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I spent 24 hours with the Oil and Gas industry in Aberdeen earlier this month, in the North East of Scotland. It is wonderful to look into the window of other people’s worlds, even if for a short period. This

I would like to open up through this blog a discussion of what should be EDEN’s ambitions for the support of research. This follows the 2008 EDEN Research Workshop which was held last week from October 20-22 in Paris, in

I spent 12 hours on a plane on Wednesday this week going to the degree ceremony of the long-standing Open University partner UNISIM in Singapore. It was a Singapore airlines flight, using an airbus, which was a wonderfully quiet and

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

Back to work after the summer earlier this month, now is the time to take a moment to write a new blog entry. My summer holiday was a very relaxing 3 weeks in France, mostly in lower Normandy in the

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

  The Annual EDEN conference took place in Lisbon mid-June, and was my first as EDEN President. This was a very successful conference in many respects: firstly in that we attracted a new record number of participants, at above 550;

Morten Flate Paulsen, Director of Development, NKI Distance Education My fascination for online education started in 1986 when NKI Distance Education introduced EKKO, our first self-developed Learning Management System (LMS). Twenty one years later, we released SESAM 6 – NKI’s

This contribution to the blog starts out in Beijing, where I have travelled from London in order to take forward the partnerships that the Open University UK is developing here. Met by the Project Manager for the OU from the

Contribution to the EDEN President’s Blog by Morten Flate Paulsen, NKI Distance Education I recently spent two days in the picturesque Norwegian town of Bergen, attending a captivating workshop on online education in prisons. Going home, I imagined myself as