the different pedagogical aspects, it is without a doubt the underlying technology, robust and scalable, that has made this transition possible. The management of this process has been a challenge to the technologists working in this area. In today’s webinar we will hear from experts in the field of edtech on how they responded to the demands of teaching staff during the pandemic and how they see the online educational future from here outwards.

Speakers:

• Andrei Ternauciuc
• Jesús Boticario
• Lisa Marie Blaschke
• Annabell Busch
• Nicolas Albouze

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Thursday, November 4, 2021, 13:00-14:00 CET

Student Voice on the Opportunities and Benefits of Online and Distance Education during the Pandemic

Moderator: Airina Volungevičienė

Description: 

The session will have short reflections by students on how they survived the pandemic, which lessons need to be taken into the future with us in HE, and the experience and reflections on the challenges that they had, in order to foster discussions on how to facilitate online studies in the future. Besides students, we will have short intermediate presentations about student surveys implemented after the first year of pandemic that were taken as immediate and timely reflections by students on the national and institutional and/ or program level.

Speakers:

• Orna Farrel
• Sinead Lynch
• Ausra Rutkiene
• Vusala Idrisli
• Tamari Ivanidze
• Lina Kaminskienė
• Sandra Lovrenčić

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Friday, November 5, 2021, 13:00-14:30 CET

You can handle you can teach it: Use of XR technologies to enhance teaching and learning methods in online higher education

Moderators: Luis Villarejo, Gizeh Rangel-de Lazaro

Description:

Over the past year, defined by the COVID 19 pandemic, we have witnessed the boom in the  application  of  digital  media  to  education.  This  has  impacted  traditional  teaching   operations, shifting to online delivery. Whether and how such activities will continue in a  post-Covid  19  situation  remains  unclear.  Apart  from  this  are  the  online  and  open   universities  with  a  long  last  practice  in  providing  flexible  and  innovative  educational  options, widening many learners’ possibilities. In this webinar, our goal is to share the experience gained, good practice, and the pros and cons of handling with 3D technologies, augmented and virtual reality resources to amplify a multimodal, active, and learner-centred method in online higher education during COVID 19 pandemic. As an  example  of  resilience  in  the  educational  context,  exploring  the  use  made  of  these  digital tools will allow us to understand how the teaching and learning process has been strengthened and interactively expanded.

Speakers:

• Fridolin Wild
• Pierre Bourdin

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Monday, November 8, 2021, 15:00-16:30 CET

Making Higher Education 4.0: The Inside Story

Moderator: Elaine Beirne

Description:

Join us in this webinar for a unique insiders’ glimpse into a future-focused course developed on the FutureLearn platform called Higher Education 4.0: Certifying your Future. This MOOC was first offered in March 2021 in response to the so-called future skills agenda and the rapid growth of the micro-credentialing movement. It also explores how these change forces align with new models of pedagogy for new times. After a brief tour of the MOOC, the panel will share how the idea for this free online course came about, the learning design process that was adopted in developing the MOOC, and valuable lessons and critical reflections arising from the first offering of the course. The panel discussion will provide an opportunity to talk about what role MOOCs can play, if any, in the effective continuing professional learning and development of higher educators. Webinar participants will be able to view and provide critical and constructive feedback on the second facilitated offering of the MOOC which runs throughout November 2021. This is an opportunity to hear what works and why (and what doesn’t) in the design and delivery of online courses in the wider content of Higher Education 4.0. We look forward to sharing our insights with you.

Speakers:

• Mark Brown
• Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl
• Conchúr Mac Lochlainn

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Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 13:00-14:30 CET

Multisectoral collaboration for OER: adaptation and development to ensure quality Open, Flexible and Distance Learning (ICDE contribution)

Moderators: Anaïs Røed Malbrand

Description:

ICDE deeply believes in the potential of open education to achieve education for all. Open Education in general and OER in particular has been a continuous strategic priority and is again reflected so in the ICDE Strategic Plan for 2021-2024.

In this workshop, we will share experiences from multi-sectoral and cross-cultural collaboration related to two of ICDEs main ongoing OER projects, ENCORE + and the ICDE Francophone OER Project.

International Council for Open and Distance Education – ICDE – is the leading global membership organisation for open, flexible and distance learning. ICDE is a not-for-profit, Non-Governmental Organisation registered in Norway with more than 250 members and partners impacting 15+ million students across six continents. The organisation is in a consultative partnership with UNESCO and shares UNESCO’s key value – the universal right to education for all. ICDE has been active on the open education global agenda for two decades. In the past years, ICDE has been very involved in the consultation of the UNESCO OER Recommendation and is currently strongly supporting its implementation as a member of the UNESCO OER Dynamic Coalition since its launch in March 2020.

Speakers:

• Jacques Dang
• Alan Masson
• Ebba Ossiannilsson

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Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 19:00-19:45 CET

Global Perspectives Panel

Joint association webinar in the frame of USDLA National Distance Learning Week

Join this session to learn from senior executives of our peer organisations around the world.

Speakers:

• Mr. Eric Jones, President-Elect of the United States Distance Learning Association
• Dr. Mark Brown, Vice President of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA)
• Dr. Josep Duart, President of the EDEN Digital Learning Europe
• Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson, President of the Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ)

Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 12:00-13:30 CET

A Report Card on the Crisis: What is the Legacy of the Great Onlining of Higher Education?

Moderator: Sandra Kučina Softić

Description: 

In this session we will reflect on the present situation in higher education in post pandemic times by asking several key questions. How well did we cope and what lessons did we learn? How are those lessons reflected in future planning? What now? We plan to discuss how we can take this opportunity and the legacy of a crisis to rethink traditional models of teaching and learning.  What should stay and what needs to change? Will higher education ever be the same again? Will we be able to retain the advantages and benefits of gaining more experience in online education, or will we feel compelled to get back to “normal” times? Why did we need a pandemic as the catalyst for the digital transformation of higher education? What is the role of the Digital Education Action Plan in contributing to shaping a new European Education Area? Has the future of online education been endangered by emergency remote teaching? What are some of the debates and challenges we need to address in establishing the place of online education in the higher education ecosystem? So, join us in this lively conversation and share your views and reflections.

Speakers:

• Georgi Dimitrov
• Josep A. Planell Estany
• Mark Brown
• Airina Volungevičienė
• Alfredo Soeiro

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Developing Teaching and Learning Opportunities and Facilities in Children Care

13 May 2021, 11:00 CEST

Medical Faculties and Digital Education

27 May 2021, 11:00 CEST

Faculty Development and Going Beyond Teaching: Building Experience

1 July 2021, 11:00 CEST

Continuing Education in practice as a tool to keep health professionals updated

16 September 2021, 11:00 CEST

Collaborative online trusted relationships for multicultural exchange

23 September 2021, 11:00 CEST

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 time for action. In this new series of EDEN webinar #onlinetogether our aim is to provide insight and advice on how to make those needed changes, to move forward and shape higher education for today and tomorrow. Although  we are all looking forward to return to the time before pandemic, we have to be aware that gained experience and knowhow has showed us that technology is the integral part of the education and that with its appropriate and well planned integration we can provide education of higher quality and better designed for the needs of our students. The aim of these webinars is to support the education community worldwide and provide practice-oriented advice combining methodology and technology, examples and resources, to those faced with the challenges of taking present educational practice on a higher level.

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.

The 2021 EDEN OEW, as a celebration of the global Open Education Movement will be also a good time to reflect on changes and achievements influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and to enhance the possibilities of online and distance learning in today’s “new normal”. During the event you will have access to daily online webinars and panel sessions of expert scholars and practitioners who will present a variety of cutting edge open and online learning topics, from innovations in design to open educational research.

Join us for the following events – participation is free and open! EDEN will issue open badges to acknowledge and appreciate your participation at these events.

Be sure to mark March 1-5 on your calendar!

During the 2021 Open Education Week, EDEN offered the following online events:

Role of the openness in shaping of the post-pandemic education (Role of international associations)

Monday, 1 March 2021, 17:00 CET

Moderator: Ebba Ossiannilsson, Professor, Dr., EDEN EC, EDEN Fellow, EDEN SIG TEL QE, Sweden

Description:

We are facing the biggest disruption of education in history caused by the global health pandemic and it is more important than ever to ensure access to education. As schools closed, over a billion of students have been hampered from learning in the way they used to, and inequalities in access to education have become even more evident. If we take the position that education is common good and should be reachable and available to all, it is our obligation to join efforts and work in this direction. Open Educational Resources (OER) can help in achieving inclusive education aiming to ensure that learners with diverse needs and preferences (such as those with disabilities) have equal opportunities in accessing learning resources, services, and learning experience in general. The Open Education movement is evolving, and besides creating and publishing OERs, focus is shifting to Open Education Practices that can be implemented using OER. It is evident that the Covid-19 crisis has resulted in a paradigm shift in how learners of all ages, worldwide, can access learning. It is, therefore essential, more than ever that the global community come together now to foster universal access to information and knowledge through OER.

In this session, we plan to discuss what actions and approaches could be taken by international associations and communities to contribute to this goal.

Speakers:

• Sandra Kučina Softić
  Dr., Assistant Director for Education and User Support, University Computing Centre (SRCE) Head of the E-learning Centre at SRCE, EDEN President
  Croatia
• George Ubachs
  Dr., Secretary, General EADTU
  Netherlands
• Neil Fassina
  Professor, President, Athabasca University, CA
  President ICDE
• Asha Kanwar
  Professor, President & CEO
  Commonwealth of Learning
• Zeynep Varoglu
  Dr., UNESCO OER Dynamic Coalition
• Eva Cendon
  Professor, Vice-President EUCEN
  
• Lena Patterson
  Vice-President of the Board of Directors at Open Education Global
• Michael Gaebel
  Higher Education Policy Unit of the European University Association (EUA)

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Finding Open Nuggets: Discovering and Demystifying the Published Literature

Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 12:00 CET

Moderator: Mark Brown

Description:

This webinar explores the rich offerings available to European educators in open access journals. It begins by sharing some “good reads” published over the past year and then discusses key lessons, tensions and takeaways emerging from a rich colour pallet of openly available literature in the field of open, online and digital education. Join a lively discussion with experienced authors and journal editors as we uncover some of the “nuggets” available to educators in the open access literature. The conversation aims to help demystify a number of critical reading strategies to support practitioners, scholarly professionals, and new and emerging researchers to successfully locate, critique and translate contemporary theory and research into practice, and back again. By the end of this webinar participants will be better equipped and more knowledgeable about how to locate, interpret and respond to relevant literature in their own educational contexts.

Speakers:

• Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichil
• Wim Van Petegem
• Inés Gil-Jaurena

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Taking OER to the Next Level: European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education

Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 16:30 CET

Moderator: Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany

Description:

The European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+) is a new initiative launched by more than 10 organisations from higher education and business and co-funded by the European Commission. During the next 3 years, the initiative aims at creating four engaging European network communities – open to anyone interested – which will jointly consolidate a new, integrated vision and understanding of how OER and Open Education can foster innovation in higher education and business. Within each of the four communities, positions and visions will be elaborated:

• How can a new vision for an EU ecosystem of OER repositories look like?
• What are effective Open Education policies and practices for business as well as for higher ed?
• What does an effective quality model look like for OER?
• How is Open Education stimulating innovation in business and higher ed?

We invite you to take part in an initial event in which the founders of the initiative from across Europe take up the thread and to become part of the conversation along with your community peers in order to help shape what Europe’s OER initiative towards 2030 should ideally look like.

Speakers:

• Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
  Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning,
  Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany
• Torunn Gjelsvik
  Secretary General,
  International Council for Open and Distance Education, Norway
• Robert Farrow
  Senior Research Fellow,
  Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK
• Orna Farrell
  Assistant Professor, National Institute for Digital Learning;
  Coordinator, Digital Learning Design Unit, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Juliane Granly
  Project and Development Manager,
  International Council for Open and Distance Education, Norway
• Laura Barlassina
  Project Manager,
  Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Silvia Baldiris
  Technology-enhanced teaching and learning specialist,
  Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Spain
• Tina Marie Monelyon
  Researcher, Chair of Education Management and Lifelong Learning,
  Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Karlsruhe, Germany
• Mihajela Črnko
  Project Coordinator,
  Knowledge 4 All Foundation, United Kingdom

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International Workshop Education open during the pandemic

Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 11:00 – 15:30 WET

Description:

Almost a year after education across the world has faced one of the greatest challenges in history – the impossibility of holding courses traditionally in classrooms, online education and online courses have become the only option for teaching over many months or even semesters.

Many teachers in schools and universities have struggled with the adjustment to working and teaching online, using applications, platforms, and digital tools “overnight” for an indefinite period of educational “social distancing”.

In these conditions of uncertainty and in such a confusing period for many actors in the field of education, free access to knowledge, open education, open educational resources, and especially collaboration between individuals and institutions have become the “engine” of digital integration, and digital transformation, even into the most rigid and traditional education systems in the world.

How has the concept of open education actually contributed to improving the conditions for education during the pandemic?

What projects and approaches have been set in motion by universities, associations at local, national, and European level?

How can we improve collaboration in universities, institutions, and the community to make the education process more efficient even in the most vulnerable demographic areas?

Speakers:

• Dr. Diana Andone
• Prof. Dr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
• Dr. Sandra Kučina Softić
• Michael Gaebel
• Alison Morrisroe
• Cengiz Hakan AYDIN, PhD
• Prof.univ.dr.ing. Radu Vasiu
• Prof. dr. Adrian A. Adascăliței
• Dr. Gabriela Grosseck
• Dr. eng. Vlad Mihăescu
• Dr. Carmen Holotescu
• Dr. eng. Silviu Vert
• Dr. eng. Andrei Ternauciuc
• Alexandru Luca
• Andrea Medrea

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Online educational courses on cultural topics – helping the Creative Industries sector reinvent itself during a crisis- EDEN NAP webinar

Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 17:00 CET

Moderators:

• Alfredo Soeiro, EDEN Executive Committee Member, EUCEN – European Universities Continuing Education Network
• Vlad Mihaescu, EDEN NAP SC Chair, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Politehnica University of Timisoara

Description:

This webinar proposes to present innovative pedagogical trends, of MOOCs created around the topic of digital cultural heritage. The study cases will demonstrate how these courses are created in order to have a better interaction with students remotely in synchronous and asynchronous ways.

As there is a clear gap in creative and cultural industries education related to digital technologies, these good practice examples will help a large variety of people, from teachers who can find creative ways to interact with their students, people involved in the creative industries and students who can find opportunities for learning.

Last year was filled with lockdowns and restrictions, which hit the Creative Industries sector very bad, thus making such courses related to digital culture very useful for those who more and more need to reinvent themselves.

Speakers:

• Diana Andone
  EDEN Vice-President for Communication and Communities of Practice
  Director of the eLearning Center at the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
• Achilles Kameas
  Professor of Pervasive and Global Computing Systems at Hellenic Open University
• Isabel Crespo
  Europeana Education
  Designing hybrid spaces with cultural heritage

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Insights from an internationally co-developed MOOC on digital citizenship

Thursday, 4 March 2021, 13:00 CET

Moderator: Timothy Read, EDEN Vice-President for Open Professional Collaboration, Senior Lecturer in Computer Languages and Systems, UNED – Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

Description:

Within the Erasmus+ NEXUS project, a MOOC on active digital citizenship has recently been developed, with the rationale that, due to recent influx of migrants into Europe, a majority of European universities have a student population who are excluded from broader civic or political participation. In a way that is different from the typical MOOCs, that are designed and developed by a single professor, as a “translation” of face-to-face teaching practices in to a massive online experience, the NEXUS MOOC was conceived, designed, developed and reviewed in a fully collaborative fashion among six organizations from different countries.

The webinar will reflect on this experience, that was both extremely enriching for the participating groups and contributed to the coexistence of different perspectives within the MOOC, while being less effective from a production point of view. The underlying question of the webinar will be: can a break-even point between international co-production and effectiveness be found within MOOCs?

Speakers:

• Fabio Nascimbeni
  Senior Expert, UNIMED – Unione delle Università del Mediterraneo, Rome, Italy
• Cristina Stefanelli
  Project Manager, UNIMED – Unione delle Università del Mediterraneo, Rome, Italy
• Beatriz Sedano
  Research Associate, UNED – Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

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Supporting teaching and learning in schools through OER: Lessons from the pandemic

Friday, 5 March 2021, 14:00 CET

Moderator:António Teixeira, EDEN Senior Fellow, Associate Professor, Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal

Description:

As a result of the impact of Covid-19, schools across Europe and the world had to close for long periods. Learning activities had to be conducted remotely. The massive transition of the European school system to online learning was facilitated by the large number of open educational resources available on the internet. OERs and MOOCs could be found in dedicated aggregator portals, institutional repositories curated by universities, foundations and public agencies or through individual recommendations by peers. Teachers were advised to actively search, use and share them.

In the webinar a number of experts, representing the European Commission, Unesco, universities, NGOs and the school system, will discuss how OER use and reuse has expanded during the pandemic and how this has contributed to support the quality of teaching and learning during these challenging times. They will also analyse what is the role of OERs in the ongoing digital transformation of schools.

Speakers:

• Abby Ross
  Chief Executive Officer
  Curriki
  New York, USA
• Andreia Inamorato dos Santos
  Scientific Officer, DG Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Seville, Spain
• Agueda Gras-Velázquez
  Science Programme Manager / Head of the Science Education Department
  European Schoolnet, Brussels, Belgium
• Sofoklis Sotiriou
  Head of R&D Department
  Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Athens, Greece
• Tel Amiel
  Director, UNESCO Chair in Distance Education
  University of Brasilia, Brasília, Brazil

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Social presence and interaction in e-learning

13 January 2021, 17.00 CET

Students’ perspective and experience on higher education in 2020

3 February 2021, 17:00 CET

What do I do as an educator with learning analytics?

7 April 2021, 17:00 CET

Changing Assessment due to Covid-19: Experiences and Impact

5 May 2021, 17:00 CET

Mentors and Enablers

2 June 2021, 17:00 CEST

Digital skills and training practices in disruptive industries: a European perspective

1 September 2021, 17:00 CEST

Asynchronous approaches to teaching and learning

October 13, 2021 17.00 CEST

Assessment of STEM transversal skills from conceptual framework to real- world problems

1 December, 2021 17:00 CEST

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 full week + 1 day of exceptional sessions at which we had an opportunity to show the full strength of our community and professional collaboration. We held 13 sessions altogether, with 62 moderators and speakers, having attracted more than 2400 participants all over the globe. This year we were in partnership again with USDLA and ODLAA jointly with FLANZ who were launching the Australasian Online and Distance Learning Week. We had special contribution from ICDE and EADTU and we embraced an Open Classroom Conference and the European Vocational Skills Week as well. We are also happy to have contributions from the European Student Union and Commonwealth of Learning. This week was a good time to reflect on present changes influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and to enhance the possibilities of online and distance learning and foster the quality of education in today’s “new normal”. The online webinars (up to 2-3 in a day) with expert scholars and practitioners presented a variety of cutting edge open and online learning topics, from innovations in design to assessment and open educational research.

New international mobility perspectives and challenges for the raising European Campuses

Monday, November 2, 2020, 15:00-16:30 CET

Moderator: Elena Caldirola, EDEN EC member, Director of the eLearning Center of the University Pavia, Italy

Description:

The education landscape across Europe is changing. At the 2017 Gothenburg Summit, EU leaders outlined a vision for education and culture. In its December 2017 Conclusions, the European Council called on Member States, the Council and the Commission to take forward a number of initiatives, including: ‘…strengthening strategic partnerships across the EU between higher education institutions and encouraging the emergence by 2024 of some twenty ‘European Universities’, consisting in bottom-up networks of universities across the EU which will enable students to obtain a degree by combining studies in several EU countries and contribute to the international competitiveness of European universities’. The panelists will discuss about perspectives and challenges that will affect international mobility in this new scenario, prepared in the previous years by a number of EU projects regarding virtual mobility, virtual exchange and virtual Erasmus, highlighting innovative practices in the digital era and the taking up of digital technologies and of innovative and open pedagogies in education.

Panelists:

• Ignacio J. Blanco
  Senior Lecturer, Department for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada (UGR), Spain
• Dorothy Kelly
  Professor, University of Granada (UGR), Spain
• Antonella Forlino
  Pro-Rector for International Affairs at the University of Pavia, Italy
• Liliana Moreira
  Head of International Relations Unit of the University of Coimbra

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The Great EODL Week Debate: Online Learning vs. Traditional Face-to-Face Models of Education

Monday, November 2, 2020, 17:00-18:00 CET

Moderator: Tom Farrelly, Social Science Lecturer & Educational Developer IT Tralee

Description:

The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in many universities and colleges rapidly pivoting to online learning in response to unprecedented times. While 2020 has been described as the year of “the great onlining” of higher education there remains a common perception that online learning is inferior to traditional face-to-face models of education. This debate aims to confront this perception as two teams respond to the moot, “this house believes that online learning is just as good as traditional face-to-face models of education”. The debate is intended to address this serious issue as panel members present and reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of online learning in comparison to traditional delivery modes in both a scholarly and entertaining manner. This is a unique opportunity to reflect on our experience of online learning over 2020 and to ponder the future of high education in the post-pandemic digital society.

Panelists:

• Diana Andone
  EDEN Vice President
  Director of the eLearning Center, Politehnica University of Timisoara
• Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl
  Head of the Ideas Lab@National Institute of Digital Learning, Dublin City University
• Alexandra Cristea
  Professor, Head of the Innovative Computing research group at the Computer Science Department, Durham University
• Mark Brown
  Professor, Dublin City University
  EDEN EC member, EDEN Treasurer
• Don Olcott Jr.
  Global Higher Education Consultant
• Deborah Arnold
  National and International Projects Coordinator, AUNEGe
  Member of the Board of EDEN Fellows Council
• Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
  EDEN EC member
  Professor, Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University

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Promoting Digital Education in the Commonwealth

Monday, November 2, 2020, 18:30-19:30 CET

Moderators: Ebba Ossiannilsson, EDEN EC, EDEN SIG TEL QE, EDEN NAP, EDEN Council of Fellows, ICDE EC, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee, Chair, Swedish Association for Distance Education, Digital Job and Skills Coalition Sweden, Swedish Institute for Standards, ISO

Description:

The presentation will focus on the importance of digital education skills in the contemporary world, especially in the Commonwealth. Focusing on the design, development and experiences of the Commonwealth Digital Education Leadership Training in Action (C-DELTA) framework and its implementation in the Commonwealth and beyond, it will elaborate on the efforts of COL in promoting open, distance and technology-enabled learning models and best practices. Participants will be able to contextualise these developments to the European Commission’s Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027).

Panelists:

• Sanjaya Mishra
  Education Specialist, Commonwealth of Learning, Canada

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We are all in this together – Rising to the challenges

Tuesday, 3 November 2020, 15:00 CET

Moderator: Timothy Read, EDEN Vice-president for Open-professional collaboration, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Languages and Systems, UNED

Description: 

Aim of this season is to share on the global level insight on how four leading professional bodies—European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN), United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) and Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ)—have risen to the challenge of supporting online and distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. A panel of representatives from each association share their lessons and experiences from supporting educators, institutional leaders and policy-makers in the rapid shift to online education. By sharing initiatives and resources developed and made available over 2020 the panel want to emphasize the value and importance of professional networks and learning communities in these uncertain and challenging times. With joint effort you will hear how the panel believes we can support the challenges facing us and more fully harness the potential of new models of online and distance learning. Accordingly, we invite participants to share their opinions and perspectives about what kind of support they expect from such professional bodies and what kind of problems they encounter in fostering more creative, innovative and impactful approaches to teaching, learning and assessment in the digital-era. This discussion will also help to inform a joint position paper arising from the collaborative activities spread across the start of November.

Panelists:

• Rhonda Blackburn
  President of the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
• Reggie Smith III
  Chief Executive Officer / Executive Director
  United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
• Marci Powell
  Marci Powell and Associates, CEO, United States
• Sandra Kucina Softic
  EDEN President
  University Computing Centre SRCE, Croatia
• Mark Brown
  Professor, Dublin City University
  EDEN EC member, EDEN Treasurer
  Executive Committee Member of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA)
• Lisa-Marie Blaschke
  EDEN Senior Fellow and Chair of the Board of EDEN Council of Fellows
  Programme Director, Center of Lifelong Learning (C3L), Oldenburg, Germany

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Exploring new avenues of online assessment

Tuesday, November 3, 2020, 17:00-18:00 CET

Moderator: Lisa-Marie Blaschke, EDEN Senior Fellow and Chair of the Board of EDEN Council of Fellows, Programme Director, Center of Lifelong Learning (C3L), Oldenburg, Germany

Description:

Assessing student work within an online environment can be challenging for instructors, especially those new to teaching online. Traditional forms of assessment that work well in a face-to-face classroom don’t always easily transition to online. This session will explore and discuss creative and effective forms of assessment for online learning, such as portfolios for authentic assessment. Drawing on the expertise of our expert panel of online instructors, who will share practical tips and guidance for online assessment.

Panelists:

• Orna Farrell
  EDEN NAP SC Member
  Assistant Professor- National Institute for Digital Learning, Coordinator- Digital Learning Design Unit, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Richard Powers
  Project Coordinator at the Professional School of Education, Stuttgart-Ludwigsburg, Germany
• Aaron S. Blackwelder
  Teacher, Woodland School District, Vancouver, United States, MA Ed
  https://twitter.com/AaronSBlackwel1

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Practical and pedagogical ways to assess your students online

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 12:00-13:30 CET

Moderators:

• Orna Farrell, EDEN NAP SC Member, Assistant Professor- National Institute for Digital Learning, Coordinator- Digital Learning Design Unit, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Vlad Mihaescu, EDEN NAP SC Chair, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania

Description:

This interactive session will explore practical and pedagogical ways to assess students online. The session will begin by exploring a range of alternative assessment approaches, Suzanne Stone and Rob Lowney will share their resource of crowd sourced case studies of technology enhanced assessments. Then, Lisa Donaldson, Dr. Tom Farrelly and Karen Buckley from Eportfolio Ireland will share practical and pedagogical examples of eportfolio for assessment. Finally, Dr. James Brunton will share his experiences of creating and enacting open pedagogy assignments in an online psychology degree.

Panelists:

• Suzanne Stone
• Rob Lowney
• Lisa Donaldson
• Tom Farrelly
• Karen Buckley
• James Brunton

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Next normal: Including students’ views into shaping future higher education

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 17:00-18:30 CET

Moderator: Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, EDEN EC member, Chair of Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Karlsruhe, learning innovation expert, Vice-president of EURASHE, Germany

Description:

The past months have changed higher education in a quick and unprecedented way: from March on, Higher Education has mostly happened online and at distance. Since then, we have interviewed students on their experiences, ideas and visions on studying now and in the future for our podcast series “Studium im Shutdown” and “NextNormal”. But what should the “NextNormal” of European student life look like? How can we learn from the digital turn in order to create a better future higher education? In our webinar, we want to talk about the past months, but also about how students perceived being heard and included in the debate or not – and what potentials there are in better including them for creating a better future of higher education together. We will talk to learning innovation expert Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, a student participation expert from ESU and to students that have been part of the podcast series in order to discuss ways of including students into creating a better future higher education.

Panelists:

• Laura Eigbrecht
  Researcher at the Chair of Education Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany and
  NextEducation research team
• Lilith Diringer
  Student and part of the Digital Changemaker initiative, Germany
• Carmen Romero
  Membership Coordinator, European Students‘ Union
• Ruben Janssens
  European Students’ Representative at ESU for the VVS/Vlaamse Vereniging van Studenten

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Digitally enhanced learning at European higher education institutions – state of play and prospects

Thursday, 5 November 2020, 13:00 CET

Moderator: Sandra Kucina Softic, EDEN President, University Computing Centre SRCE, Croatia

Description:

The presentation will provide some data from the DIGI-HE survey report carried from March to June 2020 (within the framework of the Erasmus+ EUA-led project, DIGI-HE). The European University Association carried out a survey on digitally enhanced learning and teaching among higher education institutions across Europe. Coinciding with the lockdown and physical distancing, the survey results provide some information on the sector’s crisis response, but mainly focussed on the status ante, and on a plan for the future.The online survey was open to universities and other higher education institutions across Europe. About 80% of the participating 368 respondents in 48 European countries are conventional universities offering mainly on-campus tuition, although the majority offered, already before the crisis blended and also some online learning, usually through short courses. This survey is a timely update to EUA’s 2013 survey on e-learning,  also as it provides some insights on how institutions responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. During this session, some of the key findings of this survey will be presented, and discussed with a panel of three university representatives.

Presenters and speakers:

• Michael Gaebel
  European University Association
• Airina Volungevičienė
  Director of Innovative Studies,Vytautas Magnus University
  EDEN Senior Fellow
• Philippe Emplit
  Full professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Marta Zuvich
  Vice-Rector for Students, Studies and Quality Assurance at University of Rijeka, Croatia

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ICDE Global Outlook to OER: What’s on the calendar and how to engage?

Thursday, 5 November, 17:00 CET

Moderator and speaker: Ebba Ossiannilsson, EDEN EC, EDEN SIG TEL QE, EDEN NAP, EDEN Council of Fellows, ICDE EC, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee, Chair, Swedish Association for Distance Education, Digital Job and Skills Coalition Sweden, Swedish Institute for Standards, ISO

Description:

International Council for Open and Distance Education – ICDE is the leading global membership organisation for open, flexible and distance learning. ICDE is a not-for-profit, Non-Governmental Organisation registered in Norway with more than 250 members and partners impacting 15+ million students across six continents. The organisation is in a consultative partnership with UNESCO and shares UNESCO’s key value – the universal right to education for all. ICDE has been active on the open education global agenda for two decades. In the past years, ICDE has been very involved in the consultation of the UNESCO OER Recommendation and is currently strongly supporting its implementation as a member of the UNESCO OER Dynamic Coalition since its launch in March 2020. ICDE deeply believes in the potential of open education to achieve education for all. Open Education in general and OER in particular has been a continuous strategic priority and is again reflected so in the ICDE Strategic Plan for 2021-2024. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to ICDE’s recent and upcoming projects and initiatives within OER, and invited to interact with international experts on how to engage in these activities.

Speakers:

• Torunn Gjelsvik
• Jacques Dang
• Anaïs Røed Malbrand
• Daniel Burgos
• Davor Orlic

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European MOOCs for the Labour Market; Microcredentials for continuing education

Friday, 6 November 2020, 13:00 CEST

Moderator: Ebba Ossiannilsson, EDEN EC, EDEN SIG TEL QE, EDEN NAP, EDEN Council of Fellows, ICDE EC, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee, Chair, Swedish Association for Distance Education, Digital Job and Skills Coalition Sweden, Swedish Institute for Standards, ISO

Description

• George Ubachs
• Catherine Mongenet
  CEO of FUN-MOOC

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Open Education Technologies for online education

Friday, November 6, 2020, 15:00-16:30 CET

Moderator and panelist: Diana Andone, EDEN Vice-president, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania

Description:

In the last months the world of education has seen its major changes from decades. By remote learning and teaching, moving education from in-campus to online, hybrid education, all educational institutions have relied on educational technologies. The education actively responded to these changes by including more and more open education principles, quite often using diverse technologies to achieve so. There exists a rich ecosystem of open educational technologies (OET) created by educational, open source, and commercial organizations around the world. Open Educational Technologies (Open EdTech) is a diverse group of organisations, open source projects, and individuals advocating for the use of open technologies, content, and standards in education. They are guided by the 12 principles as listed in the Barcelona Blueprint 2019 and they constantly plan to thrive the learning ecosystems. This workshop intends to discuss its guiding principles but also to present some recent developments with technologies in innovative education. Moodle, MoodleNet, H5P, BigBlueButton and RaspberryPi are among the most used open source solutions, and the future plans for development will be presented. Participants will have the chance to interact directly, ask questions and give feedback to the major ‘brains’ behind them.

Panelists:

• Martin Dougiamas
  CEO, Moodle, Australia
  Open Educational Technologies and the Barcelona Blueprint
• Svein-Tore Griff With
  Founder of H5P, Norway
  Managing Director of Joubel
• Miguel Díez Blanco
  Open Source Programme Office, European Commission, DG Informatics (DIGIT)
• Sandra Moldoveanu
  Programme Manager, RedHat Academy

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Opening session of the Open Classroom Conference

Friday, 6 November 2020, 17:00 CEST

Open and Distance Education: New challenges and Perspectives

Welcome from Dr Sofoklis Sotiriou, Ellinogermaniki Agogi and Jean Francois Réveillard, DBC
Address from the president of European Distance and E-Learning Network Sandra Kucina Softic

Keynote speeches

Chair Nikos Zygouritsas, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece

• “Open Schooling for Science with and for Society”, Sylvia Osipof, European Commission, Research Executive Agency
• “SELFIE: A self-reflection tool empowering schools to become agents of change in the process of digital transformation”, Nikoleta Giannoutsou, European Commission, Joint Research Centre
• “Real Connection to the Real World: First Steps Towards Open Schooling”, Yair Ben-Horin, ORT Israel – Technology & Science Educational Network, Israel
• “Schools as sites for food system transformation”, Christian Bugge Henriksen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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European Vocational Skills Week 2020 – VET and digital tools

Monday, November 9, 2020, 13:00-14:30 CET

Moderator: Alfredo Soeiro, EDEN Executive Committee member, EDEN Senior Fellow, University of Porto, Portugal

Description:

The session presents case studies applied to VET and based on work based learning and training, recognition of competences with employers and training providers and innovative practices in apprenticeships based on the use of digital tools. Two of the presenters are members of two expert providers groups (EURASHE and EUproVET) of Platform of European Associations of VET Providers of DGEMPL and of the VET4U2 group. The third presenter has worked across education and training sectors with experience in dealing with different stakeholders. The session may represent cues to future cooperation between associations dealing with VET and with online teaching and training.

Panelists:

• Timothy Read
  EDEN Vice-president
  Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Languages and Systems, UNED
• Alicia Miklavčič
  EURASHE
• Matti Isokallio
  EUproVET 

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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 will be further complemented by a question-and-answer session, where you are greatly encouraged to participate, share your opinion and experiences, and  ask your most pressing questions.

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 and prepare for a longer period of educational “social distancing”. Where do you begin? How do you manage the process?

To address these questions and many others, EDEN will be rolling out a series of practical webinars on how to take face-to-face education online. These webinars will start by focussing on the day-to-day challenges our teachers and educators face and move on to consider other, broader institutional aspects.

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 will be further complemented by a question-and-answer session, where you are greatly encouraged to participate, share your opinion and experiences, and  ask your most pressing questions.

Use of OER & OEP in the Online Pivot

Monday, 25 May, 2020, 17:00 CEST

EDEN WEBINAR

How do we plan for education after the pandemic?

Tuesday, 2 June, 2020, 17:00 CEST

EDEN WEBINAR

Developing 21st Century Skills Through Teaching Online: Opportunities and Challenges

Tuesday, 8 June, 2020, 17:00 CEST

EDEN WEBINAR

With the success of the previous years’ Open Education Weeks in the background, EDEN once again organised a very successful online series of events this March. The high online attendance and exceptional webinar sessions were truly inspiring to experience.

EDEN is honoured to announce that this year 6 high quality webinars took place with distinguished speakers and 1086 registered participants. The participants came from 50 different countries including 22 countries from outside Europe, from United States to China, from Brazil to India, demonstrating a wide geographical coverage and a substantial outreach.

Altogether 32 facilitators contributed to the successful implementation of the ambitious programme. EDEN  would like to thank the valuable contribution of the facilitators and trusts that the initiative contributed to the European dialogue about the state and the future of Open Education.

All participants and facilitators received EDEN open badges for their contribution. Presenters’ slides can be viewed on EDEN’s SlideShare page. The recordings of the webinars can be viewed below.

EDEN is looking forward to your participation at our upcoming webinars.

During the Open Education Week, EDEN offered the following online events:

OER and Open Pedagogies – Best Practices

Monday, 2 March 2020, 13:00 CET

Moderator: Sandra Kučina Softić, EDEN President, SRCE

Description:

Aim of this webinar is to show examples of good practice of use of Open Education Resources (OER) in teaching and learning. Open Education Resources and Open Education Movement are high on the agenda in EU but also worldwide, yet teachers and educators are struggling when talking about OER, how to use them or to make their own materials open. Another issue is how to integrate OER in teaching in the learning process. Open pedagogy is a set of teaching and learning practices only possible or practical when using OER. Open education practice encompasses teaching techniques and academic practices that draw on open technologies, pedagogical approaches and open educational resources to facilitate collaborative and flexible learning. Join us and get ideas on how you can implement OER in your teaching and learning.

Speakers:

• Gema Santos
  Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
• Airina Volungeviciene
  Vytautas Magnus University, EDEN Senior Fellow
• Fabio Nascimbeni
  Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, EDEN Fellow
• Christothea Herodotou
  Associate Professor, Open University UK
• Annelies Calmeyn
  Educational Technology Consultant
  KULeuven, Educta

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Open Education Recognition and Credentials

Tuesday, 3 March 2020, 12:00 CET

Moderator: Deborah Arnold, AUNEGe, EDEN Senior Fellow

Description:

For flexible, open and online education to become reality, it is vital to increase trust in recognition and credentials through robust and reliable solutions. In Europe, we already have standards and tools that can be used to transparently describe qualifications. The European Qualifications Framework gives an indication of the level of various qualifications; the European Diploma Supplement provides a standardised template to give additional information about a degree; the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) allows for individual learning units to be described in terms of knowledge, skills, responsibility and autonomy; the European Skill, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) database provides a standard terminology. However, while theoretically these same tools could be used to describe virtual mobility and open education, there is a long way to go until open education modules are treated the same way as their traditional counterparts.

This webinar will provide a deeper analysis of this challenge and introduce a few European initiatives, such as the new Europass, MicroHE, ECCOE and more, that aim to facilitate the recognition of open, online and flexible higher education and increase trust in technology-enabled credentials among students, higher education institutions (HEIs) and employers.

Speakers:

• Deborah Arnold
  National and International Projects Coordinator, AUNEGe, France
• Anthony F. Camilleri
  Director at Knowledge Innovation Centre, Malta
• Ildiko Mazar
  Research & Development Associate, Knowledge Innovation Centre, Malta
• Chiara Carlino
  Consultant, Cineca, Italy
• Piet Henderikx
  Senior Executive Advisor at EADTU

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Open Education Technologies

Wednesday, 4 March 2020, 13:00 CET

Moderator: Diana Andone ,EDEN Vice-president, PUT

Description:

The world is changing towards a more inclusive and interconnected global marketplace, where technology is playing an intensive role. Education actively responds to these changes by including more and more open education principles, quite often using diverse technologies to achieve so. Those institutions that enhance their traditional teaching environments with best digital educational technologies will give their students, in turn, the best chances to succeed. Students who have access to digital learning environments at their educational institutions will have increased skills and knowledge to achieve and they will become Open lifelong learning students. There exists a rich ecosystem of open educational technologies (OET) created by educational, open source, and commercial organizations around the world. Open Educational Technologies (Open EdTech) is a diverse group of organisations, open source projects, and individuals advocating for the use of open technologies, content, and standards in education. The first meeting was at the Open Edtech Conference in Barcelona, November 21-22, 2019, where the Barcelona Blueprint was initiated. This webinar intends to discuss its guiding principles but also to present some recent

Speakers:

• Martin Dougiamas
  CEO, Moodle, Australia
  Open Educational Technologies and the Barcelona Blueprint
• Svein-Tore Griff With
  Founder of H5P, Norway
  Rich, interactive OER with H5P
• Alfredo Soeiro
  EDEN Executive Committee member, Deputy Chair of the EDEN NAP Steering Committee, EDEN Senior Fellow,
  University of Porto, Portugal
• Carmen Holotescu
  Professor, Ioan Slavici University Timisoara, Romania
  European perspectives on Blockchain in Education
• Doug Belshaw
  MoodleNet Product Manager, Moodle
  MoodleNet for educators

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Open Education for Civil Engagement and Democracy

Wednesday, 4 March 2020, 15:00 CET

Moderator: Timothy Read, UNED, EDEN Vice-president

Description:

Open education has a key role to play in potentiating social inclusion. As noted by the European Commission for education in general (but is particularly relevant for open education) it helps to establish common values key to such inclusion: human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law, respect for human rights, the rights of minorities. However, as also noted, it can be seen in most member states that there are challenges to such inclusion, namely: populism, xenophobia, divisive nationalism, discrimination, misinformation, and radicalization (that can lead to violent extremism).

In order to counter these problems, the promotion of citizenship education has been pursued over a period of years. However, the open educational content and practices necessary to teach the different paradigms of active citizenship are arguably still difficult to find. The need to respect cultural diversity is important in the educational process since there isn’t just one “model citizen”. We need, therefore, to teach and support students, especially the younger generations, to appreciate the importance of active citizenship and achieve their participative role in society as a whole. In this webinar different aspects and examples of the role of open educational resources and practices for citizenship education will be considered and how they can be potentiated in the future.

Speakers:

• Alfredo Soeiro
  EDEN Executive Committee member, Deputy Chair of the EDEN NAP Steering Committee, EDEN Senior Fellow,
  University of Porto, Portugal
• Diana Andone
  EDEN Vice-president, PUT
• Javiera Atenas
  Open Education Policy Lab, Open Education Working Group and Research at University of Barcelona
• Beatriz Sedano
  Research Associate at UNED

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Unboxing the Textbook for an Open World

Thursday, 5 March 2020, 13:00 CET

Moderator: Eamon Costello, DCU

Description:

The textbook is an enduring staple of higher education, occupying a key role in formal educational settings. Practices may vary greatly in educational settings as to how the costs of textbooks are borne by students. Moreover, the role and nature of the textbook are changing rapidly in a digital world. Large, often expensive, paper books exist alongside digital versions which may include rich media and interactivity. The interactive elements of digital textbooks may also comprise assessments that can be summative or formative. Publishers may charge rental subscriptions for books which may be passed directly onto students increasing the costs of their education. Moreover, these rentals are temporary. Students do not get to “Retain” access to the learning resource – the right to retain being one of the key five Rs of Open (Wiley, 2014). How can we help unpack these issues and explore alternatives such as more open approaches? To help “unbox” the book, this panel seeks to explore students’ use (and non-use) of textbooks for learning in higher education; what alternatives might exist; and to try and envisage textbooks and educational resources in a more open future.

Speakers:

• Eamon Costello
  Head of Open Education, National Institute for Digital Learning, Dublin City University
• Zoe Wake Hyde
  Assistant director and Product Manager at the Rebus Foundation
• Aine Lynch
  Assistant Librarian, Mary Immaculate College, Ireland
• Tom Farrelly
  Faculty member, Social Sciences, Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland
• James Brunton
  Programme Chair, Psychology, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Samantha Trevaskis

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Microlearning and Quality for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age

Friday, 6 March 2020, 13:00 CET

Moderator: Ebba Ossiannilsson, EDEN EC, EDEN Fellow, ICDE EC, SADE

Description:

With the rise of technology, combined with the explosive growth of social media over the last decade, the concept of personalized mobile learning through bite-sized learning snippets has come to the fore. In addition, in the context of major global challenges such as globalization, digitalization and demographic change, and learning for all, there is an urgent need for a variety of learning opportunities and pathways for lifelong and life-wide learning. The concept of microlearning has been around since about 2000, but what is it and how to make learning in bite-sized form successful, attractive and effective, as it to be just right for me and learning in education, training, achievement and talent development contexts. Micro-learning offers opportunities to incorporate, integrate and personalize cost-effective and meaningful learning and training solutions for each individual in terms of personal, environmental and organizational performance improvement. During this webinar with invited experts in this field there will be opportunities to learn more about the growing field of micro-learning / bite-sized learning snippets and quality for life-ong learning.

Speakers:

• Ebba Ossiannilsson
  EDEN EC, EDEN SIG TEL QE, EDEN NAP, EDEN Council of Fellows, ICDE EC, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee, Chair, Swedish Association for Distance Education, Digital Job and Skills Coalition Sweden
• Badrul H. Khan
  http://badrulkhan.com
• Joseph Rene Corbeil
  Professor of Educational Technology, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• Maria Elena Corbeil
  Educational Technology Professor, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• Ebba Ossiannilsson
  EDEN EC, EDEN SIG TEL QE, EDEN NAP, EDEN Council of Fellows, ICDE EC, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee, Chair, Swedish Association for Distance Education, Digital Job and Skills Coalition Sweden

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UN UNESCO OER Recommendations, the Way Forward for Member Countries

Wednesday, January 29 2020, 15:30 CET

On Skills for Industry Strategy – Promoting Online Training Opportunities for the Workforce in Europe

Wednesday, 12 February 2020, 15:30 CET

AI and Understanding Learning

Wednesday, 26 February 2020, 15:30 CET

Organising Digital Conferences – Experience and Opportunities

Wednesday, 18 March 2020, 15:30 CET

Student Evaluation During and After COVID-19

Wednesday, 22 April 2020, 15:30 CEST

ODL Unplugged: A Question of Care

Wednesday, 29 April 2020, 17:00 CEST

Teaching Online Competences: Debate in a Post Confinement Scenario

Wednesday, 13 May 2020, 17:00 CEST

Designing Online Courses for Digital Skills and Competences for the Creative Industries – DigiCulture

Wednesday, 27 May 2020, 17:00 CEST

Accessibility and Inclusion in a Time of a Pandemic

Wednesday, 10 June 2020, 17:00 CEST

Designing online courses: a practical approach

Wednesday, 7 October 2020, 17:00 CEST

Critical thinking in education

2 December 2020, 17:00 CET