The ICDE Secretariat has asked me, as the President of EDEN, to answer the following two questions for their annual printed publication Highlights: What has been the most promising development within ODL in your region in 2011? Where do
Author: Morten F. Paulsen
Never Waste a Crisis
Athens in late October was the perfect time and place for EDEN´s Open Classroom conference – Never Waste a Crisis. With the political and economical backdrop, I was intrigued by the optimistic attitude of the 206 delegates from 28 countries who focused more
The first EDEN Fellows’ Day
The EDEN Fellow scheme was established to honor distinguished colleagues and to provide validation and support through a respected scheme of recognition. The first EDEN Senior Fellow and Fellow Awards were presented at our 2007 Annual Conference in Naples. On
Thank you President McAleese
Her Excellency Mary McAleese, President of Irland, addressed 425 delegates from 40 countries at EDEN’s Annual Conference in Dublin. It was the first time a Head of State adressed an EDEN conference, and the audience was really impressed by the
The NKiPad
The NKiPad Will a tablet a day keep the teacher away? In January, NKI Nettstudier arranged an internal seminar focusing on iPads and online education. The attendance was high because many foresee that the trendy tablets will change the behaviour
2010 – The year of video lectures?
Since video lectures seem to pop up all over the Internet, I wonder how this phenomenon will influence future distance and e-learning. Personally, I notice that an increasing number of presentations by EDEN colleagues are available as online videos, but
Inaugural Reflections
Dear EDEN colleagues and friends, I’m pleased and honored to take over as the 7th President of EDEN after Erling Ljosa (1992-1995), Tamás Lajos (1995-1997), Valerio Grementieri (1997-2000), Erwin Wagner (2000-2003) Ingeborg Boe (2003-2007) and Alan Tait (2007-2010). The length
Homage to a President, Chief Editor and Mentor
Taking over as President of EDEN after Alan Tait, is both a privilege and a daunting challenge. Alan established this blog when he was elected as President of EDEN at the annual conference in Naples in June 2007. His first
Profiling Online Students
In August 2008, NKI Distance Education celebrated its online course enrolment number one hundred thousand. At the same time, we developed and introduced NKI’s new online catalogue profiling students, tutors and employees. All 9500 users registered in NKI’s Learning Management
Embedding rich media in online articles
At the Editorial board meeting that took place during the EDEN conference in Lisbon, we discussed how multimedia and web 2.0 services could improve EURODL (EDEN’s online journal). A few days earlier, I was given two weeks to produce a