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SUMMARY:AI and Understanding Learning
DESCRIPTION:Watch the Recording \nDescription\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) has become more relevant in the last years in the education and training landscape. AI may be characterized as started with machine learning (ML) as a path to humanlike intelligence. ML can treat an ocean of data with data mining techniques\, data analytics and other similar approaches. And forms of AI have been developed\, based on ML\, with algorithms for vision\, speech recognition\, reasoning\, navigation\, etc.. Most of these approaches have been used in education and training. The reasoning and decision making associated with AI are the main advances that can help understanding the effectiveness of teaching and of training. Assessment of learning is fundamental to improve teaching and training. Learning is a personal and individual action and AI\, as an outsider and independent procedure\, may help the assessment of acquisition of learning. The webinar addresses some experiences and projects that may bring some food for thought as possibilities for research. The topics to address are: \n\nTime to assess learning outcomes in e-learning: aligning assessment methods with the diverse set of learning outcomes project\, University of Porto\, Portugal.\nArtificial Intelligence and Assessment: In AI assessment\, a software system infers problem-specific rules for automated scoring from examples of instructor grading of student assignments\, Teaching Commons\, University of Stanford\, USA.\nKey messages on AI in Education\, Working Group on Learning\, Teaching and Assessment\, European Commission.\nChinese school using facial recognition to analyze students’ emotions: Techspot report on how identifying emotions from students with AI may improve learning. See more here\n\nYou will meet\nAlfredo Soeiro\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). He is secretary general of AECEF (17/…) and vice-president of ISHCCO. Has the awards of 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). He is member of EDEN Executive Board and Deputy Chair of the NAP Steering Committee\, he was member of ODL Liaison Committee (94-99)\, coordinator of e-learning activities of UPorto (99-03)\, author of first e-books of UPorto and of Faculty of Engineering (03-05)\, coordinator and partner of several EU projects in e-learning\, quality and assessment and author of several papers in e-learning and e-assessment. \nRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/ai-and-understanding-learning/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:On Skills for Industry Strategy – Promoting Online Training Opportunities for the Workforce in Europe
DESCRIPTION:    WATCH THE RECORDING     \nDescription \nThe initiative Promoting Online Training Opportunities for the Workforce in Europe prepared for the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (“EASME”) and the Directorate General for Internal Market\, Industry\, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (“DG GROW”) of the European Commission will be presented during this webinar. \nKristina Dervojeda\, PwC EU Services\, Project Manager and responsible for the report reveals the role of online training in implementing new approaches matching SMEs’ needs and realities in a digital world. The challenges SMEs face today related to the digital transformation of the economy\, new regulatory and market requirements demanding a significant shift in their environmental footprints to achieve the UN sustainability targets by 2030\, with significant expected impact on the skills of the workforce\, have to be addressed while also considering the budget constraints\, limited capacity\, fierce competition for talent and extreme time pressure SME deal with. \nThe key results of the initiative will be presented by Andre Richier\, EC EASME. The final report contains the results of the state-of-play analysis in the EU regarding the adoption of online training solutions by SMEs\, a description and in-depth analysis of the market\, of the policies and initiatives on online training for the workforce in specific EU Member States\, as well as the vision and recommendations for implementation. The vision includes specific measures\, roles and priorities at the EU and national levels for implementation towards 2030 and beyond. The report aims to support the orientation of the future actions in the field of online training\, upskilling and reskilling of the European workforce at the EU and national levels. \nEDEN was among others partner in the project. Professor\, Dr. Ebba Ossiannilsson served as expert and evaluator for the initiative and moderates the webinar. \nThe webinar is a contribution of the EDEN NAP (Network of Academics) and the EDEN Special Interest Group (SIG) on Technology Enabled Learning (TEL) and Quality Enhancement (QE). \nRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges. \n#EDENChat\nThe webinar will be followed by #EDENChat hosted by Ebba Ossiannilsson @EbbaOssian. Further discussion of the vision and EASME-PwC recommendations for implementation on Twitter at 18:00 CET\, after the webinar. \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.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/on-skills-for-industry-strategy-promoting-online-training-opportunities-for-the-workforce-in-europe/
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SUMMARY:UN UNESCO OER Recommendations\, the Way Forward for Member Countries
DESCRIPTION:      WATCH THE RECORDING     \nDescription\n195 UNESCO member states adopted the UNESCO Recommendation for Future International Collaboration in the field of Open Educational Resources (OER) in November 2019. This is a unique and important milestone that offers a great opportunity to promote open education worldwide.\nIn this webinar\, the five key points of the recommendations will be presented and reflected by experts. In addition\, the way forward will be worked out by the experts\, and there will be time for participants’ reflections and to raise questions. \nThe webinar is a contribution of the EDEN NAP (Network of Academics) and the EDEN Special Interest Group (SIG) on Technology Enabled Learning (TEL) and Quality Enhancement (QE). \nModerator\nProfessor\, Dr.\, Ebba Ossiannilsson\, ICDE EC\, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee\, Chair. EDEN EC\, EDEN SIG TEL QE\, EDEN NAP \nPanel members\nProfessor\, Dr.\, Ebba Ossiannilsson\, ICDE EC\, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee\, Chair. EDEN EC\, EDEN SIG TEL QE\, EDEN NAP\nProfessor\, Dr.\, Rory McGreal\, UNESCO/ICDE Chair in OER\, Co-Editor IRRODL\, Athabasca University\nJennryn Wetzler\, Creative Commons\, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee\nDr. Andreia Inamorato Dos Santos\, Joint Research Center (JRC)\nDr. Sandra Kucina Softic\, University of Zagreb University Computing Centre\, EDEN President \nRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges. \n#EDENChat\nThe webinar will be followed by #EDENChat hosted by Ebba Ossiannilsson @EbbaOssian. Besides the five key points of the recommendations\, the way forward at different levels (micro\, meso and macro level) will be discussed. See you on Twitter at 18:00 CET\, after the webinar. \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. \nYou will meet \nProf.\, Dr.\, Ebba Ossiannilsson is an independent researcher\, expert\, quality assessor and influencer in the fields of open online flexible\, distance learning\, including e-learning TEL\, OER and MOOCs. Her focus is on quality\, innovation\, leadership\, and personal\, learning. She is in EDEN EC\, Chair the EDEN SIG for TEL and quality enhancement\, EDEN Fellow\, and EDEN Council of Fellows. She is in the ICDE EC\, and Chair the ICDE Advocacy Committee\, for the worldwide advocacy of OER. Ossiannilsson is a quality expert and reviewer for ICDE\, and the EADTU\, and an evaluator and expert for the European Commission. She works with the Swedish Institute of Standards and ISO. She is a member of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition Sweden. Ossiannilsson is VP of the Swedish Association for Distance Education. Ossiannilsson hold her PhD from Oulu University\, Finland\, with a dissertation on benchmarking e-learning in higher education. She led the ICDE’s quality standard study in 2014-2015. She is in the editorial board of several scientific journals. \nProf.\, Dr.\, Rory McGreal is the UNESCO/International Council for Open and Distance Education Chair in Open Educational Resources (OER) at Athabasca University\, Canada. As such he is charged with promoting OER internationally particularly in developing nations in support of UNESCO Strategic Development Goal 4: Education for all. He is also co-Editor of IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) a leading open access educational technology journal. He is the founder of the OER Knowledge Cloud\, a repository of research articles on OER. He is also the recipient of several national and international awards for open and distance learning. \nJennryn Wetzler is the Assistant Director of Open Education at Creative Commons. Prior to CC\, Jennryn worked on open policy and open educational resources (OER) at the U.S. Department of State\, piloting OER use for public diplomacy and global partnerships. She’s also enjoyed gaining perspective of different education needs through international development work in Thailand and Niger. Jennryn has a Masters in ‘Ethics\, Peace\, and Global Affairs’ from American University’s School for International Service. She currently lives in Maryland with her husband Nick and son Ezra. Jennryn enjoys teaching yoga and feeding her more daring friends cooking experiments. \nDr. Andreia Inamorato Dos Santos is a researcher\, lecturer and international consultant into open education and educational technology. Currently she works at the European Commission\, Joint Research Centre (2013-present). Her role involves research and policy support on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Learning\, Skills and Open Education. Her work contributes to finding opportunities and challenges of ICT and open educational practices’ implementation at a policy level to innovate and modernize teaching\, learning and training practices. Her current focus is on the promotion and uptake of openness in higher education institutions and EU Member States. \nDr. Sandra Kucina Softic is EDEN president and Assistant Director for Education and User Support at the University of Zagreb University Computer Centre (SRCE). Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering the e-learning implementation in higher education institutions in Croatia and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching process. 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). She obtained a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh\, UK in 2014. From 2016 to 2019 she was EDEN vice-president for Open Professional Collaboration.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/un-unesco-oer-recommendations-the-way-forward-for-member-countries/
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SUMMARY:Open Education Week 2020
DESCRIPTION:Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide\, the free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone\, everywhere\, right now.We want to highlight how open education can help people meet their goals in education\, whether that’s to develop skills and knowledge for work\, supporting formal studies\, learning something new for personal interest\, or looking for additional teaching resources.\nIt is coordinated by The Open Education Global\, an association of hundreds of institutions and organizations around the world that are committed to the ideals of open education. Universities\, colleges\, schools and organizations from all over the world have come together to showcase what they’re doing to make education more open\, free\, and available to everyone.\nDuring the Open Education Week\, EDEN offered the following online events:\n[postlist count=-1 pt=”eden_conference” tax_name=”eden_conference_category” term_slugs=”oew-2020″ part=”conference” masonry=true] \n\nOER and Open Pedagogies – Best Practices\nMonday\, 2 March 2020\, 13:00 CET \nFormat: Presentations and panel discussion\nModerator: Sandra Kučina Softić\, EDEN President\, SRCE\nSpeakers: Gema Santos\, Airina Volungeviciene\, Fabio Nascimbeni\, Christothea Herodotou\, Annelies Calmeyn \nWATCH THE RECORDING View the Presentations MORE DETAILS \n\nOpen Education Recognition and Credentials\nTuesday\, 3 March 2020\, 12:00 CET \nFormat: Presentations and panel discussion\nModerator: Deborah Arnold\, AUNEGe\, EDEN Senior Fellow\nSpeakers: Deborah Arnold\, Anthony F. Camilleri\, Ildiko Mazar\, Chiara Carlino\, Piet Henderikx \nwatch the recording View the Presentations  MORE DETAILS \n\nOpen Education Technologies\nWednesday\, 4 March 2020\, 13:00 CET \nFormat: Presentations and panel discussion\nModerator: Diana Andone\, EDEN Vice-president\, PUT\nSpeakers: Martin Dougiamas\, Svein-Tore Griff With\, Alfredo Soeiro\, Carmen Holotescu\, Doug Belshaw \nWATCH THE RECORDING View the Presentations MORE DETAILS \n\nOpen Education for Civil Engagement and Democracy\nWednesday\, 4 March 2020\, 15:00 CET \nFormat: Presentations and panel discussion\nModerator: Timothy Read\, UNED\, EDEN Vice-president\nSpeakers: Alfredo Soeiro\, Diana Andone\, Javiera Atenas\, Beatriz Sedano \nWATCH THE RECORDING View the Presentations MORE DETAILS \n\nUnboxing the Textbook for an Open World\nThursday\, 5 March 2020\, 13:00 CET \nFormat: Presentation and panel discussion\nModerator: Eamon Costello\, DCU\nSpeakers: Eamon Costello\, Zoe Wake Hyde\, Aine Lynch\, Tom Farrelly\, James Brunton\, Samantha Trevaskis \nWATCH THE RECORDING View the Presentation MORE DETAILS \n\nMicrolearning and Quality for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age\nFriday\, 6 March 2020\, 13:00 CET \nFormat: Presentations and panel discussion\nModerator: Ebba Ossiannilsson\, EDEN EC\, EDEN Fellow\, ICDE EC\, SADE\nSpeakers: Badrul H. Khan\, Joseph Rene Corbeil\, Maria Elena Corbeil\, Ebba Ossiannilsson \nWATCH THE RECORDING View the Presentations MORE DETAILS \n\nFor more events during the Open Education Week\, visit the official website.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/open-education-week-4/
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Microlearning and Quality for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING View the Presentations\nPresentations & panel discussion \nDescription: \nWith the rise of technology\, combined with the explosive growth of social media over the last decade\, the concept of personalized mobile learning through bite-sized learning snippets has come to the fore. In addition\, in the context of major global challenges such as globalization\, digitalization and demographic change\, and learning for all\, there is an urgent need for a variety of learning opportunities and pathways for lifelong and life-wide learning. The concept of microlearning has been around since about 2000\, but what is it and how to make learning in bite-sized form successful\, attractive and effective\, as it to be just right for me and learning in education\, training\, achievement and talent development contexts. Micro-learning offers opportunities to incorporate\, integrate and personalize cost-effective and meaningful learning and training solutions for each individual in terms of personal\, environmental and organizational performance improvement. During this webinar with invited experts in this field there will be opportunities to learn more about the growing field of micro-learning / bite-sized learning snippets and quality for life-ong learning. \nModerator:  \nEbba Ossiannilsson\nEDEN 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\nEbba.Ossiannilsson@gmail.com \n\nPresenters: \nBadrul H. Khan\nhttp://badrulkhan.com\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/distancelearning\nBadrulKhan2003@yahoo.com \nDr. Badrul H. Khan is a world-renowned speaker\, author\, educator and consultant in the field of e-learning and educational technology. Professor Khan has the credit of first coining the phrase Web based instruction and popularizing the concept through his 1997 best-selling Web-Based Instructionbook which paved the way for the new field of e-learning. The book has been adopted by more than 350 colleges and universities worldwide. Recognized as the founder of modern e‑learning by 2014 NATO e‑Learning Forum. Known as the founder of modern e-learning\, Dr. Khan has been honored with many awards and worldwide acclamation throughout his career. In recognition of his unique contribution to the field of e-learning coupled with his services to worldwide e-learning communities\, Egyptian E-Learning University Council on August 13\, 2012 appointed Dr. Badrul Khan as an honorary distinguished professor of e-learning. Professor Khan is a United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) 2015 Hall of Fame Inductee. He is recognized as one of the Leaders in Open and Distance Education in North America. He is Founder of GyanBahan\, the Knowledge Carrier – a practical application of competency-based lifelong e-learning. He is considered as one of the most influential scholars in e‑learning field for his creation of “A Framework for E‑learning” (popularly known as “Khan’s E-learning Framework”) which is used by researchers and practitioners worldwide as one the most valid framework models to research\, design\, evaluate and implement online and blended‑learning. He is the host of KDW TV show on FOX 5 PLUS WDCA in the USA by Global Television Network. \n\n \nJoseph Rene Corbeil\nProfessor of Educational Technology\, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/renecorbeil/ \nHe has 37 years of teaching experience in public and higher education and has specialized in online education for the past 20+ years. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on best practices in e-learning. His co-edited The MOOC Case Book: Case Studies in MOOC Design\, Development and Implementation\, won 2nd place in the AECT Division of Distance Learning Book Award. He has earned several other awards in distance learning best practices\, including a 2019 Best Practice Award from the Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) – Division of Organizational Training and Performance for Integrating Competency-Based Micro-Credentials into Stackable Graduate Degrees. In 2017 and 2019 respectively\, his work in online education was recognized for an Effective Practice Award by the Online Learning Consortium for Integrating Competency-Based Micro-Credentials into Stackable Graduate Degrees\, and for\, Digital Badges: Motivating Learners to Excel While Adding Professional Value to their College Degrees. He is currently collaborating with Dr. Badrul H. Khan and Dr. Maria Elena Corbeil on a third edited book titled\, Microlearning in the Digital Age: The Design and Delivery of Learning in Snippets\, which is scheduled for release in early 2021. \n\n \nMaria Elena Corbeil\nEducational Technology Professor\, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mariaelenacorbeil/ \nShe currently teaches fully web-based undergraduate\, graduate\, and doctoral courses in Educational Technology. She also coordinates two fully online undergraduate educational technology minors. She focuses her expertise in online education on promoting teaching excellence and program quality through the mentoring and training of fully online full-time and part-time faculty. She has published numerous papers and book chapters on e-learning and innovations in educational technology. In 2011\, she was awarded the Ben Bauman Teaching Excellence Award by the International Association for Computer Information Systems (IACIS). Her co-edited book\, The MOOC Case Book: Case Studies in MOOC Design\, Development and Implementation\, was awarded 2nd place in the AECT Division of Distance Learning Book Award. Her most recent co-edited book\, Responsible Analytics and Data Mining in Education: Global Perspectives on Quality\, Support\, and Decision Making won two Outstanding Book Awards by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). She is currently collaborating with Dr. Badrul H. Khan and Dr. Joseph Rene Corbeil on a third edited book titled\, Microlearning in the Digital Age: The Design and Delivery of Learning in Snippets\, which is scheduled for release in early 2021. \n\nEbba Ossiannilsson\nEDEN 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\nEbba.Ossiannilsson@gmail.com \nProfessor Dr. Ebba Ossiannilsson is an independent researcher\, expert\, consultant\, quality assessor and influencer in the fields of open online flexible and distance learning. She is a member of the EDEN EC\, EDEN NAP\, EDEN Council of Fellows\, and Chair of the EDEN SIG for Technology-Based Learning and Quality Enhancement. Ossiannilsson is in the ICDE EC\, and an ambassador for the worldwide advocacy of OERs\, she is the Chair of the ICDE Advocacy Committee. She is a member of the ICDE Global Quality Network and of the Advisory Board for the Strategic Plan 2020-2022 ICDE. Ossiannilsson is a quality expert for ICDE\, and the EADTU. Ossiannilsson is Vice-President of the Swedish Association for Distance Learning (SADE)\, and member of the Job and Skills Coalition Sweden\, as well as working with the Standard Institute Sweden.\nLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebbaossiannilsson/\nResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ebba_Ossiannilsson\nFacebook https://www.facebook.com/ebba.ossiannilsson\nTwitter @EbbaOssian\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ebbaossiannilsson/\nhttps://i4quality.se
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/microlearning-and-quality-for-lifelong-learning-in-the-digital-age/
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Unboxing the Textbook for an Open World
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING View the Presentation \nPresentation & panel discussion\nDescription: \nThe textbook is an enduring staple of higher education\, occupying a key role in formal educational settings. Practices may vary greatly in educational settings as to how the costs of textbooks are borne by students. Moreover\, the role and nature of the textbook are changing rapidly in a digital world. Large\, often expensive\, paper books exist alongside digital versions which may include rich media and interactivity. The interactive elements of digital textbooks may also comprise assessments that can be summative or formative. Publishers may charge rental subscriptions for books which may be passed directly onto students increasing the costs of their education. Moreover\, these rentals are temporary. Students do not get to “Retain” access to the learning resource – the right to retain being one of the key five Rs of Open (Wiley\, 2014). How can we help unpack these issues and explore alternatives such as more open approaches? To help “unbox” the book\, this panel seeks to explore students’ use (and non-use) of textbooks for learning in higher education; what alternatives might exist; and to try and envisage textbooks and educational resources in a more open future. \nReferences: \nWiley\, D. (2014). The access compromise and the 5th R. Iterating toward openness. Retrieved 10 December 2019\, from  https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221 \nModerator: Eamon Costello\, DCU \nPresenters: \nEamon Costello\nHead of Open Education\, National Institute for Digital Learning\, Dublin City University \n  \n  \nDr Costello is currently acting head of the Open Education Unit in the National Institute for Digital Learning in Dublin City University\, Ireland. He has many years of experience in online and open distance learning as both a teacher and researcher. He has conducted research and published in the area of open education in many of its guises including on open digital textbooks. \n\nZoe Wake Hyde\nAssistant director and Product Manager at the Rebus Foundation \n  \n  \nZoe is Assistant director and Product Manager at the Rebus Foundation @rebusfdn. She is a graduate of the Master of Publishing program at Simon Fraser University. She has previously worked in media communications and academia in a range of roles. Her interests lie in the future of academic publishing\, innovative business models and technologies\, and Open publishing practices. \n\nAine Lynch\nAssistant Librarian\, Mary Immaculate College\, Ireland \n  \nÁine Lynch is an Assistant Librarian at Mary Immaculate College\, Limerick. She recently completed a Master of Arts in eLearning Design and Development at Cork Institute of Technology. Her studies have given her a strong interest in open textbooks in an Irish context and in a library context. Twitter: @ainenilionsigh \n\nTom Farrelly\nFaculty member\, Social Sciences\, Institute of Technology\, Tralee\, Ireland \n  \n\nJames Brunton\nProgramme Chair\, Psychology\, Dublin City University\, Ireland \n  \nDr Brunton is the Chair of the DCU Connected Psychology Major programme\, the first open education\, online\, undergraduate psychology programme accredited by the Psychological Society of Ireland. He is an experienced online and distance learning academic and researcher with research interests including the psychology of identity formation\, socialisation/orientation processes for ‘off-campus’ higher education students\, online learning design\, open pedagogy\, and digital assessment. \n\nSamantha Trevaskis \n  \n  \nUndergraduate student in Dublin City University studying a BA in Psychology online on Ireland’s first online psychology programme that has been accredited by the Psychological Society of Ireland. Sam has been studying online for several years and has a student’s insight into issues of textbook and learning materials accessibility and access.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/unboxing-the-textbook-for-an-open-world/
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Open Education Recognition and Credentials
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING View the Presentations \nPresentations & panel discussion\nDescription: \nFor flexible\, open and online education to become reality\, it is vital to increase trust in recognition and credentials through robust and reliable solutions. In Europe\, we already have standards and tools that can be used to transparently describe qualifications. The European Qualifications Framework gives an indication of the level of various qualifications; the European Diploma Supplement provides a standardised template to give additional information about a degree; the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) allows for individual learning units to be described in terms of knowledge\, skills\, responsibility and autonomy; the European Skill\, Competences\, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) database provides a standard terminology. However\, while theoretically these same tools could be used to describe virtual mobility and open education\, there is a long way to go until open education modules are treated the same way as their traditional counterparts. \nThis webinar will provide a deeper analysis of this challenge and introduce a few European initiatives\, such as the new Europass\, MicroHE\, ECCOE and more\, that aim to facilitate the recognition of open\, online and flexible higher education and increase trust in technology-enabled credentials among students\, higher education institutions (HEIs) and employers. \nModerator: Deborah Arnold\, AUNEGe\, EDEN Senior Fellow \nPresenters: \nDeborah Arnold\nNational and International Projects Coordinator\, AUNEGe\, France \n  \nFormerly Digital Strategy and Communication Officer in the Directorate for Digital Affairs at the University of Burgundy\, and Manager of the Learning Technology and Distance Education unit\, Deborah has nearly 20 years’ experience in European projects. From 2010 to 2016 Deborah served on the Executive Committee of EDEN (European Distance and E-learning Network) and held the position of Vice-President Communication (2015-2016). She was awarded Senior Fellowship of EDEN in 2016\, currently serves on the EDEN Fellows Council board\, and represented EDEN in the ET2020 Working Group on Digital Skills and Competences (2016-2018). \n\nAnthony F. Camilleri\nDirector at Knowledge Innovation Centre\, Malta \n  \nAnthony’s expertise is in Quality Assurance processes and knowledge transfer of research. Within Quality Assurance he has given training on techniques for peer-review to quality assurance agencies around Europe\, and contributed to the UNIQUe and ECBCheck guidelines on quality assurance of e-learning. With respect to knowledge transfer\, he has worked with several associations to better describe their research outcomes through their communication channels\, included through improved and more targeted web presence\, better social media handling and production of final publications\, including most recently OERTest and EQUNET. He has also developed a methodology for improving impact measurement of dissemination and exploitation activities within EU projects. Mr. Camilleri was previously engaged as Quality Services Manager for EFQUEL\, where he was responsible for coordination of projects linked to OER including OERTest and VMPass. \n\nIldiko Mazar\nResearch & Development Associate\, Knowledge Innovation Centre\, Malta \n  \nIldiko has worked in the field of open & distance education and e-learning since 1998\, accumulating particularly significant experience in the management of EU co-funded projects. She enjoys collaborating with project partners across borders\, cultures and various educational and training sectors and is passionate about making a contribution to the widespread practical application of technology in education and learning. In her former positions at EDEN (1998-2016) and ICWE (2017) Ildiko also took care of the planning\, implementation and assessment of dissemination and exploitation activities within EU projects and international conferences\, using traditional communication tools and social media. She was awarded the title of EDEN Fellow in 2019. \n\nChiara Carlino\nConsultant\, Cineca\, Italy \n  \nChiara is a consultant in the Cineca’s Business Unit dedicated to Universities. With a background in Philosophy\, Chiara works at the intersection between humans and technologies: from semantic web to digital communication\, from web analysis and monitoring to user interfaces\, from functional requirements to technological applications capable of changing social interactions – such as Open Badges and Blockchain. \n\nPiet Henderikx\nSenior Executive Advisor at EADTU \n  \nFormerly Secretary General\, currently Senior Executive Advisor of EADTU (European Association of Distance Teaching Universities) Piet has an ongoing experience in the changing pedagogical landscape in European higher education\, specifically online. Having a high amount of expertise in blended and open teaching and learning\, institutional and governmental policies\, empowering universities for new modes of teaching and learning as well as international policies\, Piet can give a thorough insight into flexible education\, collaborative courses and curricula\, quality assurance and accreditation online and distance education as well as online short learning programs (SLPs)\, strategies and business models for MOOCs and university-business knowledge alliances.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/open-education-recognition-and-credentials/
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Open Education for Civil Engagement and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING View the Presentations \nPresentations & panel discussion\nDescription: \nOpen education has a key role to play in potentiating social inclusion. As noted by the European Commission for education in general (but is particularly relevant for open education) it helps to establish common values key to such inclusion: human dignity\, freedom\, democracy\, equality\, the rule of law\, respect for human rights\, the rights of minorities. However\, as also noted\, it can be seen in most member states that there are challenges to such inclusion\, namely: populism\, xenophobia\, divisive nationalism\, discrimination\, misinformation\, and radicalization (that can lead to violent extremism). \nIn order to counter these problems\, the promotion of citizenship education has been pursued over a period of years. However\, the open educational content and practices necessary to teach the different paradigms of active citizenship are arguably still difficult to find. The need to respect cultural diversity is important in the educational process since there isn’t just one “model citizen”. We need\, therefore\, to teach and support students\, especially the younger generations\, to appreciate the importance of active citizenship and achieve their participative role in society as a whole. In this webinar different aspects and examples of the role of open educational resources and practices for citizenship education will be considered and how they can be potentiated in the future. \nModerator: Timothy Read\, UNED\, EDEN Vice-president \nPresenters: \nAlfredo 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\nDiana Andone\nEDEN Vice-president\, PUT\nhttps://elearning.upt.ro/diana-andone/ \nDr. 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 6\, notably ViCADiS (Virtual Campus for Digital Students)\, DigiCulture (Digital Skills for Creative Industries). She is also involved extensively in several professional organisations and associations (EDEN\, IEEE\, 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 (past president) and Rotary International. \n\nJaviera Atenas\nOpen Education Policy Lab\, Open Education Working Group and Research at University of Barcelona \n  \nJaviera Atenas holds a Ph.D. in Education and is the co-coordinator of the open education working group for open knowledge foundation and an associate researcher at the department of education at the university of Barcelona. She is also a senior fellow of the higher education academy (advance HE) and a policy advisor for several Open Education Initiatives. \n\nBeatriz Sedano\nResearch Associate at UNED \n  \nBeatriz Sedano has a Ph.D. in Education & Treatment of Languages through the ICT PhD program at UNED  on LMOOCs and open education. She has worked at UNED for 3 years in an Erasmus+ project called MOONLITE developing MOOCs for refugees and migrants to build their language competences and entrepreneurial skills for employment\, higher education\, and social inclusion. Currently she is working on two Erasmus + projects at UNED as well: NEXUS\, focused on digital civic education for migrant students; and ECCOE\, a project aimed at supporting the recognition of digital credentials for an open and more flexible higher education.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/open-education-for-civil-engagement-and-democracy/
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Open Education Technologies
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING View the Presentations \nPresentations & panel discussion\nDescription: \nThe world is changing towards a more inclusive and interconnected global marketplace\, where technology is playing an intensive role. Education actively responds to these changes by including more and more open education principles\, quite often using diverse technologies to achieve so. Those institutions that enhance their traditional teaching environments with best digital educational technologies will give their students\, in turn\, the best chances to succeed. Students who have access to digital learning environments at their educational institutions will have increased skills and knowledge to achieve and they will become Open lifelong learning students. 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. The first meeting was at the Open Edtech Conference in Barcelona\, November 21-22\, 2019\, where the Barcelona Blueprint was initiated. This webinar intends to discuss its guiding principles but also to present some recent developments in including technologies in innovative education. \nModerator:  \nDiana Andone\nEDEN Vice-president\, PUT\nhttps://elearning.upt.ro/diana-andone/ \nDr. 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 6\, notably ViCADiS (Virtual Campus for Digital Students)\, DigiCulture (Digital Skills for Creative Industries). She is also involved extensively in several professional organisations and associations (EDEN\, IEEE\, 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 (past president) and Rotary International. \nPresenters: \nMartin Dougiamas\nCEO\, Moodle\, Australia\nOpen Educational Technologies and the Barcelona Blueprint \nMartin 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. \n\nSvein-Tore Griff With\nFounder of H5P\, Norway\nRich\, interactive OER with H5P \nSvein-Tore Griff With (aká Falcon) is the founder of H5P and has been working with OER all his life. He has lead three open source authoring tool projects. Two of them with tens of thousands of installations and millions of users. \n\nAlfredo 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\nCarmen Holotescu\nProfessor\, Ioan Slavici University Timisoara\, Romania\nEuropean perspectives on Blockchain in Education \nCarmen Holotescu Professor PhD\, Dean at the Faculty of Engineering\, Director Center for Open Education and Blockchain\, “Ioan Slavici” University of Timisoara\,Romania with a PhD on new technologies and open education. She has participated in many European projects and has a rich experience in designing and implementing learning and collaborative platforms based on open pedagogies. She has written over 100 articles and chapters/books related to eLearning/Blended Learning\, Social Media\, Open Educational Resources (OER)\, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) and Blockchain\, mentioned in more than 1\,500 citations. She is an online certified instructor at the University of Maryland University College\, USA\, facilitating for 12 years online courses at this university. \n\nDoug Belshaw\nMoodleNet Product Manager\, Moodle\nMoodleNet for educators \nDoug leads the MoodleNet project\, the world’s first federated\, resource-centric social network for educators. He has experience in all sectors of education\, as a former school teacher and senior leader\, researcher/analyst in Higher Education\, and consultant to vocational education organisations. Doug is best-known for his work on digital literacies\, which was the topic of his doctoral thesis\, and for his evangelism of Open Badges\, especially while working for the Mozilla Foundation\, a global non-profit. More at https://dougbelshaw.com
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/open-education-technologies/
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:OER and Open Pedagogies - Best Practices
DESCRIPTION:Watch the Recording View the Presentations \nPresentations & panel discussion\nDescription: \nAim of this webinar is to show examples of good practice of use of Open Education Resources (OER) in teaching and learning. Open Education Resources and Open Education Movement are high on the agenda in EU but also worldwide\, yet teachers and educators are struggling when talking about OER\, how to use them or to make their own materials open. Another issue is how to integrate OER in teaching in the learning process. Open pedagogy is a set of teaching and learning practices only possible or practical when using OER. Open education practice encompasses teaching techniques and academic practices that draw on open technologies\, pedagogical approaches and open educational resources to facilitate collaborative and flexible learning. Join us and get ideas on how you can implement OER in your teaching and learning. \nModerator: Sandra Kučina Softić\, EDEN President\, SRCE \nPresenters: \nGema Santos\nOpen University of Catalonia (UOC)\nOpen learning at UOC Knowledge Action Plan \nGema holds a PhD in Information Science and Communication. She works as a research support librarian at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and also as an associate professor of Information Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona\, Spain) and\, previously\, at the University of Barcelona. She chairs the EMPOWER Knowledge Resources expert group within the EADTU university network\, and she coordinates the Open Educational Resources (OER) action\, organised by the Repositories Working Group\, within the REBIUN university network. She also takes part of the  SPARC Europe’s Network of Open Education Librarians. She has been involved in different research and development and innovation (R&D&i) projects about Open Access and Open Science\, from the Spanish Ministry of Science\, Innovation\, and Universities. She is a member of the Research\, Information\, Communication and Culture Research Centre (CCRIC).  Her doctoral thesis discussed the development and reuse of open educational resources (OER)  in higher education. Her research interests are OER\, Open Education\, Open Science\, repositories\, seeking and information retrieval and digital libraries. \n\nAirina Volungeviciene\nVytautas Magnus University\, EDEN Senior Fellow\nIntegration of OER into formal university studies. VMU teacher experience with Slidewiki \nAirina is Director of Innovative Studies Institute at Vytautas Magnus University\, Lithuania and former EDEN president. Assoc. prof. dr. Airina Volungevičienė has been working among leading researchers\, methodology specialists and education policy makers in the area of technology enhanced learning (TEL) development in Europe and Lithuania since 1997. Having established the national network for distance and e-learning in the country\, then Lithuanian Distance and e-Learning association (2010)\, she continued as a leader in research and project work to promote the development of TEL in Lithuania and Europe\, introducing many innovations in different education organizations from school\, VET\, adult learning and higher education sectors. \n\n \nFabio Nascimbeni\nUniversidad Internacional de la Rioja\, EDEN Fellow\nBuilding a competencies framework for open teaching: the OpenGame project \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\nChristothea Herodotou\nAssociate Professor\, Open University UK\nEvidence-based pedagogies for the future \nDr Christothea Herodotou is an Associate Professor at The Open University\, UK. She is interested in the evidence-based design and evaluation of technologies for learning (web-based platforms\, mobile applications\, digital games) through innovative research methodologies including learning analytics. She holds funding from the National Science Foundation\,Wellcome Trust\, and ESRC to improve the design of online citizen science platforms and make science learning more accessible and productive to young people. She also holds funding from eSTEeM (co-I) to improve the accuracy of predictive analytics of at risk students\, and co-leads the design of the nQuire platform\, a citizen science platform developed in partnership with the BBC. She coordinates the evaluation of the Early Alert Indicators project\, a university-wide initiative for assessing predictive learning analytics interventions and their impact on students’ performance and attainment. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). \n\nAnnelies Calmeyn\nEducational Technology Consultant\nKULeuven\, Educta \nAnnelies Calmeyn is a member of the KU Leuven MOOC-team. She has hands-on experience with all aspects of developing a MOOC\, and supports course teams in their MOOC-journey. KU Leuven is creating MOOCs since 2014\, in a multidisciplinary team consisting of Education\, IT & Multimedia experts. More information: https://www.kuleuven.be/mooc/index_en
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/oer-and-open-pedagogies-best-practices/
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Designing inclusive and engaging structures to facilitate creativity and learning
DESCRIPTION:watch the recording \nDescription\nThis talk explores three principles for inclusive innovation and describes three research and development projects through which these principles have been developed and applied. Rather than seeing the need to be accessible to all as a barrier to innovation\, innovation in educational projects can be at its most effective when the goals and processes are inclusive. \nThe projects described all aimed to create novel and inclusive systems through which people engage and learn. This is achieved through 1) Starting with the audiences who face challenges and then find opportunities to innovate for all; 2) Exploring simple\, novel ways to get people to be creative to open up new ways of thinking and participation; and 3) Considering accessibility from the beginning of the process\, to create results that are both innovative and inclusive. \nThe projects are: \n\nOut There and In Here\, which developed new forms of collaborative activities at a distance\, inspired by work to make fieldwork accessible to learners with physical disabilities;\nArtMaps\, which developed a platform for members of the public to create interpretations of the locational relevance of items in a museum collection; and\nOur Journey\, which provides a simple and engaging structure for learners to represent their study journeys.\n\nYou will meet\nTim Coughlan \nTim Coughlan is a Lecturer in the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University\, UK. His research crosses the areas of Education and Human-Computer Interaction and is particularly focused on the design and evaluation of systems that support inclusion\, creativity\, and openness in learning. \nCurrent and recent research projects include designing tools for the representation of challenges and achievements in study journeys (Our Journey)\, improving support in online and open education for disabled students (ADMINS\, Ed-ICT\, Open Learning and Accessibility)\, and teaching community-led design practices through online courses (Empowering Design Practices). \nProfile:  https://iet.open.ac.uk/people/tim.coughlan
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/designing-inclusive-and-engaging-structures-to-facilitate-creativity-and-learning/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Are Automatic Transcriptions Good Enough for Accessibility?
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording \nDescription\nIn this webinar Dr Tharindu Liyanagunawardena will talk about her research\, Automatic Transcription Software: Good Enough for Accessibility? A case study from built environment education\, which was awarded the Best Research Paper Award at the 28th EDEN annual conference\, Bruges\, Belgium 16-19 June 2019. \nThe increasing use of multimedia in learning resources in higher education poses a challenge for learners with hearing disabilities\, unless these are accompanied by transcripts or captions. Accessibility has gained centre stage in the UK recently with The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility Regulations 2018\, enforcement of EU directive on accessibility becoming the law. \nThis paper reports on a small study where six Automatic Transcription Software (ATS) were analysed for their accuracy. If you are interested in accessibility\, practical uses of available technologies and how they make a difference to students’ learning this will be a useful session for you. \nQuestions to consider\n\nHow effective are current ATS providers?\nCould transcripts have other benefits for students?\nAre we considering ‘accessibility’ broadly enough?\n\nYou will meet\nTharindu Liyanagunawardena \nLearning Technology Researcher and the Chair of the Online Learning Research Centre at the University College of Estate Management\, United Kingdom. Tharindu’s principal research interests lie in the area of social implications of information and communication technologies\, especially eLearning. \nTwitter: @Tharindu__ \nEmail: tharindu@ucem.ac.uk \nWendy Chowne \nSenior Lecturer & Undergraduate Programmes Director for The London Institute of Banking & Finance\, United Kingdom.  With a keen interest in the student experience and quality of teaching and learning Wendy is delighted to be able to consider the impact of Tharindu’s research in more depth.  She is a member of the EDEN NAP Steering committee. \nTwitter: @WendyChowne1 \nEmail: wchowne@libf.ac.uk \nAlastair Creelman \nE-learning specialist at Linnaeus University\, Kalmar\, Sweden. He is involved in several national and international projects and organisations in the field of e-learning\, including the MOONLITE project. He is an EDEN fellow and member of the EDEN NAP Steering Committee. \nTwitter: @alacre \nBlog: Corridor of uncertainty – reflections on technology and education
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/are-automatic-transcriptions-good-enough-for-accessibility/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Timisoara
DESCRIPTION:More information will be available soon
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/timisoara/
CATEGORIES:Phd Symposium
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SUMMARY:Dublin
DESCRIPTION:Doctoral Research SymposiumThe Doctoral Research Symposium was offered in partnership with Dublin City University (DCU) and the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN). It took place on Sunday 3rd November at DCU’s St Patrick’s Campus. The Symposium provided a unique opportunity for current and prospective doctoral students to share their research interests and engage with experienced researchers in the area. This was an interactive event designed to explore some of the major research themes\, problems and issues facing today’s educators in the digital-era. As part of the Doctoral Research Symposium participants had the opportunity to hear lessons from other doctoral candidates\, learn more about mentoring opportunities for doctoral students\, and meet several editors of leading publications in the field.\n\nTo Read or Not to Read?  \nWriting workshop \nFacilitator\nKaren Buckley TEU@NIDL – DCU\n\n3Cs of Publishing: Collaboration\, Contribution and Cohesion \nFacilitators\nDr. Dietmar Kennepohl – IRRODL\nProfessor. Rory McGreal – IRRODL\nProfessor. Airina Volungeviciene – ETHE\nProfessor. Inés Gil-Jaurena – Open Praxis\n\nBringing Method to your Madness Clinic\nFacilitators\nConchúr Mac Lochlainn The Ideas Lab@NIDL\nDr. James Brunton Open Education@NIDL\nProfessor Albert Sangra@EDEN\nDr. Sandra Kucina@EDEN\nDr. Antonella Poce@EDEN\n\nFinding the nugget and planting the seed – Present your Findings and cultivate your academic identity \nFacilitators\nDr. Orna Farrell OpenEd@NIDL: DCU\nProfessor Josep Duart – EDEN\nProfessor Airina Volungeviciene – EDEN
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/dublin-2/
CATEGORIES:Phd Symposium
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SUMMARY:Bruges
DESCRIPTION:A pre-conference event of the 2019 Annual Conference of the European Distance and E-Learning Network16 June 2019 – VIVES University of Applied Sciences\, Bruges\, Belgium\nPhD Symposium programme \nGiven the success of the EDEN 2018 Barcelona Research Workshop – PhD Student Symposium\, this tradition was continued on Sunday 16 June 2019 as part of the 28th EDEN Annual Conference hosted by VIVES University of Applied Sciences in Bruges\, Belgium 16–19 June 2019. \nThe Symposium was co-organized by VIVES\, KU Leuven and EDEN. The members of the PhD Symposium Committee are: \nChair: \n\nJosep M Duart\, EDEN Vice-president for research\, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya\, Spain\n\nCommittee Members: \n\nAirina Volungeviciene\, EDEN President\, Vytautas Magnus University\, Lithuania\nAlan Tait\, Professor Emeritus of Distance Education and Development\, The Open University\, UK\nWim Van Petegem\, K.U. Leuven\, Belgium\nSarah Guri-Rosenblit\, The Open University of Israel\, Israel\nAlbert Sangra\, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya\, Spain\nSylke Vandercruysse\, VIVES University\, Belgium\nIsabel Vanslembrouck\, VIVES University\, Belgium\nJan Elen\, K.U. Leuven\, Belgium\nTinne De Laet\, K.U. Leuven\, Belgium\n\nThe PhD Student Symposium aims at fostering the exchange of experiences and knowledge among doctoral students doing research in the broad area of the conference’s theme: “Connecting Through Educational Technology – To Produce Effective Learning Environments”\, while providing a discussion forum for the advancement of doctoral research. \nThe Student Symposium was supported by a panel of international scholars of education and supported by the community of EDEN Fellows. \nThe aims of the PhD Student Symposium are to: \n\nCreate a community for intellectual exchange and support among doctoral students researching in the area of e-learning and support for learning.\nProvide practical (peer)feedback on research topics\, specific problems or concerns about students’ research.\nCreate an opportunity to receive feedback on research topics\, problems and concerns from international experts in e-learning research and experienced supervisors.\n\n\nCall for Presentations\nCurrent doctoral students in the field of e-learning or educational technology are encouraged to submit short abstracts to present an overview of their research at the PhD Student Symposium. Proposals related to the conference theme topics are especially welcomed. We do encourage to reflect upon how your research may contribute to one of the conference theme topics. \nPhD students are currently engaged in doctoral research\, i.e. have had their research proposals approved but have not yet defended their thesis. Priority was be given to students who already have collected data. \nThe abstract should be in English and contain: \n\n a 300-350-word description of the state of their research (including research title\, research objectives/questions and methodology) and\n a problem they would like to address in the symposium.\n\nPhD students are invited to submit abstracts before 29 March 2019 using this form. The panel of international experts reviewed the abstracts and select students to participate. Notification on the results and PhD students invited to present was be sent by 19 April. Authors needed to prepare a short presentation (between 5-10 slides) for the symposium. \nThere is no fee for the PhD Symposium. PhD students who want to attend the Annual Conference have to pay the relevant registration fees. There is a reduced rate for young scholars. \nSymposium presenters received a certificate. \nThe language of the symposium is English. \nThe deadline submission date/time is March 29th midnight CEST. \nStructure of the PhD Symposium\nThe selected students gave a brief presentation (between 5-10 slides) which could include one or two questions for the expert panel and/or other students. The presentation is limited to maximum of 10 minutes. At the end of each presentation\, there was a group discussion\, approximately 15-20 minutes per presentation\, to comment\, discuss the questions raised and/or offer research advice. \nTarget Participants\nThe PhD Student Symposium is an open-invitation event for all PhD students and their supervisors working in the field of e-learning or educational technology. It is aimed at current doctoral students enrolled in any university\, both full-time and part-time. We encourage you to take this opportunity to network with fellow researchers\, discuss your research\, and receive feedback from international experts and your peers. \nDate and Place of the Symposium\nThe PhD Student Symposium took place on 16 June 2019 at the VIVES University of Applied Sciences in Bruges\, Belgium. \nImportant Dates\nOpen call for presentations: The call was open until the week after Easter \nNotification of acceptance: 19 April 2019 \nConfirmation by presenters: 30 April 2019 \nPublication of PhD Student Symposium programme: 15 May 2019 \nSubmission of participant presentations: 30 May 2019 \nPhD Student Symposium: 16 June 2019 \nContact Details\nIf you have any queries\, or for further information\, please visit the EDEN Annual Conference website or email bruges@eden-online.org. \nSymposium Agenda\n\n\n\n\nWELCOME AND OPENING\n\n\n10:00-10:30\nRegistration\n\n\n10:30 – 10:45\nPlenary SessionWelcome from EDEN President and EDEN PhD Symposium Committee Chair \nIntroduction of experts panels; explanation of themes\, symposium programme and rooms\n\n\n10:45-12:15\nThematic Parallel Sessions\n\n\n\n\nSESSION A\nSESSION B\n\n\n10:45-11:15\nA1 Student presentation\nand discussion\nB1 Student presentation\nand discussion\n\n\n11:15-11:45\nA2 Student presentation\nand discussion\nB2 Student presentation\nand discussion\n\n\n11:45-12:15\nA3 Student presentation\nand discussion\nB3 Student presentation\nand discussion\n\n\n12:15-13:15\nLunch\n\n\n13:15-15:15\nThematic parallel sessions\n\n\n13:15-13:45\nA4 Student presentation\nand discussion\nB4 Student presentation\nand discussion\n\n\n13:45-14:15\nA5 Student presentation\nand discussion\nB5 Student presentation\nand discussion\n\n\n14:15-14:45\nA6 Student presentation\nand discussion\nB6 Student presentation\nand discussion\n\n\n14:45-15:15\nA7 Student presentation\nand discussion\n\n\n\n15:15-16:00\nPlenary session: final remarks\, lessons learned and closure
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/bruges-2/
CATEGORIES:Phd Symposium
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SUMMARY:Barcelona
DESCRIPTION:PhD Symposium Programme\nA PhD Student Symposium took place on 24 October 2018 as part of the EDEN Research Workshop 2018 conference hosted by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona\, Catalonia\, Spain\, 24–26 October 2018. The PhD Student Symposium has been designed to foster the exchange of experiences and knowledge among doctoral students doing research in the area of the event’s theme\, “Personalized Guidance and Support for Learning” while providing a discussion forum for the advancement of doctoral research. The topics related to the EDEN Research Workshop theme are: \n\nPersonalized learning: accompanying learners while addressing distinct learning needs\, situations or preferences.\nTeachers’ and learners’ roles: rethinking teaching facilitation strategies using the potential of digital technologies.\nOpen education: making the most of openness to ensure student success.\nAdaptive teaching: enhancing teacher decisions through course analytics and course awareness methodologies.\nFormative assessment: assessment for learning and the implementation of complementary ipsative approaches.\nFeedback: reinforcing teacher-learner dialogue through different channels in networked environments.\n\nThe PhD Student Symposium was led by a panel of international experts on e-learning and members of the EDEN Executive Committee. \n \nThe aims of the PhD Student Symposium are to:\n\nCreate a community for intellectual exchange and support among e-learning doctoral students researching in the area of e-learning and support for learning.\nGive and receive practical feedback on research topics or specific problems or concerns about their research with their peers.\nReceive feedback on their research topics\, problems and concerns from international experts in e-learning research who are experienced supervisors.\n\nCall for presentations\nCurrent doctoral students in the field of e-learning or educational technology are encouraged to submit short abstracts to present an overview of their research at the PhD Student Symposium. Each proposal must be related to one of the research topics listed above. PhD students must currently be studying\, ie have had their research proposals approved but have not yet defended their theses. Preference was be given to students who have collected data to analyse. The abstract should be in English\, and contain a 300-350 word description of the state of their research and a problem they would like to address in the symposium. It should include the research title\, research objectives/questions and methodology. \nThere is no additional fee for the PhD Symposium. PhD students who want to attend the Research Workshop must pay the relevant registration fees. There is a reduced rate for young scholars. \nSymposium presenters received a certificate. \nThe language of the conference was English. \nStructure of the PhD Student Symposium\nThe students selected had to give a brief presentation (between 5-10 slides) face-to-face or via video-conference\, which can include one or two questions for the expert panel and/or other students. This presentation must be designed to last a maximum of 10 minutes. At the end of each presentation\, there was a group discussion\, approximately 15-20 minutes per presentation\, to answer the questions asked by each participant or offer research advice. \nIntended participants\nThe PhD Student Symposium is an open-invitation event for all PhD students and their supervisors working in the field of e-learning or educational technology. It is aimed at current doctoral students enrolled in any university\, both full-time and part-time. We encourage you to take this opportunity to network with fellow researchers\, discuss your research\, and receive feedback from international experts and your peers. \nYoung Scholars Grant\nThe Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Research in Open and Distance Learning will support FIVE young scholars or teams of young scholars with a grant of 600 Euros for successfully submitting a conference paper to be presented at the EDEN Research Workshop in Barcelona in October 2018. \nTwo weeks after the deadline for conference paper submissions the competitiors will receive a note from the Ulrich Bernath Foundation via EDEN Secretariat about the winners of the five grants. The grants will be handed out individually and in cash in Barcelona on Oct. 26th  or if wished by bank transfer after the Research Workshop. \nEligible for the Young Scholars grants are degree-programme and doctoral students\, who individually or in teams submit conference papers that are originated for the EDEN Research Workshop in Barcelona and which will be presented by young scholar(s). Team work with senior scholars are accepted\, however it must be declared that the major part of the paper has been authored by young scholar(s). \nYoung scholars\, who apply for the grant will take part in a competition\, and the best five papers will be awarded based on evaluation results that follow the standard evaluation criteria for EDEN’s Best Research Paper Award\, which are: The paper deals with a research question; rigorous examination/research methods are applied; findings\, results and outcomes are convincingly presented and critically examined; conclusions are thoroughly discussed (including aspects like applicability\, transferability\, and/or further research; literature is reviewed against the state of art.  \nUltimately winners of the young scholar(s)’ grants may also become winners of the EDEN Best Research Paper Award. \nDate and place of the symposium\nThe PhD Student Symposium will take place on 24 October 2018 at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona\, Catalonia\, Spain. The seminar will be streamed live for online participants. \nImportant dates\nOpen call for presentations: April 2018 – 12 September 2018 \nNotification of acceptance: 25 July 2018 – 25 September 2018 \nConfirmation by presenters: 30 July 2018 \nPublication of PhD Student Symposium programme: September 2018 \nSubmission of participant presentations: 13 September 2018 \nPhD Student Symposium: 24 October 2018 \nContact details \nIf you have any queries\, or for further information\, please visit the EDEN Research Workshop website or email barcelona@eden-online.org. \nSymposium Agenda\n\n\n\n5 minutes\nINTRODUCTION\nWelcome by moderator and introduction of experts\n\n\n1 h 30 min\nSESSION 1:Presentations and discussion\nStudent presentation and discussion 1 (30 m)Student presentation and discussion 2 (30 m) \nStudent presentation and discussion 3 (30 m)\n\n\n20\nSHORT BREAK\n\n\n1h\nSESSION 2:Presentations and discussion\nStudent presentation and discussion 5 (30 m)Student presentation and discussion 6 (30 m)\n\n\n20 min\nTOPIC DISCUSSION\nGeneral discussion led by the panel\n\n\n10 min\nWRAP-UP\nFinal remarks and closure
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/barcelona-4/
CATEGORIES:Phd Symposium
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SUMMARY:Quality in e-learning
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nDescription\nThe rise of open online learning and e-learning poses more than ever quality-relevant questions. The development where learners take personal responsibility for their own learning is only one of the issues when quality is discussed\, another problem is when quality is expressed as norm-based versus process-based. \nIn view of the global challenges associated with education\, there is an urgent need to redefine quality issues. The quality of e-learning is a constant debate and discussion. Quality in this respect is complex and can either be easily defined or must be elaborated to a high and deep degree. There may be more questions than answers. First\, the five most frequently asked questions have to be answered. What do we mean by quality? Why is it important? Who’s involved? Quality for whom? When should quality be measured? In addition\, the quality can be seen at various levels: nano\, micro\, meso\, macro. \nThe webinar will address the current discourse and quality issues in open flexible online learning\, including e-learning. \nYou will meet\nProfessor Dr Ebba Ossiannilsson \n\nProfessor Dr Ebba Ossiannilsson is an independent researcher\, expert\, quality assessor and influencer in the fields of open online flexible\, distance learning\, including e-learning TEL\, OER and MOOCs. Her focus is on quality\, innovation\, leadership\, and personal\, learning. She is in EDEN EC\, Chair the EDEN SIG for TEL and quality enhancement\, EDEN Fellow\, and EDEN Council of Fellows. She is in the ICDE EC\, and Chair the ICDE Advocacy Committee\, for the worldwide advocacy of OER. Ossiannilsson is a quality expert and reviewer for ICDE\, and the EADTU\, and an evaluator and expert for the European Commission. She works with the Swedish Institute of Standards and ISO. She is a member of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition Sweden. Ossiannilsson is VP of the Swedish Association for Distance Education. Ossiannilsson holds her PhD from Oulu University\, Finland\, with a dissertation on benchmarking e-learning in higher education. She led the ICDE’s quality standard study in 2014-2015. She is in the editorial board of several scientific journals.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/quality-in-e-learning/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:The journey to social justice and openness in ODL
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\nFormat: Presentation and panel discussion \nDescription:   \nIn the past decade open\, distance\, and eLearning and distance learning (ODeL) continue to build upon their foundational roots of education accessibility\, making great strides towards openness in education by leveraging the affordances of technology\, through open educational resources (OER)\, MOOCs\, open pedagogy\, and research. But are these initiatives levelling the educational playing field for citizens around the world or are they deepening existing divides and inequality? Join our panel of distinguished experts to discuss the journey to social justice in ODL: where we’ve come\, where we are\, and where we should be going.  \nPresenters: \n\nMaha Bali\, Associate Professor\, Center for Learning and Teaching\, American University in Cairo\, Egypt\n\n \nMaha Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She is a co-founder of virtuallyconnecting.org and co-facilitator of Equity Unbound. She has been interviewed on the Leaders and Legends of Online Learning podcast and was featured alongside 15 amazing women of the open movement in the UnCommon Women 2018 Coloring Book. She is an editor at Hybrid Pedagogy journal\, and editorial board member of Teaching in Higher Education\, Online Learning Journal\, Journal of Pedagogic Development\, Learning\, Media and Technology and International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. She is a learnaholic\, writeaholic and passionate open and connected educator\, who tweets a lot at @bali_maha and blogs a lot at http://blog.mahabali.me. \n\nNarend Baijnath\, CEO\, Council of Higher Education\, South Africa \n\n \nNarend Baijnath is CEO of the Council on Higher Education in South Africa. Prior to this\, he was Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Africa. As PVC at UNISA he drove the digitisation and OER strategies of the University. Narend holds a Master’s Degree from Durham University\, and a Doctorate from the University of the Western Cape. \nNarend has extensive experience in ODL\, higher education policy\, ICTs in higher education\, business intelligence\, planning\, and quality assurance. He serves on the Commonwealth of  Learning Board and is currently Audit Committee Chairperson as well as Deputy Chair of the Board. He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. In 2008 he was appointed a Fellow at St Edmunds College\, Cambridge University\, and simultaneously a Research Professor at OUUK. \n\nSarah Lambert\, Manager – HEPPP\, Deakin University\, Australia \n\n \nSarah Lambert manages a $5M program of student equity projects and services including Equity Innovation Grants for the benefit of future and current socio-economically disadvantaged learners at Deakin University\, Australia. Previously she managed Open Education programs and partnerships after a career in technology-enhanced learning including an executive member of the Australasian Council for Online and eLearning (ACODE) and board-member at Horizon.Au report. A proud feminist\, equity ally and first-in-family member to go to University\, Sarah’s recent research explores how online education programs can be reconceptualised as social-justice actions to widen educational participation for under-represented learners and communities. She is currently the Chief Investigator on a National Scoping Study of Open Educational Textbooks as Social Justice in the Australian context and is co-editing a social-justice themed special edition of JIME with Laura Czerniewicz (University of Cape Town).
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/the-journey-to-social-justice-and-openness-in-odl/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\nFormat: Panel Discussion \nDescription: Education offers incredible potential for the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies\, with several significant opportunities — and challenges — that the introduction of artificial intelligence could bring\, especially to higher education. Increasingly\, higher education institutions\, as well as adult and professional learning are being transformed by intelligent systems that are helping humans learn better and achieve their learning objectives. The breadth of areas in which AI is already inserted in education includes intelligent tutors or chatbots\, personalized learning\, smart teaching\, learning analytics\, reducing student drop-off\, education administration\, data privacy and ethics. This webinar will explore research and experiences of introducing\, at different levels\, AI in education\, and looks at what the future might mean for teachers\, students and institutions. \nPresenters:  \n\nTony Bates\, EDEN Senior Fellow\n\nTony Bates is President and CEO of Tony Bates Associates Ltd\, a private company specializing in consultancy and training in the planning and management of e-learning and distance education. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor in the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education\, Ryerson University\, Toronto and a Research Associate at Contact North\, Ontario. \n\nOlaf Zawacki-Richter\, University of Oldenburg\, Senior EDEN Fellow\n\nOlaf Zawacki-Richter is professor of educational technology at the University of Oldenburg (Germany)\, Faculty of Education and Social Sciences. He is Associate Editor of the journal “Distance Education” and a member of the editorial board of the “International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning” (IRRODL)\, “Open Learning” and the “The Journal for Higher Education Development”. Olaf has authored over 150 publications and served as invited keynote speaker\, chair and reviewer at many international conferences. A systematic review of research on AI in higher education is forthcoming in the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (ETHE). Professor Zawacki-Richter is the founding Director of the Center for Open Education Research (COER) and the Director of the Center for Lifelong Learning (C3L) at Oldenburg University.  \n\nCristobal Cobo\, Oxford Internet Institute\n\nCristóbal Cobo is a Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank. Before joining the World Bank in 2019\, where he is a core member of the World Bank’s global edtech team\, Dr Cobo spent 15 years working at the intersection of future of learning\, cultures of innovation and human-centred technologies across both developed and developing countries. From 2014-2019\, Dr Cobo served as founding Director of the Center for Research at the Ceibal Foundation in Uruguay\, leading initiatives to learn from one of the world’s most notable examples of the use of educational technologies at scale across an entire education system\, Plan Ceibal. Before joining the Center for Research at the Ceibal Foundation\, Cristóbal spent five years as an associate researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford (UK). \n\nAlexandra I. Cristea\, Durham University\n\nAlexandra I. Cristea is Professor\, Head of the Innovative Computing research group at the Computer Science Department\, Durham University. Her research includes web science\, learning analytics\, user modelling and personalisation\, semantic web\, social web\, authoring\, with over 250 papers on these subjects (over 3700 citations on Google Scholar\, h-index 31). Especially\, her work on frameworks for adaptive systems has influenced many researchers and is highly cited (with the top paper with over 180 citations and growing). She is within the top 50 researchers in the world in the area of educational computer-based research according to Microsoft Research. Prof. Cristea has been highly active and has an influential role in international research projects. She is experienced in running research projects and has led various projects – Newton funded workshop on Higher Education for All (’14-’18)\, Santander funded Education for disadvantaged pupils (’14-18′)\, Warwick-funded project APLIC (’11-;12)\, EU Minerva projects ALS (06-09) and EU Minerva ADAPT (’02-’05); as well as participated as university PI in several EU FP7 projects – BLOGFOREVER (’11-’13)\, GRAPPLE (’08- ’11)\, PROLEARN (’07) and as co-PI in the Warwick-funded Engaging Young People with Assistance Technologies (’13-’15) also featured by the BBC. Recently she has taken giving back to the community to a different level\, with the project TechUP (2019-2020) training 100 women in computer science from various (BAME) backgrounds.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/artificial-intelligence-ai-in-higher-education/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:What might the future hold for distance education universities?
DESCRIPTION:watch the recording\nFormat: Presentation with discussion \nDescription:  In this webinar four experts in the field of e-learning and distance education will reflect upon how the very nature of learning at a distance is changing to meet the needs of the modern society\, reductions in expenditure in higher education\, the incursion of face-to-face universities in this area\, changes in institutional structure\, and the ever-advancing role of technology. Historically\, distance education institutions stood apart from their face-to-face rivals with educational models that were very different\, reflecting a variety of types of students. Nowadays\, with the pace of modern society and the need for constant updating of our knowledge and qualifications\, the demand for e-learning and distance education has increased. However\, traditional face-to-face universities have extended their educational offer to try to meet this demand\, arguably blurring the difference between the two types of institutions. This convergence together with the corresponding expansion of technology-enhanced learning and reductions in funding is arguably leaving distance education universities in a state of crisis. The webinar explores the issues related to this crisis and looks at what the future might hold for this educational modality and the institutions that champion it! The following article: http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/ried.22.1.22288 can be consulted as background reading before this event. \nPresenters: \n\nAntonio Teixeira\, Universidade  Aberta\, Portugal\, EDEN Senior Fellow\n\n António Teixeira is an Associate Professor at Universidade Aberta (UAb)\, the Portuguese Open University\, where he teaches since 1991 and currently heads the Department of Education and Distance Learning. He’s also a researcher at the Center of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon. He was the President of EDEN (2013-16)\, and Pro-rector for Innovation in Distance Learning at UAb (2006-09)\, having been a member of the Portuguese Rectors Council specialized committees on Scientific Research and Knowledge Transfer\, and on Evaluation\, Quality and Innovation. He was also a Director at Ibstpi – International Board of Standards for Training\, Performance and Instruction (2012-18) and a member of the Academic and Administration boards of the Asia International Open University\, currently City University of Macau (2007-09). António is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Distance Education and Learning Futures Alliance of the Massey University and the Vice-president of the Ad Lucem Association (University of Lisbon). He’s also on the scientific board of fifteen international journals and has participated in close to thirty international research projects on educational innovation and open education. António is an EDEN Senior Fellow and an IBSTPI Scholar. \n\nTony Bates\, EDEN Senior Fellow\n\n \nTony Bates is President and CEO of Tony Bates Associates Ltd\, a private company specializing in consultancy and training in the planning and management of e-learning and distance education. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor in the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education\, Ryerson University\, Toronto and a Research Associate at Contact North\, Ontario. \n\nJose Mota\, Universidade  Aberta\, Portugal\n\n \nJose Mota is the researcher at the Laboratory of Distance Education (LEaD)\, Universidade Aberta\, Portugal. He is an English Teacher (K12-EFL)\, always curious about new ways of using technology in education and also an enthusiast of online learning and the amazing web. He taught in the eLearning Pedagogy and the Educacional Multimedia Communication Master’s Programs at Universidade Aberta.  He also participated as a co-author and facilitator in the online teaching training program developed at Universidade Aberta (part of the Innovation Program in Distance Education]\, with courses both for Universidade Aberta’s professors and tutors\, and for other Portuguese universities as well. \n\nAlan Tait\, Open University UK\, EDEN Senior Fellow\n\nAlan Tait is 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\nLiz Marr\, Open University UK\n\nDr Liz Marr is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Students) at The Open University. She has responsibility for all student-facing development and enhancement\, including student retention\, progression\, achievement and satisfaction\, widening access and success\, employability\, quality monitoring and enhancement and the Teaching Excellence Framework. She is also President of The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities. \n  \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/what-might-the-future-hold-for-distance-education-universities/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Future perspective in open routes: the quality and assessment dimension
DESCRIPTION:watch the recording\nFormat: Presentations with discussion \nDescription:The rapidly growing number of open educational materials and repositories makes the issue of how to find the most relevant and best quality resources to be integrated in teaching and learning offers. In addition\, overlapping and competing standards\, size of the search pool\, quality of metadata represents issues that different initiatives in the field of Open Education have tried to solve. Thus\, there is an urgency for effective search\, discovery\, and quality assessment tools. During the webinar\, the relation between quality and dimensions in Open Education\, with a focus on Open Educational Resources will be described and discussed. \nPresenters: \n\nAntonella Poce\, University Roma TRE\, EDEN NAP SC Chair\n\nAntonella Poce is an Associate Professor in Experimental Pedagogy at the University Roma Tre – Department of Education\, where she teaches Experimental Pedagogy and Research Methodology in Education. After her PhD in “Innovation and evaluation of educational systems”\, she obtained a post-doc scholarship to carry out research work on the evaluation of e-learning models in university teaching and learning. Her research concerns innovative teaching practices in higher education at national and international level.  \n\nUlf-Daniel Ehlers\, Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University\, EDEN Executive Committee Member\n\nUlf-Daniel Ehlers is a learning innovation expert and has been appointed Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wurttemberg 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). \n\nEbba Ossiannilsson\, SADE\,  EDEN Executive Committee Member\n\nEbba Ossiannilsson is an independent researcher\, expert\, quality assessor and influencer in the fields of open online flexible\, distance learning\, including e-learning TEL\, OER and MOOCs. Her focus is on quality\, innovation\, leadership\, and personal\, learning. She is in EDEN EC\, Chair the EDEN SIG for TEL and quality enhancement\, EDEN Fellow\, and EDEN Council of Fellows. She is in the ICDE EC\, and Chair the ICDE Advocacy Committee\, for the worldwide advocacy of OER. Ossiannilsson is a quality expert and reviewer for ICDE\, and the EADTU\, and an evaluator and expert for the European Commission. She works with the Swedish Institute of Standards and ISO. She is a member of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition Sweden. Ossiannilsson is VP of the Swedish Association for Distance Education. Ossiannilsson hold her PhD from Oulu University\, Finland\, with a dissertation on benchmarking e-learning in higher education. She led the ICDE’s quality standard study in 2014-2015. She is in the editorial board of several scientific journals.  \n\nDr. Don Olcott\, Jr.\, Global Consultant\, EDEN NAP SC member\, EDEN Council of Fellows Vice-Chair\n\nDon Olcott\, Jr.\, FRSA\, is a professor and global consultant specializing in educational leadership and open and distance education. He is also an adjunct full Professor of Educational Leadership with the University of Maryland University College (USA) and an adjunct instructor with Oldenburg University\, Germany. From 2014-2017\, he served as Professor and Co-Director of the uImagine Digital Innovation Laboratory and as Head of Virtual Campus at Charles Sturt University in Australia. Don was made an EDEN Senior Fellow and Honorary Professor at the University of South Africa (Unisa) in June 2018. Don was elected Vice Chair of the EDEN Council of Fellows in February 2019. Dr. Olcott is former Chief Executive of The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE) in the UK (2007-2011)\, former Chairman of the Board of Directors and President of the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA). 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 education. Don formerly served on the external Strategy Group of the Open University and served on the UK Online Learning Task Force (2009-2011); and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA). . He was a 2016 Stanley Draczek Outstanding Teaching Award recipient from the University of Maryland University College for excellence in online teaching and learning. He continues to serve on many editorial boards and publish in areas related to open and distance learning and leadership.\n \n\nFrancesca Amenduni\, Ph.D. Student\, University of Roma Tre\, EDEN NAP member\n\nFrancesca Amenduni is a PhD Student in Culture\, Education and Communication at the University of Roma TRE in collaboration with the University of Foggia. Her expertise is in the e-learning field both as a practitioner and researcher. She has worked as an e-learning tutor and instructional designer since 2015. She carried research related to blended learning and her current PhD project regards semi-automated assessment of Critical Thinking short essays and open-ended answers \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/future-perspective-in-open-routes-the-quality-and-assessment-dimension/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Why is digital learning relevant for curriculum transformation in Higher Education?
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\nFormat: Panel discussion \nDescription: Digital learning opened new ways for society members to start early careers on a global scale\, but also to seek for the possibilities to re-enter HE at different stages of life\, to seek for (re-) qualification in a variety of ways. Digital and network society is the new target group of HE\, which learns in new\, timeless and borderless spaces. Such society members are always connected and online\, sharing and co-creating knowledge\, developing and co-authoring innovations themselves\, and they may serve as the biggest driving force for HE\, but also quite a high challenge to deal with. Digital education\, teaching\, learning and assessment seems to be a good solution for the transformation of HE curriculum\, and many HE institutions already found their ways. But why this is again a growing issue? Why does digitalization continue raising many challenges for HE institutions? The panel discussion will focus on the digital innovations rapidly spreading in social\, economic and cultural life; integration of digitalization into HE curriculum and constantly changing needs\, tools and habits of learning that HE institutions must deal with. \n\nPanel members: \n\nMark Brown\, DCU\, EDEN EC member \n\nProfessor Mark Brown is Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) at Dublin City University (DCU). He serves on EDEN’s Executive Committee and is an EDEN Fellow. Mark is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) and an Executive Committee member of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA). He is a past President of the New Zealand Association for Open\, Flexible and Distance Learning (DEANZ) and previously served on the Executive Committee of ASCILITE. In November 2019\, Mark is Chair of the ICDE World Conference on Online Learning that takes place in Dublin.  \n\nMichael Gaebel\, EUA\n\nMichael Gaebel joined the EUA (European University Association) in 2006\, where he was first in charge of Global Dialogue and internationalisation\, to become in 2009 Head and later on the Director of the Higher Education Policy Unit. This unit focuses on issues related to higher education learning and teaching\, including the Bologna Process\, lifelong learning\, e-learning and MOOCs\, internationalisation and global dialogue. He worked for more than a decade in higher education cooperation and development in the Middle East\, the former Soviet Union and Asia. From 2002 to 2006\, he was the European Co-Director of the ASEAN-EU University Network Programme (AUNP) in Bangkok. \n\nElena Caldirola\, University of Pavia\, EDEN EC member\n\nElena Caldirola is Head of the Centre for E-learning and Innovation in Didactics at the University of Pavia\, Italy. She has a demonstrated history of working in the higher education field. Skilled in eLearning environments\, Learning Spaces\, Blended Learning\, Digital Corporate Training\, and Lecturing. She is a member of national and international working groups and networks focused on supporting digital innovation in education. \n\nSandra Kucina Softic\, SRCE\, EDEN President\n\nSandra Kučina Softić is EDEN president and Assistant Director for Education and User Support at the University of Zagreb University Computer Centre (SRCE). Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering the e-learning implementation in higher education institutions in Croatia and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching process.  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). She obtained a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh\, UK in 2014. From 2016 to 2019 she was EDEN vice-president for Open Professional Collaboration. \n\nAndras Szucs\, EDEN Secretary General\n\nHe has been working as director of the Centre for Learning Innovation and Adult Learning of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics since 2000. He graduated as bio-engineer in 1980. After ten years of university teaching at the Budapest University of Technology\, from 1990 held international posts as Director of the EU TEMPUS Programme in Hungary (1990-95)\, Director of the EU Phare Central-Eastern European Distance Education Programme (1994-96)\, Director of the European Communication Strategy Programme of Hungarian Government (1996). From 1997 till 2000 Executive Director and since 2000 Secretary General of the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN)\, since 1998 President of the Supervisory Board of the Hungarian Association of Industrial Parks. Since January 2005 he is member of the Consultative Committee on Industrial Change in the European Economic and Social Committee. \n\nMargarita Teresevičienė\, VMU\, EDEN Fellow\n\nThe Institute of Educational Sciences\, Vytautas Magnus University\, Lithuania. Personal research area: adult learning\, recognition of prior learning\, technology enhanced learning. She supervised  15 doctoral theses on Adult learning and Technology enhanced learning. She teaches in the BA and MA study programmes in Education. She is responsible for doctoral study programme in Education sciences at Vytautas Magnus University. Has acted as an expert in the field of adult education at the Ministry of Education and Science Republic of Lithuania; expert for Research Council of Lithuania. She is also a member of a board of Lithuania Distance and eLearning Association. \n\nYasmin Djabarian\, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung /Stifterverband\n\nYasmin Djabarian is a programme manager at Hochschulforum Digitalisierung for Stifterverband. Before joining HFD\, she was a research fellow at the Center for Quality Assurance and Development at the University of Mainz. Her interests include digitalisation\, community platforms\, and student participation. \n  \n\nMartin Rademacher\, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung / German Rectors’ Conference\n\n \nMartin Rademacher is a studied theologian\, former web developer and IT consultant and head of project in the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung for the German Rectors’ Conference. His interests include digitalisation\, ethics and education politics. \n  \n\nGiuseppe Pirlo / Deputy Rector Third Mission (Outreach) / University of Bari\n\n \nGiuseppe Pirlo is a full professor at the  Department of Computer Science\, University of Bari. Since 1986\, he has been carrying out research in the field of computer science and neuroscience\, e-learning and distance learning\, signal processing\, handwriting processing\, automatic signature verification\, biometrics\, pattern recognition and statistical data processing. He developed several research projects and authored over 300 papers in international journals\, scientific books and proceedings. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/why-is-digital-learning-relevant-for-curriculum-transformation-in-higher-education/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Distance Education: Challenges on the European and the Global Level
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\nFormat: Panel discussion \nDescription:    \nTechnology has been changing the landscape of education for years and one of the greatest advancements has been in distance education. ICTs have been playing an important role in the delivery strategies of distance learning and providing a variety of new techniques for educators and learners to enhance their knowledge. Distance education is growing in popularity globally\, maybe not so in Europe as in America\, Canada\, Australia… More and more learning and classes are taking place online and depending on the technology. We take e-books\, online courses\, watch videos on YouTube\, communicate online\, have virtual practices and laboratories\, get online certificates and diplomas. The number of online programmes and accessibility for learning are growing every day. While technology brings numerous opportunities for students and teachers\, still challenges are opening for distance education as well. \nIn discussion with distinguished experts join us in the discussion on some of the challenges the distance education is facing: \n\nhow recent technology innovations line VR\, AI\, AR can be used to support distance learning efficiently and do/can they provide real opportunities in learning?  \nwith all information available today through numerous communication channels learner attention is easily disrupted and difficulty kept\, deep learning is difficult to achieve – how to keep learners’ attention on the course?\nhow to create and ensure good quality materials and courses\, from the point of online learning in HE to distance education?\nhow to protect respectable institutions and good quality programmes from the fake ones?\nMOOCs were at one point taken as a trend that will pass – is it so\, and how important MOOCs are for the education?\n\n\nPanel members: \n\nAirina Volungevičienė\, Vytautas Magnus University\, EDEN Senior Fellow\, LieDM association\n\nAirina is the Director of Innovative Studies Institute at Vytautas Magnus University\, Lithuania and former EDEN president. Assoc. prof. dr. Airina Volungevičienė has been working among leading researchers\, methodology specialists and education policymakers in the area of technology enhanced learning (TEL) development in Europe and Lithuania since 1997. Having established the national network for distance and e-learning in the country\, then Lithuanian Distance and e-Learning association (2010)\, she continued as a leader in research and project work to promote the development of TEL in Lithuania and Europe\, introducing many innovations in different education organizations from school\, VET\, adult learning and higher education sectors.  \n\nJennifer Roberts\, Vice President/Publications Officer\, ODLAA\n\n \nDr Jenny Roberts is a senior researcher at the Institute for Open and Distance Learning (IODL) at the University of South Africa (Unisa). he is currently a co-editor and contributor to a textbook on the teaching of Life Skills as well as co-editor of the special themed edition of the Distance Education journal. She is the leader of the Unisa research thrust “Technology and the Changing Role of Academics in Distance Education”. She describes herself as a lifelong learner\, even at a distance\, as can be seen from the fact that she is currently enrolled for various Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) in teaching mathematics\, psychology and research methodologies. Dr Roberts is the first South African to be elected to the executive committee of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA). \n\nDean Hoke\, USDLA board member president-elect\n\n \nMr. Hoke has 40 years of progressively responsible and visionary leadership roles in higher education\, communications\, and eLearning throughout the United States and the United Arab Emirates. He serves as the Managing Partner of Edu Alliance Group a higher education consulting firm. Mr. Hoke began his 40+year career at Bellarmine University in Louisville\, KY then joined public broadcasting becoming a General Manager and CEO of three public broadcasting TV and radio stations throughout the United States. In 1998 he co-founded The Connected Learning Network\, a comprehensive provider of eLearning services for the educational community in the USA and Europe. \n\nSvetlana Knyazeva\,  UNESCO IITE\, EDEN Fellow\n\n \nSvetlana Knyazeva holds a PhD in Information and Library Science and is Chief of the Unit of Digital Pedagogy and Learning Materials at the UNESCO Institute of Information Technologies in Education\, Moscow. Since 2009\, she has been coordinating a project on OER in non-English-speaking countries and promoted OER through analytical and diagnostic studies\, strategic advice and facilitation of professional development related to the use of ICT and OER in teaching and learning. Her research interests cover innovative teaching methods and foresight in ICT in education as well. \n\nJonatan Castaño Muñoz\, EC JRC\n\nJonatan is a researcher working at the Joint Research Centre in Seville. He holds a Ph.D. in Information and Knowledge Society and a Master’s in Research Methods for Social Sciences. Jonatan is part of the ICT for Learning and Skills team and his research is focused on the socioeconomic implications of the modernisation of education\, especially of the use of e-learning\, open education and massive open online courses (MOOCs) in educational systems. \n\nSally Reynolds\, ATiT\n\n \nSally Reynolds is an Irish national with a background in remedial linguistics\, Sally first worked in radio and television in Ireland as a presenter and producer for the national broadcaster\, RTE specialising in educational programming. From 1990 onwards\, she worked in technology enhanced learning networks in Ireland\, Germany\, The Netherlands and Belgium. She is a Director of ATiT which she co-founded in 1999 where she leads on dissemination and event management\, media literacy\, and media education from primary through to continuing education and has considerable experience in all levels of European project management from concept through to validation. Sally leads in the organisation of the annual Media & Learning Conference and is actively engaged in the related MEDEA Awards and Media and Learning Association. Through her work with ATiT and the Media & Learning Association\, Sally has been involved for many years in media education and media literacy initiatives of one sort or another. Sally is an experienced media producer\, event manager and European dissemination strategist.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/distance-education-challenges-on-the-european-and-the-global-level/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:User profiling for individualised learning - A case study in cultural heritage environments
DESCRIPTION:User profiling for individualised learning\nA case study in cultural heritage environments\nREGISTER HERE FOR THE WEBINAR \nDescription\nThe webinar will deal with the topic of user modelling within museum environments. The theme of data gathering and data analysis will be discussed. The “Tito Rossini web app use case” and the Personas identified by this first experiment will be also presented. \nYou will meet\nCarlo De Medio \n\n\n\n\nCarlo De Medio works as a researcher at the Department of Education at the University of Roma Tre and carries out research in the field of modern technologies applied to the enhancement of cultural heritage for the development of the transversal skills and social inclusion. From November 2018 he collaborates with the Centro di Didattica Museale-DSF of the University of Roma Tre where he currently manages the online platform for the Master courses. He currently participates in the European projects Digiculture and OpenVM and in the departmental project Inclusive Memory. \nIn the past\, he has been the administrator for the University of Rome Tre Centro Linguistico di Ateneo platform for the online English tests for the university students. \nIn 2015 he worked for the Allianz insurance company\, planning functionalities for the employee training platform. \nIn 2014 he graduated in Computer Engineering at the Engineering Department of Roma Tre. In 2018 he completed the PhD course in Computer Engineering mainly dealing with neural networks and machine learning techniques.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/user-profiling-for-individualised-learning-a-case-study-in-cultural-heritage-environments/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Widening access to open education - the way forward. What the MOONLITE project (2016-2019) has shown us
DESCRIPTION:Widening access to open education – the way forward\nWhat the MOONLITE project (2016-2019) has shown us\nwebinar Recording \nDescription\nThe ideas and practices that underlie open education have been around for a very long time. Given the promise of such a democratic approach to teaching and learning it is perhaps surprising that it is not more widely used. When Massive Online Open Courses (or MOOCs) appeared on the public radar around 2012 they looked a game-changer\, something that could\, once and for all\, change the role of open education and its importance in the educational landscape. However\, seven years later\, while there is a wide range of these courses available\, little change has taken place in the widespread adoption of open education. \nAs a result of the research undertaken in the MOONLITE project\, and different and varied interchanges of ideas\, debates\, and collaborations with other academics and experts in the field of open education and social inclusion\, it has been possible to identify seven key challenges\, that we believe still need to be addressed to take open education to the next level. Namely: \n\nimproving access to MOOCs and open education;\nkeeping MOOCs open and free;\nthe need for support in inclusive MOOCs;\ndesigning and developing MOOCs for social inclusion;\nthe recognition of prior learning and MOOC certification;\nthe need for open education policies at national and international levels;\nnew funding and business models.\n\nIn this webinar we will present and discuss these challenges and consider how to widen access to open education. \nQuestions to consider\n\nIf education is a basic human right then why is so much knowledge / educational content locked away in not-for-free sources?\nOpen education\, in the sense of resources and practices\, seems to offer a solution to the access problem. So why is it not more widely used or appreciated?\nAre MOOCs the educational panacea they were once thought to be\, or just another step on the evolutionary ladder toward next-generation teaching and learning\, being inevitably forgotten and overlooked with time?\n\nParticipation and privacy\nThis webinar will feature small group discussions so please make sure you have a web camera and headset activated before you join the meeting. The main part of the webinar will be recorded but not the group discussions. Your name will not be visible in the recording\, neither will the chat session. \nYou will meet\nTimothy Read is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems at UNED\, Spain. He has held a range of positions in the university government at UNED and is currently Pro-Vice Chancellor of Methodology and Technology. He is an EDEN Fellow and also the co-founder of the ATLAS research group and is currently working in European and nationally funded projects in the area of mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) and massive open online courses for languages (LMOOCs). \n  \n  \nAlastair Creelman \nE-learning specialist at Linnaeus University\, Kalmar\, Sweden. He is involved in several national and international projects and organisations in the field of e-learning\, including the MOONLITE project. He is and EDEN fellow and member of the EDEN NAP Steering Committee. \nTwitter: @alacre \nBlog: Corridor of uncertainty – reflections on technology and education
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/widening-access-to-open-education-the-way-forward-what-the-moonlite-project-2016-2019-has-shown-us/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:European Distance Learning Week
DESCRIPTION:Participation is open and free\nThis year EDEN will be proudly hosting the fourth year of the European Distance Learning Week (EDLW) in cooperation with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)  – and our Special Partner for 2019: the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA). \nDuring the European Distance Learning Week\, you will have access to daily online webinars and panel sessions of expert scholars and practitioners presenting a variety of cutting edge open and online learning topics\, from innovations in design to open educational research. \nEDEN issues digital open badges as a recognition of EDLW participation and contribution.  Receiving and collecting badges provides the opportunity to showcase skills and accomplishments to a wide audience in social web communities. \nFor events during USDLA’s National Distance Learning Week on 4-8 November\, please see the NDLW website. \nEDEN’s webinars during the week:\n[postlist count=-1 pt=”eden_conference” tax_name=”eden_conference_category” term_slugs=”edlw-2019″ part=”conference” masonry=true] \nOther contributions from education organisations to the European Distance Learning Week organised by EDEN Community members and partners:\n\n\n\nOrganiser \nLieDM\nEADTU\nEADTU\nODLAA\nODLAA\n\n\nLanguage\nLithuanian\nEnglish\nEnglish\nEnglish\nEnglish\n\n\nMore info\nLink to the events\nLooking deeper into Quality Assurance: ICDE report\nGood practices in Quality Assurance\nTrends in the Distance Learning Literature\nThe History of ODLAA: Reflections on the Past\, Present and Future\n\n\nType\nNational initiative – webinar series\nWebinar\nWebinar\nWebinar\nWebinar\n\n\nDate(s)\n11-15 November\n12 November\, 13:30 – 14:30 CET\n13 November\, 13:30 – 14:30 CET\n12 November\, 13:00 AEDT (03:00 CET)\n14 November\, 16:00 AEDT (06:00 CET)\n\n\n\n.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/european-distance-learning-week-4/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:2019 Athens
DESCRIPTION:Invitation to jointly organise the conference Creating Conditions for Deeper Learning in Science was received from Ellinogermaniki Agogi as an event of the Open Classroom Conference (OCC) series. In the field of learning innovation our Greek partners\, especially our long term friend Ellinogermaniki Agogi\, always played a pioneering role by organising the Open Classroom Conference Series. EDEN was aiming at giving support to this highly valuable initiative.\nThe conference brought together researchers\, practitioners and decision-makers from all around the world to investigate the concepts of Deeper Learning\, the conditions under which it could lead students to develop mastery in scientific subjects and the methods how these achievements can be assessed. \nContributions centred around Deeper Learning defined as a set of competencies or educational objectives and to characterize a way of learning (or a process) that promotes these competencies (mastering core academic content\, thinking critically and solving complex problems\, working collaboratively\, communicating effectively\, learning how to learn\, developing academic mindset). The focus was widened considering that training in science using arts has been shown to improve creativity and innovation as well as students’ Deeper Learning. \nThe programme of the conference contained 6 keynote speeches\, 5 workshops\, 1 symposium\, 1 round table discussion and 22 papers. EA organised a presentation of the results of the Stories of Tomorrow project Mars colonies – Lego-robots\, e-book demonstration and a theatre play involving the concerned K-12 students and their teachers\, besides the iMuSiCA VR demonstrations. \nEDEN supported communication and organisational issues. The Network was represented by Ferenc Tatrai\, Senior Advisor as a speaker addressing the conference in the name of Sandra Kucina Softic\, EDEN President. Ferenc also held a presentation entitled “Learning Innovation & Professional Communities” highlighting EDEN’s contribution to the educational innovation processes of the European Union. One-quarter of the around 100 participants were EDEN members. Besides the most populated Greek delegation\, the number of German\, Swiss and US participants was remarkable. 34 Tweets were posted about the 2-day event at EDEN Twitter account. \n\nThe conference also served as the final conference of the STORIES OF TOMORROW project. The conference was further supported by the projects iMuSciCA\, eCraft2Learn and weDRAW. The aforementioned projects have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. EDEN is supported by the ERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union. \nYou can browse photos and tweets from the conference. \nYou can download the Proceedings of the Deeper Learning EDEN Open Classroom Conference 2019: Creating Conditions for Deeper Learning in Science\, using the following link. \nFor more information visit the Conference website.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/athens-2019/
CATEGORIES:Open classroom conferences
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SUMMARY:Possible use of a portfolio as European Development
DESCRIPTION:“Possible use of a portfolio as European Development” webinar will take place on Wednesday\, 5 June 2019 at 15:30 CEST with Alfredo Soeiro\, Deputy Chair of the NAP Steering Committee\, from the University of Porto\, Portugal in EDEN’s dedicated Adobe Connect room.  \nWatch the recording \nE-portfolios can be understood as a digital dynamic tool that enables individuals to document\, display and manage their skills\, qualifications and experience throughout the lifespan of their career. e-portfolios help individuals be reflective\, support their personal development\, allow them to showcase their skills\, qualifications and experience\, and enable (self-) assessment of their skills. The new Europass framework adopted the approach of web-based tools to support individuals in documenting and describing their competences and qualifications acquired through learning and non-formal and informal learning. The Europass e-portfolio may build on the current Europass Online. Users may use the Europass e-portfolio to document and describe their personal information\, and to manage careers and lifelong learning. The use of this tool should be discussed and analyzed\, therefore participate and debate. \n\nAlfredo Soeiro\n\nDegrees in Civil Engineering (U. Porto\, 76) and (U. Florida-Ph.D.-89)\nAcademic director and vice president of Civil Engineering (U. Porto\, 03/07)\nPro-Rector of U. Porto (98/03)\nFounder 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)\nVice 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); resident of SEFI (03/05)\nVice- chair of EMC of FEANI (14/18) and of Steering Committee of NAP of EDEN (14/…)\nMember of EUCEN Council (13/16)\, secretary general of AECEF (17/…) and member of IACEE Council (95/…)\nMedal 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).
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/possible-use-of-a-portfolio-as-european-development/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Sense-making Strategies for MOOC Research
DESCRIPTION:“Sense-making Strategies for MOOC Research” webinar took place on Wednesday\, 22 May 2019 at 15:30 CEST with Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl from the Dublin City University\, Ireland in EDEN’s dedicated Adobe Connect room.  \nWatch the recording \nThis webinar discussed the methodological case for adopting particular sense-making strategies and a variety of techniques to aid with data reduction\, analysis and presentation of MOOC data to support specific learning design or redesign objectives providing examples from the Ideas Lab@ NIDL in DCU’s current research programme. It also explored some of the problems and gaps in current research and the potential for mixed method designs to allow researchers to engage with a wider variety of research questions and topics. \n\nDr.Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl is currently an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow\, with the National Institute of Digital Learning in Dublin City University\, researching Massive Open Online Courses and implementing the University’s Strategic Initiative in this area. She is Head of the Ideas Lab\, a teaching an learning innovation and research unit in the NIDL She is a Fulbright Scholar with the University of Notre Dame in the USA and Senior Lecturer in Information Technology in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in DCU.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/sense-making-strategies-for-mooc-research/
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SUMMARY:The use of digital literacy by university students
DESCRIPTION:“The use of digital literacy by University Students” webinar took place on Wednesday\, 8 May 2019 at 15:30 CEST with Palitha Edirisingha from the Leicester University\, UK in EDEN’s dedicated Adobe Connect room.  \nWatch the recording \nThis webinar session focused on digital literacy skills and practices from an international student perspective. Some of the points and issues covered in the session include: \n\nThe lenses (definitions\, frameworks) through which we look at digital literacy skills\, and their pros and cons\nThe importance of looking at digital literacy skills from a more international perspective\nPrior learning experience and useful concepts such as ‘cultural script’\nCultural and academic contexts in which students develop digital literacy skills and practices\nResearch methodological issues\nSome of the findings from our research (2012 – to-date)\nFuture work\n\n\nDr Palitha Edirisingha is a Lecturer in E-Learning at the School of Education\, University of Leicester. 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. \nHis 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 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. \nHe conducts learning technology workshops for academic staff\, and has been involved in developing Open Educational Resources (OERs) for the University of Leicester OER repository. \nLearn more about him here.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/the-use-of-digital-literacy-by-university-students/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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