BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Eden - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Eden X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://eden-europe.eu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Eden REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20170101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191115T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191115T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230301T062921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065911Z UID:9933-1573776000-1573776000@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Timisoara DESCRIPTION:More information will be available soon URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/timisoara/ CATEGORIES:Phd Symposium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191114T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191114T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230301T062920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230307T105556Z UID:9932-1573689600-1573689600@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191114T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191114T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T210242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065913Z UID:9781-1573689600-1573689600@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191114T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191114T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T210242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065911Z UID:9780-1573689600-1573689600@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191027T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191027T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T210230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065913Z UID:9779-1572134400-1572134400@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T210230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T204504Z UID:9778-1571097600-1571097600@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T210229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T204502Z UID:9777-1571097600-1571097600@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T210042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T204551Z UID:9775-1571097600-1571097600@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T210042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T204557Z UID:9776-1571097600-1571097600@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T210042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T204514Z UID:9773-1571097600-1571097600@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T210042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T204526Z UID:9774-1571097600-1571097600@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T210029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065913Z UID:9772-1571097600-1571097600@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191004T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191004T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065913Z UID:9771-1570147200-1570147200@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190912T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190912T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230907T083158Z UID:9770-1568246400-1568246400@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190629T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190630T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T053209Z UID:9766-1561766400-1561852800@eden-europe.eu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eden-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2019-athens.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190531T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190531T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065913Z UID:9769-1559260800-1559260800@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190521T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190521T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065913Z UID:9768-1558396800-1558396800@eden-europe.eu 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/ CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190503T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190503T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065913Z UID:9767-1556841600-1556841600@eden-europe.eu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190415T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190415T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065913Z UID:9765-1555286400-1555286400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:From visitors to virtual audiences: Digital engagement and learning in museums DESCRIPTION:The “From visitors to virtual audiences: digital engagement and learning in museums” webinar took place on Wednesday\, 17 April 2019 at 15:30 CEST with Chiara Zuanni from the University of Graz\, Austria in EDEN’s dedicated Adobe Connect room. \nwatch the recording \nThis webinar focused on the development of digital tools and practices to enhance learning in museums and in the heritage sector. Departing from how the digital transformation has affected visitor experiences in the galleries\, the webinar then focused on online engagement\, through websites and social media communication. \nThe webinar discussed how different forms and approaches to digital media can serve educational and engagement purposes\, supporting different groups of visitors and stakeholders. By focusing on selected social media examples\, the webinar also highlighted how these initiatives can be effectively evaluated and researched to understand the public construction of knowledge in museums. \n\nChiara Zuanni is a tenure-track assistant professor in Digital Humanities at the Centre for Information Modelling – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz. Her research focuses on the construction and mediation of knowledge in museums\, the impact of digital media on the heritage sector and its audiences\, digital data practices in museums. She has a degree in Classics and a MA in Archaeology from the University of Bologna\, and a PhD in Museology from the University of Manchester (2016); she has held postdoctoral position at the University of Liverpool and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is a member of the Institute in Ancient Itineraries (2018-2019\, Getty Foundation\, KCL and Umeå University) and the Erasmus+ project ‘DigiCulture’ (2018-2021\, coordinated by the University of Timisoara). URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/from-visitors-to-virtual-audiences-digital-engagement-and-learning-in-museums/ CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190321T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190321T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065914Z UID:9764-1553126400-1553126400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Assessing OERs quality – the Open VM mini-MOOC case DESCRIPTION:The “Assessing OERs quality – the Open VM mini-MOOC case” webinar will take place on Wednesday\, 3 April 2019 at 15:30 CEST with Francesca Amenduni from the University of Foggia and Roma TRE University\, Italy in EDEN’s dedicated Adobe Connect room. \nRegister for the webinar \nIn the context of Open Education\, quality assessment tools are necessary. Speaking of  quality means quality assurance\, quality audit and quality enhancement. In the Open Virtual Mobilty Erasmus + Project’s framework https://www.openvirtualmobility.eu/es_ES/\, the quality assurance of OER is addressed through an iterative cycle of design\, creation\, implementation\, and assessment\, following the Design Based Research model (Barab & Squire\, 2004). \nAtenas and Havemann (2014) list a series of actions to identify resources to be taken into consideration such as choose resources already valued as high quality by peers\, start a community discussion on a specific resource\, use resources where keywords and metadata are clearly identified. In order to assess  each OER to include in the VM MOOC\, partners of the IO6 developed a tool structured in three main indicators (Poce\, Agrusti & Re 2015): 1. Quality; 2. Appropriateness; 3. Technical aspects. The webinar will present best practices developed in the Erasmus + Project OpenVM to search\, select and assess OERs. In addition\, the preliminary results of the pre-pilot phase will be presented. \nAtenas\, J.\, & Havemann\, L. (2014). Questions of quality in repositories of open educational resources: a literature review. Research in Learning Technology\, 22\, 20889.\nBarab\, S.\, & Squire\, K. (2004). Design-based research: Putting a stake in the ground. The journal of the learning sciences\, 13(1)\, 1-14.\nPoce\, A.\, Agrusti\, F.\, & Re\, M. R. (2015). Sviluppo di uno strumento di valutazione delle risorse aperte (Oers). Cadmo.\nThe webinar will be followed by an #EDENChat with Francesca Amenduni on 3 April\, 2019 at 18:00 CEST titled “From evaluation to creation: theoretical and practical tools for Open Educational Resources” \n\nFrancesca Amenduni is a PhD Student in Experimental Pedagogy. Her expertise is in the e-learning field both as practitioner and researcher. She has worked as 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 in e-learning environments. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/assessing-oers-quality-the-open-vm-mini-mooc-case/ CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190318T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190318T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065914Z UID:9763-1552867200-1552867200@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Evaluation in distance education @ VIVES: some tools and trends DESCRIPTION:The “Evaluation in distance education @ VIVES: some tools and trends” webinar will take place on Wednesday\, 20 March 2019 at 15:30 CET with Koen Verhulst and Hendrik Coucke from VIVES University of Applied Sciences\, Belgium in EDEN’s dedicated Adobe Connect room. \nWatch the recording \nWith approximately 13 000 students\, VIVES is one of the biggest universities of applied sciences in Flanders\, Belgium. VIVES has been the leader in Flanders when it comes to distance learning for more than 20 years. The university offers 13 programmes and more than 20 specializations through distance learning. In all\, more than 2 000 students follow a distance-learning programme to obtain their bachelor’s degree. \nMost of the students in distance education combine their studies with work and care for their family. To facilitate their study\, VIVES has chosen to implement\, among other things\, different assessment and organisation tools. During this session\, different tools in order to enhance the flexibility for the students concerning evaluation and assessment will be presented. \n\nHendrik Coucke started at VIVES as a lecturer mathematics in 2004 in teacher training for the bachelor primary education program. Besides teaching\, he is also an educational technologist to support teachers in the use of educational technology in their teaching practice. He is currently part of the VIVES Educational Technology team\, part of the Department of Educational Policy\, which gives concrete form to the vision on educational technology for the entire university of applied sciences. From the latter position he started to specialise himself more and more in digital tools\, including specifically the Edumatic assessment tool\, which has now become assessmentQ. \nKoen Verhulst is working at VIVES since 2000\, originally as a teacher ICT and multimedia in teacher training for the bachelor primary education program. He has been working at the Education Policy Department since 2014. The goal in 2014 was to increase the flexibility for distance learning students by establishing the examination centre\, together with the development of square and implementing ProctorExam as a tool for remote examinations. His role in this was mainly to design and develop the square tool. Today he is responsible for the management of square\, in addition to the management of a number of other tools. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/evaluation-in-distance-education-vives-some-tools-and-trends/ CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190219T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T211002Z UID:9762-1550534400-1550534400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Researching openness - evidence-based approach DESCRIPTION:Panel discussion\nWatch the recording \nModerator: Josep M. Duart\, EDEN Vice-president for Research\, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya\, Spain \nResearch questions to be discussed in the panel: \n\nHow openness is approach in research? Thematic overview (levels of openness\, other dimensions that are addressed through research publications\, e.g. open online learning\, open distance learning\, OER\, OEP\, etc.).\nWhat impact does openness have upon education?\nWhat kind of openness do we (society) need?\nWhat are the characteristics of open learning\, open curriculum\, open education and open learner/ teacher?\n\nSpeakers: \n\nAntoni Pérez\, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya\, Spain\nMairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl\, Dublin City University\, Ireland\nAndrea Saltelli\, University of Bergen\, Norway\, Open Evidence Research Group\nPaul Prinsloo\, UNISA URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/researching-openness-evidence-based-approach/ CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190219T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T211015Z UID:9759-1550534400-1550534400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:The story of the Open University in Europe and the world DESCRIPTION:Panel discussion\nWatch the recording \nModerator: Mark Brown\, EDEN EC member\, EDEN Fellow\, Dublin City University\, Ireland \nDescription: \nThe Open University has a long tradition and this webinar brings together four distinguished speakers who will share their reflections on following questions: \n\nWhat makes the Open University unique from other universities?\nWhat major challenges have open universities faced over the past 10-years?\nTo what extent is the Open University still relevant in the digital-era?\n\nThe first question offers an opportunity to discuss the uniqueness of the Open University and the role it has played in different contexts across Europe and the World more generally. The second question is aimed to reflect back on some of the major challenges that the Open University model has experienced in recent times and what changes have taken place. Following on from this question the final question looks ahead to some of the issues facing the Open University in modern times and what role they should play in the future. In light of the digital-era where online education has arguably become the “new norm” our invited guests are challenged to make the case for the continued relevance and importance of the Open University in meeting the rapidly changing needs to today’s students and our ever-changing societies. \nSpeakers: \n\nLiz Marr\, The Open University\, UK\nJosep M. Duart\, EDEN Vice-president for Research\, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya\, Spain\nSarah Guri-Rosenblit\, EDEN Fellow\, The Open University of Israel\, Israel\nAntonio Teixeira\, EDEN Senior Fellow\, Universidade Aberta\, Portugal\n\n  \n  URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/the-story-of-the-open-university-in-europe-and-the-world/ CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190219T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T211025Z UID:9760-1550534400-1550534400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Ongoing initiatives for Open Education in Europe DESCRIPTION:Presentation and discussion\nWatch the recording \nModerator: Lisa Marie Blaschke\, EDEN Senior Fellow\, Chair of EDEN Council of Fellows\, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg\, Germany \nDescription: \nA number of innovative and unique initiatives around the topic of open education have been emerging throughout Europe\, specifically in the areas of micro-credentialing and prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR). Three EU initiatives in open education will be presented in this webinar: OEPass\, MicroHE\, and ReOPEN. In addition\, the session will include retrospectives on the challenges and opportunities of open education\, as well as on the open education movement’s impact upon higher education over the past decade. \nSpeakers: \n\nAndreia Inamorato\, European Commission\, Joint Research Centre – Practical Guidelines on Open Education for Academics: Modernising Higher Education via Open Educational Practices\nJochen Ehrenreich\, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Heilbronn – OEPass project\nRaimund Hudak\, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Heilbronn\, Germany – MicroHE\nAirina Volungevičienė\, EDEN President\, Vytautas Magnus University\, Lithuania – Validating Open and Online Learning for Recognition\, ReOPEN solutions\nElena Caldirola\, University of Pavia\, Italy – Open Education in Italy: Challenges\, Opportunities and Perspectives\nGrainne Conole\, Dublin City University\, Ireland – Reflecting on the Impact of the Open Education Movement\n\n  URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/ongoing-initiatives-for-open-education-in-europe/ CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190219T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T211034Z UID:9761-1550534400-1550534400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:OER quality assessment DESCRIPTION:Presentation and discussion\nWatch the recording \nModerator: Antonella Poce\, EDEN Fellow\, EDEN NAP SC Chair\, University Roma III\, Italy \nDescription: \nIn the context of Open Education\, quality assessment tools are necessary. Speaking of  quality means quality assurance\, quality audit and quality enhancement. \nAtenas and Havemann (2014) list a series of actions to identify resources to be taken into consideration such as choose resources already valued as high quality by peers\, start a community discussion on a specific resource\, use resources where keywords and metadata are clearly identified. \nDuring the webinar different perspectives will be addressed thanks to the participation of various experts in the field. Moreover\, quality models developed in the Erasmus Plus Open Virtual Mobilty and Digiculture projects will be presented. The webinar has been planned and organised thanks to the joint involvement of EDEN NAP and SIG and TEL representatives. \nSpeakers: \n\nGemma Tur Ferrer\, Universitat de les Illes Baleares – Assessing the quality of OERs. The Open VM Project\nUlf- Daniel Ehlers\, EDEN Fellow\, EDEN EC member\, State University Baden-Wurttemberg\, Germany – Current and future Open Educational Resources Quality \nEbba Ossiannilsson\, EDEN Fellow\, EDEN EC member\, Sweden –  Quality Assurance Guidelines for Open Educational resources. The TIPS framework\nNeil Butcher\, OE Africa\, South Africa – Developing new CPD models for effective OER practices in African higher education\nDiana Andone\, EDEN Vice-president for Communication and Communities of Practices\, University of Timisoara\, Romania – Quality issues in The Digicult project\nAntonella Poce\,  EDEN Fellow\, EDEN NAP SC Chair\, University Roma III\, Italy – The road to Bruges EDEN 2019\nSvetlana Knyazeva\, EDEN Fellow\,  UNESCO Institute of Information Technologies in Education\, Russia – Quality assurance in open online education: OER and MOOC URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/oer-quality-assessment/ CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190219T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T211015Z UID:9758-1550534400-1550534400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Education 2030 - Open knowledge\, skills\, attitudes and values in Europe and the world DESCRIPTION:Short presentations & panel discussion\nWatch the recording \nModerator: Sandra Kucina Softic\, EDEN Vice-president\, SRCE \nDescription: \nEducation and learning are changing and developing on the basis of a range of drivers and technology is among the most prominent of these. Educators will increasingly find themselves in an environment in which there is an overload of information\, and so their tasks will\, among other things\, move to evaluating information effectively\, selecting teaching content wisely and helping learners to cope with information of different value and reliability. The Council of the EU recently acknowledged that\, together with literacy and numeracy\, a digital competence is crucial for accessing and progressing in the labour market and engaging in further education and training. In a changing world and a more unpredictable future\, lifelong learning is becoming a central element in people’s lives\, and digital learning is in many cases already making this more accessible\, flexible and cheaper. As open education models grow in prominence\, efforts should move towards making teacher-developed content and materials more widely available. Join us in the discussion on future of education in next decade. \nSpeakers: \n\nAirina Volungevičienė\, EDEN president\, Vytautas Magnus University\, Lithuania – What does it mean to open up education? Lessons learnt and challenges raised\nMorten Flate Paulsen\, EDEN Senior Fellow\, ICDE – Open leadership. Mapping and tracking global initiatives\nSvetlana Knyazeva\, EDEN Fellow\, UNESCO IITE – Openness of education: Urgent need for recognizing OER-based learning outcomes in Europe and worldwide\nKatrien Bardoel\, NUFFIC – e-Valuate Effective Policies for Recognition of New Forms of Online Learning\nPaul Bacsich\, EDEN Fellow\, Matic Media Ltd and Sero Consulting Ltd – Do we have a business model for openness in Europe?\n\n  \n  URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/education-2030-open-knowledge-skills-attitudes-and-values-in-europe-and-the-world/ CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190219T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T082759Z UID:9757-1550534400-1550534400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Open Education Week 2019 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. \nWith the success of previous years’ Open Education Weeks in the background\, EDEN once again organised a very successful online event this March. The high online attendance and exceptional webinar sessions were truly inspiring to experience. \nThis year 5 webinars with 370 registered participants were held. The participants came from 38 different countries including 16 countries from outside Europe from Canada to Argentina\, from South Africa to Australia\, encompassing all continents and demonstrating a strong geographical coverage and a substantial outreach. \nAltogether 28 facilitators contributed to the successful implementation of the ambitious programme\, among them representatives of UNESCO\, ICDE and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. EDEN thanks the valuable contribution of the facilitators and trusts that the initiative contributed to the European dialogue about the state and the future of Open Education. \nAll participants and facilitators received EDEN open badges for their contribution. Presenters’ slides can be viewed on EDEN’s SlideShare page. \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-2019″ part=”conference” masonry=true] \n\nEducation 2030 – Open knowledge\, skills\, attitudes and values in Europe and the world\nMonday\, 4 March 2019\, 13:00 CET \nFormat: Short presentations & panel discussion\nModerator: Sandra Kucina Softic\, EDEN Vice-president\, SRCE\nSpeakers: Airina Volungevičienė\, Morten Flate Paulsen\, Svetlana Knyazeva\, Katrien Bardoel\, Paul Bacsich\nPlease click here for a more detailed description of the event \nWatch the recording \n\nThe story of the Open University in Europe and the world\nTuesday\, 5 March 2019\, 13:00 CET \nFormat: Panel discussion\nModerator: Mark Brown\, EDEN EC member\, EDEN Fellow\, Dublin City University\, Ireland\nSpeakers: Liz Marr\, Josep M. Duart\, Sarah Guri-Rosenblit\, Antonio Teixeira\nPlease click here for a more detailed description of the event \nWatch the recording \n\nOngoing initiatives for Open Education in Europe\nWednesday\, 6 March 2019\, 13:00 CET \nFormat: Presentation & discussion\nModerator: Lisa Marie Blaschke\, EDEN Senior Fellow\, Chair of EDEN Council of Fellows\, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg\, Germany\nSpeakers:  Andreia Inamorato\, Jochen Ehrenreich\, Raimund Hudak\, Airina Volungevičienė\, Elena Caldirola\, Grainne Conole\nPlease click here for a more detailed description of the event \nWatch the recording \n\nOER quality assessment\nThursday\, 7 March 2019\, 13:00 CET \nFormat: Presentation and discussion\nModerator: Antonella Poce\, EDEN Fellow\, EDEN NAP SC Chair\, University Roma III\, Italy\nSpeakers: Gemma Tur Ferrer\, Ulf- Daniel Ehlers\, Ebba Ossiannilsson\, Neil Butcher\, Diana Andone\, Antonella Poce\, Svetlana Knyazeva\nPlease click here for a more detailed description of the event \nWatch the recording \n\nResearching openness – evidence-based approach\nFriday\, 8 March 2019\, 13:00 CET \nFormat: Panel discussion\nModerator: Josep M. Duart\, EDEN Vice-president for Research\, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya\, Spain\nSpeakers: Antoni Pérez\, Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl\, Andrea Saltelli\, Paul Prinsloo\nPlease click here for a more detailed description of the event \nWatch the recording \nFor more events during the Open Education Week\, visit the official website. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/open-education-week-3/ CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181109T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181110T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T104428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T053225Z UID:9625-1541721600-1541808000@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2017 Kaunas DESCRIPTION:About the conference:\nThe conference aims to discuss the challenges of open professional collaboration in higher\, adult\, school\, vocational education and company training and seeks to develop synergy among national\, regional\, European and global initiatives\, professional associations\, education and business partnerships. \nThe conference will discuss how the following topics and challenges are met in all levels of education: \n\nOpen Education: trends\, resources\, practices and challenges\nFrom Open Educational Resorces to Open Educational Practices\nOpen learning for personal\, professional and societal development\nDigitally competent teacher and learner\nTransforming curriculum for Open Classroom\n\nMore details will be revealed soon in the next EDEN Newsflash and on the Conference website. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/kaunas/ CATEGORIES:Open classroom conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181024T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181026T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T204729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T040717Z UID:9736-1540339200-1540512000@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2018 Barcelona DESCRIPTION:Conference Resources\nThe EDEN 10th Research Workshop – #EDENRW10 was rich in content and discussions\, which also raised attention on social media channels. We collected some of the most popular resources here \n\nBrowse photos of the conference\nCheck out the Research Workshop Tweets\nA Statement “Personalized Guidance and Support for Learning- EDEN 10th Research Workshop” has been presented at the closing session of the conference which you can read here.\nRead the Conference Proceedings\n\nBest Research Paper Award\nSince 2008\, EDEN has bestowed the Best Research Paper Award at its Annual Conferences and the bi-annual Research Workshops. \nA robust selection process guarantees the high-standing of these awards for contributions to the field of open\, distance and e-learning. The selection process takes place in collaboration with the Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Research in Open and Distance Learning\, with the support of a distinguished Jury. Read more and see previous winners here. \nThe Best Research Paper Award ceremony was held at the Conference Dinner and went to Elaine Beirne\, Conchúr Mac Lochlainn and Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl from Dublin City University\, Ireland for their paper: “Moody MOOCS: An Exploration of Emotion in an LMOOC“. \nCouncil of EDEN Fellows established\nAt the EDEN Fellows Meeting in Barcelona on October 24\, the establishment of the Council of EDEN Fellows was decided\, which includes all Fellows and Senior Fellows of EDEN. The Council serves in an advisory role to the EDEN EC\, as a think tank for future visioning\, and as ambassadors of EDEN. At the meeting\, the Fellows present agreed to establish a Board of the Council that comprises: Deborah Arnold\, Lisa Marie Blaschke\, Don Olcott\, Jr.\, Wim van Petegem\, Albert Sangra\, Christian Schumann\, Torhild Slaatto\, and Antonio Teixeira. \nLisa Marie Blaschke was chosen by the Fellows as Chair of the Board. \nCongratulations on a productive and successful meeting in Barcelona – and to the newly elected members of the Board of the Council of EDEN Fellows! \nRead more about the Fellows Council here. \n\nEDEN’s 2018 Workshop Towards Personalized Guidance and Support for Learning focused on the crucial and changing roles of teachers in supporting student learning in the digital world. This includes the creation of enabling conditions that encourage learning personalization\, learner agency and self-direction.\nExperiences of learner empowerment resulting from balanced “guide on the side” teaching\, timely teaching interventions\, consistent feedback and feedforward\, explicit teaching of learning-to-learn strategies\, assessment for learning\, and technology-based adaptive teaching will provide a substantive background for reflection and discussion. \nThe Scientific Committee encourages potential participants to either submit a paper in the main programme or an abstract proposal in the PhD Symposium. \nThemes\nHere are the research topics of interest: \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\n\nKeynote speakers\nNeil Selwyn\n \nNeil Selwyn is a professor in the Faculty of Education\, Monash University. His research and teaching focuses on the place of digital media in everyday life\, and the sociology of technology (non)use in educational settings. \nNeil has written extensively on a number of issues\, including digital exclusion\, education technology policymaking and the student experience of technology-based learning. He has carried out funded research on digital technology\, society and education for the Australian Research Council (ARC)\, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)\, British Academy\, the BBC\, Nuffield Foundation\, the Spencer Foundation\, Gates Foundation\, Microsoft Partners in Learning\, Becta\, Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT)\, Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN)\, Save The Children\, Centre for Distance Education\, the Welsh Office\, National Assembly of Wales and various local authorities in the UK. \nNeil was editor of the journal ‘Learning\, Media and Technology’ (2010-2016)\, and a regular keynote speaker at international conferences. Neil is a core member of the ‘Learning with New Media’ research group within Monash. \nResearch interests \n\nDigital technology and society\nThe use of digital technologies in educational settings\nThe role(s) that digital technologies play in people’s everyday lives\nDigital technology and social exclusion\nPublic policy making in the ‘information age’\n\nRelated Links: \n\nGoogle Scholar profile\nTwitter profile\nPapers available through SocArXiv\nPapers availble through Academia.Edu\n\nSanna Järvelä\nSanna Järvelä\, PhD\, is a professor in the field of learning and educational technology and a head of the Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit (LET) in the Department of Educational Sciences\, University of Oulu. Her main research interest deal with learning processes in technology-enhanced learning\, self-regulated learning and computer supported collaborative learning. Järvelä and her research group is internationally well known from theoretical advancement of motivation as a contextual phenomena and of social aspects of self-regulated learning. Her research work has also strong contribution to the methodological development of process oriented and qualitative research methods in the field of learning\, collaboration and motivation. She has been responsible leader of several international research projects funded by the Finnish Science Academy and her research group (LET) has been partner in the Networks of Excellence (NoE) KALEIDOSCOPE in the area of Technology Enhanced Learning. Järvelä has been an invited expert in different national (e.g. Ministry of Education) and international expert commissions (e.g. OECD and scientific organizations) as well keynote speaker in international conferences (e.g. EARLI and CSCL).During the year 2000-2001 she was visiting scholar in Kings’ College London\, UK. She has been an associate editor of Learning and Instruction (2010-2014). Currently is an Editor of Frontline Learning Research and Associate Editor in International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (ijCSCL) and editorial board member in several scientific journals (e.g. Educational Psychologist\, Educational Research Review). Järvelä has acted as an external examiner of dissertations in Finland and abroad (e.g. The Netherlands\, Australia and Hong Kong). She has been a member of Executive Committee of EARLI (2010-2014) and she is the Earli president elect (2015-2016). Currently Järvelä is a member of Oulu University Governing Board. In 2015 Järvelä was invited to the member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. She is the Franqui Chair holder at the Gent University Belgium for the year 2016.  Järvelä has published more than 100 scientific papers in international refereed journals and about 50 book chapters and three edited books. In the Oulu University 2014 Research Assessment Evaluation (RAE) her research group LET was ranked  5/6 in the highest vici category. \nResearch Interests \n\nMotivation and self-regulation in learning\nCollaborative learning\nComputer supported collaborative learning\nTechnology-enhanced learning\nOn-line learning processes and multimodal data in SRL\n\nRelated Links \n\nGoogle Scholar Profile\nTwitter profile\nBlog\n\n\nPhD Student Symposium\nA PhD Student Symposium will take 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 will be 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 will 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. Submit your abstract before 9 July 2018 using this form. The panel of international experts will review the abstracts and select students to participate. Students will be notified by 25 July 2018. Students will then need to prepare a short presentation (between 5-10 slides) before the symposium. \n \nStructure of the PhD Student Symposium\nThe students selected will have 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 will be a group discussion\, approximately 15-20 minutes per presentation\, to answer the questions asked by each participant or offer research advice. The seminar will be streamed live for online participants. \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. \nSubmission of applications\nAll applications must be sent via this form by the 9 July deadline. The list of successful applicants and the final programme will be made public after August 2018. \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\n\nOpen call for presentations: 12 September2018\nNotification of acceptance: 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\n\nContact details\nIf you have any queries\, or for further information\, please visit the EDEN Research Workshop website or email barcelona@eden-online.org. \nPartner & Venue\n \nOur Partner\, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)\, is an innovative online university rooted in Catalonia and open to the world\, sensitive to the diversity of the global environment and committed to empowering development and social change through education. The mission of the Faculty of Psychology and Education at UOC is to provide university-level\, initial and lifelong e-learning\, and to promote the creation and dissemination of knowledge in the fields of Psychology and Education. It is a referent on e-learning with more than 13.000 students on bachelor and master degrees. It also has the International master on Education and ICT (e-learning) with a large trajectory (14 years). The Faculty also has a UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for Social Change. \nConference Venue\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nThe conference venue is the Cosmocaixa Museum\, which offers its visitors a greater insight into the world of science. The museum building is just as fascinating as its contents. Cosmocaixa is a beautiful example of modernista architecture\, designed and built between 1904 and 1909 by Josep Domènech i Estapà. The modern extension carried out in 2004 highlighted the value of the century-old building while placing it in a new context. The building is just a few steps walk from the UOC main building\, where the Welcome Party will be held. \nConference Dinner Venue\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome and explore an evening inside Barcelona’s largest Gothic palace: Palau Requesens\, where the Conference Dinner will be held. Enjoy authentic medieval Catalan cuisine and entertainment that will take you back to the middle ages. The palace was built in the 13th century above the city wall of Barcelona\, and is named after the Requesens family\, who once owned it. \nBarcelona\n \nBarcelona\, “the city of Marvels” and the passionate capital of Catalonia in Spain\, situated between the sea and the mountains\, offers a unique balance between the traditional and the avant-garde. Its history is one of the oldests in Europe\, its present is full of life: the city has character and charm and one of the liveliest and most beautiful beaches in La Costa Brava. Barcelona harbours an abundant variety of artistic treasures\, including Romanesque churches and the works of some of the greatest painters and architects: Dali\, Gaudi\, Miro and Picasso. \nDetails\n  \nCosmocaixa \nAddress: Isaac Newton\, 26. \nTown: 08022 Barcelona. \nHow to get there: Bus 60\, 73\, 123 and 196.| Trains FGC: stop Av. Tibidabo + Tramvia Blau or bus 196. \n  URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/barcelona-3/ CATEGORIES:Research workshops END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181023T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085710 CREATED:20230227T205331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T204702Z UID:9755-1540252800-1540252800@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Considerations for Quality Assurance of e-Learning Provision DESCRIPTION:Format: Presentation/panel discussion\nDescription: The learning landscape looks completely different today than it did five years ago. The way that learners are learning is changing dramatically. Today learning is available anywhere\, and everywhere\, and through any kind of device. Mobile learning is the first choice for most people today. Within a context of globalization and the knowledge economy\, the quality of higher education is increasingly regarded as strategically important for national economic development and competitiveness. High quality and relevant higher education equips students with the knowledge\, skills and core transferable competences they need to succeed after graduation\, within a high-quality learning environment which recognizes and supports good learning and  teaching. The recommendations in the occasional paper on Considerations for quality assurance of e-learning provision by ENQA are applicable to all forms of e-learning\, i.e. learning which is facilitated through the use of ICT. Besides examining the applicability and relevance of the standards defined in the ESG 2015\, this document is meant to initiate discussion and the thinking processes of stakeholders involved\, e.g. HEIs\, QA agencies\, etc. Read more https://enqa.eu/indirme/papers-and-reports/occasional-papers/Considerations%20for%20QA%20of%20e-learning%20provision.pdf \nMoreover\, the TeSLA project will be discussed. The TeSLA system is a project funded by the European Commission. It will follow the interoperability standards for integration into different learning environment and it will be developed to reduce the current restrictions of time and physical space in teaching and learning\, which opens up new opportunities for learners with physical or mental disabilities as well as respecting social and cultural differences. https://tesla-project.eu \nIn addition\, the EDEN SIG on TEL and quality enhancement will be presented\, which aim is to advocate and work for renewing the quality agenda in education. Read more on EDEN SIG TE QE \nPresenters: \n\nEsther Huertas Hidalgo\, AQU Catalunya\, Spain\, The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)\nEbba Ossiannilsson\, EDEN Executive Committee Member\, EDEN Fellow Council Member\, Chair of the EDEN SIG on TEL & QE\n\nwatch the recording URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/considerations-for-quality-assurance-of-e-learning-provision/ CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR