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European Distance Learning Week

Participation is open and free This year EDEN will be proudly hosting the fourth year of the European Distance Learning Week (EDLW) in cooperation with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)  – and our Special Partner for 2019: the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA). During the European Distance Learning Week, you will have access […]

User profiling for individualised learning – A case study in cultural heritage environments

User profiling for individualised learningA case study in cultural heritage environments REGISTER HERE FOR THE WEBINAR Description The webinar will deal with the topic of user modelling within museum environments. The theme of data gathering and data analysis will be discussed. The “Tito Rossini web app use case” and the Personas identified by this first […]

Distance Education: Challenges on the European and the Global Level

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 […]

Future perspective in open routes: the quality and assessment dimension

watch the recording Format: Presentations with discussion Description:The rapidly growing number of open educational materials and repositories makes the issue of how to find the most relevant and best quality resources to be integrated in teaching and learning offers. In addition, overlapping and competing standards, size of the search pool, quality of metadata represents issues that […]

Why is digital learning relevant for curriculum transformation in Higher Education?

Watch the recording Format: Panel discussion Description: Digital learning opened new ways for society members to start early careers on a global scale, but also to seek for the possibilities to re-enter HE at different stages of life, to seek for (re-) qualification in a variety of ways. Digital and network society is the new target group […]

What might the future hold for distance education universities?

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 […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education

Watch the recording Format: Panel Discussion Description: Education offers incredible potential for the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, with several significant opportunities — and challenges — that the introduction of artificial intelligence could bring, especially to higher education. Increasingly, higher education institutions, as well as adult and professional learning are being transformed by intelligent systems […]

The journey to social justice and openness in ODL

Watch the recording Format: Presentation and panel discussion Description:   In the past decade open, distance, and eLearning and distance learning (ODeL) continue to build upon their foundational roots of education accessibility, making great strides towards openness in education by leveraging the affordances of technology, through open educational resources (OER), MOOCs, open pedagogy, and research. But […]

Quality in e-learning

WATCH THE RECORDINGDescription The rise of open online learning and e-learning poses more than ever quality-relevant questions. The development where learners take personal responsibility for their own learning is only one of the issues when quality is discussed, another problem is when quality is expressed as norm-based versus process-based. In view of the global challenges […]

Are Automatic Transcriptions Good Enough for Accessibility?

Watch the recordingDescription In this webinar Dr Tharindu Liyanagunawardena will talk about her research, Automatic Transcription Software: Good Enough for Accessibility? A case study from built environment education, which was awarded the Best Research Paper Award at the 28th EDEN annual conference, Bruges, Belgium 16-19 June 2019. The increasing use of multimedia in learning resources […]

Designing inclusive and engaging structures to facilitate creativity and learning

watch the recordingDescription This talk explores three principles for inclusive innovation and describes three research and development projects through which these principles have been developed and applied. Rather than seeing the need to be accessible to all as a barrier to innovation, innovation in educational projects can be at its most effective when the goals […]