Format: Presentations/panel Description: As lifelong learning is coming from a myth to reality, education is increasingly diversifying. No longer a standard formal degree is the rule of the day but more and more education is an episodical process throughout life. While policy enthusiastically embraces these and related ideas, practice is still struggling with following. And in […]

Format: Panel debate Description: If we reflect today on Distance Education what can we say, does it satisfy learners needs today? How distance education has evolved through decades? It can be said that technology have been core to  the nature and organization of learning and teaching for millenia. What tools are used today for distance […]

Format: Presentations and panel Presenters: Fabio Nascimbeni, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, EDEN Senior Fellow. Title of presentation: Building Critical Digital Literacy for HE Teachers: the  Eduhack approach Jean-Claude Callens, Vives University, title of presentation: Evaluation in distance education @ VIVES: some tools and trends Simon Paul Atkinson, Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy […]

Description: In EDEN we offer opportunities for people to meet, to discuss, to network, to share new ideas, to create new knowledge, etc. We do that for professionals, teachers and researchers, for students and supervisors, for academics and non-academics. We recognize the importance of fundamental, empirical or action research and want to share the outcomes with […]

Format: Presentations and discussion Description:  With new technologies and digital devices we have changed our everyday life. We do not use books, now we use e-books, we do not watch how someone is doing something live, we watch the video, children do not play game outside but online, student do not need to travel to […]

Description: Open education is advocated by many as a means of improving educational effectiveness, access,  and equity. However, openness in education is increasingly under threat. More platforms and tools are raising paywalls and several MOOC platforms are already experimenting with fees for access to course material, thus making the open aspect of MOOC redundant. In […]

Format: Presentation/panel discussion Description: The learning landscape looks completely different today than it did five years ago. The way that learners are learning is changing dramatically. Today learning is available anywhere, and everywhere, and through any kind of device. Mobile learning is the first choice for most people today. Within a context of globalization and […]

Format: Panel debate Description: “Learning Spaces” (LS) is the term used in a report published in 2006 by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, “as a way to embrace a different view of future learning”. The context for learning in the schools and HEIs, at any level, is already changing, and thus the characteristics and […]

watch the recording Format: Presentation with discussion Description:  In this webinar four experts in the field of e-learning and distance education will reflect upon how the very nature of learning at a distance is changing to meet the needs of the modern society, reductions in expenditure in higher education, the incursion of face-to-face universities in […]

Watch the recording Format: Panel discussion Description:    Technology has been changing the landscape of education for years and one of the greatest advancements has been in distance education. ICTs have been playing an important role in the delivery strategies of distance learning and providing a variety of new techniques for educators and learners to enhance […]