EDEN President's Blog

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

I am writing this entry to the blog after the Executive Committee meeting this month in London. On the picture you can see the Mall after the London Marathon, the day before the meeting. We gathered primarily to review progress

Contribution to the President’s Blog From Morten Flate Paulsen, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee I recently spent some days in my rustic log cabin in the Norwegian mountains. The combination of reading, cross country skiing and fresh air was

From Martine Vidal, Vice-President I am on my way back from a meeting of Erasmus Mundus project coordinators in Brussels, sitting in the Eurostar. I took the photographs in Brussels on Friday last. It is an astonishing, grove of trees

I have been reflecting on the fact that many of those who work in the field of distance learning are taking time at present to stand back and ask about the ethical bases of their and their organisations’ practice. Distance

This entry to the blog is written shortly after the Executive Committee meeting in Lisbon, preparatory to the main EDEN Annual Conference to take place there from June 11-14 this year (see details of the conference elsewhere on this website).