EDEN President's Blog

The third guest post on the EDEN conference experiences is from EDEN Fellow Costas Tsolakidis. My good friend Costas has kindly accepted to join Sandra and Lisa in this initiative and to share with us some of his personal memories

All EDEN’s efforts are ultimately directed at improving the learners experience as well as their empowerment. We are much aware of this. As such, learners should become ever more present and actively engaged in our activities, namely the conferences. In

EDEN plays a world leading role in the dissemination of quality research on open distance and eLearning. As I’ve pointed out in my introduction to the recent guest post by Terry Anderson, this is a critical aspect of our association’s

We’re just one week away from the #EDEN15. The most important European yearly event for the global open, distance and eLearning research and professional community will start in only a few days in Barcelona. As always, the EDEN summer conference

In one of my previous posts, entitled «Building a Roadmap», I announced that one of EDEN’s exciting new initiatives in the pipeline was the redesign of our web presence. This is indeed an important part of our strategy. For EDEN

Guest post by Terry Anderson In a time of such a rapid expansion of the learning scenarios as the one we’re experiencing, educational research is quite often an exercise of anticipation. However, given this is also a time of scarce

Current technological developments are pushing us in the direction of ever more flexible, hybrid, personalised and mobile communication and work environments. This trend is naturally changing the scenarios in education. EDEN has been following these developments closely since the beginning.

As announced on the EDEN portal, last 15th-16th January, I’ve hosted a meeting in Lisbon at the Universidade Aberta (UAb) with Professor Anja Oskamp, the President of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities. Anja, being the Rector of the

Opening up the education system has been embraced by European Governments and institutions throughout the continent as a main goal of the decade. As I’ve already mentioned in previous posts this bold challenge is speeding up considerably the transformation in

The year of 2014 was undoubtedly a very good and significant one for the open, distance and e-learning community both in Europe and across the world. This was also a very successful and important year for EDEN. As open and