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
Corporate Inspirations
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
Research in perspective
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
London-Singapore-Penang
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
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
New start in September – Looking ahead to the Paris Research Workshop
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