Author: Antonio Teixeira

As announced on the EDEN portal, last 15th-16th January, I’ve hosted a meeting in Lisbon at the Universidade Aberta (UAb) with Professor Anja Oskamp, the President of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities. Anja, being the Rector of the

Opening up the education system has been embraced by European Governments and institutions throughout the continent as a main goal of the decade. As I’ve already mentioned in previous posts this bold challenge is speeding up considerably the transformation in

The year of 2014 was undoubtedly a very good and significant one for the open, distance and e-learning community both in Europe and across the world. This was also a very successful and important year for EDEN. As open and

EDEN is a comprehensive and multidimensional organization representing all actors in open, distance and digital learning. As such it combines institutional membership with a network of individual members. This Network of Academics and Professionals – NAP – is the largest

In his final, fourth guest blog post, the EDENRW8 rapporteur Tony Bates gives us a synthesis of the event’s main discussion trends and conclusions. As he states in the latest post in his own personal blog, one of the most

  Today I publish the third of a series of four guest posts by Tony Bates reporting on the EDENRW8 held in Oxford in 26th-28th October. In today’s post, he concludes his detailed analysis of the very high quality research

Following up on the previous guest post, Tony Bates continues to share with us today his expert perspective on the main discussion trends and conclusions of the EDENRW8 held in Oxford in 26th-28th October. In this second post, he starts

As announced in my latest post, I’ve invited EDENRW8 rapporteur Tony Bates, who is an EDEN Senior Fellow and also a very dear friend, to share with us his expert perspective on the main discussion trends and conclusions of such

The very high quality of the presentations and discussions held in Oxford this week made the EDENRW8 a tremendous success. In fact, the ongoing transformations taking place in the field of open, distance and digital learning are confronting the research

Last Sunday, the 26th October, the EDEN Executive Committee met for the 100th time, in Oxford. Looking at the EC at its very first meeting in Warsaw, in 1991, (picture in left) and in its most recent form, during the