The summer holidays are well and truly behind us and working life is busy as ever! I had a very good break and the only academic thing I did was to assess a PhD thesis from the Allama Iqbal Open
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Sustainability in education
It is getting to the height of the summer here in England: what we call the height of the summer anyway. We have had some really hot weather in July, but have now returned to the more familiar mixture of
After EDEN Gdansk
I am writing this blog entry following the EDEN conference in Gdansk. First of all what a discovery the city of Gdansk was to me! The medieval city was reconstructed from the 1960s on after the total destruction of the
Enquiry: at the core of everyday
I have been working with fellow Pro-Vice-Chancellors at The Open University UK on a policy to support Scholarship, that is to say a policy and associated practices and resources to support not only that we understand by the terms research,
EDEN Executive Committee meets in Porto
This entry has been written shortly after returning from our two day Executive Committee meeting in Porto, hosted by the Universidade Aberta of Portugal and its Vice President Professor Antonio Teixeira, himself a member of the EDEN EC. Our task
EDEN matters! And so does EURODL!
The last month has seen work for EDEN continue on a number of fronts. I kept you in touch with the progress of the EDEN book in my last post, and that work goes on, especially in regard to copyright,
The EDEN Book
February has seen an extraordinary month of activity in pursuit of the EDEN book! By this I mean the volume of ‘best of EDEN conferences’ that the publisher HERMES/iSTE has asked EDEN to prepare, and which we very willingly have
Best wishes for 2009!
Dear readers, a belated Happy New Year first of all. I hope all those who work in our field of distance and e-learning across Europe, and our friends further afield, have a prosperous and successful 2009. EDEN certainly hopes to
Midnight in Moscow
On an evening at the end of November I found myself travelling by car from Domodedovo airport south of Moscow, passing through white snow-covered pine woodland. This was my first visit ever to Russia. I had been reading the novels
Singing Quality on the Internet in Kaunas
Contribution from Martine Vidal, Vice President EDEN had kindly been invited by Airina Volungeviciene, Centre of Distance Study at Vitautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, to take part in the international conference on “Adult learning and e-learning quality” organised by