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SUMMARY:Practical and pedagogical ways to assess your students online
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS \nPresentation with discussion\nDescription:This interactive session will explore practical and pedagogical ways to assess students online. The session will begin by exploring a range of alternative assessment approaches\, Suzanne Stone and Rob Lowney will share their resource of crowd sourced case studies of technology enhanced assessments. Then\, Lisa Donaldson\, Dr. Tom Farrelly and Karen Buckley from Eportfolio Ireland will share practical and pedagogical examples of eportfolio for assessment. Finally\, Dr. James Brunton will share his experiences of creating and enacting open pedagogy assignments in an online psychology degree.Moderator:Orna FarrellEDEN NAP SC MemberAssistant Professor- National Institute for Digital Learning\, Coordinator- Digital Learning Design Unit\, Dublin City University\, IrelandOrna holds a Phd in Education from Trinity College. Working within DCU’s National Institute for Digital Learning Orna’s research interests include online pedagogy\, online student success and engagement\, and eportfolio based learning. She is principal investigator of the National Forum funded project #Openteach: professional development for open online educators. Orna is a founding member of Eportfolio Ireland\, a professional learning network for eportfolio practitioners and researchers. \n\nVlad MihaescuEDEN NAP SC ChairFaculty of Electronics\, Telecommunications and Information Technology\, Politehnica University of Timisoara\, RomaniaVlad Mihaescu has a PhD in educational and technological models of MOOCs and has more than 10 years’ experience as a trainer and teacher in areas like multimedia technologies\, social media\, e-tourism\, e-learning\, usability\, entrepreneurship\, programming\, soft skills and leadership. Author of over 25 scientific papers and book chapters published in international conferences and journals\, Vlad is involved in several European research projects in the field of eLearning. He is also a lecturer for UPT. \nPanelists:Suzanne StoneSuzanne is a Learning Technologist in the Teaching Enhancement Unit\, Dublin City University. Suzanne has been involved in research relating to educational technologies over the last number of years including projects on: a drop-in approach to professional development for Moodle; the development of a vocabulary assessment tool for pupils with special educational needs; student engagement in the online live classroom; the use of social media applications as back channels in higher education. Suzanne holds an MSc in Education & Training from DCU and a BSc in Communications & Media from Trinity College Dublin and is currently a digital learning EdD student. \n  \n\nRob Lowney Rob is a Learning Technologist in the Teaching Enhancement Unit\, Dublin City University. He works with academic staff to enhance the teaching\, learning and assessment practices on their modules with digital technologies. Rob has a particular interest in empowering academic staff to implement technology-enhanced assessment strategies. Other areas of interest include flipped learning\, mobile devices in education\, learning analytics and reusable learning objects. \n  \n\nLisa Donaldson Lisa is founder and currently a member of the steering group of Eportfolio Ireland: A Professional Learning Network for Eportfolio Practitioners and Researchers. Lisa is a Learning Technologist in the Teaching Enhancement Unit of Dublin City University. She is responsible for the roll out of the Learning Portfolio platform to over 10\,000 faculty and students in DCU. \n  \n\nTom Farrelly Tom is a member of the Eportfolio Ireland Steering Committee and a Social Science Lecturer & Educational Developer at IT Tralee. His research interests are technology enhanced learning\, open education and eportfolio. Tom is editor of the Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning. \n  \n\nKaren Buckley Karen Buckley is an assistant professor in the School of Inclusive and Special Education at the Institute of Education at Dublin City University. With particular research interest in inclusive pedagogy\, Karen is an advocate for inclusive practice to improve and optimise teaching\, learning and assessment in Higher Education. She is a doctoral candidate in Maynooth University where she is exploring professional development in Higher Education. \n  \n\nJames Brunton Dr. James Brunton\, National Institute of Digital Learning in DCU. James is Assistant Professor and the Chair of the DCU Connected BA in Humanities (Psychology Major) Programme in the Open Education Unit\, National Institute for Digital Learning. James is a member of the Digital Learning Research Network which includes over 50 staff with a research interest\, and a range of scholarly outputs\, in this area. His research interests include the psychology of identity formation\, socialisation/orientation processes for ‘off-campus’ higher education students\, online learning design\, open pedagogy\, and digital assessment. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/practical-and-pedagogical-ways-to-assess-your-students-online/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Next normal: Including students’ views into shaping future higher education
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATION \nPresentation with discussion\nDescription:The past months have changed higher education in a quick and unprecedented way: from March on\, Higher Education has mostly happened online and at distance. Since then\, we have interviewed students on their experiences\, ideas and visions on studying now and in the future for our podcast series “Studium im Shutdown” and “NextNormal”. But what should the “NextNormal” of European student life look like? How can we learn from the digital turn in order to create a better future higher education? In our webinar\, we want to talk about the past months\, but also about how students perceived being heard and included in the debate or not – and what potentials there are in better including them for creating a better future of higher education together. We will talk to learning innovation expert Ulf-Daniel Ehlers\, a student participation expert from ESU and to students that have been part of the podcast series in order to discuss ways of including students into creating a better future higher education.Moderator:Ulf-Daniel EhlersEDEN EC member\, Chair of Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Karlsruhe\, learning innovation expert\, Vice-president of EURASHE\, GermanyUlf-Daniel Ehlers is a learning innovation expert\, founder of mindful-leaders.net\, serial entrepreneur\, and Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Karlsruhe in 2011. From 2011-2017 he held the position of Vice President at the same university and has been responsible for Quality and Academic Affairs. Ulf has delivered keynotes and been speaking to audiences in more than 45 countries. He is author of more than 10 books and 150 scholarly articles with over 3000 academic citations. Ulf is a trained coach\, facilitator and expert for mindful communication\, and holds degrees in English Language\, Social Sciences and Education Sciences from the University of Bielefeld\, where he finished his Ph.D. with honours in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning in 2003. He was awarded his habilitation in 2008 from the University of Duisburg-Essen. His writings on Quality in education are internationally awarded. \nPanelists:Laura EigbrechtResearcher at the Chair of Education Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University\, Germany andNextEducation research teamLaura Eigbrecht is a researcher at the Chair of Education Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University and part of the NextEducation research team. She is currently doing her PhD in the field of European higher education and participatory Future Skills. After completing her Bachelor’s Degree in European Media and Culture and her Master’s degree in Kids and Youth Media\, she was a PR assistant at KiKA (Children’s TV channel) as well as teaching\, counselling and coordinating in the field of migration\, refugees\, language and education. Since the beginning of the COVID 19-induced lockdown of most higher education institutions\, she has hosted the podcast series “Studium im Shutdown” and “NextNormal”\, interviewing students about their study experiences and visions for the future of higher education. \n\nLilith DiringerStudent and part of the Digital Changemaker initiative\, GermanyLilith Diringer is currently studying International Relations at Technical University of Dresden. Her interests and engagement spread far beyond that. She has been freelancing as a journalist\, author\, speaker and moderator for six years and is working in several volunteer programs. Not only is she a member of the WWF Youth Council\, but also she works for the campaign organisation ONE as Youth Ambassador and has been involved in the Digital Changemaker Program of the HFD (Hochschulforum Digitalisierung). She is representative of ESU (European Students‘ Union) and student participant of the “NextNormal – WeStudy@Home” podcast series. \n  \n\nCarmen RomeroMembership Coordinator\, European Students‘ Union Carmen Romero studied a BA in Political Science and Public Administration in Madrid and currently she is studying a Master’s Degree in the same field with focus on Politics and Governments in Brussels. In Spain\, during her studies in high school\, she started participating in the students movement. During her BA\, she was part of the local students’ union and after that\, she held different positions at the National Students Union CREUP in Spain. At the same time\, she collaborated with different NGOs. She is passionate about organisational development and the role of civil society in Europe. Due to that\, she believes that the engagement of students and its participation is fundamental for the well being of societies. Carmen strives towards building a positive and inclusive culture within organisations and movements. \n  \n\nRuben JanssensEuropean Students’ Representative at ESU for the VVS/Vlaamse Vereniging van StudentenRuben Janssens is a 22-year old student in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Ghent. He has also been a student representative for five years\, advocating the students’ perspective on educational policy in Ghent\, in Flanders and in the European Students’ Union. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/next-normal-including-students-views-into-shaping-future-higher-education/
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SUMMARY:Open Education Technologies for online education
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nPresentation and panel discussion\nDescription:In the last months the world of education has seen its major changes from decades. By remote learning and teaching\, moving education from in-campus to online\, hybrid education\, all educational institutions have relied on educational technologies. The education actively responded to these changes by including more and more open education principles\, quite often using diverse technologies to achieve so. There exists a rich ecosystem of open educational technologies (OET) created by educational\, open source\, and commercial organizations around the world. Open Educational Technologies (Open EdTech) is a diverse group of organisations\, open source projects\, and individuals advocating for the use of open technologies\, content\, and standards in education. They are guided by the 12 principles as listed in the Barcelona Blueprint 2019 and they constantly plan to thrive the learning ecosystems. This workshop intends to discuss its guiding principles but also to present some recent developments with technologies in innovative education. Moodle\, MoodleNet\, H5P\, BigBlueButton and RaspberryPi are among the most used open source solutions\, and the future plans for development will be presented. Participants will have the chance to interact directly\, ask questions and give feedback to the major ‘brains’ behind them.Moderator and panelist:Diana AndoneEDEN Vice-presidentPolitehnica University of Timisoara\, Romaniahttps://elearning.upt.ro/diana-andone/Diana Andone is the Director of the eLearning Center at the Politehnica University of Timisoara in Romania. Dr. Andone runs the team who developed the university’s award winning Virtual Campus CVUPT and is also a professor at the Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania\, in the area of multimedia and web technologies. She is passionate about the ubiquitous access to technologies and how they can be used to improve people’s lives. Dr. Andone research includes web and mobile technologies\, human-computer interaction\, AR/VR/XR in education and culture\, open education\, online and mobile learning\, OERs and MOOCs.Her publication list comprises 12 books and over 100 papers presented at international conferences\, reviewer of several journals and conferences\, and also chairs IEEE and ACM conferences. Her experience includes over 30 European funded projects\, out of which she coordinated 4\, notably ViCADiS (Virtual Campus for Digital Students)\, DigiCulture (Digital Skills for Creative Industries). She is also involved extensively in several professional organisations and associations (IEEE\, EDEN\, IADIS\, AACE\, W3C\, IAFES)\, actively supports the local start-up movement (StartUp Weekend\, HackTM\, hackathons\, CoderDojo) and Girls in Tech\, as well as acting in the Board of local Romanian NGOs (Pentru Voi Foundation) in the Timisoara 2021 European Capital of Culture Task Force and a member of Rotary Club Timisoara and Rotary International. \nPanelists:Martin DougiamasCEO\, Moodle\, AustraliaOpen Educational Technologies and the Barcelona BlueprintMartin Dougiamas is the founder and CEO of the open-source Moodle software project launched in 1999. He continues to guide and grow the enterprise with the support of 80 employees globally and two major offices in Perth\, Australia and Barcelona\, Spain. Moodle LMS (Learning Management System) is Moodle’s best-known product\, allowing educators to create a private space online filled with tools for collaborative learning for K-12\, higher education and workplaces. First released in 2001\, the Moodle LMS is now used in every country around the world by an active community of hundreds of millions of users and is key infrastructure for over 60% of all higher education institutions worldwide. Martin has a mixed academic background with multiple post-graduate degrees in Computer Science and Education and two honorary doctorates.  He continues to focus on researching how open education technology can best support teaching and learning in open and human ways\, with a keen interest in helping to produce a generation that can meet the UN’s sustainable development goals. Recently Martin has started a new initiative\, OpenEdTech.global\, which he hopes will encourage open source companies to work collaboratively to provide complete\, high-quality\, ethical\, lasting educational technology solutions to power education into the future. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougiamas/ \n\nSvein-Tore Griff WithFounder of H5P\, NorwayManaging Director of JoubelSvein-Tore Griff With (aká Falcon) is the founder of H5P and has been working with OER all his life. Svein-Tore Griff With is a Managing Director of Joubel which was established in Norway in 2013. He is the main architect of H5P. He has led three open source authoring tool projects. Two of them with tens of thousands of installations and millions of users.https://www.linkedin.com/in/svein-tore-with-60a23830/ \n  \n\nMiguel Díez BlancoOpen Source Programme Office\, European Commission\, DG Informatics (DIGIT) Miguel Díez Blanco is the project lead of the brand new Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) in the European Commission\, which will be the “go-between” for all activities outlined in the EC Open Source Strategy and will\, amongst others\, assist subject matter experts\, promote inner source and help balance internal focus and external activities. Miguel has almost 20 years of professional experience ranging from software development projects to infrastructure and operations activities. During the last 11 years he has been working for the European Institutions. Miguel holds an MSc in Informatics Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) and an MBA at HEC Paris School of Management \n  \n\nSandra MoldoveanuProgramme Manager\, RedHat Academy Sandra Moldoveanu has broad international experience having lived and graduated in the UK\, Germany and France with studies in Business and Master in International Management with MBA Accreditation. She speaks 5 foreign languages based in Germany and is Program Manager for Red Hat Academy in EMEA for over 3 years\, currently focusing on Europe and Russia. Sandra helps students gain the theoretical and practical skills from the global Open Source leader to reach their academic and career potential\, empowering them to be successful in the challenging fast-paced market.  \n  \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/open-education-technologies-for-online-education/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:European Vocational Skills Week 2020 - VET and digital tools
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONSFormat: Presentation and panel discussion Description:The session presents case studies applied to VET and based on work based learning and training\, recognition of competences with employers and training providers and innovative practices in apprenticeships based on the use of digital tools. Two of the presenters are members of two expert providers groups (EURASHE and EUproVET) of Platform of European Associations of VET Providers of DGEMPL and of the VET4U2 group. The third presenter has worked across education and training sectors with experience in dealing with different stakeholders. The session may represent cues to future cooperation between associations dealing with VET and with online teaching and training.Moderator:Alfredo SoeiroEDEN Executive Committee member\, EDEN Senior Fellow\,University of Porto\, PortugalAlfredo Soeiro holds a degree in civil engineering from University of Porto\, a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He was pro-rector of the University of Porto for Continuing Education between 1998 and 2003. Dr. Soeiro was a founding member of EUCEN (European University CE Network); RECLA (Latin American CE Network)\, and AUPEC (Portuguese University CE Association) His positions held were the vice presidency of EUCEN\, vice-presidency of SEFI\, president of IACEE\, president of AUPEC and president of SEFI. His main interests are engineering education\, continuing education and online learning\, focusing on networking\, international cooperation and student evaluation. He has also been an evaluator for the professional engineering association\, was invited in several projects as external evaluator and has participated and coordinated some European projects on quality assurance of education. \nPanelists:Timothy ReadEDEN Vice-presidentSenior Lecturer\, Department of Computer Languages and Systems\, UNEDTimothy Read is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems at UNED. He did his first degree in Real Time Computer Science at the University of The West of England and his Doctorate in Cognitive Science at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). After leaving England\, he worked at the University of Granada before moving to UNED in Madrid. He is the co-founder of the ATLAS research group and has directed several national and international funded projects on applying Information and Communication Technologies to Languages for Specific Purposes. He is currently working in the areas of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning and Language Massive Open Online Courses\, and their applications for social inclusion and employability\, and the role of analytics in these areas. He has also been a member of diverse scientific committees and has collaborated as an evaluator of national and international research project proposals. As well as his academic career\, he has worked in different international companies including Rolls Royce (the work he undertook there was subsequently patented)\, Hewlett Packard\, and the telecommunications company I.T.T. In 2015\, he was awarded the title of EDEN Fellow from the Executive Committee of the European Distance and E-Learning Network in recognition of the work he has undertaken in this area.Title: The need for the agile cross-institutional recognition and validation of prior learning: fear\, uncertainty\, and doubt! What the ECCOE system has to offerSummary: The European Commission has noted the difficulties that limit the cross-institutional recognition of higher education and upper secondary diplomas. Any automatic mutual recognition that they might highlight as being desirable still seems a long way off\, even though the advantages are clear both for students and institutions. As an important step towards such a solution to this problem\, the ECCOE system (European Credit Clearinghouse for Opening up Education)\, represents an attempt to facilitate the endorsement and appropriation of open\, online and flexible higher education by increasing trust in technology-enabled credentials among students\, higher education institutions (HEIs) and employers. The role of Model Credit Recognition Agreements (MCRAs) will be discussed together with aspects of their use that have emerged from the first round of an in-house peer review of their functionality. A reflection will follow on what might be needed for a successful future wide-spread adoption of the ECCOE system. \n\nAlicia MiklavčičEURASHE Alicia Leonor Sauli Miklavčič is Head of Development at the Slovene Association HVC\, a member of the EURASHE Board and Working Group on Employability & LLL\, an expert on Short Cycle Higher Education. She established the first Slovene ERASMUS Placement Consortium\, the Slovene ERASMUS PHE Alumni Club and ERASMUS PHE Teacher & Staff Club and contributed to the selection of Wood Technology School Maribor\, Higher Vocational College as Erasmus Success Stories 2012 by the European Commission.Title: Smart e-Quality@WBLSummary: An innovative digital management tool developed under the auspices of the Apprentice Track project will be presented. The prototype enables management of identity\, apprenticeship design\, recording details of placements\, assigning and documenting learning activities during placement\, monitoring progress per competence\, feedback & evaluation\, assessment and reporting\, as well as database of final credentials. The presentation will include a good practice of distant apprenticeship as well as the final conclusions of the survey among students and teachers on distance learning during the Covid19 lockdown. \n  \n\nMatti IsokallioEUproVET  Matti Isokallio has been in different positions in the field of education more than 20 years. He worked in regional University of Applied Science more than a decade. At that period\, he was ECTS and Diploma Supplement Counsellor supporting implementing the Bologna process in European level and in national level. Currently he is director of regional VET provider and president of EUproVET\, one of the European VET provider associations. Isokallio chairs international WG of AMKE. AMKE is Finnish VET providers association.Title: Innovative teaching and guidance provision\, case FinlandSummary: Finland has combined all VET legislation in one law since 2018. In vocational education and training\, work-based learning is planned as part of the student’s personal competence development plan. For work-based learning\, students have either an apprenticeship agreement or a training agreement. This has put VET providers in a challenging position to offer high quality teaching and guidance in all forms including digital teaching and guidance. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/european-vocational-skills-week-2020-vet-and-digital-tools/
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SUMMARY:Promoting Digital Education in the Commonwealth
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATION \nPresentation\nDescription:The presentation will focus on the importance of digital education skills in the contemporary world\, especially in the Commonwealth. Focusing on the design\, development and experiences of the Commonwealth Digital Education Leadership Training in Action (C-DELTA) framework and its implementation in the Commonwealth and beyond\, it will elaborate on the efforts of COL in promoting open\, distance and technology-enabled learning models and best practices. Participants will be able to contextualise these developments to the European Commission’s Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027).Moderator:Ebba OssiannilssonEDEN EC\, EDEN SIG TEL QE\, EDEN NAP\, EDEN Council of Fellows\, ICDE EC\, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee\, Chair\, Swedish Association for Distance Education\, Digital Job and Skills Coalition Sweden\, Swedish Institute for Standards\, ISOEbba Ossiannilsson is the Vice-President of the Swedish Association for Distance Education (SADE) and researchers and staff member at the Lund University in Sweden. Ebba has served as EDEN NAP Steering Committee member\, and is a long time EDEN member. She is a member of the Editorial Board of EURODL. Ebba has been involved in international and national projects and networks in the areas of open and distance learning\, OER\, MOOC\, social media\, learning analytics\, mobile learning and open education in general\, with a special focus on quality. Her Phd thesis focused on benchmarking e-learning in higher education and led ICDE’s quality standard study (Quality models in online and open education around the globe: State of the art and recommendations) in 2014-2015. \nPanelists:Sanjaya MishraEducation Specialist\, Commonwealth of Learning\, CanadaDr Sanjaya Mishra joined COL as Education Specialist: eLearning at its headquarters in Canada on 2 January 2015. Previously\, he served COL as Director of the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) from 1 July 2012 to 31 December 2014. Dr Mishra is one of the leading scholars in open\, distance and online Learning. Prior to joining COL\, he was Programme Specialist (ICT in Education\, Science and Culture) at UNESCO\, Paris.Dr Mishra has over 25 years of experience in design\, development and management of open and distance learning programmes. With a blend of academic and professional qualifications in library and information science\, distance education\, television production and training and development\, he has been promoting the use of educational multimedia\, eLearning and use of open educational resources (OER) and open access to scientific information around the world. During his service in different capacities at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)\, amongst many innovative activities and programmes\, he developed the OER-based one-year Post-Graduate Diploma in eLearning.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/promoting-digital-education-in-the-commonwealth/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Exploring new avenues of online assessment
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS \nPresentation with discussion\nDescription:Assessing student work within an online environment can be challenging for instructors\, especially those new to teaching online. Traditional forms of assessment that work well in a face-to-face classroom don’t always easily transition to online. This session will explore and discuss creative and effective forms of assessment for online learning\, such as portfolios for authentic assessment. Drawing on the expertise of our expert panel of online instructors\, who will share practical tips and guidance for online assessment.Moderator:Lisa-Marie BlaschkeEDEN Senior Fellow and Chair of the Board of EDEN Council of FellowsProgramme Director\, Center of Lifelong Learning (C3L)\, Oldenburg\, GermanyDr. Lisa Marie Blaschke is a former Executive Committee member of the European Distance Education and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and is an EDEN Senior Fellow and Chair of the Board of the EDEN Fellows’ Council. She is also a former adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland University College\, where she received the Stanley J. Drazek Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016. Lisa has a BS in Technical Communication\, and two master’s degrees (MDE\, MBA)\, and a PhD. Prior to academia\, Lisa worked for SAP for over a decade in Walldorf\, Germany\, leading and implementing enterprise-wide knowledge management and training processes and solutions. Lisa’s research interests are in the areas of self-determined learning (heutagogy)\, online collaborative learning\, pedagogical application of web 2.0 technology and social media\, and user interface design. \nPanelists:Orna FarrellEDEN NAP SC MemberAssistant Professor- National Institute for Digital Learning\, Coordinator- Digital Learning Design Unit\, Dublin City University\, IrelandOrna Farrell holds a Phd in Education from Trinity College. Working within DCU’s National Institute for Digital Learning Orna’s research interests include online pedagogy\, online student success and engagement\, and eportfolio based learning. She is principal investigator of the National Forum funded project #Openteach: professional development for open online educators. Orna is a founding member of Eportfolio Ireland\, a professional learning network for eportfolio practitioners and researchers. \n\nRichard PowersProject Coordinator at the Professional School of Education\, Stuttgart-Ludwigsburg\, Germany Richard Powers is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature from University of Maryland’s Global Campus. An expert online teacher\, trainer and instructional designer\, he has taught online since 1998 using WebTycho\, Blackboard\, Moodle\, Brightspace and ILIAS. Currently\, he is the Project Coordinator at the Professional School of Education—Stuttgart-Ludwigsburg for blended learning courses for diversity for teachings in training. Since the Corona Virus Outbreak\, Richard continues to be a key member of two task forces preparing students and teachers to teach remotely in this confusing time. With City Colleges of Chicago\, Richard continues to support 3\,000 teachers and 25\,000 students online. At Stuttgart University\, Richard continues to develop projects\, courses and training for 3\,000 teachers in training. \n  \n\nAaron S. BlackwelderTeacher\, Woodland School District\, Vancouver\, United States\, MA Edhttps://twitter.com/AaronSBlackwel1Aaron Blackwelder teaches high school English and coaches boys’ and girls’ golf in Southwest Washington. He is the co-founder of Teachers Going Gradeless\, host of the podcast Beyond the Curriculum\, and the educational contributor to Spectrum Life Magazine. Aaron is a Washington State English Teachers Fellow\, was nominated for Washington State Teacher of the Year in 2019\, and is a five time golf coach of the year. Aaron is a husband and father of two boys on the autism spectrum\, who inspire him to become the teacher who meets the needs of all students. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/exploring-new-avenues-of-online-assessment/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:New international mobility perspectives and challenges for the raising European Campuses
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS \nPanel debate\nTopic:  New international mobility perspectives and challenges for the raising European CampusesDescription:The education landscape across Europe is changing. At the 2017 Gothenburg Summit\, EU leaders outlined a vision for education and culture. In its December 2017 Conclusions\, the European Council called on Member States\, the Council and the Commission to take forward a number of initiatives\, including: ‘…strengthening strategic partnerships across the EU between higher education institutions and encouraging the emergence by 2024 of some twenty ‘European Universities’\, consisting in bottom-up networks of universities across the EU which will enable students to obtain a degree by combining studies in several EU countries and contribute to the international competitiveness of European universities’. The panelists will discuss about perspectives and challenges that will affect international mobility in this new scenario\, prepared in the previous years by a number of EU projects regarding virtual mobility\, virtual exchange and virtual Erasmus\, highlighting innovative practices in the digital era and the taking up of digital technologies and of innovative and open pedagogies in education. Moderator:Elena CaldirolaEDEN EC memberDirector of the eLearning Center of the University Pavia\, ItalyDirector of the eLearning Center of the University of Pavia since 2010. She has a master degree in Political Science and a Postgraduate Specialisation in eLearning Management. Skilled in eLearning environments\, MOOCs\, Learning Spaces\, Blended Learning\, Digital Corporate Training\, and online learning. Since 2009 she takes part in the eLearning Task Force of the Coimbra Group. From 2013 until 2015 she was Chair of the CG eLearning Task Force and from 2016 till now she is member of the CG Education Innovation group. Since 2012 she is member of the Scientific Board of the Italian eLearning Society and since 2018 she takes part in the Executive Board of EDEN (European Distance and eLearning Network).  \nPanelists:Ignacio J. BlancoSenior Lecturer\, Department for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence\, University of Granada (UGR)\, SpainIgnacio J. Blanco is Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the Department for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Granada UGR. His teaching duties and research interests are focused on Information Systems and Databases. He has a PhD in Computer Science. He is Director for International Strategy at the Vice-Rectorate for Internationalization of UGR. He acted as Deputy Director for International Projects and Networks of the UGR Centre for Virtual Teaching and Learning CEVUG from 2010 to 2015. He also acted as Director of CEVUG from 2015 to 2017 and Director of the Resource Production Centre for the Digital University of UGR from 2017 to 2019. From 2010 to 2019\, he coordinated UGR Team in European Projects related to eLearning\, use of technology in teaching and learning\, and Virtual Mobility. From 2010 to 2015\, he was designated as Delegate Representative for UGR at the eLearning Task Force of the Coimbra Group of Universities CG. He is a Delegate Representative for UGR at the Education Innovation Working Group of CG since 2015. \n\nDorothy KellyProfessor\, University of Granada (UGR)\, SpainDorothy Kelly is a professor of Translation at the University of Granada (Spain)\, where she has also been Vice Rector for Internationalization since 2008. In the field of the internationalization of higher education\, she was Chair of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group of Universities from 2010 until 2017 and was a member of Spain’s national Bologna Experts Team from 2010 to 2013. She has participated intensely in Spanish\, European and international advisory boards and events in the field of higher education and in particular its internationalization. She was a member of the Board of the Committee for Internationalization and Development Cooperation at the Spanish Rectors’ Conference between 2008 and 2012\, and again between 2014 and 2020; from 2018 to 2020 she was Executive Secretary of the Board and is currently a special advisor. She is a member of the Advisory Group on Higher Education to the Steering Committee for Education Policy and Practice of the Council of Europe. Currently\, she is the coordinator of Arqus\, one of the first 17 European University Alliances to be approved by the European Commission and composed by the universities of Bergen\, Graz\, Leipzig\, Lyon\, Padova and Vilnius\, along with Granada. \n  \n\nAntonella ForlinoPro-Rector for International Affairs at the University of Pavia\, ItalyProf. Antonella Forlino is the Pro-Rector for International Affairs at the University of Pavia\, Italy. She is Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Department of Molecular Medicine\, Unit of Biochemistry\, University of Pavia. She has a PhD in Biochemistry and the Speciality in Genetics. She spent 5 years of post-doc training in NIH\, Bethesda\, USA.Her research activity has been focused on the molecular\, biochemical\, and functional study of genetic diseases of the connective tissue in particular Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)\, using in vitro and in vivo models (mice and Zebrafish). She is combining basic science with translational approaches. She is particularly interested on the intracellular effects of retained aberrant collagen type I in modulating the bone phenotype in both dominant and recessive OI. \n  \n\nLiliana MoreiraHead of International Relations Unit of the University of CoimbraLiliana Moreira is the Head of International Relations Unit of the University of Coimbra since 2019. She was the Coordinator of International Relations Department of Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education since 1997. She has a degree in Sociology\, a Master course in Globalizations and a Ph.D in Tourism Leisure and Culture with several scientific papers related with international students and higher education. During eight years she was the President of Portuguese Association of International Relations Technicians from Portuguese Higher Education Institutions. She is the representative member of University of Coimbra in the Latin American Working Group of the Coimbra Group. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/new-international-mobility-perspectives-and-challenges-for-the-raising-european-campuses/
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SUMMARY:No. 5 - Why research is important for enhancing the human experience of learning with technology: Taking a peek into the EDEN Research Workshop program
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDINGRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges.  \nDescription\nThis year’s EDEN Research Workshop was planned to be hosted by the prominent Universidade Aberta the Portuguese Open University\, in the beautiful city of Lisbon. Faced with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic\, EDEN is organising this workshop fully online\, taking the full advantage of the virtual environment with an exciting and extensive three-day programme. As with past research workshops\, the event will promote intensive collaboration and networking opportunities amongst participants including parallel ‘research-speed-dating’ paper sessions\, workshops and dynamic poster sessions. With a high quality programme and close to 90 submissions already\, this is the event for you to attend\, especially if you are a researcher or post graduate student.By upscaling and accelerating the adoption of distance and online education across the world\, the disruptive impact of the Coronavirus Sars CoV-2 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of rethinking the educational process as an integral part of the authentic digital life experience of its main actors. In this massive collective experience of change\, the role of educational institutions\, teachers\, learners\, and of their families and communities is rapidly transforming. As a result\, new challenges for researchers have emerged that need to be addressed: How do we assure truly equitable and socially fair access to digital learning opportunities? How can we conduct effective online learning with non-adult populations? How can we improve teachers’ and learners’ digital competences for teaching and learning? How may AI and machine learning contribute to enhancing the education process and making it more flexible and personal? How can we conduct more authentic and reliable digital assessment? What are the new challenges for research into digital\, open\, distance and networked education?In this round table\, we will provide you with a closer look into the rich and interesting programme of the EDEN Research Workshop and hold an open discussion on the challenging topics facing researchers and teachers today. \n\nModerators\nAlan TaitFormer EDEN PresidentProfessor Emeritus of Distance Education and Development\, Open University\, UKAlan Tait is an EDEN Senior Fellow. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Distance Education and Development at the Open University\, UK\, and Director of International Development and Teacher Education\, responsible for the strategic direction of major projects in sub-Saharan Africa\, Bangladesh\, and India. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the Open University from 2007-2012.  Alan is the founding editor of The Journal of Learning for Development\, produced from the Commonwealth of Learning (www.jl4d.org); senior member of St Edmunds College\, University of Cambridge; and Visiting Professor\, Aalborg University\, Denmark. \n\nInes Gil JaurenaEDEN NAP SC memberAssociate Professor at UNED\, SpainInés Gil-Jaurena has a PhD in Education and is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education at the National Distance Education University (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia-UNED)\, Spain\, where she has been teaching and researching since 2005.Member of the INTER Group of Research in intercultural education since 2001 and Coordinator of CO-Lab: Collaborative Open Laboratory for teaching innovation (GID 2016-30) since 2016.  She was the Editor-in-chief for Open Praxis\, a scientific journal published by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)\, since 2012. from September 2013 to October 2014\, she was the  Director of UNED Abierta\, the OER Programme at UNED.She has been involved in various European projects related to open and distance education\, and is a member of e-ASEM\, an e-learning network under the ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Education and Research Hub for Lifelong Learning.  \n \nSpeakers\nAntonio TeixeiraFormer EDEN presidentUniversidade Aberta\, PortugalAntónio Teixeira is an Associate Professor of open\, distance and network education at Universidade Aberta (UAb). He’s also a researcher at the University of Lisbon and collaborates with the University of Rome 3.He was the Pro-rector for innovation in Distance Learning at Universidade Aberta (2006-09) and President of EDEN – European Distance and E-learning Network (2013-16). As a Pro-rector at UAb\, António Teixeira conceived and managed the successful and speedy strategic transformation process of the university from a print-based distance learning institution to a fully online one. Throughout the years\, he has integrated several boards of directors and many expert committees and task forces in higher education institutions and organizations at national and international level. He’s currently an external expert for AQU Catalunya and ACPUA quality assurance agencies in Spain and the research and innovation national agency of Uruguay (ANII) among others.António Teixeira has participated in over thirty international research projects and authored over one hundred scientific articles and other publications. He is an EDEN Senior Fellow and a member of the Board of the Council of EDEN Fellows. \n\nJosep M. DuartEDEN Vice-president for ResearchProfessor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya\, SpainJosep Duart holds a doctorate in Pedagogy from Ramon Llull University (URL)\, Barcelona\, and a Master in Business Administration from ESADE Business School\, Barcelona.  Since 1996 is full professor in Psychology and Educational Sciences Department at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He has been involved in several positions: vice president for Postgraduate Studies and Lifelong Learning\, and former director of the International Graduate Institute at the Open University of Catalonia\, UOC (2007-2013)\, and Director of the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning (2002-2009). Currently\, he teaches on education and technology field\, educational models and quality and is member of the Open Evidence Research Group.As a researcher specialising in Educational Technology\, e-learning models and educational organisation\, he leads and collaborates on research projects in areas such as educational policy\, higher education leadership and ICT use. He has published several books and a range of co-authored articles in international specialist journals (ORCID). He has also given lectures on ICTs in higher education at international conferences and European\, American and Australian universities. He is the Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (ETHE)\, member of the EDEN (European Distance Education and E-learning Network) Executive Committee\, and member of “ The Universitity of the Future Network”. \n  \n\nUlrich Bernath Former EDEN Vice-presidentChair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Research in Open and Distance Learning \n  \nUlrich Bernath graduated in Economics. He holds a Dr. Phil. from the School of Education of Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. From 1978 until his early retirement in 2006 he has been the Director of the Center for Distance Education at Oldenburg University. In 2006 he endowed the Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Research in OPen and Distance Learning [http://frodl.org/en/] and chairs the Board of Trustees and Directors. Since 2008\, the Foundation supports EDEN in granting the BEST Research Paper Award at EDEN’s Annual Conferences and EDEN’s bi-annual Research Workshops. [https://www.eden-online.org/recognition/awards/]\n \nFrom 2002 through 2009 he served the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) as an elected member of the Steering Committee of the Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP)\, as an elected member of the Executive Committee as well as an EDEN Vice President. In 2009 EDEN awarded him the title of EDEN Senior Fellow.\n \nUli Bernath is author of numerous articles reflecting organizational\, conceptual\, and pedagogical issues in distance education and open learning [http://frodl.org/dr-ulrich-bernath-2/]. He has been the main editor of the ASF Series on Distance Education [https://uol.de/en/c3l/research-development/asf-series/]. Since 2013 he is EURODL’s\n[https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/eurodl/eurodl-overview.xml]\nEditor-in-Chief.\n\nSandra Kucina SofticEDEN PresidentUniversity Computing Centre SRCE\, Croatia \n  \nSandra is also the Head of the E-learning Centre at University Computing Centre. Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering e-learning in Croatian higher education and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching. She was appointed Croatian representative in ET2020 Working group on Digital Skills and Technologies (2016-2018) and in ET2020 Working group on Digital Education: learning\, teaching and Assessment (2018-2020). In 2018 she was appointed member of European Education and Training Expert Panel. Her field of interest is strategic decision making related to e-learning and distance education\, quality assurance\, educational technologies and open education and open educational resources. She has been involved in a number of projects (national and international) related to these fields and she actively presents at international conferences. She is also author of training courses for teachers and speaker on these topics.She has a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and PhD in Information and Communication Technologies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. She has been a member of EDEN Executive Committee since 2013 and in 2014; she received the EDEN Fellow Title. In 2019\, she became President of EDEN.\n\nPrevious EDEN webinars\nOPEN
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-5-why-research-is-important-for-enhancing-the-human-experience-of-learning-with-technology-taking-a-peek-into-the-eden-research-workshop-program/
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SUMMARY:No. 6 - Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 Setting education and training for the digital age
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDINGRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges.  \nDescription\nThe European Commission recently adopted the Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 to address the challenges arising from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the longer-term digital transformation. The webinar aims to provide an overview of the key aspects and guiding principles underpinning priorities and actions of the new Action Plan. This includes a particular focus on the evidence underpinning the new Action Plan and upcoming research on digital education. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a Q&A session with the speakers at the end of the webinar. \n\nModerator\nSandra Kučina SoftićEDEN PresidentUniversity Computing Centre SRCE\, Croatia \nSandra Kučina Softić is the Assistant Director for Education and User Support at the Zagreb University Computing Centre (Croatia). She is also the Head of the E-learning Centre and the Head of the Office for E-learning at the University of Zagreb. Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering e-learning in Croatian higher education and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching. She was appointed Croatian representative in ET2020 Working group on Digital Skills and Technologies (2016-2018) and in ET2020 Working group on Digital Education: learning\, teaching and Assessment (2018-2020). In 2018 she was appointed member of European Education and Training Expert Panel.Her field of interest is strategic decision making related to e-learning and distance education\, quality assurance\, educational technologies and open education and open educational resources. She has been involved in a number of projects (national and international) related to these fields and she also actively presents at international conferences. She is also author of training courses for teachers and speaker on these topics.She has a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and PhD in Information and Communication Technologies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb.She has been a member of EDEN Executive Committee since 2013 and in 2014 she received the EDEN Fellow Title. In 2019 she became President of EDEN.\n \nPresenters\nGeorgi DimitrovDeputy Head of Unit ‘Innovation and EIT’ & Project Leader ‘New Digital Education Action Plan’ Directorate-General ‘Education\, Youth\, Sport and Culture’\, European CommissionGeorgi joined the European Commission in 2008. He was involved in setting up the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and launching HEInnovate\, an initiative that supports entrepreneurial and innovative universities. He then moved from policy advisor to middle management. In January 2017\, Georgi assumed the role of Deputy Head of Unit at the Directorate-General for Education\, Youth\, Sport and Culture where he is responsible for the EIT; digital education; and innovation in education including business-university cooperation. Georgi led the work around the implementation and update of the Commission’s Digital Education Action Plan. Before joining the Commission\, Georgi worked for a leading multinational telecommunication company in Germany. He studied at the University of Bonn (MA)\, the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (PhD) and the Open University UK (MBA in Technology Management). \n\nVeronica MobilioPolicy officer\, Directorate-General ‘Education\, Youth\, Sport and Culture’\, European CommissionVeronica is an educational expert\, with specific expertise on digital and entrepreneurship education. She works as policy officer at the Directorate-General for Education\, Youth\, Sport and Culture\, where she has been contributing to the implementation and update of the Commission’s Digital Education Action Plan. She led the activities connected to the evidence base of the Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 and its Staff Working Document. Previously\, she worked as Senior Manager for Education Development at Junior Achievement Europe and\, before moving to Brussels\, as a consultant and researcher for several public and private organizations in Italy. She holds Ph.D in Social Sciences. Passionate about evidence-based policymaking\, she strongly believes in people empowerment. \n  \n\nYves PunieDeputy Head of Unit ‘Human Capital and Employment’\, Joint Research Centre\, European Commission \n  \nYves is senior scientist and Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Seville\, Unit Human Capital and Employment. He is leading its research and policy activities on ‘Digital Learning and Skills’\, a research area providing evidence-based policy support to the European Commission on harnessing the potential of digital technologies to innovate education and training practices\, improve access to lifelong learning\, deal with the rise of new (digital) competences needed for employment\, personal development and social inclusion. Before joining the JRC in 2001\, he was interim Assistant Professor at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). He holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences.\n\nPrevious EDEN webinars\nOPEN
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-6-digital-education-action-plan-2021-2027-setting-education-and-training-for-the-digital-age/
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SUMMARY:Designing online courses: a practical approach
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDINGRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges. \nDescription\nLiving in these times is challenging for everyone involved in education\, students and teachers alike. Many teachers woke up one day with the obligation to transfer all their teaching to the online environment. However\, many of them lacked the knowledge on how to do this in an optimal way\, due to reasons varying from lack of ICT skills to lack of training offered by educational institutions. The question that arises here is how to efficiently transfer teaching practice online\, using the available tools\, avoiding to use learning management systems as online repositories.This webinar proposes to fill parts of the gaps existing in teachers’ knowledge related to instructional and learning design in regards to online education\, by presenting hands-on approaches already used by teachers who are experienced with online learning and especially in transferring teaching methods online.There are two main topics which will be presented during this webinar: \n\nBest practices of instructional and learning used in different online courses.\nIntegration of MOOCs in online learning courses.\n\n\nModerators\nIgor BalabanEDEN NAP SC memberAssociate Professor at FOI\, Vice-dean for science\, international cooperation and projects\, and Head of Laboratory for advanced technologies in e-learning\, University of Zagreb\, Croatia \nIgor Balaban is Associate Professor at FOI\, Vice-dean for science\, international cooperation and projects\, and Head of Laboratory for advanced technologies in e-learning. He was actively involved in a dozen of European and national projects\, and coordinated several of them. He authored and co-authored 50+ scientific and professional papers and cooperates with European Commissions’ Joint Research Centre as an external expert for DigCompOrg & DigCompEdu frameworks and SELFIE tool. He organized and conducted dozens of workshops\, talked at more than 20 conferences\, and was invited speaker at some of them. He is also a reviewer for several highly respected journals such as Computers & Education\, International Journal of ePortfolio and International Journal of Information Systems. His main field of interest is technology supported learning with special focus on adaptivity and personalization in learning environments and digital transformation of educational organizations. He also has a traceable scientific record in assessing the successful implementation of information systems. \n  \n\n\nVlad MihăescuEDEN NAP SC ChairFaculty of Electronics\, Telecommunications and Information Technology\, Politehnica University of Timisoara \nVlad Mihaescu has a PhD in educational and technological models of MOOCs and has more than 10 years’ experience as a trainer and teacher in areas like multimedia technologies\, social media\, e-tourism\, e-learning\, usability\, entrepreneurship\, programming\, soft skills and leadership. Author of over 25 scientific papers and book chapters published in international conferences and journals\, Vlad is involved in several European research projects in the field of eLearning. He is also a lecturer for UPT.\n \nSpeakers\nMart Laanperesenior researcher\, Centre for Educational Technology\, Tallinn University\, Estonia \nMart Laanpere is a senior researcher at Centre for Educational Technology\, in Tallinn University\, Estonia. He holds PhD degree in educational science (from Tallinn University) and MSc in Educational & Training Systems Design (University of Twente\, the Netherlands). He was a founder and long-term director of the Centre for Educational Technology. His main focus in research is conceptual design and analysis of affordances of technology-enhanced learning systems and tools\, assessment of digital competence of teachers and digital maturity of schools\, instructional design\, didactics of computing education. He is a member of the steering group of National Strategy for Lifelong Learning 2014-2020. Mart has contributed to development\, piloting and implementation of European digital competence models DigComp\, DigCompOrg and DigCompEdu. \n  \n\nCengiz Hakan AYDINPhD\, Full professor at Anadolu University of Turkey\, steering committee member of OpenupEd and member of ICDE’s Advocacy Committee for OER.Cengiz Hakan AYDIN\, PhD\, is a full professor in Anadolu University of Turkey where he has been offering courses in the field of open and distance learning since early 1990s such as Designing Open and Distance Learning\, Instructional Design\, and Research on ODL. He had also served as instructional designer in the Open Education System of the University until September 2017 and as the dean of one of the major ODL faculty of the University between 2013-2016. His current research interest focuses on design and development of ODL environments\, integration of new technologies into ODL\, Open Education Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Professor AYDIN served as the President and the Board Member of the International Division of AECT\, as one of the board member of the International Council for Educational Media (ICEM). Professor AYDIN has been a member of editorial boards of the journals\, the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)\, and Educational Media International (EMI). He is currently serving as a member of the steering committee of OpenupEd\, and a member of the ICDE’s Advocacy Committee for OER. \n  \n\nMarjan Krašnafull professor for Didactics of ICT and at the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Maribor.Marjan Krašna is a full professor for Didactics of ICT at the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Maribor. He is working in the area of application of computer in education and didactics strategies of teaching with ICT. He is the head of Center for Information Communication and Interactive Technologies at the Faculty of Arts. During the period (2014-2018) he was appointed to the workgroup for development of e-learning at the University of Maribor. He was also a head of Quality control committee at the Faculty of Arts. He is a member of Steering committee of Croatian Society for Information\, Communication and Electronic Technology – MIPRO –Computer in education (CE) section and Program committee of Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems (CECIIS). He is a long time IEEE member where he was the head of IEEE Education section in Slovenia.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/designing-online-courses-a-practical-approach-2/
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SUMMARY:No. 4 – How to build communities of support for teachers?
DESCRIPTION: WATCH THE RECORDINGRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges.  \nDescription\nIn the “new normal” that the ongoing pandemic is forcing us to assume\, a lot of attention has been given to the way in which students have to adapt to online or blended learning and how they can be supported. This has not necessarily been the case for teachers. The response to this situation by educational institutions has been varied\, and while most now provide the necessary tools for their teaching staff to use\, relevant training and support has often lagged behind. Although teachers are accepted experts in their fields\, that does not equip them with the knowledge or skills required to carry out their teaching activities online in an effective way. The speakers today will consider the issues related to providing support for teachers and the role communities can have in that process. In a similar way to previous webinars\, our speakers will share their expert advice and practical tips\, responding to a variety of questions such as: \n\nWhat kind of support can most benefit teachers during the ongoing pandemic?\nWhat is the value of communities of support for teachers?\nHow can teachers share their concerns and benefit from the experiences of other teachers in similar disciplines?\nIs it reasonable to expect face-to-face teachers to adapt easily to online learning. How might that adaptation process go?\nHow can we ensure students feel welcome in online spaces?\nHow is intentionally equitable hospitality an important part of building a community online?\nHow do we incorporate pedagogies of care into online community building?\n\n\nModerator\nVlad MihăescuEDEN NAP SC ChairFaculty of Electronics\, Telecommunications and Information Technology\, Politehnica University of Timisoara \nVlad Mihaescu has a PhD in educational and technological models of MOOCs and has more than 10 years’ experience as a trainer and teacher in areas like multimedia technologies\, social media\, e-tourism\, e-learning\, usability\, entrepreneurship\, programming\, soft skills and leadership. Author of over 25 scientific papers and book chapters published in international conferences and journals\, Vlad is involved in several European research projects in the field of eLearning. He is also a lecturer for UPT.\n \nPresenters\nMaha BaliAssociate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo\, EgyptMaha Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She has a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield\, UK. She is co-founder of virtuallyconnecting.org (a grassroots movement that challenges academic gatekeeping at conferences) and co-facilitator of Equity Unbound (an equity-focused\, open\, connected intercultural learning curriculum\, which has also branched into academic community activities Continuity with Care\, Inclusive Academia\, and Community Building Resources). She writes and speaks frequently about social justice\, critical pedagogy\, and open and online education.She blogs regularly at http://blog.mahabali.me and tweets @bali_maha. \n\nMia ZamoraAssociate Professor of English\, the Director of the MA in Writing Studies\, and the Director of the Kean University Writing Project in Union\, NJ\, USAMia Zamora\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English\, the Director of the MA in Writing Studies\, and the Director of the Kean University Writing Project in Union\, NJ\, USA. She has recently received the Kean University “Professor of the Year” Award. Dr. Zamora’s commitment to equity\, digital literacies\, data rights\, and intercultural understanding is clear in both her scholarship and leadership work. She has founded several global learning networks including Equity Unbound (#unboundeq) and Networked Narratives (#netnarr)\, and was Co-Chair of ALT’s #OER20 conference on “Care in Openness”. \n  \n\nAutumm CainesInstructional Designer at the University of Michigan – Dearborn\, USA \n  \nAutumm Caines is an Instructional Designer at the University of Michigan – Dearborn in the Hub for Teaching and Learning Resources\, prior to which she held professional appointments at St. Norbert College and Capital University. She holds a MA in Educational Technology from The Ohio State University. In the Open\, she is a Co-Director of Virtually Connecting where her work explores questions of presence and spontaneity in synchronous virtual conversations as well as equity and inclusion in online community. She also helps to organize and facilitate Open/Connected online events for the purposes of faculty development and her own practice in digital stewardship\, most recently with the tags #DigCiz\, #DigPINS\, and #EthicalEdTech. Autumm tweets @autumm and maintains a web portfolio at https://autumm.orgSources:Bali\, M.\, Caines\, A.\, Hogue\, R. J.\, DeWaard\, H. J.\, & Friedrich\, C. (2019). Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Hybrid Video Dialogue: The Context of Virtually Connecting. eLearning Mag (special issue). Retrieved from: https://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=3331173Bali\, M.\, & Caines\, A. (Dec. 2018). A call for promoting ownership\, equity and agency in faculty development via connected learning. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-018-0128-8Equity Unbound site https://unboundeq.creativitycourse.org  \n\nPrevious EDEN webinars\nOPEN
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-4-how-to-build-communities-of-support-for-teachers/
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SUMMARY:No. 3 – Moving to the next phase of online: How can we improve on what we’ve done so far?
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONSRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges. \nDescription\nAs we enter into the fall and winter semesters\, it’s still not clear how long the pandemic will be with us. We’ve made it through the remote emergency teaching phase of the first months of Covid-19\, and our focus is now shifting to how we can improve on what has already been done — and on making it sustainable over the long-term. A variety of areas for improvement come to mind. Perhaps you see a need to redesign and refine your current online curriculum. Maybe you want to explore new forms of delivery to support communication and dialogue. Or maybe you want to concentrate on streamlining your work-at-home processes. This session will provide you with guidance for moving forward and for improving on your current online courses. During the webinar\, our speakers will share their expert advice and practical tips\, responding to a variety of questions such as: \n\nHow can universities build on the resources and social capital created in terms of faculty development during the Covid-19 initial response phase?\nWhat is next for faculty support structures?\nWhat can institutions and departments do now to improve their “emergency” remote learning curriculum with open resources?\nHow can institutions or departments motivate and continue to train faculty in remote/blended learning instruction?\nGiven that many of us are working off-campus\, how can I prevent the feeling of isolation for myself as well as my online students but also make sure I am fully engaged with the critical inner-workings of my university?\nIn working remotely\, what are some strategies for maintaining a high level of productivity as well as a healthy work/life balance?\n\n  \n\nModerator\nLisa Marie BlaschkeSenior Fellow and Chair of the Board of EDEN Council of FellowsProgramme Director\, Center of Lifelong Learning (C3L)\, Oldenburg\, Germany \n \nLisa Marie Blaschke is a former executive committee member of the European Distance Education and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and is a Senior EDEN Fellow and Chair of the Board of the EDEN Fellows Council. She is also a former adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland University College\, where she received the Stanley J. Drazek Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016. Lisa has a BS in Technical Communication\, and two master’s degrees (MDE\, MBA)\, and a PhD. Prior to academia\, Lisa worked for SAP for over a decade in Walldorf\, Germany\, leading and implementing enterprise-wide knowledge management and training processes and solutions. Lisa’s research interests are in the areas of self-determined learning (heutagogy)\, online collaborative learning\, pedagogical application of web 2.0 technology and social media\, and user interface design.\n \nPresenters\nAlexandra MihaiEducation Specialist and Learning Experience Designer\, University College London (UCL) Alexandra Mihai is an education specialist and learning experience designer with over a decade of experience in European Higher Education. She is currently working as a Learning Designer at University College London (UCL). Previously she worked as a researcher and curriculum designer at the Institute of European Studies\, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and led the Centre for Teaching Innovations at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Alexandra has a strong background in e-learning\, learning design and innovative teaching strategies. In her PhD she analysed how far technology is used in teaching practices at European universities. \n\nMarci PowellMarci Powell and Associates\, CEO\, United StatesMarci Powell is the President/CEO of Marci Powell & Associates and has been at the forefront of many pioneering advancements in the workplace for the last 25 years. Marci’s futurist mindset and thought leadership have enabled her to provide strategic guidance to countless companies on how to revolutionize the way they work\, adapt\, and do business in the next generation workplace. As an internationally renowned keynote speaker\, business consultant\, and author\, Marci has worked remotely enjoying an award-winning and successful career with leadership roles in finance\, education\, telecommunications\, and manufacturing. She has managed globally diverse teams and inspired over 100\,000 leaders\, employees\, and students across six continents. Marci has worked with industry titans like AT&T\, FedEx\, NASA\, Deloitte\, Daimler\, and Stryker International\, as well as numerous universities\, ministries\, and small-to-enterprise sized businesses across the world. Focusing on helping organizations grow professionally and innovate their processes\, Marci has gained heavy renown as a pioneer in distance education and remote learning and working. Some of her awards include the 2019 U.S. Distance Learning Association (USDLA) Higher Education Innovation award\, USDLA Hall of Fame membership\, AT&T President’s Club\, Polycom CEO Award\, and the second American woman elected to be a European Distance & E-Learning Network (EDEN) Fellow. When not traveling or working\, you can find her enjoying coffee on her back porch or dressed head to toe in her Hogwarts house robes with her grandchildren.  \n  \n\nRichard J. PowersProject Coordinator at the Professional School of Education\, Stuttgart-Ludwigsburg\, Germany \n  \n Richard Powers is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature from University of Maryland’s Global Campus. An expert online teacher\, trainer and instructional designer\, he has taught online since 1998 using WebTycho\, Blackboard\, Moodle\, Brightspace and ILIAS. Currently\, he is the Project Coordinator at the Professional School of Education—Stuttgart-Ludwigsburg for blended learning courses for diversity for teachings in training. Since the Corona Virus Outbreak\, Richard continues to be a key member of two task forces preparing students and teachers to teach remotely in this confusing time. With City Colleges of Chicago\, Richard continues to support 3\,000 teachers and 25\,000 students online. At Stuttgart University\, Richard continues to develop projects\, courses and training for 3\,000 teachers in training.\n\nPrevious EDEN webinars\nOPEN
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-3-moving-to-the-next-phase-of-online-how-can-we-improve-on-what-weve-done-so-far/
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SUMMARY:No. 2 – Online transformation of universities – having faced the challenges of the pandemic\, are they prepared for the new normal? 2nd part
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONSRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges. \nDescription\nAs a result of the COVID-19 pandemic last March\, universities worldwide faced the need to move all their classes to an online environment overnight\, in order to ensure continuation of their teaching and learning activities. Institutions that had already ventured onto the path of online education realised this transformation much more quickly than those who were less prepared. Others made the transition more modestly\, only beginning to take the first steps into online education. In a remarkable short time\, courses and exams across the globe moved online\, ensuring that universities did not close but rather adapted to the new situation and by doing so managed to save the remainder of the academic year.Having overcome the initial impact of the pandemic and having moved beyond immediate crisis management\, university leaders are now taking the time to reflect on the lessons learned\, to set new strategies for the future\, and to fully prepare their institutions for the new academic year. Although some continue to hope that students will soon return to classrooms\, others see the COVID-19 crisis as a catalyst for educational organisations to implement online teaching and learning systematically and to thus offer a better quality of education in this age of the new normal. What are the key leadership decisions that organisational leaders must make in creating their vision for the future? What short-term and long-term strategies are needed? How can leadership ensure a smooth transition to the online setting and create the necessary infrastructure for training teachers\, and implementing new teaching methods and redesigned curricula? How can universities manage their transition to online while improving the quality of teaching and learning? These are some of the questions we will be addressing in the first two webinars of the EDEN webinar initiative Education in time of a new normal (September 14 and 21).Aimed at policy makers and organisational leaders and management\, but also for all those working in education\, these webinars will provide practical insights and tips from well-known experts\, leaders\, and practitioners in the field of e-learning and online learning.Join the sessions and participate in discussions\, where you will get the ideas you need to turn your vision for the future into actionable steps. Get the answers you need for smoothly leading your organisation in transforming your curriculum to online and ensuring high quality teaching and learning.Questions that will be discussed in this webinar: \n\nHow are academics and professional staff experiencing the rapid transfer to working from home and moving to online teaching and research?\nWhat groups are disadvantaged by working from home?\nHow can universities reduce structural inequalities?\nAre universities more likely to transform\, or mitigate in response to emergency conditions?\nIs the recent Covid19 experience enough for universities to consider real transformation?\nIn order to strengthen resilience\, should a university rely on a strategy of diversifying and broadening its range of courses or specializing its study program and strengthening cooperation with other universities?\nWhat structural\, programmatic\, professional and technological balance should a faculty strive for in order to be able to react successfully to changes and compensate for serious disturbances in its development?\n\n\nModerator\nAntonio TeixeiraFormer EDEN presidentUniversidade Aberta\, Portugal \n \nAntónio Teixeira is an Associate Professor of open\, distance and network education at Universidade Aberta (UAb). He’s also a researcher at the University of Lisbon and collaborates with the University of Rome 3.He was the Pro-rector for innovation in Distance Learning at Universidade Aberta (2006-09) and President of EDEN – European Distance and E-learning Network (2013-16). As a Pro-rector at UAb\, António Teixeira conceived and managed the successful and speedy strategic transformation process of the university from a print-based distance learning institution to a fully online one. Throughout the years\, he has integrated several boards of directors and many expert committees and task forces in higher education institutions and organizations at national and international level. He’s currently an external expert for AQU Catalunya and ACPUA quality assurance agencies in Spain and the research and innovation national agency of Uruguay (ANII) among others.António Teixeira has participated in over thirty international research projects and authored over one hundred scientific articles and other publications. He is an EDEN Senior Fellow and a member of the Board of the Council of EDEN Fellows.Sources:Teixeira\, A.\, Bates\, T.\, & Mota\, J. (2019). What future(s) for distance education universities? Towards an open network-based approach. RIED. Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia\, 22 (1)\, pp. 107-126. doi: https://doi.org/10.5944/ried.22.1.22288\n \nPresenters\nMark NicholsExecutive Director at Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Dr Mark Nichols (PFHEA) is Executive Director of Learning Design & Development with Open Polytechnic\, Australasia’s largest dedicated provider of online distance education. He is a former Executive Committee member of EDEN and is currently on the ICDE EC. He hosts the podcast Leaders & Legends of Online Learning and recently published with Routledge.Recently published book Transforming Universities with Digital Distance Education by Routledge. \n\nProf. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christian-Andreas SchumannFaculty of Business and Economics of the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau\, GermanyProf. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christian-Andreas Schumann is Full Professor for Business Informatics at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau\, Germany.  From 2003 to 2009 Prof Schumann was Dean of the Faculty. Since 2019 he has also been the University’s Representative for International Relations.Throughout his career Prof. Schumann was Deputy Chief Coordinator at the Chinese German University of Applied Sciences (CDHAW) / Tongji University Shanghai as well as Scientific Vice Coordinator for Business Administration and Engineering for German University Network Cooperation with Tecnológico de Monterrey. Ha cooperated with UNESCOand the Arab Academy of Sciences in Beirut as a member of the Industrial Engineering Network of the German-Jordan University (GJU). Ha was Fellow and Member of the Board of the Fellows Council of EDEN\, Vice President of the Institute for Knowledge Management and Board Member of the Former German University Network for Distance Education. Kis publication list includes more than 300 professional publications. He also  managed more than 100 research projects. Main focus: Digital Transformation\, AR & VR\, Applied Artificial Intelligence\, Innovation Management\, Knowledge and Information Management\, Project Management\, Interoperability and Logistics\, PLM\, System and process optimization in healthcare\, Distance Education\, e- and mobile Learning\, \, Educational networks. \n  \n\nProf. Allison LittlejohnDirector Knowledge Lab\, University College London\, UK \n  \n Professor Allison Littlejohn is Director of the UCL Knowledge Lab\, a centre exploring the future of education with technology in the UCL institute of Education. Her research focuses on the role of professional learning in addressing global challenges\, making contributions to the understanding of how people learn for work across the Energy\, Finance\, Health\, Education and International Development sectors. Professor Littlejohn is leading a study examining the experiences of working from home for university staff and chairs a panel exploring the future of teaching with technology in the UCL Institute of Education.Profile: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=ALITT35UCL Knowledge Lab: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/centres/ucl-knowledge-lab Twitter: @allisonl
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-2-online-transformation-of-universities-having-faced-the-challenges-of-the-pandemic-are-they-prepared-for-the-new-normal-2nd-part/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:No. 1 – Online transformation of universities – having faced the challenges of the pandemic\, are they prepared for the new normal?
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS \nRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges. \nDescription\nAs a result of the COVID-19 pandemic last March\, universities worldwide faced the need to move all their classes to an online environment overnight\, in order to ensure continuation of their teaching and learning activities. Institutions that had already ventured onto the path of online education realised this transformation much more quickly than those who were less prepared. Others made the transition more modestly\, only beginning to take the first steps into online education. In a remarkable short time\, courses and exams across the globe moved online\, ensuring that universities did not close but rather adapted to the new situation and by doing so managed to save the remainder of the academic year.Having overcome the initial impact of the pandemic and having moved beyond immediate crisis management\, university leaders are now taking the time to reflect on the lessons learned\, to set new strategies for the future\, and to fully prepare their institutions for the new academic year. Although some continue to hope that students will soon return to classrooms\, others see the COVID-19 crisis as a catalyst for educational organisations to implement online teaching and learning systematically and to thus offer a better quality of education in this age of the new normal. What are the key leadership decisions that organisational leaders must make in creating their vision for the future? What short-term and long-term strategies are needed? How can leadership ensure a smooth transition to the online setting and create the necessary infrastructure for training teachers\, and implementing new teaching methods and redesigned curricula? How can universities manage their transition to online while improving the quality of teaching and learning? These are some of the questions we will be addressing in the first two webinars of the EDEN webinar initiative Education in time of a new normal (September 14 and 21).Aimed at policy makers and organisational leaders and management\, but also for all those working in education\, these webinars will provide practical insights and tips from well-known experts\, leaders\, and practitioners in the field of e-learning and online learning.Join the sessions and participate in discussions\, where you will get the ideas you need to turn your vision for the future into actionable steps. Get the answers you need for smoothly leading your organisation in transforming your curriculum to online and ensuring high quality teaching and learning.Questions that will be discussed in this webinar: \n\nOnline and distance education is like a student sitting on a three-legged stool. The three legs are: 1. Learning Materials; 2. Logistics and Administration; & 3. Student Support. If any of these legs is weak the student will fall (fail):\n\nHow do you provide good student support through online/distance methods?\nWhat are the keys to good logistics and administration?”\n\n\n\n\nHow can universities respond to the crisis caused by the pandemic and seize the opportunities for faster and meaningful digital transformation?\nWhat teaching and evaluation methods can we use successfully in both online and face to face environments?\n\n\nIn order for higher education institutions to be successful in their transition to online and distance education they should be able not only to adjust their methodologies and procedures\, but to transform their teaching and learning cultures.\n\n In this perspective\, what specific criteria should be meet in order to assure the quality of online/distance programmes and courses?\nhow should teachers be trained and supported in order to teach effectively in an online environment?\n\n\n\n  \n\nModerator\nSandra Kučina SoftićEDEN PresidentUniversity Computing Centre SRCE\, Croatia \n \nSandra Kučina Softić is the Assistant Director for Education and User Support at the Zagreb University Computing Centre (Croatia). She is also the Head of the E-learning Centre and the Head of the Office for E-learning at the University of Zagreb. Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering e-learning in Croatian higher education and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching. She was appointed Croatian representative in ET2020 Working group on Digital Skills and Technologies (2016-2018) and in ET2020 Working group on Digital Education: learning\, teaching and Assessment (2018-2020). In 2018 she was appointed member of European Education and Training Expert Panel.Her field of interest is strategic decision making related to e-learning and distance education\, quality assurance\, educational technologies and open education and open educational resources. She has been involved in a number of projects (national and international) related to these fields and she also actively presents at international conferences. She is also author of training courses for teachers and speaker on these topics.She has a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and PhD in Information and Communication Technologies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb.She has been a member of EDEN Executive Committee since 2013 and in 2014 she received the EDEN Fellow Title. In 2019 she became President of EDEN.\n \nPresenters\nSir John Danielformer EDEN presidentChancellor of the Acsenda School of Management\, CanadaSir John Daniel served for 17 years as a university president in Canada (Laurentian University) and the UK (Open University) before joining UNESCO as Assistant Director-General for Education in 2001 and moving back to Canada as President of the Commonwealth of Learning from 2004 to 2012. He has been involved in the development of open and distance learning for 40 years. Knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1994 for services to higher education\, he has received 32 honorary doctorates from universities in 17 countries. Best known as a scholar for his book Mega-Universities and Knowledge Media: Technology Strategies for Higher Education\, the most recent of his 330 publications include: Making Sense of MOOCs: Musings in Maze of Myth\, Paradox and Possibility and A Guide to Quality in Online Learning.Sources:Covid-19 – A Two-Week Transition from Campus to OnlineConducting a College through COVID-19: The Evolving Leadership Challenge \n\nAntonio Teixeiraformer EDEN presidentUniversidade Aberta\, Portugal \n  \n \nAntónio Teixeira is an Associate Professor of open\, distance and network education at Universidade Aberta (UAb). He’s also a researcher at the University of Lisbon and collaborates with the University of Rome 3.He was the Pro-rector for innovation in Distance Learning at Universidade Aberta (2006-09) and President of EDEN – European Distance and E-learning Network (2013-16). As a Pro-rector at UAb\, António Teixeira conceived and managed the successful and speedy strategic transformation process of the university from a print-based distance learning institution to a fully online one. Throughout the years\, he has integrated several boards of directors and many expert committees and task forces in higher education institutions and organizations at national and international level. He’s currently an external expert for AQU Catalunya and ACPUA quality assurance agencies in Spain and the research and innovation national agency of Uruguay (ANII) among others.António Teixeira has participated in over thirty international research projects and authored over one hundred scientific articles and other publications. He is an EDEN Senior Fellow and a member of the Board of the Council of EDEN Fellows.Sources:Teixeira\, A.\, Bates\, T.\, & Mota\, J. (2019). What future(s) for distance education universities? Towards an open network-based approach. RIED. Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia\, 22 (1)\, pp. 107-126. doi: https://doi.org/10.5944/ried.22.1.22288 \n  \n\n\nBlaženka DivjakFormer Minister of Science and Education\, Croatia \n \nProf. dr. Blaženka Divjak was the Croatian Minister for Science and Education (June 2017 – July 2020). She was leading four major reform processes since then: curricular reform of general education\, reform of vocational education and training\, enhancement of relevance of higher education and excellence of research. She was chairing EU Council of ministers for education and Council of ministers for research and space during Croatian presidency (January – June 2020). In that period\, she led the process of adopting several Council conclusions (future teachers\, future jobs\, brain circulation etc.) as well as coordinating the EU response to the COVID-19 crises in education and research.She holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Zagreb\, Faculty of Science and Mathematics and is a Full professor at the University of Zagreb\, Faculty of Organization and Informatics. She served as Vice-Rector for students and study programs at the University of Zagreb (2010-2014).She is the author of over 100 scientific and professional papers in the field of mathematics\, strategic planning in higher education and research\, mathematical education\, project management\, higher education reform\, curriculum development\, learning analytics\, e-learning and science communication.Sources: \n  \n\nEssays available at https://web.facebook.com/prof.dr.sc.BlazenkaDivjak in Croatian\nCouncil conclusions on countering the COVID-19 crisis in education and training 2020/C 212 I/03. Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52020XG0626(01)\nDivjak\, B.\, Maretić\, M. (2017). Learning Analytics for Peer-assessment: (Dis)advantages\, Reliability and Implementation. Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences. 41(1). Pp. 21-34. Available at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/183086 .
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-1-online-transformation-of-universities-having-faced-the-challenges-of-the-pandemic-are-they-prepared-for-the-new-normal/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:EDEN 2020 Annual Virtual Conference
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URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/eden-2020-annual-virtual-conference/
CATEGORIES:Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Accessibility and Inclusion in a Time of a Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDINGRegistered webinar participants will be awarded EDEN open badges. \nDescription\nHow do we handle situations where students do not have access to the Internet and/or technologies\, further expanding the digital divide? To address this issue different stakeholders’ effort is required. Government funding to provide digital technologies for people in need should be invested\, agreements with tech-companies\, libraries\, museums and off line volunteers to provide sources and necessary skills to access resources should be signed. Different projects at international level have been carried out in different settings to respond to such needs and find empirical solutions\, especially in the use of open educational resources and personalised and adaptable learning\, building scenarios for specific targets. \n  \nQuestions to be covered over the session\n\n\nWhat is educational poverty?\nWhat impact did the pandemic have on educational poverty?\nWhat kind of solutions are available to ensuring ongoing education for marginalised groups?\nWhat is the role of technology to face such an issue?\nDoes the combination of culture and technology help to find an effective solution?\n\nModerator\nAlastair CreelmanEDEN FellowE-learning specialist at Linnaeus University\, Kalmar\, Sweden.Blog: Corridor of uncertainty – reflections on technology and educationSpecialist in the field of online and distance education based in the section for higher education development. Monitors developments in the field and is active in several national and international projects in areas such as distance/online learning\, quality questions\, open educational resources (OER)\, MOOCs\, social media in education and virtual mobility (global classroom). \n\nPresenters\n\n \n\nAntonella PoceEDEN FellowAssociate Professor\, PhD\, Head of the Centre for Museum Studies\, Department of Education\, Università Roma Antonella Poce currently holds the post of Associate Professor (qualified as a full professor)\, in Experimental Pedagogy at the department of Education – University Roma TRE (IT)\, where she chairs the Centre for Museum Education and the post graduate courses: annual Museum Education and biennial Advanced Studies in Museum Education. Her expertise concerns research education methodology and evaluation. In the last five years\, her interests have been focused on methods to develop and assess transverse skills and dispositions (critical thinking\, creativity\, collaboration and communication) in different kinds of users by combining formal\, no-formal and informal methods through the use of innovative digital technologies. Currently\, within her research group\, she has been working on Critical Thinking automatic assessment through the analysis of open-ended questions and essays. She coordinates national research units within European projects frameworks and she has been chairing international academic committees dealing with professional development and distance learning. She is author of different publications of national and international relevance on the topics of innovation\, assessment and use of technology in teaching and learning\, at different levels.Antonella Poce coordinates national units within European project frameworks and she chaired international academic committees dealing with professional development and distance learning. She is author of different publications of national and international relevance on the topics of innovation\, assessment and use of technology in teaching. \n\n\n\nPaul KimAssistant Dean & Chief Technology Officer\, Stanford University \nPaul Lim is Chief Technology Officer/Assistant Dean for Innovation\, 2001 at Stanford University / Graduate School of Education. He is Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Technology\, from University of Southern California\, Los Angeles. Among his most recent publications:  \n\nKim\, P. & Lee\, J. (2020). “Evolution of Online Learning Environments and the Emergence of Intelligent MOOCs.” In K.Zhanget al.(Eds.)\, MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges\, Successes\, and Opportunities. Routledge.\nKim\, P.& An\, J. Y. (2016). “New Evaluation Vector through the Stanford Mobile Inquiry-Based Learning Environment (SMILE) for Participatory Action Research.” Healthcare Informatics Research\, 22(3)\, 164-171.\nKim\, P.\, Alfaro\, K.\, & Miller\, L. A. (2015). “Ecosystemic Innovation for Indigenous People in Latin America.” Indigenous People and Mobile Technologies\, 31\, 59. \nKim\, P.\, & Chung\, C. (2015). “Creating a Temporary Spontaneous Mini-Ecosystem Through a MOOC.” MOOCs and Open Education Around the World\, 157.\n\n  \n#EDENChat\nThe webinar will be followed by #EDENChat.Please join us  on Twitter using the hashtag #EDENChat!#EDENChat is an online discussion event on Twitter initiated by Steering Committee of the EDEN Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP). It is mediated by members of the NAP community and runs for approximately 1 hour. Anyone can join in and contribute to the discussion which is presented in a Question and Answer format and focuses on current issues in distance\, open and e-learning. All sessions start at 18:00 CEST.Previous #EDENChats are listed on the EDEN website according to topics. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/accessibility-and-inclusion-in-a-time-of-a-pandemic/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:MicroHE Expert Panel Workshop
DESCRIPTION: WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONSThe event will take place in EDEN’s dedicated Adobe Connect room – Join us there! \nDescription\nNew trends emerged in higher education in the last few decades. The delivery methods rapidly changed: part of the courses are now provided in digital or blended form. This got a strong „push” in the time of Covid-19. The rapidly changing labor market also calls for shorter\, industry-specific courses. The degree courses are more and more modularized: smaller\, well defined „chunks” are delivered as SLP-s (electronic short learning programmes\, MOOCS\, etc). This trends should be reflected also in the form of recognition and credentialisation: there is a need to award short learning courses and other learning achievements with some form of credetials.The European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (ESG 2015) also call on Higher Education Institutions to enable flexible learning pathways\, use different modes of delivery and encourage a sense of autonomy in learners.Micro-credentials can do just that. Taking it simle\, a micro-credential is a subunit of a credential that can be stacked into a larger credential. As Anthony Camilleri formulated in the Masterclass on Micro-credentials in Bled (Slovenia) „For higher education institutions\, micro-credentials require an educational moonshot of our times.”The webinar will discusse the state-of-art of micro-credentials\, based on the results produced by the MicroHE project.The project assessed the adequacy of European recognition instruments for micro-credentials\, in particular ECTS\, the diploma supplement and qualification frameworks\, proposed a ’credit-supplement’ with detailed information about micro-credentials in a way compatible with ECTS\, and created a meta-data standard for verifyable micro-credentials. \nModerator\nFerenc Tátrai\, PhdSenior advisor of EDEN Graduated as chemical engineer at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (TUB) and got his MA degree in applied mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University. He made his postgraduate studies at the Ecole Politechnique Federal de Lausanne and got his PhD from the TUB. After his PhD he spent two years at the University of Brisbane (Australia) doing research and writing a textbook in computer simulation of chemical plants.  In 1996 he was appointed to director of the Phare Office of the Ministry of Education. In 1998 he became the CEO of the first information technology science park „Infopark” in Budapest. From 2000 he became the educational director of the Centre for Informatics of TUB. A year later he was asked to organise the work of the European Social Fund (ESF) National Implementing Agency. He was the director and the Authorizing Officer of the Phare programmes and later responsible for the ESF programmes mostly in the area of education and training. He has expertise in drafting\, implementing\, managing and monitoring EU funded projects and programmes. After eight years he went back to the TUB where he has been teaching for almost 40 years and retired as associate professor from the Department of Chemical Technology of the same university. Having published over 50 scientific papers\, he is co-author of 3 patents and several textbooks in chemical and environmental technology. Seven years ago he joined EDEN as Senior Advisor and takes part in the research work of EDEN in the area of distance and e-learning\, modularisation of higher education courses and credentialing of open and non-formal learning experiences. \nPresenter\nDénes ZarkaDirector at BME-MTI He has been working as head of development and adult education expert at the Centre for Learning Innovation and Adult Learning of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics since 1997. He worked as Project Manager at the Budapest Training Technology Centre in 1992-1997. His current work includes managing ODL projects\, planning and developing of distance education and e-learning courses and service systems related to the developed\, adapted learning materials (network of tutors\, specification of courses\, staff\, tutor training\, sale). He often gives methodological lectures and work shops on content development. Furthermore he is experienced with ODL and ICT research\, corporate relations and market research. \nPanelists\nDeborah ArnoldEDEN Senior FellowDirector of the AIDE-numérique department at the Centre for Information Systems and Digital Practice\, University of Burgundy\, France \n\nPaul BacsichEDEN FellowManaging Director of Matic Media Ltd\, visiting professor\, University of Derby\, UK \n  \n\nLisa Marie BlaschkeChair of the Board\, EDEN Fellows CouncilE-learning and Communications Consultant\, Program Director\, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg\, Germany \n  \n\nMark BrownEDEN Fellow\, EDEN EC memberProfessor and Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning\, DCU\n\nClaudio DondiEDEN Senior FellowIndependent Senior Expert in Education and Training \n  \n\nHelga DornerEDEN Fellow\, EDEN EC MemberLecturer at the Centre for Teaching and Learning\, Central European University\, Hungary \n  \n\nVlad MihaescuEDEN NAP SC MemberProfessor\, University Politehnica Timisoara\, Romania \n  \n\nGeorge UbachsDirector\, EADTU \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/microhe-expert-panel-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Other EDEN contributions,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:No. 11 - Developing 21st Century Skills Through Teaching Online: Opportunities and Challenges
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDINGRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges. \n\nIn these uncertain times due to the Coronavirus COVID-19\, many of us are struggling with the adjustment to working and teaching online. Where do you begin? How do you manage the process?To address these questions and many others\, EDEN is organising a series of practical webinars entitled “EDEN webinar series: Education in time of a pandemic #onlinetogether #covid19”. These webinars are featuring experts and experienced practitioners within the field of open\, distance\, and e-learning.The weekly\, one-hour sessions are held every Monday at 17:00 CEST\, from March through June\, 2020. \n  \nREAD MORE \n\nDescription\nDigital technologies are an integral part of our society today\, and the development of information and communication technologies is one of the biggest revolutions in the field of human communication and information management. Information and communication technologies affect all aspects of society\, as well as learning\, teaching and research\, offering the potential for innovation and for better and greater development of the skills needed for the labour market. In today’s education system\, we have students who were born in the 21st century and with unlimited access to information\, who use digital technologies on a daily basis\, and who no longer want to passively listen and memorize information served. They expect to leave the education system with the knowledge and skills that they need to be employable in the labour market\, to have the capability to be lifelong learners and to actively participate in and contribute to society. Faced with an overnight change in how education is delivered\, students and teachers have had to adapt to a new situation\, learning new technologies\, ways of teaching and learning\, time management\, communication\, and collaboration. In this session\, we will introduce you to the topic of future skills and engage you in a discussion on the skills needed to be active learners and participants in today’s society.In addition to providing examples of how teachers from a number of international educational contexts have developed online teaching methods to overcome the challenges of the current lockdown conditions\, our panelists will also provide insights into the following questions: \n\nWhat is meant by 21st century learning skills and how do these connect to the global issues facing the 21st Century?\nTo what extent are these 21st skills new or different from skills that have been required to live and work in early centuries (for example\, in the 20th century)?\nHow can we overcome the challenges of helping students develop 21st Century skills within the context of remote and ‘socially-distant teaching’?\n\n\nModerator\nSandra Kučina SoftićEDEN PresidentUniversity Computing Centre SRCE\, Croatia \n \nSandra Kučina Softić is the Assistant Director for Education and User Support at the Zagreb University Computing Centre (Croatia). She is also the Head of the E-learning Centre and the Head of the Office for E-learning at the University of Zagreb. Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering e-learning in Croatian higher education and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching. She was appointed Croatian representative in ET2020 Working group on Digital Skills and Technologies (2016-2018) and in ET2020 Working group on Digital Education: learning\, teaching and Assessment (2018-2020). In 2018 she was appointed member of European Education and Training Expert Panel.Her field of interest is strategic decision making related to e-learning and distance education\, quality assurance\, educational technologies and open education and open educational resources. She has been involved in a number of projects (national and international) related to these fields and she also actively presents at international conferences. She is also author of training courses for teachers and speaker on these topics.She has a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and PhD in Information and Communication Technologies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb.She has been a member of EDEN Executive Committee since 2013 and in 2014 she received the EDEN Fellow Title. In 2019 she became President of EDEN.\n \nPresenters\nPalitha EdirisinghaAssociate Professor of Education at the School of Education\, University of Leicester\, UK Dr Palitha Edirisingha is an Associate Professor of Education at the School of Education\, University of Leicester\, UK. Palitha’s research\, teaching and PhD supervision interests are on digital technologies and their application to teaching and learning\, within the UK and internationally. He also carries out on research concerning international education in distance learning contexts. He leads two distance learning programmes at the School: MA International Education and Post-Graduate Certificate in Learning Technologies\, and teaches on the MA International Education Campus-Based programme. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has published on topics related to podcasting\, mobile learning\, virtual worlds\, digital literacy and open and distance education in developing countries. He is a regular contributor to EDEN Research Workshops. He conducts learning technology workshops for academic staff\, and has been involved in developing Open Educational Resources (OERs) for the University of Leicester OER repository.  He is an editorial board member of the Journal Interactive Learning Environments and Journal of Studies and Research on Technological Education. \n\nUlf-Daniel EhlersEDEN EC Member\, EDEN FellowProf. Educational Management & LLL\, Vice-president EURASHE\, Former Vice-President Co-Operative State University Baden-Wurttemberg\, Germany \n  \n \nUlf is a learning innovation expert\, founder of mindful-leaders.net\, serial entrepreneur\, and Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Karlsruhe in 2011. From 2011-2017 he held the position of Vice President at the same university and has been responsible for Quality and Academic Affairs. He held positions as Associate Professor of University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)\, Professor for Technology Enhanced Learning of University Augsburg (Germany) and Associate Professor of the Graduate School for Management and Technology of the University of Maryland University College (USA). Ulf has delivered keynotes and been speaking to audiences in more than 45 countries. He is author of more than 10 books and 150 scholarly articles with over 3000 academic citations. Ulf is a trained coach\, facilitator and expert for mindful communication\, and holds degrees in English Language\, Social Sciences and Education Sciences from the University of Bielefeld\, where he finished his Ph.D. with honors in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning in 2003. He was awarded his habilitation in 2008 from the University of Duisburg-Essen. His writings on Quality in education are internationally awarded.\n \n \n\nJoining\nClick on the join link in the ‘Joining instructions’ email.The link opens in your standard browser and a dialogue box is shown. Make sure that “Zoom Meetings” is chosen and choose “Open link” at the bottom of the dialogue box.If you have the Zoom client installed the client is now opened and you will enter the meeting room.If you haven’t got the Zoom client you will be prompted to download the client. Click “Yes” and download the client. The client is needed to be able to participate in all the interactive activities in the webinar. \n\nClick on the symbols for microphone and camera down in the left corner in the meeting room to enable audio and video.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-11-developing-21st-century-skills-through-teaching-online-opportunities-and-challenges/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Education in time of a pandemic,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Designing Online Courses for Digital Skills and Competences for the Creative Industries – DigiCulture
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONRegistered webinar participants will be awarded EDEN open badges. \nDescription\n\nThe DigiCulture Erasmus+ project creates the Digital Skills for Creative Industries online courses available in the UniCampus Virtual Learning Hub aimed at low-skilled and at-risk adults\, the Digital Skills e-assessment tool and Open Badges for Digital Skills. Together they will provide important new opportunities for low-skilled adults to access knowledge\, gain new digital skills and intercultural competences and improve their chances of finding employment or performing better in their current employment.\nThe project addresses a gap in creative and cultural industries (CI) education where there is low emphasis on the use of new digital technologies\, entrepreneurship (project management) and both recent graduates and existing employees lack important skills. The speakers will introduce the 13 short online courses that are soon ready to be launched and discuss how they can be used during the current pandemic situation and in the future to improve relevant digital competences of adults.\nThe DigiCulture – ‘Improving the Digital Competences and Social Inclusion of Adults in Creative Industries’ Erasmus+ project partners are from universities\, adult training and cultural sector from Romania\, Italy\, Austria\, Denmark\, Lithuania\, UK and Ireland.\nhttp://www.digiculture.eu \nModerators\n\nDavid Evans\nJME Associates\n\n\n  \n\nVlad Mihaescu\nLecturer\, Politehnica University of Timisoara (RO)\n  \n\nAndrei Jecza\nJecza Gallery\n  \n\n\nPresenters\nDiana Andone\nDirector of eLearning Center\, Politehnica University of Timisoara (RO)\, EDEN Vice-president for Communication and Communities\, DigiCulture Project Coordinator\n\n \nDr.ing. Diana Andone is the Director of the eLearning Center of Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania\, responsible for planning and implementing eLearning and the online learning technologies thorough the university award winning Virtual Campus CVUPT. She is also associate professor at the Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania\, in the area of multimedia\, interactive and web technologies. She has an extensive research experience with intense publication (over 17 books\, 80 research papers\, 11 Best paper Awards) and more than 30 research and educational projects. She is passionate about the ubiquitous access to technologies and how they can be used to improve people’s life. She actively promotes the use of OERs\, MOOCs and the open education principles\, training for digital skills\, acting in international associations EDEN\, IEEE and actively supporting the local start-up movement\, women in tech and STEM education.\nhttps://elearning.upt.ro/ro/diana-andone/ \n\n\n\nAntonella Poce\nAssociate Professor\, University Roma TRE (IT)\, EDEN NAP Chair\n\n\n \nAntonella Poce currently holds the post of Associate Professor (qualified as a full professor)\, in Experimental Pedagogy at the department of Education – University Roma TRE (IT)\, where she chairs the Centre for Museum Education and the post graduate courses: annual Museum Education and biennial Advanced Studies in Museum Education. Her expertise concerns research education methodology and evaluation. In the last five years\, her interests have been focused on methods to develop and assess transverse skills and dispositions (critical thinking\, creativity\, collaboration and communication) in different kinds of users by combining formal\, no-formal and informal methods through the use of innovative digital technologies. Currently\, within her research group\, she has been working on Critical Thinking automatic assessment through the analysis of open-ended questions and essays. She coordinates national research units within European projects frameworks and she has been chairing international academic committees dealing with professional development and distance learning. She is author of different publications of national and international relevance on the topics of innovation\, assessment and use of technology in teaching and learning\, at different levels. \n\n\nMairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl\nSenior Research Fellow in the National Institute for Digital Learning\, Dublin (IE)\n\n \nDr Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl is a Senior Research Fellow in the National Institute for Digital Learning. In 2016 she was a Fulbright Tech Impact Scholar working with the University of Notre Dame in researching the design and development of a Massive Open Online Course. Formerly the Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with academic responsibility for forty-five academic programmes. Mairéad is a Senior Lecturer in information technology in the Irish-medium interdisciplinary School of Fiontar agus Scoil na Gaeilge and former board member of the North-South Language Body and the ICT sub-committee of the National Council\nfor Curriculum and Assessment in Ireland. She has served on numerous European and National Policy Groups in the area of ICT and Higher Education. Mairéad has gained considerable experience managing and leading internal and external policy and research projects and was appointed as a university fellow in 2008 for the implementation of the Academic Framework for Innovation within DCU. She is a member of Eurocall\, AISHE\, ESAI and SRHE. Mairéad’s research and teaching interests are concerned with the use of ICT for learning and she has presented regularly in this area: She was PI on the SpeakApps 2 project and a researcher on SpeakApps 1 project aimed at investigation oral language production and interaction. She is joint Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Technology in Higher Education. Mairéad is a mentor to two start-ups in the tech space\, she also consults with both national and international companies. \n\n\n\nChiara Zuanni\nAssistant professor\, University of Graz (AT)\n\n \nChiara Zuanni is a tenure-track assistant professor in Digital Humanities\, with a focus on museology\, at ZIM. Her research focuses on the construction and mediation of knowledge in museums\, on the impact of digital media and data on the heritage sector and its audiences. She has a degree in Classics and a MA in Archaeology from the University of Bologna\, and a PhD in Museology from the University of Manchester (2016). Her postdoctoral appointments included an AHRC Cultural Engagement Fellowship at the Institute of Cultural Capital (University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University\, 2016)\, working on the ‘Liverpool 2018’ project (evaluating the longitudinal impact of the European Capital of Culture award) and on an evaluation for the British Council. She has then been a research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2016-2017)\, working on the transnational research project ‘Universal Histories and Universal Museums’ (funded by the AHRC and LABEX)\, and a visiting lecturer in museology at the University of Bergamo (2018). She is currently also a member of the ‘Ancient Itineraries Institute’ (a project funded by the Getty Foundation\, led by King’s College London and Umeå University). \n\nHendrik Knoche\nAssociate professor\, Aalborg University (DK)\n \nHendrik Knoche holds an Associate Professor position at the University of Aalborg (Denmark) in the Department of Architecture\, Design and Media Technology. He has worked on interaction design and user experience both on desktop and mobile devices for more than ten years in industry and academia in various domains including games\, mobile social networking\, automated content adaptation\, and perceived video and aesthetic quality. His research interests include human-centered design\, mediated experiences\, and ICT for inclusion\, rehabilitation\, education\, and development along with methods for prototyping and evaluating applications. This includes understanding and modeling user experiences “in the wild”. To this end\, he is working on user adaptable interactions based on multi-modal usage models and user data including e.g. interaction and game metrics\, physiological data and eye-tracking.\n\n\n\n#EDENChat\nThe webinar will be followed by #EDENChat.\nPlease join us  on Twitter using the hashtag #EDENChat!\n#EDENChat is an online discussion event on Twitter initiated by Steering Committee of the EDEN Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP). It is mediated by members of the NAP community and runs for approximately 1 hour. Anyone can join in and contribute to the discussion which is presented in a Question and Answer format and focuses on current issues in distance\, open and e-learning. All sessions start at 18:00 CEST.\nPrevious #EDENChats are listed on the EDEN website according to topics. \n\n\n\n\nJoining\nClick on the join link in the ‘Joining instructions’ email.\nThe link opens in your standard browser and a dialogue box is shown. Make sure that “Zoom Meetings” is chosen and choose “Open link” at the bottom of the dialogue box.\n\nIf you have the Zoom client installed the client is now opened and you will enter the meeting room.\nIf you haven’t got the Zoom client you will be prompted to download the client. Click “Yes” and download the client. The client is needed to be able to participate in all the interactive activities in the webinar. \n\nClick on the symbols for microphone and camera down in the left corner in the meeting room to enable audio and video.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/designing-online-courses-for-digital-skills-and-competences-for-the-creative-industries-digiculture/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:No. 10 - How do we plan for education after the pandemic?
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDINGRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges. \n\nIn these uncertain times due to the Coronavirus COVID-19\, many of us are struggling with the adjustment to working and teaching online. Where do you begin? How do you manage the process?To address these questions and many others\, EDEN is organising a series of practical webinars entitled “EDEN webinar series: Education in time of a pandemic #onlinetogether #covid19”. These webinars are featuring experts and experienced practitioners within the field of open\, distance\, and e-learning.The weekly\, one-hour sessions are held every Monday at 17:00 CEST\, from March through June\, 2020. \n  \nREAD MORE \n\nDescription\nThe EDEN “#onlinetogether – Education in time of a pandemic”. webinars will be twinned on 2 June with the similar campaign of ICDE”#learningtogether” For this online event the topic: How to anticipate the global future educational landscape after the pandemic was choosen. UNESCO reported in May that about 75% of pupils and students cannot attend F2F classes. Fully online education on a global scale is unprecedented in history. Today we are talking about the “new normal” and “future normal”. What it is going to look alike?  In this panel\, distinguished speakers will reflect on and share their insights into the present situation in education.We will also try to provide answers to following questions: \n\nHow do you see this situation where all education has moved online? Can online and distance learning replace F2F learning? Some of the campus-based universities have already decided to start this autumn with online classes.\nHow can HEI’s and/or governments address issues of inclusivity\, when both students and staff throughout the world don’t have access to reliable internet or electricity?\nCritics have called online education to be “elitist\,” how are we able to combat that stereotype and truly make remote education affordable and accessible for all?\nWhat is the role of associations such as EDEN and ICDE in this process and how can they contribute to education\, especially in these times?\nWhat steps do institutions have to take to fully embrace the digital transformation and provide education accessible to students?\nIt is unlikely that we will be able to return to the situation we had before the pandemic\, so how do you foresee the future of education?\nSome teachers see online teaching as a temporary measure to be adopted until we return to the previous normal. Is this the case?\nAre public campus universities endangered by distance-teaching ones\, MOOCs and other online programmes?\nWhat about universities that did not previously use any form of e-learning system? What kind of challenges do they face?\nHow can F2F HEI teachers be provided with proper training in the digital skills they need for online teaching and learning?\nStudents and teachers value human contact\, how can this be guaranteed in virtual environments?\n\n\nModerator\nMark BrownEDEN TreasurerProfessor and Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University\, Chair of the ICDE World Conference on Online Learning (Dublin) \nMark is Ireland’s first Professor of Digital Learning and Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) at Dublin City University (DCU). He serves on the Executive Committee of the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN) and is also an EDEN Fellow. Mark is a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) and maintains his strong “down under” connections by serving on the Executive Committee of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA). Mark is currently an active member of the DigiHE project being led by the European Universities Association (EUA) with a goal of developing a self-evaluation tool for digitally enhanced teaching and learning. He also serves on the European Commission’s Expert Group which aims to develop a common European Framework for Micro-credentials. Professor Brown is also a member of the Steering Group (2019-2020) for the DigiEdHack which is a key feature of European Commission’s Digital Education Action Plan. In 2017\, the Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) recognised Mark as a world leader in Open and Distance Learning. In 2019\, Mark was Chair of the ICDE World Conference on Online Learning in Dublin. \n \nPresenters\nSandra Kučina SoftićEDEN PresidentUniversity Computing Centre SRCE\, Croatia Sandra Kučina Softić is the Assistant Director for Education and User Support at the Zagreb University Computing Centre (Croatia). She is also the Head of the E-learning Centre and the Head of the Office for E-learning at the University of Zagreb. Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering e-learning in Croatian higher education and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching. She was appointed Croatian representative in ET2020 Working group on Digital Skills and Technologies (2016-2018) and in ET2020 Working group on Digital Education: learning\, teaching and Assessment (2018-2020). In 2018 she was appointed member of European Education and Training Expert Panel.Her field of interest is strategic decision making related to e-learning and distance education\, quality assurance\, educational technologies and open education and open educational resources. She has been involved in a number of projects (national and international) related to these fields and she also actively presents at international conferences. She is also author of training courses for teachers and speaker on these topics.She has a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and PhD in Information and Communication Technologies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb.She has been a member of EDEN Executive Committee since 2013 and in 2014 she received the EDEN Fellow Title. In 2019 she became President of EDEN.  \n\nAntonio TeixeiraFormer EDEN PresidentUniversidade Aberta\, Portugal \n  \n António Teixeira is an Associate Professor of open\, distance and network education at Universidade Aberta (UAb)\, where he heads the Department of Education and Distance Learning. He’s also a researcher at the University of Lisbon and collaborates with the Laboratory for Distance Education and eLearning (LE@D) and the University of Rome 3.He was Pro-rector for innovation in Distance Learning at Universidade Aberta (2006-09) and President of EDEN – European Distance and E-learning Network (2013-16). As a Pro-rector at UAb\, António Teixeira conceived and managed the successful and speedy strategic transformation process of the university from a print-based distance learning institution to a fully online one. Throughout the years\, he has integrated several boards of directors and many expert committees and task forces in higher education institutions and organizations at national and international level. He’s currently an external expert for AQU Catalunya and ACPUA quality assurance agencies in Spain and the research and innovation national agency of Uruguay (ANII) among others.António Teixeira has participated in over thirty international research projects and authored close to one hundred scientific articles and other publications. He is an EDEN Senior Fellow and a member of the Board of the Council of EDEN Fellows. \n  \n\n\nNeil FassinaICDE President\, Athabasca UniversityCanada Dr. Neil Fassina is the president of Athabasca University\, Canada’s first and only fully digital university and a world leader in online education. Dr. Fassina was formerly the vice-president academic and provost at NAIT and dean of the JR Shaw School of Business. He holds a PhD in Management from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a BSc in psychology from the University of Calgary. He is a chartered professional in human resources (CPHR) and a chartered director through the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D).\n\nMpine MakoeInstitute for Open Distance Learning\, The University of South Africa (UNISA)\n Prof Mpine Makoe is the Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Education Practices/ Resources at the University of South Africa (UNISA). She is also a National Research Foundation (NRF) rated research professor in Open Distance eLearning (ODeL) and a director of African Council for Distance Education (ACDE). Mpine has published extensively in the area of educational technology focusing on mobile learning; staff development; quality and policy formulation in ODeL.  She has also done consultancy work for the Commonwealth of Learning facilitating the development of ODL policies in different universities in Africa.  She holds a PhD and MSc in Educational Technology from the Open University\, UK. She also has an MA in Journalism from the University of Michigan and BA in Communication and English (cum laude) from Hope College in Michigan as well as a diploma in journalism from Africa Literature Centre in Zambia. Mpine is also the ICDE OER Ambassador and Advocacy committee member\, the president of the Distance Education Association of Southern Africa (DEASA)\, an executive member of National Association of Distance Education Organisation (NADEOSA) and a member of the University Futures Network. She has received numerous awards for her work in developing capacity in ODeL. \n \n\nJoining\nClick on the join link in the ‘Joining instructions’ email.The link opens in your standard browser and a dialogue box is shown. Make sure that “Zoom Meetings” is chosen and choose “Open link” at the bottom of the dialogue box.If you have the Zoom client installed the client is now opened and you will enter the meeting room.If you haven’t got the Zoom client you will be prompted to download the client. Click “Yes” and download the client. The client is needed to be able to participate in all the interactive activities in the webinar. \n\nClick on the symbols for microphone and camera down in the left corner in the meeting room to enable audio and video.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-10-how-do-we-plan-for-education-after-the-pandemic/
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SUMMARY:No 8 - Practical Tips for Learning and Instructional Design
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDINGRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges. \n\nIn these uncertain times due to the Coronavirus COVID-19\, many of us are struggling with the adjustment to working and teaching online. Where do you begin? How do you manage the process?To address these questions and many others\, EDEN is organising a series of practical webinars entitled “EDEN webinar series: Education in time of a pandemic #onlinetogether #covid19”. These webinars are featuring experts and experienced practitioners within the field of open\, distance\, and e-learning.The weekly\, one-hour sessions are held every Monday at 17:00 CEST\, from March through June\, 2020. \n  \nREAD MORE \n\n Facing the overnight change that there are no more f2f lectures\, at least for some time\, a number of teachers have had to now think about how to organize their courses in online environment. For those already using digital technologies and running blended courses\, it was not such a demanding task\, but for those who teach predominantly in the classroom environment\, it have been quite a sudden an often overwhelming challenge. When now engaging in online learning\, a number of teachers are making first steps looking into how and where to start\, how online teaching should look like\, how to engage with students…others have had to adapt their blended way of working to the fully online mode. Online learning has brought new challenges to students\, too: although they use digital technologies in their everyday life\, online learning is new to them as well\, deprived from the physical presence of the classroom some of them feel isolated and unsecure and feel a lack support. In this webinar\, we will provide practical tips that can help teachers in designing\, structuring and delivering their online courses. We will do so by trying to give you answers to the following questions: \n  \n\nHow to transfer f2f courses to online environments?\nWhat are the necessary elements of an online course?\nIs there a difference between learning outcomes (LO) in f2f and online and how to assess LO in the online environment?\nHow to organize students’ activities to be in correlation with LO and ECTS points of the course?\nHow to make sure that an online course is not just a repository of learning materials?\nHow to ensure effective communication with students in the online environment? What should be the ratio between synchronous and asynchronous communication?\nWhat kind of audio and video resources can be used\, and how many of them to add to the course?\n\nModerator\nFabio NascimbeniHead of Learning Design\, Open University UK \nFabio Nascimbeni works as Assistant Professor on eLearning Innovation at the Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR)\, where holds the Telefonica Chair on Digital Society and Education. He is a Senior Fellow of the European Distance and eLearning Network (EDEN)\, a member of the Advisory Board of the Open Education Working of the Open Knowledge Foundation\, a fellow at the Centro de Estudos sobre Tecnologia e Sociedade of the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil and at the Nexa Centre of the Politecnico di Torino. He has been active in the field of learning innovation and ICT for learning since 1998\, by designing and coordinating more than 50 research and innovation projects and promoting European and international collaboration in different areas\, from school education to higher education\, to lifelong learning\, to ICT research. He has been working across Europe as well as in Latin America\, the Caribbean\, the South Mediterranean and South-East Asia. His main research interests are open education\, learning innovation\, digital literacy\, social and digital inclusion.\n \nPresenters\nJoyce SeitzingerLearning Design Director\, RMIT OnlineJoyce is an advocate for learning experience design at scale as a tool for driving digital transformation in education with experience in the Netherlands\, New Zealand and Australia. She has worked in corporate training as well as higher education. In 2014\, she found Academic Tribe\, a distributed network of education specialists who provide consultancy and services in learner experience design\, social learning\, gamification and open badges. Also\, she is currently working as the Learning Design Director at RMIT Online. ‘With more than 20 years experience in designing blended and online learning experiences\, I’ve been part of the online education industry as it has matured. I’ve seen what works\, I’ve seen what doesn’t work\, and I’ve seen the same mistakes made over and over again when learning design doesn’t happen in a multi-disciplinary team that combines subject matter expertise with digital pedagogy\, design and production expertise.’ \n\nGerald EvansHead of Learning Design\, Open University UK \n  \n Gerald is Head of Learning Design at The Open University UK\, having previously worked as a Learning Designer and Project Manager for multiple online courses at the OU. He has an MBA and has Senior Fellow accreditation with Advance HE in the UK (SFHEA). He has presented internationally on collaborative learning\, learning analytics and history of Learning Design at the OU. As a management and design practitioner in HE\, Gerald has wide-ranging experience and knowledge of how to design for student engagement and apply student engagement research to practice.\n\nGilly SalmonAcademic Director at Online Education Services (OES)www.gillysalmon.com \n  \nProfessor Gilly Salmon has been a learning innovator for more than 30 years and is one of the world’s leading thinkers in digital and blended learning. She researches and publishes widely on the themes of innovation and change in Higher Education and the exploitation of new technologies of all kinds in the service of learning. She is internationally renowned for her significant contributions to education futures\, including research\, innovation\, programme design\, teaching methods and the use of new technologies.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-8-practical-tips-for-learning-and-instructional-design/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Education in time of a pandemic,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Teaching Online Competences: Debate in a Post Confinement Scenario
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDINGRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges. \nDescription\nIn recent months teachers needed to perform their activities online without proper training. They had to perform their duties in an unknown scenario for most of them. This fact and the already existing need of a teacher online reference framework motivate the need to discuss a set of teaching online requirements. A proposal already discussed by the EDEN Executive Committee will be presented followed by experiences learned. The proposal is based on a CALOHEE publication “Guidelines and Reference Points for the Design and Delivery of Degree Programmes in Teacher Education” by Julia M. González Ferreras and Maria Yarosh. A set of competencies required to teach online for level 6 of the EQF will be presented in terms of descriptors. The debate of the webinar is expected to be useful to tune the future terms of reference and to learn from recent experiences of shifting to online mode. \n  \nYou will meet\nAlfredo SoeiroEDEN Executive Committee member\, Deputy Chair of the EDEN NAP Steering Committee\, EDEN Senior Fellow\,University of Porto\, PortugalDegrees in Civil Engineering (U. Porto\, 76) and (U. Florida-Ph.D.-89). Academic director and vice president of Civil Engineering (U. Porto\, 03/07). Pro-Rector of U. Porto (98/03). Founder of EUCEN (European University Continuing Education Network\, 92); RECLA (Network of CE in Latin American\, 96) and AUPEC (Association of the Portuguese Universities for CE\, 99). Vice president of EUCEN (92/98) and SEFI\, Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (02/04); president of IACEE\, International Association of Continuing Engineering Education (01/04); president of AUPEC (01/05); president of SEFI (03/05). Vice- chair of EMC of FEANI (14/18) and of Steering Committee of NAP of EDEN (14/…)\, Vice-president of ISHCCO (19/…) and member of Executive Board of EDEN (19/…). Member of EUCEN Council (13/16)\, secretary general of AECEF (17/…) and member of IACEE Council (95/…). Medal of 800th Anniversary of U. Sorbonne (98)\, International Hall of Fame of Adult and Continuing Education title (06)\, EDEN Fellow award (08)\, IACEE Fellow (14)\, Global Engineering Education Award by IEOM (16) and EDEN Senior Fellow (18). \n  \n\n\n\nFrancesca AmenduniEDEN NAP SC Member\,University Roma Tre\, Italyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/francescamenduni/Francesca Amenduni is a PhD Student in Education\, Culture and Communication at Roma TRE University (IT). She  has developed her expertise in the e-learning field both as practitioner and researcher at national and international level. She carried out research on blended learning and her current PhD project regards semi-automated assessment of Critical Thinking short essays and open-ended answers. Part of her research has been developed at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton (NJ\, USA) where she spent a term period as visiting student\, funded by the Italian Minister of Education and Research (MIUR) through the “Leonardo da Vinci” scholarship. She has been working as researcher in several European projects in the field related to MOOCs\, Open Education\, and Digital Skills. \n  \n\nUlf-Daniel EhlersEDEN EC Member\, EDEN FellowProf. Educational Management & LLL\, Vice-president EURASHE\, Former Vice-President Co-Operative State University Baden-Wurttemberg\, GermanyProf. Dr Ulf-Daniel Ehlers is full Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at Baden Wurttemberg-State University in Germany. He has been Vicepresident for Quality and Academic Affairs at the same university for the past six years. Before he has held positions as Associate Professor in the Duisburg-Essen\, Germany\, Professor for Technology Enhanced Learning in the University Augsburg\, and Associate Professor of the Graduate School for Management and Technology of the University of Maryland. Ulf is an educational scientist and holds degrees in English Language\, Social Sciences and Educational Sciences from the University of Bielefeld\, where he finished his Ph.D. with honors in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning in 2003\, and was awarded his habilitation in 2008 from the University of Duisburg-Essen.Ulf is an award winning entrepreneur and has founded and lead three companies nationally and internationally in the field of education and technology. He has created many international\, European and national projects and has been President of the Society for Media in Science and President of the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning\, as well as serving on advisory boards to several professional associations in the field.Ulf is an internationally recognized researcher and innovator in the area of Educational Technology. He has extensive experience in helping individuals achieving superior learning performances and has run lighthouse initiatives in the field of e-learning and knowledge management as well as e-business\, including knowledge-technology consulting for small and medium sized enterprises. Ulf has developed the Learners’ Quality Model for e-learning\, which is a basis for learner centred quality development in e-learning. He is working as advisor to governments and non-governmental organisations in the field of learning and development cooperation and is member of several advisory boards and editorial committees.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/teaching-online-competences-debate-in-a-post-confinement-scenario/
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SUMMARY:ODL Unplugged: A Question of Care
DESCRIPTION:The webinar will take place in EDEN’s dedicated Adobe Connect room – Join us there!WATCH THE RECORDINGRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges.Panel Format:  Conversational and informal \nDescription\n\nAs online and distance learning (ODL) instructors\, managers or members of support teams in the current pandemic\, we are challenged with a multitude of demands on our time and energy. A central responsibility right now is providing care and support for students and ensuring that they feel safe and secure in their new online learning environments\, or supporting teachers so that they are in a position to provide that care. Many of us must also care for our children and/or other family members during the lockdown\, in addition to carrying out teaching and other work activities from home. Most importantly\, though\, we need to find the time and space for self-care: focusing on ensuring that one stays strong and healthy in order to care for others. \nDuring this session\, our panel of experts will talk about the topic of care and self-care\, particularly within online and distance learning environments. Joining our panel of experts will be Deborah Arnold from AUNEGe in France\, Dr. Paul Prinsloo from the University of South Africa\, Eszter Salamon from Parents International in The Netherlands\, and Dr. Jane Brindley from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver\, Canada.   Moderating the session will be Dr. Don Olcott\, Jr.\, Global Higher Education Consultant from Romania. We look forward to seeing you at the webinar! \n  \n\nOpening Panelist Questions – All Panelists will Answer:\n\n1) What can we learn and transfer from existing experiences in remote working with and managing remote teams to online? What else is needed to ensure self-care and care for others?2) What insights can we draw from the research on e-leadership and e-management? What other fields can help us (psychology\, sociology etc)? \n\n\nModerator\nLisa Marie BlaschkeSenior Fellow and Chair of the Board of EDEN Council of FellowsProgramme Director\, Center of Lifelong Learning (C3L)\, Oldenburg\, GermanyDr. Lisa Marie Blaschke She is a former executive committee member of the European Distance Education and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and is a Senior EDEN Fellow and Chair of the Board of the EDEN Fellows Council. She is also a former adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland University College\, where she received the Stanley J. Drazek Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016. Lisa has a BS in Technical Communication\, and two master’s degrees (MDE\, MBA)\, and a PhD. Prior to academia\, Lisa worked for SAP for over a decade in Walldorf\, Germany\, leading and implementing enterprise-wide knowledge management and training processes and solutions. Lisa’s research interests are in the areas of self-determined learning (heutagogy)\, online collaborative learning\, pedagogical application of web 2.0 technology and social media\, and user interface design. \n\nYou will be joined by speakers:\n \nDeborah Arnold\nNational and International Projects Coordinator\, (Université numérique Economie Gestion)Digital University for Economics & Management (AUNEGe)\,  EDEN Senior Fellow and Council of Fellow Board member\n\n\nWhat would you like a post-pandemic world to look like?’ \n\nDeborah Arnold is National and International Projects Coordinator\, Digital University for Economic Management (AUNEGe)\, France Deborah has over 20 years’ experience in the field of transnational collaboration to support the transformation of learning and teaching through the use of digital technology and media. From 2010 to 2016 she served on the Executive Committee of EDEN (European Distance and E-learning Network) and held the position of Vice- President Communication (2015-2016). She is a Senior Fellow of EDEN and currently serves on the Board of the EDEN Fellows Council. Deborah has a Masters degree in media production\, journalism and communication from the University of Burgundy\, and is currently completing a PhD on the topic of digital education leadership in higher education at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). \n\n\n \nPaul PrinslooUniversity of South Africa (Unisa)\, ODL ResearchProfessor in Open and Distance Education\, College of Economic and Management Sciences.\n\n\nHow does one scale\, care? \n\nDr. Paul Prinsloo  is a Research Professor in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in the Department of Business Management\, in the College of Economic and Management Sciences\, University of South Africa (Unisa). In 2019\, the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa awarded Paul with a B3 rating confirming his considerable international reputation for the high quality and impact of his research outputs. He is also a Fellow of the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and serves on several editorial boards. His academic background includes fields as diverse as theology\, art history\, business management\, online learning\, and religious studies. Paul is an internationally recognised speaker\, scholar and researcher and has published numerous articles in the fields of teaching and learning\, student success in distance education contexts\, learning analytics\, and curriculum development. His current research focuses on the collection\, analysis and use of student data in learning analytics\, graduate supervision and digital identity. \n\n\n \nEszter SalamonDirector of Parents International\n\nGiven the multiple roles of parents as working adults\, educators\, and carers\, what have been and  are the impacts of the pandemic on their well-being?  Which of these will be kept and which discarded once restrictive measures have been lifted? \n\nEszter Salamon is the Director of Parents International.  She is based in The Netherlands.   Parents International supports  parenting on a global scale.   Eszter was originally  trained and practiced as a teacher\,  and later became an economist.   She soon complete her PhD in education leadership. She started dealing with rights of the child issues in 1989 and has specialized in students’ rights and parents’ rights\, with focus on education in the past 22 years. She has been involved in international education and social topics and project\, primarily focusing on parents – role\, engagement\, competences – for over a decade. \n  \n\n\n\nJane BrindleyUniversity of British Columbia\, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology\, and Special Education.\n\n \n\n\nHow do I balance care for my students with self-care? What kinds of institutional support for online teaching should I expect? \n\nDr. Jane Brindley is a clinical psychologist who has practised in a variety of settings\, and taught and supervised graduate students in clinical and counselling psychology\, most recently at the University of British Columbia (UBC).  She also has over 30 years of experience as a practitioner\, researcher and administrator in open\, distance\, and online learning where she specialized in the development and evaluation of learner support services. Her focus is on student resilience\, mentorship\, and social justice.  She has written and taught masters level online courses for UBC and University of Oldenburg\, and has worked as a researcher\, consultant and trainer in distance and online education in Canada and internationally. As well as being a faculty member\, Jane has held a variety of administrative positions in post-secondary settings\, including Director of the University of Windsor Centre for Psychological Services\, Director of Student Services at Athabasca University\, and Special Consultant to The Centre for Innovation in Learning at Contact North/Contact Nord.  Jane also has a long time involvement in the arts and is currently Vice-Chair of the British Columbia Arts Council\, She holds an M.A. in Counselling Psychology from UBC\, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Ottawa.  Publications include “Researching Tutoring and Learner Support” (an online research methods manual for practitioners)\, “Learning on the Information Highway: A Learner’s Guide to the Technologies” (co-author)\, and “Learner Support in Open\, Distance and Online Learning” (lead editor).\n\n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/odl-unplugged-a-question-of-care-2/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:No 7 - How to manage the onslaught of information and fake news? The 2019-nCoV ‘infodemic’
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nIn these uncertain times due to the Coronavirus COVID-19\, many of us are struggling with the adjustment to working and teaching online. Where do you begin? How do you manage the process?To address these questions and many others\, EDEN is organising a series of practical webinars entitled “EDEN webinar series: Education in time of a pandemic #onlinetogether #covid19”. These webinars are featuring experts and experienced practitioners within the field of open\, distance\, and e-learning.The weekly\, one-hour sessions are held every Monday at 17:00 CEST\, from March through June\, 2020.READ MORE \n  \n\n  \n  \nDescription\nWhat happens when the communication of the 2019-nCoV pandemic generates a new wave of “information-overload”? How can you help your students manage it? How can you manage it yourself?The term infodemic has been coined to outline the perils of misinformation phenomena during the management of virus outbreaks\, since it could even speed up the epidemic process by influencing and fragmenting social response (World Health Organization\, 2019; Cinelli et.\, al 2020).How has been infodemic studied so far? How can we assess learners’ digital literacy and critical thinking abilities in collaborative virtual environment (CVEs)? Starting from these questions\, the present webinar will be structured in three parts: \n\nThe concept of infodemic will be presented to see how it is possible to monitor the spreading of misleading unreliable information\, by combining Big Data and Natural Language Processing techniques (Cinelli et al.\, 2020)\nThe potential role of Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy as “antibody” for the infodemic will be discussed (Katz\, 2007)\nFinally\, a Survey session will be carried out. Data collected will be employed to develop new evidences for the automatic assessment of online learners’ Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy (Poce et al.\, 2019).\n\nQuestions to be covered over the session\n\nWhich kind of resources we can suggest to our students to manage the current infodemic?\nHow can we protect ourselves from misleading information during an infodemic?\nHow can we support the development of Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy in students?\nHow can we assess students’ Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy?\nHow can e-learning strategies be used to develop and assess students Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy?\n\nReferences\n\nCinelli\, M.\, Quattrociocchi\, W.\, Galeazzi\, A.\, Valensise\, C. M.\, Brugnoli\, E.\, Schmidt\, A. L.\, … & Scala\, A. (2020). The covid-19 social media infodemic. arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.05004.\nKatz\, I. R. (2007). Testing information literacy in digital environments: ETS’s iSkills assessment. Information technology and Libraries\, 26(3)\, 3-12\nPoce\, A.\, Amenduni\, F.\, De Medio\, C.\, & Re\, M. R. (2019). Road to Critical Thinking automatic assessment: a pilot study. Form@ re-Open Journal per la formazione in rete\, 19(3)\, 60-72.\nWorld Health Organization (2019) Novel Coronavirus(2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 13. Retrieved from: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200202-sitrep-13-ncov-v3.pdf?sfvrsn=195f4010_6\n\n  \nModerator\nAntonella PoceEDEN FellowAssociate Professor\, PhD\, Head of the Centre for Museum Studies\, Department of Education\, Università Roma \nAntonella Poce currently holds the post of Associate Professor (qualified as a full professor)\, in Experimental Pedagogy at the department of Education – University Roma TRE (IT)\, where she chairs the Centre for Museum Education and the post graduate courses: annual Museum Education and biennial Advanced Studies in Museum Education. Her expertise concerns research education methodology and evaluation. In the last five years\, her interests have been focused on methods to develop and assess transverse skills and dispositions (critical thinking\, creativity\, collaboration and communication) in different kinds of users by combining formal\, no-formal and informal methods through the use of innovative digital technologies. Currently\, within her research group\, she has been working on Critical Thinking automatic assessment through the analysis of open-ended questions and essays. She coordinates national research units within European projects frameworks and she has been chairing international academic committees dealing with professional development and distance learning. She is author of different publications of national and international relevance on the topics of innovation\, assessment and use of technology in teaching and learning\, at different levels.\nAntonella Poce coordinates national units within European project frameworks and she chaired international academic committees dealing with professional development and distance learning. She is author of different publications of national and international relevance on the topics of innovation\, assessment and use of technology in teaching.\n  \nPresenters\nIrvin KatzSenior Research Director at Educational Testing Service\, Princeton\, New Jersey\, USAhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/irvinkatz Irvin R. Katz is Senior Research Director of the Cognitive and Technology Sciences Center at Educational Testing Service. Throughout his almost 30-year career at ETS\, he has conducted research at the intersection of cognitive psychology\, psychometrics\, and technology. His research involves developing methods for applying cognitive theory to the design of assessments\, building cognitive models to guide interpretation of test takers’ performance\, and investigating the cognitive and psychometric implications of highly interactive digital performance assessments. In the 1990s\, he pioneered the use of cognitive labs at ETS\, employing this methodology in the investigation of traditional ETS tests as well as innovative item types and constructs (architecture licensing\, engineering design\, digital information literacy). This and other research are represented in more than 100 research reports and professional publications in the fields of educational measurement\, cognitive psychology\, and human-computer interaction. He is also a human-computer interaction practitioner with about 40 years of experience in designing\, building\, and evaluating software for research\, industry\, and government. The Cognitive and Technology Sciences Center that he directs comprises staff with a wide range of expertise who conduct research and development at the forefront of educational assessment\, serving the current and future needs of ETS programs and clients\, promoting quality and equity. Current research and development areas include simulation-\, game- scenario\, and conversation-based assessment; training of human raters; theoretically driven analyses of test taker process data; score reporting; and cognitive modeling.Dr. Katz received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to Educational Testing Service\, he has worked at the U.S. Bureaus of Labor Statistics and the Census and was Associate Professor of Psychology at George Mason University. \n\nFrancesca AmenduniPhD student at at Roma Tre University\, Rome\, Italy Francesca Amenduni is a PhD Student in Education\, Culture and Communication at Roma TRE University (IT). She  has developed her expertise in the e-learning field both as practitioner and researcher at national and international level. She carried out research on blended learning and her current PhD project regards semi-automated assessment of Critical Thinking short essays and open-ended answers. Part of her research has been developed at ETS Princeton (USA) where she spent a term period as visiting student\, funded by the Italian Minister of Education and Research (MIUR) through the “Leonardo da Vinci” scholarship. She has been working as researcher in several European projects in the field. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-7-how-to-manage-the-onslaught-of-information-and-fake-news-the-2019-ncov-infodemic/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Education in time of a pandemic,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:No 6 - Face-to-face at a distance: Building a learning community online
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATION \n\nIn these uncertain times due to the Coronavirus COVID-19\, many of us are struggling with the adjustment to working and teaching online. Where do you begin? How do you manage the process?\nTo address these questions and many others\, EDEN is organising a series of practical webinars entitled “EDEN webinar series: Education in time of a pandemic #onlinetogether #covid19”. These webinars are featuring experts and experienced practitioners within the field of open\, distance\, and e-learning.\nThe weekly\, one-hour sessions are held every Monday at 17:00 CEST\, from March through June\, 2020.\nREAD MORE \n\n  \nDescription\nWe are living in an extraordinary period of our history in which a global crisis has compelled educators everywhere to reappraise their roles\, professional practices and beliefs. The ‘online pivot’ is one significant marker in this pandemic event. In this presentation I will revisit some of the established theories and practices that have shaped distance and technology supported education\, and discuss some of the ways educators can rapidly adapt to the ‘new normal’ of remote education. I will also explore how Marxist philosophy and progressive theories might inform us in our quest to build the online learning communities that can make online and distance education more effective. [bookline] \nModerator\nLisa Marie Blaschke\nSenior Fellow and Chair of the Board of EDEN Council of Fellows\nProgramme Director\, Center of Lifelong Learning (C3L)\, Oldenburg\, Germany\nDr. Lisa Marie Blaschke She is a former executive committee member of the European Distance Education and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and is a Senior EDEN Fellow and Chair of the Board of the EDEN Fellows Council. She is also a former adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland University College\, where she received the Stanley J. Drazek Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016. Lisa has a BS in Technical Communication\, and two master’s degrees (MDE\, MBA)\, and a PhD. Prior to academia\, Lisa worked for SAP for over a decade in Walldorf\, Germany\, leading and implementing enterprise-wide knowledge management and training processes and solutions. Lisa’s research interests are in the areas of self-determined learning (heutagogy)\, online collaborative learning\, pedagogical application of web 2.0 technology and social media\, and user interface design.[bookline] \nPresenter\nSteve Wheeler\nAuthor\, keynote speaker\, broadcaster\, open educator\, learning technologist\, psychologist\, researcher\, edupunk\, FRSA\nsteve-wheeler.net\nSteve Wheeler is a Learning Innovations Consultant and former Associate Professor of Learning Technologies at the Plymouth Institute of Education where he chaired the Learning Futures group and led the Computing and Science education teams. He continues to research into technology supported learning and distance education\, with particular emphasis on the pedagogy underlying the use of social media and Web 2.0 technologies\, and also has research interests in mobile learning and cybercultures. He has given keynotes to audiences in more than 35 countries and is author of over 150 scholarly articles\, with almost 8000 academic citations. An active and prolific edublogger\, his blog Learning with ‘e’s is a regular online commentary on the social and cultural impact of disruptive technologies\, and the application of digital media in education\, learning and development. In the last few years it has attracted in excess of 8.5 million unique visitors.\n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-6-face-to-face-at-a-distance-building-a-learning-community-online/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Education in time of a pandemic,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Student Evaluation During and After COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:22 April 2020\, 15:30 CEST in EDEN’s dedicated Adobe Connect room – Join us there!Watch the recording View the presentations \nDescription\nAs #COVID19 disrupts our teaching and learning for a longer period of time\, it helps us to plan ahead by considering creative and efficient online options to organise exams and assignments. This webinar will focus on three topics: using proctoring tools for online exams\, the benefits of transforming some of the closed book exams to open book exams and conducting group exams online. These approaches are useful options to ensure high quality assessments in online environments built on safe delivery and a sound pedagogical setup. \nModerator\n\nTimothy Read\nEDEN Vice-president\nUNED\n  \n\nPresenter\n\nInge de Waard\nSr Learning Strategist\, known for blending Instructional\, Learning Design – AI in Education at InnoEnergy\n ingedewaard\n @Ignatia
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/student-evaluation-during-and-after-covid-19/
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SUMMARY:No 5 - How to engage and support students online
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS \n\nIn these uncertain times due to the Coronavirus COVID-19\, many of us are struggling with the adjustment to working and teaching online. Where do you begin? How do you manage the process?To address these questions and many others\, EDEN is organising a series of practical webinars entitled “EDEN webinar series: Education in time of a pandemic #onlinetogether #covid19”. These webinars are featuring experts and experienced practitioners within the field of open\, distance\, and e-learning.The weekly\, one-hour sessions are held every Monday at 17:00 CEST\, from March through June\, 2020.  \nREAD MORE \n\n  \nDescription\nDue to the COVID-19 lockdown\, when educational institutions are not able to continue with their face-to-face classes\, student teaching and learning is being moved online. A key challenge that needs to be addressed during this period is how to effectively engage with these students and provide the support they need. In this webinar Alan Tait and Simon Paul Atkinson will provide some advice on how this might be achieved and be available to answer your questions on this topic.  \nModerator\nTimothy ReadEDEN Vice-president\, UNED     \n \nPresenters\nAlan TaitAlan Tait is an EDEN Senior Fellow. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Distance Education and Development at the Open University\, UK\, and Director of International Development and Teacher Education\, responsible for the strategic direction of major projects in sub-Saharan Africa\, Bangladesh\, and India. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the Open University from 2007-2012.  Alan is the founding editor of The Journal of Learning for Development\, produced from the Commonwealth of Learning (www.jl4d.org); senior member of St Edmunds College\, University of Cambridge; and Visiting Professor\, Aalborg University\, Denmark. \n\nSimon Paul Atkinson Dr Simon Paul Atkinson is the vHead of Learning Design at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). Simon has held academic leadership roles in New Zealand and the UK spanning the last 30 years. He has held positions at the Open University (UK)\, Massey University (NZ)\, University of Hull\, and London School of Economics among others.   \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-5-how-to-engage-and-support-students-online/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Education in time of a pandemic,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:No 4 -How to design and manage assessments for online learning
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATION \n\nIn these uncertain times due to the Coronavirus COVID-19\, many of us are struggling with the adjustment to working and teaching online. Where do you begin? How do you manage the process?\nTo address these questions and many others\, EDEN is organising a series of practical webinars entitled “EDEN webinar series: Education in time of a pandemic #onlinetogether #covid19”. These webinars are featuring experts and experienced practitioners within the field of open\, distance\, and e-learning.\nThe weekly\, one-hour sessions are held every Monday at 17:00 CEST\, from March through June\, 2020.\nREAD MORE \n\n  \nDescription\nOne of the more urgent questions facing educators today is: How do I manage assessment in online learning environments?\nIn the next webinar of EDEN’s Education in a Pandemic Series\, we’ll be tackling this question and others related to the topic of online assessment. For example\, how do we ensure academic integrity? How can we ensure that our students aren’t cheating? What measures can we put in place to ensure learning is happening and to assess it effectively? EDEN Fellows Alfredo Soeiro\, Lisa Marie Blaschke\, and Mark Brown will be available to answer your questions and to talk about their experiences and practices in assessing learning outcomes in e-learning\, while providing examples of online assessment\, for example\, use of the e-portfolio in developing and showcasing student competences and skills. [bookline] \nYou will meet\n Alfredo Soeiro\nEDEN Executive Committee member\, Deputy Chair of the EDEN NAP Steering Committee\, EDEN Senior Fellow\,\nUniversity of Porto\, Portugal\nDegrees in Civil Engineering (U. Porto\, 76) and (U. Florida-Ph.D.-89). Academic director and vice president of Civil Engineering (U. Porto\, 03/07). Pro-Rector of U. Porto (98/03). Founder of EUCEN (European University Continuing Education Network\, 92); RECLA (Network of CE in Latin American\, 96) and AUPEC (Association of the Portuguese Universities for CE\, 99). Vice president of EUCEN (92/98) and SEFI\, Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (02/04); president of IACEE\, International Association of Continuing Engineering Education (01/04); president of AUPEC (01/05); president of SEFI (03/05). Vice- chair of EMC of FEANI (14/18) and of Steering Committee of NAP of EDEN (14/…)\, Vice-president of ISHCCO (19/…) and member of Executive Board of EDEN (19/…). Member of EUCEN Council (13/16)\, secretary general of AECEF (17/…) and member of IACEE Council (95/…). Medal of 800th Anniversary of U. Sorbonne (98)\, International Hall of Fame of Adult and Continuing Education title (06)\, EDEN Fellow award (08)\, IACEE Fellow (14)\, Global Engineering Education Award by IEOM (16) and EDEN Senior Fellow (18). \n\nLisa Marie Blaschke\nSenior Fellow and Chair of the Board of EDEN Council of Fellows\nProgramme Director\, Center of Lifelong Learning (C3L)\, Oldenburg\, Germany\nDr. Lisa Marie Blaschke She is a former executive committee member of the European Distance Education and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and is a Senior EDEN Fellow and Chair of the Board of the EDEN Fellows Council. She is also a former adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland University College\, where she received the Stanley J. Drazek Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016. Lisa has a BS in Technical Communication\, and two master’s degrees (MDE\, MBA)\, and a PhD. Prior to academia\, Lisa worked for SAP for over a decade in Walldorf\, Germany\, leading and implementing enterprise-wide knowledge management and training processes and solutions. Lisa’s research interests are in the areas of self-determined learning (heutagogy)\, online collaborative learning\, pedagogical application of web 2.0 technology and social media\, and user interface design. \n\n Mark Brown\nEDEN Treasurer\nProfessor and Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University\nProfessor Brown is Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) based at Dublin City University (DCU). Before taking up this position and Ireland’s first Chair in Digital Learning in February of 2014\, he was previously Director of the National Centre for Teaching and Learning at Massey University in New Zealand. At Massey he was also Director of the Distance Education and Learning Futures Alliance (DELFA). Over the last decade he has played key leadership roles in the implementation of several major university-wide digital learning and teaching initiatives\, including the enterprise wide deployment of Moodle\, the original design and development of the Mahara e-portfolio system\, and the university-wide implementation of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform [Open2Study]. \n\nOrna Farrell\nAssistant Professor and Programme Chair of the Open Education at Dublin City University\n \nWorking within DCU’s National Institute for Digital Learning Orna’s research interests include online teaching and learning\, higher education transitions\, educational technology\, eportfolio based learning. Orna is principal investigator and project leader of the National Forum funded project #Openteach: professional development for open online educators. Orna is a founding member of Eportfolio Ireland\, a professional learning network for eportfolio practitioners and researcher.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-4-how-to-design-and-manage-assessments-for-online-learning/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Education in time of a pandemic,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:No 3 - An EDEN response to your most pressing questions and issues
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording \n\nIn these uncertain times due to the Coronavirus COVID-19\, many of us are struggling with the adjustment to working and teaching online. Where do you begin? How do you manage the process?To address these questions and many others\, EDEN is organising a series of practical webinars entitled “EDEN webinar series: Education in time of a pandemic #onlinetogether #covid19”. These webinars are featuring experts and experienced practitioners within the field of open\, distance\, and e-learning.The weekly\, one-hour sessions are held every Monday at 17:00 CEST\, from March through June\, 2020.READ MORE \n  \n\n  \n  \nDescription\nAfter two successful webinars within the Education in time of pandemic webinar series\, we’ve taken a step back to form a quick survey of the current educational landscape and the challenges we are all facing as educators during the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve brought together the numerous chat questions asked during the previous webinars and identified specific\, emerging themes\, such as instructional design\, accessibility\, online assessment\, teaching\, and student engagement and collaboration.Our next webinar in the series will focus on helping you find answers to questions surrounding these themes\, while drawing on the practical experience of an expert panel comprised of three EDEN Fellows — Don Olcott\, Jr.\, Antonella Poce\, and Lisa Marie Blaschke — and moderated by EDEN President\, Sandra Kucina. This special Q&A session will give you a unique opportunity to learn from the decades of online learning experience of these panelists\, as they address your most important questions and issues. \nModerator\n Sandra Kučina SoftićEDEN PresidentSRCESandra Kučina Softić is the Assistant Director for Education and User Support at the Zagreb University Computing Centre (Croatia). She is also the Head of the E-learning Centre and the Head of the Office for E-learning at the University of Zagreb. Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering e-learning in Croatian higher education and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching. She was appointed Croatian representative in ET2020 Working group on Digital Skills and Technologies (2016-2018) and in ET2020 Working group on Digital Education: learning\, teaching and Assessment (2018-2020). In 2018 she was appointed member of European Education and Training Expert Panel.Her field of interest is strategic decision making related to e-learning and distance education\, quality assurance\, educational technologies and open education and open educational resources. She has been involved in a number of projects (national and international) related to these fields and she also actively presents at international conferences. She is also author of training courses for teachers and speaker on these topics.She has a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and PhD in Information and Communication Technologies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb.She has been a member of EDEN Executive Committee since 2013 and in 2014 she received the EDEN Fellow Title. In 2019 she became President of EDEN. \nPresenter\nDon Olcott\, Jr.EDEN Senior Fellow & Vice Chair\, Council of Fellows; NAP Steering CommitteeFRSADr. Don Olcott\, Jr. is a Global Higher Education Consultant specialising in educational leadership and open and distance education.  He is based in Romania.  Don is adjunct full Professor of Educational Leadership and ODL with the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC)\, Honorary Professor\, University of South Africa (Unisa) and an adjunct instructor with Oldenburg University\, Germany in the MTEL Master’s program.  From 2014-2017\, he served as a visiting Professor and Co-Director of the uImagine Digital Innovation Laboratory and as Head of Virtual Campus at Charles Sturt University in Australia. Dr. Olcott was the 2013 recipient of the International Council of Distance Education (ICDE) Individual Prize of Excellence for his leadership and contributions to global open and distance educationDr. Olcott brings nearly 35 years of experience and leadership in open and distance education and business. He was a 2016 Stanley Draczek Outstanding Teaching Award recipient from the University of Maryland University College for excellence in online teaching and learning. Dr. Olcott is former Chief Executive of The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE) in the UK (2007-2011) and former Chairman of the Board of Directors and President of the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)..  Don holds dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship.  He serves on numerous editorial boards in open and distance learning.  Don was the 1998 recipient of the Charles Wedemeyer award as the Outstanding Distance Education Practitioner in North America awarded by The American Center for the Study of Distance Education and the University of Wisconsin – Madison.   He has held faculty and leadership positions in the U.S.\, UK\, Germany\, Australia\, United Arab Emirates\, and Romania.  His research interests include OER culture & business models\, leadership and organisational transformation. \n\nAntonella PoceEDEN Fellow\, EDEN NAP SC Chair Associate ProfessorUniversità degli Studi Roma Tre\, Roma\, ItalyAntonella Poce is Associate Professor\, qualified Full professor\, in Experimental Pedagogy at the Department of Education Roma TRE University (Italy). Her expertise concerns education research methodology and evaluation. In the last few years\, her interests have been focused on methods to develop and assess transverse skills and dispositions (critical thinking\, creativity\, collaboration and communication) in different kinds of users by combining formal\, non-formal and informal methods through the use of innovative digital technologies. Currently\, within her research group\, she has been working on Critical Thinking automatic assessment through the analysis of open-ended questions and essays. She chairs the Centre for Museum Education (Dept- of Education – Roma TRE University) and the post graduate courses: (annual) Museum Education and (biennial) Advanced Studies in Museum Education. She coordinates national research units within European projects frameworks and she has been chairing international academic committees dealing with distance learning (presently EDEN NAP – Network of Academics and Professionals Chair). She is author of different publications of national and international relevance on the topics of innovation\, assessment and use of technology in teaching and learning\, in the context of heritage fruition. \n  \n\nLisa Marie BlaschkeSenior Fellow and Chair of the Board of EDEN Council of FellowsProgramme Director\, Center of Lifelong Learning (C3L)\, Oldenburg\, GermanyDr. Lisa Marie Blaschke She is a former executive committee member of the European Distance Education and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and is a Senior EDEN Fellow and Chair of the Board of the EDEN Fellows Council. She is also a former adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland University College\, where she received the Stanley J. Drazek Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016. Lisa has a BS in Technical Communication\, and two master’s degrees (MDE\, MBA)\, and a PhD. Prior to academia\, Lisa worked for SAP for over a decade in Walldorf\, Germany\, leading and implementing enterprise-wide knowledge management and training processes and solutions. Lisa’s research interests are in the areas of self-determined learning (heutagogy)\, online collaborative learning\, pedagogical application of web 2.0 technology and social media\, and user interface design. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-3-an-eden-response-to-your-most-pressing-questions-and-issues/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Education in time of a pandemic,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:EDEN webinar series: Education in time of a pandemic #onlinetogether #covid19
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