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:20100101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170222T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170222T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230901T112700Z UID:9619-1487721600-1487721600@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Open education for refugees - Optimizing diversity through MOOCs DESCRIPTION:When: Wednesday 19 April\, 15.00-16.00 CET\nWhere: Online via Adobe Connect (link to the meeting room will be sent to all registered participants 1-2 days before the webinar)\nWebinar recording available here\nRefugees face legal\, linguistic\, cultural\, institutional and financial barriers to enter higher education. Furthermore\, traditional universities can only offer places to a certain number of students\, with funded places even rarer\, and seldom have the capacity to cope with large numbers of refugees in a short time. The lengthy process of seeking asylum is lost time for most refugees. Utilizing MOOCs to support refugees in entering HE or employment market is a strategy to currently being explored by various initiatives in line with ECs communication 2013 “wider use of new technology and open educational resources can contribute to alleviating costs for educational institutions and for students\, especially among disadvantaged groups”\n\nThe current Erasmus+ project MOONLITE (Massive Open Online courses eNhancing LInguistic and Transversal skills for social inclusion and Employability) aims to address the question of how open education\, in particular MOOCs\, can offer viable solutions for refugees and contribute to better integration and improved employment prospects.\nYou will meet\nJohn Traxler\n\nResearch Professor of Digital Learning in the Institute of Education at the University of Wolverhampton UK. He is one of the pioneers of mobile learning and has been associated with mobile learning projects since 2001. He has worked with UNRWA for the Palestinian refugee community and with Palestinian and Jordanian universities.\nJennifer Contreras\nProject Coordinator for Validation of Competency for Asylum Seekers and Refugees at the Department of Computer Science in Linnaeus University. She has been teaching information Technology/Computer Science subjects for 15 years in Asia and North Africa.\n\nBlogs: http://onl2015.blogspot.se/ and https://medium.com/@jen.almarasy\nPaula Morais\nDistance Education Expert for LASER Project\, led by British Council and financed by the EU\, aiming to engage Syrian refugees on online accredited courses and MOOCs\, in Jordan and Lebanon. She has been working as an  international consultant\, advisor\, lecturer and researcher on openness\, distance education and blockchain in Africa\, Middle East\, Caribbean\, for EU\, UNDP\, World Wide Web Foundation. Blog: https://theoerworld.wordpress.com/ . Currently researching on application of Human Centered Design to humanitarian crisis: https://pmorais66.wixsite.com/climbingdoors\nModerator: Alastair 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.\n\nTwitter: @alacre\n\nBlog: Corridor of uncertainty – reflections on technology and education\n\n \n\n\n\nThis webinar is organised by the Erasmus+ project MOONLITE\,  NVL Distans (Nordic Network for Adult Education)\, EDEN (European Distance and E-learning Network) and the Swedish Network for IT in Higher Education (ITHU).\n\n      \n\n  URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/open-education-for-refugees-optimizing-diversity-through-moocs/ CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170217T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170217T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230308T104107Z UID:9618-1487289600-1487289600@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:The power of silent learners in a group DESCRIPTION:When: 15 March 2017\, 15:00 – 16:00 CET\nWhere: Online via Adobe Connect (link to the meeting room will be sent to all registered participants 1-2 days before the webinar)\n\nThe recording of the webinar can be accessed here.\n\n How do we recognize silent learners?\n What are the needs of silent learners?\n How can we empower silent learners in a group context?\n\nThere are silent learners\, there are noisy learners\, and some are in between. Some learners are very fast and enthusiastic but become very quickly disillusioned\, whilst others start slowly\, think more without expressing themselves aloud but when they do open their mouths\, everyone listens.\n\nWe may sometimes believe that silent learners are not interested\, difficult to communicate with or maybe even lazy. But maybe we have to delay our judgement. In some countries introverts are considered as “normal” whilst extroverts are the ones with a problem.\n\nWhat happens when silent learners have to learn in groups? Can we help the group to understand the silent learner? Can we make the silent learner proud and more secure about her/his function in the collaboration process? Could we also encourage solitary learning in the group?\n\nJoin us to discuss these issues!\nPlease watch this short film before the webinar:\nSusan Cain: The power of introverts (TED 2012)\nYou will meet\nFrancisca Frenks\nIndependent expert in webinars and online learning and online collaboration at XWebinar.nl. Online facilitator for PBL-group9 of the Open Networked Learning project.\n\nE-mail: francisca@xwebinar.nl\n\nTwitter: @FranciscaF\n\nBlog: https://www.xwebinar.nl/blog/\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 Nordplus project on Silent Learners.\n\nTwitter: @alacre\n\nBlog: Corridor of uncertainty – reflections on technology and education\nJan Willem Kemper\n“Silent learner”\, tax consultant and (online) tax trainer at http://www.jwkemper.nl\n\nThis webinar is part of a Nordic Nordplus project\, Silent learners – Is lurking working?\, investigating how silent or peripheral learners can be better understood even in courses where participation is the focus.\n\n \n\n\n\nThis webinar is organised by NVL Distans (Nordic Network for Adult Education)\, EDEN (European Distance and E-learning Network) and the Swedish Network for IT in Higher Education (ITHU). URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/the-power-of-silent-learners-in-a-group/ CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161121T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161121T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230901T112249Z UID:9617-1479686400-1479686400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Critical thinking and technology DESCRIPTION:Resources\nThe recording of the webinar can be accessed here\, the webinar slides can be viewed on SlideShare.\n\nWhat is the webinar about and why should you participate?\n\nThere are social and cultural reasons which draw attention to critical thinking skills\, meant as essential drivers of creativity and innovation.\n\nDifferent documents recently issued by the European Commission highlight the main consequences of the economic crises on the population welfare. In particular\, a high risk of long term exclusion from labour market and society is denounced.\n\nThe key point is in fact that new skills are needed\, because traditional skills learnt at school and/or at university are partially losing their relevance as they do not seem to be applicable when the new work forces are facing nowadays’ demand for innovation and growth.\n\nWe have been developing different projects on the subject in our Department at University Roma Tre. The idea behind the project we are presenting here is therefore that of verifying the effectiveness of a model built to increase critical thinking skills through technology.\n\nWhat questions will be discussed?\n\n Could you define critical thinking?\n Do you consider it a mandatory 21st century skill?\n Do you think CT can be taught?\n If yes do you have experience in that?\n Can you tell us more?\n According to your experience\, can you see a role for TECHED to foster such abilities? Give a reason for yes or no.\n Which learning pedagogy carried out online could be more effective for CT development?\n Do you know about initiatives/projects regarding CT development on line?\n Do you consider this experience replicable in your setting?\n Do you have similar experiences to discuss?\n How do you think results can be improved?\n\nWho will you meet?\n\n\n\n\nAntonella Poce \n\n\nMaria Rosaria Re \n\n\nFrancesco Agrusti \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n  URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/critical-thinking-and-technology/ CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161107T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161107T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T205331Z UID:9616-1478476800-1478476800@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Quality in open\, online and technology enhanced learning DESCRIPTION:Recordings of the discussion are available here and here\nFormat: Presentations and discussion \nIntroduction: In this webinar we will discuss quality issues in open\, online and technology enhanced learning. Taking into account new developments and new challenges for education in the next decades\, we need to reconsider the concept and methods of quality assurance\, and even rethink the whole quality culture in open\, online and technology enhanced learning. In this webinar we will discuss what quality means\, what it entails to install a quality culture and how we can assure quality levels when  the learner takes the control of his or her learning in a global learning environment. Five presenters will give their perspective on quality issues\, and discuss with the audience how quality improvement will affect the future of open\, online and technology enhanced learning. \nPresenters: \n\nChallenges ahead for quality in open\, online and technology enabled learning – Dr. Ebba Ossiannilsson\, EDEN EC\, EDEN FELLOW and EDEN NAP\, Swedish Association for Distance Education\, Sweden\nTechnology enhanced learning integration into an organization: quality dimensions. – Airina Volungevičienė\, EDEN president\, Vytautas Magnus University\, Lithuania\nTowards a holistic and integrated view of quality in open\, online and technology enhanced learning – Nati Cabrera Lanzo\, UOC\nGetting course evaluations ‘just right’ – Dr Mark Nichols\, Director of Technology Enhanced Learning\, The Open University UK.\nQuality Assurance challenged by new modes of teaching – Secretary General George Ubachs\, EADTU\nEnhancing the Quality of the Pre-entry and On-Entry Student Experience for Online Learners – James Brunton\, Dublin City University URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/quality-in-open-online-and-technology-enhanced-learning/ CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161026T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161026T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T205341Z UID:9615-1477440000-1477440000@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Validation and recognition of non-formal open learning DESCRIPTION:Recording of the discussion is available here\nFormat: Presentation and discussions \nIntroduction: What about the education and learning that take place outside the school system? Today there are numerous ways to learn and importance of non-formal and informal learning is increasing. We are talking about lifelong learning and opening up education but still are reluctant to recognize online open learning. One commonly-voiced perception is that online education is still a second-rate form of education for education providers and employers. The recognition of non-formal and informal learning outcomes is among priorities of European Commission as well. \nThis was incentive for development of the Erasmus+ project ReOPEN (Recognition of Valid and Open Learning) which is just starting under the lead of Vytautas Magnus University\, Lithuania and project partners. The ReOPEN project aims to create instruments to develop validated open online learning for recognition of prior and non-formal learning. \nIn webinar we will give an overview on JRC policy report on “Validation of Non-formal MOOC – based Learning” and show examples of successful application of open learning for continuous professional staff development and employing examples of digital badge approach. Also this will be a good chance to present the project ReOPEN and its aims and goals. \nPresenters: \n\nThe OpenCred Report: exploring recognition of non-formal learning in MOOCs – Andreia Inamorato Dos Santos\, JRC Seville\, European Commission\n“Designing open and non-formal curriculum for recognition. ReOPEN project approach” – Airina Volungevičienė\,  Vytautas Magnus University\, Lithuania\n \nCARNet Moodle MOOC – a non-formal open learning opportunity for development of digital competences of Croatian teachers – Gordana Jugo\, CARNet URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/validation-and-recognition-of-non-formal-open-learning/ CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T094218Z UID:9614-1477353600-1477353600@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:European Distance Learning Week: European achievements and innovations DESCRIPTION:Recording of the discussion is available hereFormat: Panel debate and introduction to the week\n\nIntroduction: Innovations in the area of open\, distance and online learning have been shaping the landscape of education in Europe and the global world. Geographical boarders merged\, societies became digitalized and networked\, learning enriched and enhanced by technology application. Technology enriched learning became the tool to develop societies\, to implement sustainable development policies and to implement the mission of global education.\n\nWe must acknowledge the fact that European policy and ambitions are also now\, as never before\, closely followed by global organizations (such as Unesco and others) with the interest to transfer best practices to other countries in the world. European practices are in high demand\, for recognition and cooperation interest. European models of collaboration\, exchange and technology enhanced learning are ready and must be shared with the world.\n\nEDEN\, as European network of Academics and professionals working for 25 years in the field of open and distance learning\, recognizes European experience in integration of technological innovations in education as highly experienced\, solid\, and useful to be exploited and transferred to other countries in the world. In return\, European open and collaborative way to share experiences must generate feedback from other regions of the world to foster the developments of education innovations. This has already been proved through the cooperation with the US Distance Learning Association (USDLA)\, where both\, the US and Europe associations have shared and boosted their best practices during the National Distance Learning Week in the US\, and learnt from each other.\n\nTherefore\, EDEN calls European education policy makers and education providers to participate in European Distance Learning Week (DLW).\n\nThe opening webinar of the week at 13:00 – 14:30 CET on November 7\, 2016\, will embrace the online panel discussion among Senior leaders of EDEN network of Academics and Professionals\, policy makers and the leaders from other European associations – to discuss:\n\n Why do we need European DLW and where it comes from?\n What are the innovations in Europe in the area of open\, distance and online learning that have been dominating European landscape of education for the last 10 years?\n What are the best practices and the strengths of Europe that went through the development\, the transformation process and have been integrated in education organizations for the mainstreaming?\n Why challenges these innovations raised for education policy and education providers and how European policy of education addresses these challenges today?\n What is the future of European leadership in open\, distance and online learning?\n\nPanel speakers:\n\n Sharon Goldstein\, USDLA\, Marci Powell\, USDLA\n Denis Crowley WG2020\n Brian Jurczyk-Arnold\, LLLP  (TBC)\n Brikena Xhomaqi\, Director\, LLL Platform\n Sebastian Horndasch\, programme manager at Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (German Forum for Higher Education in the Digital Age)\n Alek Tarkowski\, OER Policy forum\n Wim Van Petegem\, EDEN Vice President\, KULeuven\n Lisa Marie Blaschke\, EDEN Vice President\, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg\n\n  URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/european-distance-learning-week-european-achievements-and-innovations/ CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161017T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161017T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T205415Z UID:9612-1476662400-1476662400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Evolving Open Education: life beyond MOOCs DESCRIPTION:Recording of the discussion is available here\nFormat: Presentations and discussion \nAgenda: \n\nThe context: Open Education in Europe today and tomorrow\, Yves Punie\, Andreia Inamorato Dos Santos\, JRC Seville\, European Commission\nOpen Education at the micro level: “Use of MOOCs in Traditional Classroom: Blended learning Approach”\, Antonia Bralic\, Blazenka Divjak\, University of Zagreb\, Croatia\nOpen Education at the meso level: “Guidance for decision makers in developing a OER strategy”\, Lisa Marie Blaschke\, University of Oldenburg\, Germany\nOE at the macro level: “How could policy help”\, Alan Tait\, The Open University\, UK URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/evolving-open-education-life-beyond-moocs/ CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161017T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161017T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T205432Z UID:9613-1476662400-1476662400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Digital skills in teaching and learning – are we on the right track? DESCRIPTION:Recording of the discussion is available here\nDeirdre Hodson’s presentation\nFormat: Reflection on New Digital Skills Agenda from Different Countries \nIntroduction: Information and Communication technologies have become in a short period of time the basic element of modern society which leads to pressing demand for digital skills and competencies. More and more jobs require knowing of ICT\, and at the same time great number of people in EU do not yet have basic digital skills. It is predicted that in 10 years all professions\, although not directly connected with ICT\, will require digital skills in order to improve their efficiency.  Therefore it is of great importance to ensure modern and quality education which will enable future employees’ knowledge and competencies needed for the 21st market. \nThe European Commission has adopted a new Skills Agenda for Europe. The agenda aims to make sure that people develop the skills necessary for the jobs of today and tomorrow. The agenda calls on European Union countries and stakeholders to improve the quality of skills and their relevance for the labour market. It looks to reduce the number of Europeans lacking adequate reading\, writing\, numeracy and digital skills. \nThe aim of this webinar is to reflect on new skills agenda and to get European countries’ view on need for digital skills\, especially from the educational perspective. \nPresenters: \n\nTackling the digital skills gap in the EU – policies and programmes\, Deirdre Hodson\, Policy Officer\, European Commission DG Education and Culture\n\nDeveloping digital skills – a bottom-up strategy in Romania\, Diana Andone\, Director of the eLearning Center at the Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania\n\nGetting connected: Enhancing digital competences through curriculum internationalization in higher education\, Helga Dorner\, Centre for Teaching and Learning at the Central European University\, Hungary\n\nDigital skills in teaching and learning: the case of Spain\, Montse Guitert Catasús\, Director\, Digital Competencies Program (psychology and science education)\, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya\, Spain\n\nInnovations and challenges in technology enhanced learning: teacher perspectives\,  Margarita Teresevičienė\, Airina Volungevičienė\, Lithuanian Distance and eLearning (LieDM) association URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/digital-skills-in-teaching-and-learning-are-we-on-the-right-track/ CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161013T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161013T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9611-1476316800-1476316800@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2017 Jönköping DESCRIPTION:EDEN 2017 Annual Conference – #eden17\nDiversity Matters!\n13-16 June\, Jönköping\, Sweden\n#eden17 – 2017 EDEN Annual Conference has welcomed over 200 delegates from 36 countries to the beautiful city of Jönköping\, at the Jönköping University.\n \n  \nThe conference was hosted by the Jönköping University in co-operation with Destination Jönköping \n\nThe themes of the conference were:\n\nTheory questions of diversity in ICT enhanced learning\nConcept and practice of diversity in different socio-cultural environments\nHow many sorts of diversity? – learners’ attitudes\, needs\, media\, socio-economic background\, disadvantaged settings…\nDiversity and open learning environments\nLearning and the changing socio-economic demands of society in the age of large scale migration\nChallenges for teachers in the changing media landscapes in creating new contexts for learning\nPortfolios and solutions created by the new media and technology for lifelong learning\nChanging attitudes\, behaviours and roles of learners in the emerging media and technology landscapes in formal and informal settings\nDigital pedagogy approaches to manage diversity in media and technology enhanced learning\nInclusion and motivation of learner groups facing societal integration problems\nEfficiency and effectiveness of learning in environments characterised by high degree of diversity\nHow can learning analytics help in assessing and handling diversity in learners background and performance\nInnovative approaches to motivate and engage learners with different socio-cultural background\nHow educational framing\, from policy level down to the actual learning scenario\, allows for various types of ICT enhanced\, collaborative\, open\, distance education and e-learning\nBringing together the strengths of the past with the challenges of the present and opportunities for the future\nFinding and applying the right mix of information\, knowledge and creativity in educational settings\nStructural\, institutional and methodology answers of education to the employability problems\nImpacts of increasing complexity of stakeholder groups of education\n\n  \n\nEDEN Fellow and Senior Fellow Awards\nThe purpose of the EDEN Fellow scheme is to provide validation and support to professionals in Europe in the field of open\, distance and e-learning\, and to enhance their mobility within Europe through a respected scheme of recognition. \nThe first Senior Fellow and Fellow Awards\, launched on the initiative of Professor Alan Tait\, former EDEN President\, were presented at the 2007 Annual Conference in Naples. In 2017\, this tradition was continued in Jönköping\, at the Welcome Reception of the 2017 Annual Conference – #eden17. The 2017 Awards were announced to the Senior Fellows\, Fellows and Young Scholars present at the event\, while those who couldn’t join the Conference Reception were mentioned with applause. \nThe EDEN Senior Fellow Award was given in 2017\, based on the decision of the EDEN Executive Committee to: \nSteve Wheeler\nPlymouth University\, United Kingdom \nGila Kurtz\nBar Ilan University\, Israel \nJack Koumi\nEducational Media Production Training\, United Kingdom \nWim van Petegem\nKatholieke Universiteit Leuven\, Belgium \nThe EDEN Fellow Award was given in 2017\, based on the decision of the EDEN Executive Committee to: \nAnca Cristina Colibaba\nGrigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy\, Romania \nEva Szalma\nBudapest University of Technology and Economics\, Hungary \nMark Brown\nDublin City University\, Ireland \nAlastair Creelman\nLinnaeus University\, Sweden \n  \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 gala dinner and went to: \nGokcen Aydin\, Mithat Cicek\, Mustafa Gulec\nMiddle East Technical University\, Turkey\nfor the conference paper on Effects of Multimedia Feedback on Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions\, Self-Assessment\, and Academic Achievement \n  \n\nYoung Scholars Award\nThe award to young scholars has been offered at our Annual Conferences and Research Workshops since it’s introduction in 2014 in Oxford thanks to the Ulrich Bernath Foundation and the Oldenburg University. \nThe Young Scholar Award was given in 2017\, based on the decision of the SADE\, the Swedish Association for Open and Distance Learning to: \nNikola Kadoic\nUniversity of Zagreb\, Croatia \nSee past winners here. \n  \n\nEDEN Badges\nThe European Distance and E-Learning Network has extended its quality and excellence recognition with the launch of open badges which aim to help colleagues within the EDEN Network to communicate their achievements and skills acquired via their participation in EDEN activities. See more here. \n  \n\n\n\nVideos\, photos\, presentations and resources\nThe 2017 EDEN Annual Conference – #eden17 was rich in content and discussions\, which also raised attention on several media channels. We collected some of the most popular resources here. \nRe-watch the plenary sessions:\n \n\nPlenary session livestream – Wednesday – Mats Jägstam\, Airina Volungeviciene\, Stefan Hrastinski\, Manjula Srinivas\, Frans Mäyrä\nPlenary session livestream – Thursday – Mark Brown\, Georgi Dimitrov\, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén\, Rosie Jones\, Jean-Marie Filloque\, Paul Taillefer\nPlenary session  livestream – Friday – Sandra Kucina Softic\, Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen\, Hanqin Qiu\, Willem van Valkenburg\, Airina Volungeviciene\n\nBrowse photos of the Conference \nKenote presentations available online \nDaily #eden17 Social Media Digest: \n\nTuesday\nWednesday\nThursday\nFriday\n\n#EDENChat: How to conduct an academic chat via twitter –  live from the conference URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/jonkoping/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161013T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161013T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T065946Z UID:9609-1476316800-1476316800@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:NDLW - EDEN Contributions DESCRIPTION:The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) annual National Distance Learning Week will be held on 7-11 November\, 2016. After our successful collaboration last year\, EDEN is yet again proud to be the global partner of the event\, and contribute to the official programme with webinars on teacher creativity (K12 focus)\, educational leadership (HE focus)\, open badges and home and hospital education. \nThe webinars on Tuesday\, Wednesday and Thursday will be held in EDEN’s Adobe Connect room\, while Friday’s webinar will be held in the LeHo project’s own Adobe Connect room. If you are not familiar with this tool\, please log in before the start to test and adjust your settings\, an EDEN colleague will be there to support you. \nTuesday\, 8 November 2016\, 9:00-10:00 EST or 15:00-16:00 CET \nAnimation creation as a learning tool \nModerator: Kriszta Mihályi\, Director of Operations\, EDEN\nRecording of the webinar \nThe aim of animation creation as a learning tool (pedagogical method for K-12) is to create short animated films\, working in small groups by using simple technology\, to cover a specific topic of the curriculum. The purpose is NOT to produce artistic pieces of work but to experiment and enjoy the process and the result of creation. \nThe greatest value of the method is its power to motivate pupils/students in learning and the effect on the development of their 21st century skills such as communication\, creativity\, cooperation and critical thinking. The method has been developed and tested within the context of several consecutive European projects initiated and lead by the Danish animation Workshop and the experts of Aalborg University (led by Prof. Lisa Gjedde): ‘Teaching with Animation’ (2005-2007); ‘Animated Science’ (2007- 2009); ‘Animated Learning’ (2009-2011). The method was transferred to the Hungarian context applied for the facilitation of learning in vocational schools within the ‘AnimClass’ (2011-2013) project\, coordinated by the Corvinus University of Budapest (Kriszta Mihalyi and Kata Kovacs). \nWednesday\, 9 November 2016\, 9:00-10:00 EST or 15:00-16:00 CET \nTransforming Universities for the Digital Age: policies\, business models\, resources\nModerator: Dr. András Szűcs\, Secretary General\, EDEN\nRecording of the webinar \nThe goal of D-TRANSFORM is to implement a training program for leaders of European universities (presidents\, vice-presidents) focusing on the major role played by digital technologies and Open Educational Resources (OER) in the necessary transformation of their institutions. The premise is that e-education (digital pedagogy and training) can become a strategic tool for European universities\, enabling them to be pedagogically more effective\, more cost-effective\, more attractive and able to meet the needs of the professional world with regard to youth training and life-long learning. \nDuring this webinar we will focus on a comparative survey between Spain\, France\, Italy and the United Kingdom on public digital policies and an overview on the business models for opening up education – Sustainability of MOOCs\, OER and related online education approaches in higher education in Europe. We will be also try to answer the question of whether Open Educational Resources are a lever for digital transition of higher education. \nThursday\, 10 November 2016\, 9:00-10:00 EST or 15:00-16:00 CET \nHow to design open badges? \nModerator: Ildikó Mázár\, Deputy Secretary General\, EDEN\nRecording of the webinar \nSome may be advocates\, while other are skeptics\, but these days most educational practitioners are familiar with the concept of open badges. So you know how they are being used but do you want to learn how to create your own open badges? This practical webinar\, that is a preliminary teaser of a more comprehensive MOOC being developed by the Open Badge Network project\, will fast track you through the open badge design process. \nThe aim of the one-hour session is to highlight how open badges can serve to promote the acquisition and demonstration of soft skills demanded by the 21st century labour market. You will be allowed\, and are encouraged\, to make your own choice of badge-able skill\, competence\, achievement or event and begin the work with a head start by downloading and printing the open badge canvas to familiarise yourself with the steps of the design process. If you do not have the time to prepare\, you can simply follow the moderator’s demonstration. \nFriday\, 11 November 2016\, 9:00-10:00 EST or 15:00-16:00 CET \nCreating meaningful learning for children with a medical condition: Key educational factors and related ICT solutions\nModerator: John Dennis\, Universitá di Perugia\nRecording of the webinar \nMeaningful learning for children with a medical condition starts with understanding the Key Educational Factors (e.g. Relationships\, Making sense and constructing knowledge). These factors\, while universal for the education of every child\, take on new meaning for children with medical needs. Two focus groups were completed to better understand the role of these factors for the education of children with medical needs and how ICT implementation might help in the process of recognising and remedying these factors. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/ndlw-eden-contributions/ CATEGORIES:Other EDEN contributions,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161013T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161013T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T205446Z UID:9610-1476316800-1476316800@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:European Distance Learning Week DESCRIPTION:In cooperation with the National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) in the US\, organised by the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)\nAfter a successful partnership between EDEN and USDLA in organizing National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) in the US in 2015\, EDEN organised the first European Distance Learning Week (EDLW)\, further expanding upon its collaboration with the US and other EDEN international partnerships. \n5 webinars with 354 registered participants were held. The participants came from 41 different countries including 15 countries from outside Europe from Canada to Brazil\, from South Africa to Nepal\, encompassing all 4 continents (Europe\, Asia\, Africa\, America)  and demonstrating a strong geographical coverage and a substantial outreach. \n123 participants eventually turned up. 27 facilitators contributed to the successful implementation of this initiative\, among them representatives of the European Commission and the Lifelong Learning Platform. EDEN thanks the valuable contribution of the facilitators and hope that this initiative successfully contributed to the European dialog about the present state and the future of open and distance learning. All participants and facilitators receive EDEN open badges for their contribution. \nThe presenters’ slides can be viewed on EDEN’s SlideShare page\, while the recordings can be accessed through the webinars’ separate pages. \nBased on the success of the first year\, we hope that we can maintain the interest in the subject and European Distance Learning Weeks will be organised also in the coming year. \n[postlist count=-1 pt=”eden_conference” tax_name=”eden_conference_category” term_slugs=”edlw-2016″ part=”conference” masonry=true] \n\nOther contributions from European education organisations to European Distance Learning Week organised by EDEN\nEducation Policy and Digitalization\nMonday\, November 7\, 2016\, 14:00-15:00 CET\nTitle: Across the German borders: Digital Higher Education in the EU\nVirtual venue address\nFormat: Presentation and discussions\nModerator: Philip Meyer\, research associate at e-teaching.org\nPresenters: Prof. Dr. Ulf Ehlers (Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg)\, Christine Redecker (Institute for Prospective Technological Studies\, IPTS\, Sevilla)\, Sandra Kucina Softic\, ( EDEN Vice-President)\nRecording of the discussion is available here \nNational webinar by SADE The Swedish Association for Distance Education\,  Sweden\nFriday\, November 11\, 2016\, 14:00-15:00 CET\nTitle: The Open University at Åbo (Turku) Akademi University and Novia University of Applied Sciences\, Finland\nFormat: Presentation and discussions\nModerator: Ebba Ossiannilsson\, EDEN EC\, EDEN Fellow and EDEN NAP\, Swedish Association for Distance Education\, Sweden\nPresenters: Majlen Saarinen\,  Educational Director at the Centre for Lifelong Learning at Åbo (TURKU) Akademi University and Novia University of Applied Sciences\, FINLAND\nRecording of the discussion is available here \nEDEN also contributes to USDLA National Distance Learning Week with additional webinars. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/european-distance-learning-week/ CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230411T052232Z UID:9608-1475539200-1475712000@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2016 Oldenburg DESCRIPTION:Home |Scope | Themes | Structure of Sessions | Call for Contributions | Submission Categories | Submission Guidelines | Submission\nBuilding on the success of our thematic conference 2 years ago in Oxford\, EDEN organised EDENRW9 in collaboration with the Institute of Education and the Center for Lifelong Learning at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg in Oldenburg\, Germany. \nThe workshop themes were organized along three broad lines of ODL research proposed by Zawacki-Richter and Anderson (2014). The issues and topics on each level addressed but were not limited to the following research areas. \n\nEmerging Distance Education Systems and Theories (Macro-Level)\, for example:\n\nAdaptive DE  systems\nLifelong and self-determined learning\nGlobalization and international education\nTheories and models of DE\nHistory and trends in DE research\n\n\nManagement and Organization Models and Approaches (Meso-Level)\, for example:\n\nOpen educational strategies\nLearning analytics\nStudent and faculty support\nCost models for scalability\nQuality assurance\nLifelong learning\, adult education\, VET\, and open universities\n\n\nEvolving Practices in Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching (Micro-Level)\, for example:\n\nLearner experience design\nPersonal learning environments\nDigital identities and social networks\nBlended learning\nRhizomatic learning\nFlipped classrooms\nAssessment\, e.g.\, prior learning assessment\, badges\nCompetency-based education\nOpen learning\, open educational resources\, and MOOCs\n\n\n\nKeynote speakers were: \n\nOlaf Zawacki-Richter (Germany)\, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg\nPaul Prinsloo (South Africa)\, University of South Africa\nInge de Waard (UK)\, Open University UK\nGeorge Veletsianos (Canada)\, Royal Roads University\nAdnan Qayyum (USA)\, Pennsylvania State University\nIsa Jahnke (USA/Germany)\, University of Missouri\nSom Naidu (Australia)\, Swinburne University of Technology\n\nAwards and recognitions\nThe EDEN Fellow Award was given in 2016\, based on the decision of the EDEN Executive Committee to: \nOlaf Zawacki-Richter\nUniversity of Oldenburg\, Germany \nThe EDEN 2016 Best Research Paper Award for the conference paper “Use of moocs in traditional classroom: Blended learning approach” was granted to \nAntonia Bralić & Blaženka Divjak\nUniversity of Zagreb\, Croatia \nThe Young Scholar Support was granted to \nElisa Bruhn\, for the conference paper “Towards a Framework for Virtual Internationalization”\nAntonia Bralić for the conference paper “Use of moocs in traditional classroom: Blended learning approach”\nShaiffadzillah Omarali for the conference paper “Investigating the Effectiveness of the ‘Online Learner Profiling Questionnaire’ in Generating a Profile of Learners Based on Learner Dispositions: a Pilot Study”\nKristie Naidoo for the conference paper “Integration of Learning Analytics in Blended Learning Course at a University of Technology” \nVideos\, presentations and resources\nThe 9th EDEN Research Workshop – #EDENRW9 was rich in content and discussions. We collected some of the most popular resources here. \n\nRe-watch the plenary sessions on EDEN’s YouTube channel.\nKenote presentations available online\nThe detailed programme is downloadable here.\nThe 2016 Best Research Paper is downloadable here.\nVisit our photo gallery of the event here. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/oldenburg-2/ CATEGORIES:Research workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eden-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/edenRW9_logo_blue_outline-bckgrnd.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160701T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160701T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9607-1467331200-1467331200@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2016 Budapest DESCRIPTION:#eden16 – 2016 EDEN Annual Conference has welcomed over 310 delegates from 37 countries to the beautiful city of Budapest\, at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. \nThe themes of the conference were:\n\nVisions\, concepts about how the new learning environments could be\nResearch about experiences of MOOC participants\nEvolution of the concepts of openness and scalability in education\nCitizenship\, social approach and historical approach to new learning environments\nOpening up education:\n\n initiatives\, policies\,\nprojects\, examples of good practices\,\nnew business models and policies\,\n\n\ndifferent ways to understand technological influences\, new ways to interpret the collaborative and social-networked society we live in\nlearning and the changing socio-economic demands of society\nthe potential of the professional and academic digital community to contribute to breakthrough of modernisation\nLearning environments – in their widest interpretation: digital\, physical\, networked\, pedagogical\, social\, cultural\, economic…\nlearning environments and learning organisations\nPLEs and blended learning environments.\n “e-competences and e-skills” – Competences for learning and working in an open\, connected world\nlearning environments being broader than the educational context – society as a learning environment itself\nhow tradition-based theory and practice can influence the new developments\, and what their role may be in the new learning environments\n\nAwards and recognitions\n\nThe first Senior Fellow and Fellow Awards\, launched on the initiative of Professor Alan Tait\, former EDEN President\, were presented at the 2007 Annual Conference in Naples. In 2016\, this tradition was continued in Budapest\, at the Welcome Reception of the 2016 Annual Conference – #EDEN16. \n\nThe 2016 Awards were announced to the Senior Fellows\, Fellows and Young Scholars present at the event\, while those who couldn’t join the Conference Reception were mentioned with applause. \nThe EDEN Senior Fellow Award was given in 2016\, based on the decision of the EDEN Executive Committee to: \nDeborah Arnold\nUniversity of Burgundy\, France \nRory McGreal\nCentre for Distance Education at Athabasca University\, Canada \nAntonio Teixeira\nUniversidade Aberta\, Portugal \nThe EDEN Fellow Award was given in 2016\, based on the decision of the EDEN Executive Committee to: \nPaul Bacsich\nSero Consulting Ltd.\, United Kingdom \nAntonella Poce\nUniversity Roma III\, Italy \nTorhild Slattoo\nFlexible Education Norway (FuN)\, Norway \nElsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen\nAalborg University\, Denmark \nBelinda Tynan\nRoyal Melbourne Institute of Technology\, Australia \nThe Young Scholar Award was given in 2016\, based on the decision of the EDEN Executive Committee to: \nDávid Sík\nBudapest University of Technology and Economics\, Hungary \nÁgnes Gaul-Ács\nKAPTÁR Visual Arts Workshop and Archive \nThe Best Practice Initiative Award ceremony was held at the conference gala dinner and went to: \nNelson Ribeiro Jorge\, Willem Frederik van Valkenburg and Sofia Dopper\, \nDelft University of Technology\, The Netherlands\nfor the conference paper on The TU Delft Online Learning Experience: From Theory to Practice \nThe Best Research Paper Award\, also held at the conference gala dinner\, was given to: \nJieun Lim and Jennifer Richardson\, \nPurdue University\, United States of America\nfor the conference paper on How Social Networking Experience relates to Social Presence and attitude of Using SNS in education \nRead more about the our recognitions and awards here \nIn 2016\, the European Distance and E-Learning Network celebrates the 25th Anniversary of its establishment. As a part of our celebrations\, special 25th Anniversary Recognitions were awarded during the Conference Gala Dinner. \nEDEN 25th Anniversary Globe \nAwarded to our most outstanding colleagues who have consistently supported EDEN throughout the last 25 years and made decisive contributions to the foundation\, consolidation and growth of the Association: \n\nSir John Daniel\nAlan Tait\nUlrich Bernath \nAward of Institutional excellence \nEDEN acknowledges with special thanks the continuous valuable support to the development  of the Association over the years and the international collaboration in open\, distance and e-learning of: \nThe Open University\, UK. The award was received on behalf of the institution by Mark Nichols.\nUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya\, Spain. The award was received on behalf of the institution by Marta Aymerich.\nEllinogermaniki Agogi\, Greece. The award was received on behalf of the institution by Sofoklis Sotiriou.\nFlexible Education Norway. The award was received on behalf of the institution by Torhild Slåtto. \nCertificate of honour awarded by the Executive Committee to: \nIngeborg Bø\nTamás Lajos\nAri-Matti Auvinen\nErling Ljosa \nfor their leadership and consistent support to EDEN throughout the years\, contributing in a significant way to the development of the Association and its international collaborations in open\, distance and e-learning. \nCertificate of excellence was awarded to \nAnna Wagner \nfor her long term exceptional commitment\, the smart and generous contributions to the success of the Association over the years. \n\nVideos\, photos\, presentations and resources\nThe 2016 EDEN Annual Conference – #eden16 was rich in content and discussions\, which also raised attention on several media channels. We collected some of the most popular resources here. \nRe-watch the plenary sessions:\n\n\nPlenary session livestream – Wednesday – Sir John Daniel\, János Józsa\, Antonio Teixeira\, Deborah Arnold\, Tony Bates\, Lesley Wilson\nPlenary session livestream – Thursday – Ingeborg Bø\, Antonio Teixeira\, Yves Punie\, Melissa Highton\, Danny Arati\, Susan Aldridge\nPlenary session  livestream – Friday – Andrea Karpati\, Michael G. Moore\, Cristóbal Cobo\, Steve Wheeler\, Tony Bates\, Olaf Zawaczki-Richter\, André Petzold\n\nBrowse our photo album of the conference\nKenote presentations available online\nDaily #EDEN16 Social Digest:\nWednesday morning\nWednesday afternoon\nThursday morning \nThursday afternoon \nFriday morning and afternoon \nRead Sir John Daniel’s Conference Gala Dinner Speech URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/budapest-2/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150918T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150921T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T104032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T074307Z UID:9606-1442534400-1442793600@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2015 Athens DESCRIPTION:Dates: 18-21 September 2015 \n\nVenue: Ellinogermaniki Agogi\, Athens\, Greece\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe EDEN Open Classroom 2015 Athens is the initiative of EDEN supported by the ERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union. The publications reflect the authors’ views\, the EACEA and the European Commission are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information they contain. \n\n\n\n\n \nLivestream Recordings: watch the Youtube Playlist\n \n\n\n\n\nOn the web\n\n\nDownloadables\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttp://eden.ea.gr/ \n\n\nProgramme\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\n\nKeynote presentations\n\n\nProceedings\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\nProceedings online\n\n\nBest Practice Initiative Award Winner\n\n\nThemes\n\n\n\nPicture Gallery\n \nAbout Open Classroom\n\n\n\n \n#occathens Tweets \nBackground\nEDEN and Ellinogermaniki Agogi co-organised a three-day international conference in September 2015 in Athens. \nThe event earmarked the next occasion in the EDEN Open Classroom Conference series with the involvement and support of thematically significant EU co-funded projects. The Conference incorporates the final event of the Digiskills project\, a European project demonstrating ways to involve school communities in innovative teaching and learning practices\, and empower teachers and trainers to use\, share and exploit unique resource. The timing also made several of the conference activities the first steps in the sustainability of the Open Discovery Space project\, one of the ever-largest EU co-funded educational networking initiative. \nThe hosting projects utilised their teacher communities and resources in the interest of a professional event\, offering free training opportunities and promoting their best teaching practices. The trainings provided were acknowledged by certifications. Based on its continuing success\, the EDEN “Synergy” strand was weaved into the programme in Athens as well\, adding a “project magnet” effect to the conference and enabling new partnerships to be created and old ones to be strengthened and expanded\, thanks to the active participation of a diverse audience. \nThe language of the conference was English\, where necessary\, translation was provided. \nInvitation\nEDEN has been organising the Open Classroom Conferences since 1997 with the support of the OCLR Working Group. The 2015 Athens Conference addressed the needs and necessities in search for Innovation in School Education. \nDevelopments in learning innovation and the impact of ICT on school education have presently been realised through many policy actions\, programme initiatives and projects. At the same time\, socio-economic challenges and the recent\, often critical scenarios ? social mobility\, migration\, globalisation\, multi-culture structures ? change the mandate of what we call Open School Education. \nThe search for new\, more effective school structures\, and the overcoming of broader challenges that societies are facing in their way towards the Knowledge Economy\, is uninterrupted. The demand is increasing for upgrade of quality\, in order to meet the needs for new competences and skills. It is proven that learning personalisation helps foster motivation and engagement\, so learning is becoming more and more individualised and self-managed even in institutional settings. \nThe EU has adopted policy initiatives like the Opening Up Education and formulated ambitious goals in the EU2020 programme\, for the school education sector as well. Still\, most Member States are striving to introduce innovation through resisting structures and hindering factors. \nTransforming systems to open environments will necessitate significant amendments to the existing teacher profiles in order to run a school system successfully. Through its range of presentations and activities the conference aims to contribute to the social\, political and research dialogue\, addressing the new complexities\, contexts and resources. The exploration of what makes school education innovative will be enhanced by practical activities demonstrating and demystifying those 21st century teacher skills and competences that are so often regarded as essential but intimidating. \nTo serve this double purpose the conference showcased and celebrated the excellence of teachers as “change agents” from all over Europe who ? having been involved with EU projects like ODS and DigiSkills ? developed (often from scratch) and/or improved their digital skills and competences by participating in online trainings and face to face summer schools\, workshops and competitions. All teachers yet novice to these innovative projects learned from these inspirational best practices and exploit the active community members’ experiences and achievements. \nDuring the 3 days participants benefitted from professional development opportunities by participating in a selection of the projects’ most popular trainings and webinars in a face to face setting\, while the Scholarly Contributions Day of the programme offered strands of paper presentations and Synergy sessions showcasing research and validated practices. \nThemes\n\nICT and digital media use in primary and secondary education\nDeveloping and improving learning to learn competences\nLearner support in ICT enhanced learning\nOpen Educational Resources and their use in education\nTeacher training\nLearners’ motivation\, needs and perceptions\nLearning psychology\, Learning software ergonomics\nLearning experience and collaborative-collective learning patterns\nThe power and pleasure of sharing\, fun of communicating in learning\nLearning as self-expression and the development of personality\nICTs as resources for innovations to improve learning experience\nVirtual reality\, Games for learning\, simulations\, media rich solutions\nQuality of learning and human resource management\, staff development\, teacher training\nMeasurement of learning effectiveness\nLearning quality and the quality management in education\nLearning quality and experience for disadvantaged student groups\n\nKeynotes and Programme\nThe conference approach and themes imply openness in choosing the topics and applying interactive session formats. Keynote sessions were live-streamed on Youtube. Recordings will be available soon. \nPPT presentations of keynote speeches by experts and educational policy-makers with specific focus on hot topics in innovation in educational settings: \n\n\nSotirios Glavas\nPresident of the Greek Institute of Educational Policy\, GreeceWelcome Address\nNelly Arvaniti\nSchool counsellor for Physical Education in Eastern Attica\, GreeceWelcome Address\nDemetrios G Sampson\nSenior and Golden Core Member IEEE\, Professor of Digital Systems in Learning and Education\, Dept of Digital Systems\, University of Piraeus\, Adjunct Research Fellow\, Information Technologies Institute\, Center for Research and Technology\, Editor-in-Chief\, Educational Technology & Society Journal\, GreeceSmart Educational Decision Support Systems for School Complexity Leadership: A Research Agenda for School Analytics (click for the PPT)\nJohn Garofalakis\nComputer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus”\, GreeceEnhancing Teachers’ Digital Skills (click for the PPT)\nFranz Bogner\nHead of Department\, Didactics of Biology\, University of Bayreuth\, GermanyOpen Educational Resources for Enviromental Education (click for the PPT)\nRosa Doran\nNUCLIO / GHOU / Portuguese Astronomical Society\, PortugalDeveloping Effective Teachers Communities\nAlan Bruce\nUniversal Learning Systems\, IrelandOpen to What?: the Future of European Education in the Digital Revolution (click for the PPT)\nAntónio Teixeira\nEDEN President\, Universidade Aberta\, PortugalOpening Up The Classroom – How Inspirational Ideas\, Creative Teachers and Innovative Tools are Changing Schools (click for the PPT)\n\n\nProgramme and Proceedings\nThe full program in pdf format can be downloaded from here. The Proceedings with all contributions and descriptions of good practices by innovative teachers are available here. \nThe programme started on Friday afternoon. with the first keynote speakers’ session followed by a Welcome Reception. On Saturday\, innovative teachers presented their work about a wide variety of subject from physics through safe internet use to supporting green careers. \nThe programme included Scholarly Contributions\, giving the floor to academics and professionals to present their research and validated practices\, these paper presentations introduced achievements\, reviews of existing results including empirical or theoretical studies\, policy reviews\, case studies or project outputs. \nThroughout the conference\, participants could choose and participate in various open schooling and teacher training events (see the titles in the programme table below). \nThe Synergy Strand aimed to facilitate the sharing of project deliverables\, research findings and experiences\, offering the participants an open platform to develop new or extended collaboration ideas and plans\, to create highly beneficial partnerships by engaging the conference audience in interactive working group activities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStart\nEnd\nFriday\nSaturday\nSunday\nMonday\n\n\n9:00\n9:30\n \nLessons Learnt from Large Scale Innovation Initiatives implemented in European Schools\n \nEDEN PapersD1 | D2 | D3\n\n\n9:30\n10:00\n\n\n10:00\n10:30\n\n\n10:30\n11:00\nCoffee Break\n\n\n11:00\n11:30\nCoffee Break\nInspiring Science Education:Introduction and Interactive Demonstration\n“Open to What?: the future of European Education in the digital revolution”Keynote followed by Open Panel Discussion–“Opening up the Classroom – How inspirational ideas\, creative teachers and innovative tools are changing schools”Introducing the EDEN badges and Best Practice Initiative Award Ceremony\n\n\n11:30\n12:00\nInnovative Teachers as Change Agents:Their Stories\n\n\n12:00\n12:30\nPresentation of the AESOP (Advanced Electronic Scenarios Operating Platform)\n\n\n12:30\n13:00\nCoffee Break\n\n\n13:00\n13:30\nLunch Break\nT.2.1: Social Media for Teaching and LearningT.2.2: Designing for Learning and Inclusion\nLunch Break\n\n\n13:30\n14:00\n\n\n14:00\n14:30\nT.1.1: Responsible Use and Cybersafe BehaviorT.1.2: Green Ideas 2015T.1.3: Fighting Against Bullying and DiscriminationT.1.4: How to Apply for E+ KA1 GrantT.1.5: Big Ideas of Science\nT.3.1: Using Open Badge Packs to Support Teaching Across the CurriculumT.3.2: ProsocialLearn\n\n\n14:30\n15:00\n\n\n15:00\n15:30\nRegistration\nCoffee Break\n\n\n15:30\n16:00\nEDEN PapersC1 | C2\n\n\n16:00\n16:30\nCoffee Break\nClosing Address from the EDEN PresidentFarewell Reception\n\n\n16:30\n17:00\nEDEN Synergy Session\n \n\n\n17:00\n17:30\n \n\n\n17:30\n18:00\nWelcome AddressandKeynote Panel\n\n\n18:00\n18:30\nAward Ceremony 1: Awarding the 18 presenting teachers\n\n\n18:30\n19:00\n \n\n\n19:00\n19:30\n\n\n19:30\n20:00\nWelcome Reception\n\n\n20:00\n20:30\n\n\n\nConference Publication\nAccepted contributions are published both in print and on the EDEN Portal in the ISBN-identified Conference Proceedings. The Proccedings is also downloadable from here . \nRegistration and Travel Arrangements\nThe registration has been closed. If you have any question concerning your registration\, please consult the Conference Secretariat at athens@eden-online.org. \nThe delegates had access to all conference facilities\, the printed ISBN-identified Conference Proceedings (including the Synergy “Book of Projects”)\, the Welcome Reception (18 September)\, all lunches and refreshments during the 3 days (19-21 September) of the conference. \nRegistered delegates’ hotel arrangement and conference venue transfer was supported by the travel Agency NIKAIA TRAVEL. \nSocial Events\nWelcome Reception\n  \nThe Welcome Reception was at 19:30 on Friday in the school premises\, Ellinogermaniki Agogi S.A. \n \nConference Dinner\n \nThe social dinner took place on Sunday 20 September at 20:30  at a traditional tavern in the Plaka area\, whithin walking distance of the Acropolis. \n  \n  \nDeadlines\nPresenters’ Registration: 31 August \nDetailed Programme: Early September \nRegistration closes: 15 September \nConference Dates: 18-21 September \nContact and Disclaimer\nThe expenses of attending the conference (travel and accommodation) are the responsibility of the author(s) or presenter(s) of accepted papers. The organisers do not offer funds to assist prospective authors. \nWould you need further assistance\, do not hesitate to contact the Conference Secretariat at athens@eden-online.org. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/athens-2015/ CATEGORIES:Open classroom conferences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eden-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2015-athens-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150615T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150615T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9604-1434326400-1434326400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2015 Barcelona DESCRIPTION:In the fast-changing landscape of learning\, technology and society in general\,  #EDEN15 – 2015 EDEN Annual Conference\, has welcomed over 380 delegates from 45 countries to the beautiful city of Barcelona\, to explore the expansion of learning scenarios driven by Open Education Practices\, massive online formats\, learning networks\, automated processes and learning analytics. \nThe event\, hosted by EDEN founding member UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) combined the celebration of the host organisation’s 20th anniversary with preparations for EDEN’s 25th anniversary next year. \nAmong the many themes addressed have been networked learning in open practices\, open education in all its forms\, leadership\, change management and strategic thinking. As was pointed out in the power trio keynote conversation between Belinda Tynan Pro-Vice Chancellor\, The Open University\, UK\, Marci Powell\, Chair Emerita and Past President\, USDLA and Darcy Hardy Associate Vice President\, Enterprise Consulting\, Blackboard: no vision ? no strategy ? no change. This echoes the opening keynote by Xavier Prats Monné\, Director-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission\, who encouraged us to think of another kind of education\, saying that ?the real challenge is innovation in public administration!? \nThe EDEN Annual conference is much more than just a large conference. It is an annual meeting of a dynamic community. As such it strives to offer a lively\, stimulating and much interactive forum\, with participants engaged in a variety of session formats\, from presentations and workshops to speed dating and synergy sessions\, the latter two focussing on networking opportunities and practice exchange. Over 220 additional experts and practitioners from all over the world followed the plenary sessions online\, via a live video stream. Social media was particularly active this year\, with the conference hashtag #EDEN15 generating over 1400 tweets on the first day of the conference alone\, which also saw the official EDEN Twitter account cracking the 1000 Followers barrier. \nAmong the associated events organised around the main conference was the International Editors’ Workshop In Educational Technology Journals\, the first ever summit of electronic journals on ICT enhanced learning. \nEDEN has been running its Fellows recognition scheme for over ten years now\, and this year introduced two new schemes\, the Young Scholars Award and the Best Practice Initiative. \nSenior Fellowships were awarded to: \nAlan Bruce\, Universal Learning Systems\, Ireland \nTerry Anderson\, Athabasca University\, Canada \nAlbert Sangra\, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya\, Spain \nRoberto Carneiro\, former Minister of Education\, Portugal \nFellows Awards were presented to: \nHelga Dorner\, Central European University\, Hungary \nTimothy Read\, UNED\, Spain \nYacoov Katz\, Professor Emeritus\, President\, Bar-Ilan University\, Israel \nIrina Smirnova\, MESI\, Russia \nMargarida Carmo\, Universidade Aberta\, Portugal \nEne Koitla\, Estonian e-Learning Development Centre\, Information Technology Foundation for Education\, Estonia \nThe first Young Scholar Awards were given to: \nDaniel Puntis\, Newcastle University\, UK and Lina Xue\, KU Leuven\, Belgium. \nThe new Best Practice Initiative Award and the Best Research Paper went to: \nHanne Voldborg Andersen and Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen\, Aalborg University\, Denmark\, \nfor the same paper\, a true sign of the quality of their work and the vital links between research and practice. \nVideos\, photos\, presentations and resources\nThe 2015 EDEN Annual Conference – #EDEN15 was rich in content and discussions\, which also raised attention on several media channels. We collected some of the most popular resources here: \n\nMedia\, interviews\, press and more collected: Resources of #EDEN15\nThe conference through the participants’ lense: 0 Day Storified | 1st Day Storified | 2nd Day Storified | 3rd Day Storified\nKeynote presentations available on Slideshare\nVideo Stream\, media resources and Graphic capture of keynote speeches are available here.\nVideos with Keynote interviews\, Press releases and more resources\nPlenary sessions on the EDEN Youtube Channel.\nBook of Abstracts is downloadable\nPicture Gallery on Google+.\nInterviews by UOC\n\nPreparations are already underway for EDEN?s 25th anniversary conference to be held in Budapest\, Hungary\, June 14th-17th 2016. In the meantime\, members of the community get together in Athens\, Greece\, for the EDEN Open Classroom event in the form of the Open Discovery Space Conference: Transforming schools into innovative learning organisations18-21 September 2015\, and 1st D4Learning International Conference : Innovations with Digital Learning for Inclusion (D4L)\, November 17th-20th 2015\, Aalborg\, Denmark. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/eden-eventsannual-conferencesbarcelona/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150128T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150128T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T051213Z UID:9605-1422403200-1422403200@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2015 Aalborg DESCRIPTION:17-20 November 2015\, Aalborg\, Denmark\nConference website: http://www.d4l.aau.dk/ \nVenue: Laereruddannelsen UCN\, Teachers’ College\, University College of Nordjylland\, Aalborg\, Denmark \n \nTHE EVENT  | PROGRAMME | KEYNOTE SPEAKERS | BEST RESEARCH PAPER | REGISTRATION | VENUE | TRAVEL \n\n\n\n\n\nThe EDEN Open Classroom 2015 Aalborg is the initiative of EDEN supported by the ERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union. The publications reflect the authors’ views\, the EACEA and the European Commission are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information they contain. \n\n\n\n\nRelated downloads: Conference Programme | Conference Proceedings\nThe Aalborg University and the European Distance and E-Learning Network invite you to D4Learning 2015\, the International Conference on Innovations with Digital Learning for Inclusion (D4L). The event aims at becoming a biannual forum and meeting place for presenting and discussing: \n\nNew digital/educational practices;\nNew digital/educational environments;\nNew and innovative educational strategies;\nDesign of teaching/learning for inclusion;\nInstitutional policies with respect to the challenge of inclusion.\n\nThe Conference will be held on 17-20 November 2015\, in Aalborg\, Denmark. \nConference Scope and Call for Papers\nThe 1st D4Learning Conference is an international conference\, organized by the D4Learning Research group\, Aalborg University. It is held in collaboration with the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN)\, and EDEN’s conference series of Open Classroom with focus on distance education and new technologies in school level education and training. \nD4L spans across disciplines and levels of education. We invite you to attend D4L and submit proposals for papers\, panels\, roundtables\, tutorials\, workshops\, posters/demonstrations\, corporate showcases/demos. The conference review policies requires that each proposal will be peer-reviewed for inclusion in the conference program\, conference proceedings and\, potentially\, in four journals affiliated with the conference. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding\, which will be published by Aalborg University Press\, and in the form of an e-Book. For inclusion in proceedings and being considered for publishing in journals the registration and presentation of each paper is mandatory. \nImportant Dates: \nSubmission deadline:  October 13\, 2015 \nAuthor Notification: October 14\, 2015 \nAuthors’ Registration: October 15\, 2015 \n\n\n\nConference Chair \n  \nConference Co-Chairs \n \n\nElsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen\nAalborg University\, Denmark\n\n\nAlan Tait\nThe Open University\, United Kingdom\nAntonio Moreira Teixeira\nEDEN President\n\n\n\n\n\nConference Secretariat\n\nMd. Saifuddin Khalid\nAalborg University\, Denmark\n\n\n\n\nKeynotes\n\nAlan Tait\nThe Open University (OU)\, United Kingdom\nTerry Anderson\nAthabasca University\, Canada\nAlan Bruce\nDirector of Universal Learning Systems\, Ireland\n\n\n\n\n\nInquiries in relation to the conference should be sent to:  d4l@learning.aau.dk URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/aalborg/ CATEGORIES:Open classroom conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20141027T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20141028T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230411T052243Z UID:9602-1414368000-1414454400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2014 Oxford DESCRIPTION:Challenges for Researchinto Open & Distance Learning:Doing Things Better: Doing Better Things\nKeynotes | Programme | Best Paper Award | Best Poster AwardThe Stories of Day 1 and Day 2 | Shared Resources | Photoblog\nEDEN’s Eighth Research Workshop (EDENRW8) was held in Oxford on 27-28 October 2014 \nIn collaboration with:founding member of EDEN \nThe theme and scope of EDENRW8 reflected the current challenges facing researchers and the intersection of their work with ?doing better things? for key stakeholders. EDENRW8 was very focussed on you the researcher and what you can learn from and with your peers.  It took place in an intimate setting where researchers including postgraduate students could share research\, connect with peers and have adequate time to discuss the challenges of their work. EDENRW8 was suitable for researchers and postgraduate students and particularly those wishing to actively connect with peers and debate Challenges for research into Open & Distance Learning: Doing Things Better: Doing Better Things. \nInvitation on Slideshare \nThe format of the event was key. This was not the usual conference program\, the networking occured as an essential aspect of the participant’s experience.  Featuring small groups for deep dialogues\, feedback on research\, team symposia\, ?research-speed-dating? papers\, demonstrations\, poster sessions\, a connect lounge\, informal sessions for meet the professor for early career and postgraduate researchers\, world café style facilitation and presentations along with our resident keynotes provided a unique athmosphere. \nPublications\n\nThe Book of Abstract including the detailed programme is downloadable here.\nKeynote presentations can be read here.\nThe 2014 Best Research Paper is downloadable here. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/oxford/ CATEGORIES:Research workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eden-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/oxford-workshop-2014.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140617T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20140617T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T040410Z UID:9603-1402963200-1402963200@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2014 Zagreb DESCRIPTION:Conference Scope\nEuropean education and training systems are often criticised for not properly responding to social needs\, and even that employers\, education providers\, and youth live in parallel universes. Universities? reputation often comes from the visible\, high level relations with prestigious corporations. E-learning\, as a system integrator\, may help education providers and employers to actively step into one another?s worlds. \nWorkplace-based training supported by ICT tools is part of the solution to reduce skill shortages and mismatches. E-learning has become a dominant delivery method in learning settings at work across various sectors and a wide range of company sizes. Its advantages may be many\, including flexibility\, cost and time savings\, and new work habits and improved working climate. ICT-enhanced learning may improve organisational performance and lead to increased staff commitment and the generation of new ideas. E-learning is often used by companies to inform and educate not only their employees but also customers\, as part of their branding and marketing strategy and activities. \nThe latest ICT solutions for simulations\, virtual worlds\, immersive learning and enhanced learning experiences are continuously producing renewed toolkits\, supporting the development of authentic learning settings. E-competences and e-skills are increasingly treated as autonomous elements of personal development to be supported by specific learning activities and patterns. \nThe year 2014 is important as the start of the new European programme period until 2020. This coincides with intensive developments in ICT-supported learning\, educational innovations and\, in particular\, open educational resources. With present economic trends\, the key question being growth and employability\, it is highly important how employers accept job candidates with the certifications and competences from the new world of learning\, characterised by many innovative approaches and open educational settings. \nNew challenges\, new formats: the Synergy Strand\nEDEN introduced a new strand to its well established paper presentation\, workshop\, demonstration and poster strand. This year\, the Synergy Strand facilitated the sharing of project outputs and research findings\, offering the participants platform to develop new ideas and plans\, to create new partnerships by engaging the conference audience in highly interactive working group activities during parallel sessions. \nEU projects and practices ? that display thematic cross sections with the Conference Themes ? were invited to introduce themselves during the conference’s Synergy Strand. The list of the short introductions of these initiatives is available here and will also be published in the Creative Commons licensed Book of Projects. This page serves both as a dissemination vehicle for the showcased projects\, as well as a collection of resources to help the participants to prepare for the collaboration activities carried out during the conference dates. \nSee what happened at the Synergy sessions here URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/zagreb/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20130617T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20130617T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9601-1371427200-1371427200@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2013 Oslo DESCRIPTION: \nE-learning\, open and distance education have been increasingly important fields of intellectual excitement and innovative development. The challenges posed by the new technologies are permanent\, and students constantly keep teachers under pressure to develop. The human elements are moving to the forefront\, employing creative methods and smart solutions. In Europe\, despite economic and social pressures\, there is a collective drive towards realising the creative potential. \nStandards and accountability have also been emphasized but personalization of learning\, individual and collective motivation\, enhancement of the learning experience\, and an overall improvement of learning quality are gaining ever-increasing traction. \nLearning is becoming more and more individualized and self-managed. Personalization helps foster motivation and engagement\, and supports awareness and motivation. Personal learning environments and personalized assessment (including learning analytics) offer resources to monitor and assess the  process. \nHow can we do our best to make learning a thrilling experience for learners\, including providing a sense of joy in the virtual classroom? \nThe question is an exciting one and discussion and debate provided a range of innovative theories and approaches\, and help to determine the tools necessary to achieve our goals. Should they be about the smart use of ICT tools\, new methodologies for enhanced learning experience\, content management systems\, or about fascinating inter-disciplinary solutions supported by e.g. game based learning\, immersive environments\, multimedia\, etc. The answers we will find may be dynamic and or even provoking. \nThe EDEN 2013 Conference discovered and presented the latest best practice in this field\, share progressive concepts\, inventive solutions\, and promote joint-thinking and collaboration.\nThe Conference programme will include plenaries\, parallel sessions with paper presentations\, workshops\, moderated poster and demo sessions. The event started on Wednesday afternoon on 12 June\, with Pre-Conference Workshops and Registration\, followed by the Welcome Cocktail and ended with a Farewell Coffee on 15 June. \nResources\n\nThe full program booklet in pdf format can be downloaded from here.\nKeynote speakers’ pre-conference interviews: Click here.\nEDEN Interview series | Video-interviews by Steve Wheeler: Click here\nKeynote presentations can be read here.\nThe Book of Abstract is downloadable here.\nThe 2013 Best Research Paper is downloadable here.\nSocial online conference tools: Conference blog | EDEN NAP Conference Group | Tweet #EDENOslo | Facebook | Content curation on Scoop.it URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/oslo/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20120611T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20120611T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9600-1339372800-1339372800@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2012 Porto DESCRIPTION:Social and policy context\nThe European Year and movements for Active Ageing\nThe population in Europe is getting older. The EU Commission stressed in the Europe 2020 strategy the importance of healthy and active ageing. Values represented by mature citizens are becoming increasingly important in contemporary European societies. The year 2012 will be “The European Year of Active Ageing and the Solidarity Between Generations”. \nThe European Year serves as framework for raising awareness\, generating innovative approaches\, disseminating good practice and encouraging stakeholders to participate. In a time of great challenges for Europe\, all generations are called to act together and also to learn\, to produce\, share and preserve knowledge. In the digital knowledge society\, technology and social media should not divide\, rather they should foster cohesion amongst generations. \nGeneration Y\nAnother frequent question has been: how to deal with the new generation of learners who have grown up with the Internet and who are currently entering our schools and universities? The members of ?Generation Y? or ?Net Generation? are technology-immersed learners\, easily adapting to technological developments\, to the changing media and ubiquitous networks. They have developed critical thinking towards sourcing and judging information and even knowledge. Their expectations and behaviour are enormously different from the previous cohort. \nMature generation and e-learning\nPromoting access of older persons to education and to information and communication technologies\, and updating skills by providing access to lifelong learning\, helps them to remain active and involved in the society. ICT enhanced learning has its place in the lifelong learning of the ?silver age group?. Their electronic media use is more frequent and intensive. Media and the Internet makes it easier to reach them and they may gain ICT skills to maintain contact with relatives and friends. \nThere is a lot to do to avoid exclusion and marginalisation of older persons: lowering of access barriers to ICT enhanced learning; and remove cultural\, technological\, situational\, educational obstacles. Provision of e-learning products and services including learning environments suitable for them is however a bottleneck. The few existing attempts have been predominantly “pilots” rather than being consolidated in character. There is poor knowledge only on the didactic level. It is important to care about the constructive social embedding of eLearning based on interests and ambitions. \nOpen learning for and amongst diverse generations\nThe movements aiming to enhance openness of educational resources encourage institutional policies which support innovative pedagogical models. Such models have been significant in empowering learners and their communities as co-producers in networked lifelong learning. Open resource attitude promotes democratic transformations in the information society. New media and technologies help to accelerate this process. \nThe development of an open climate and culture of learning enables educational institutions to better meet the demands of the public. Helping to spread educational resources as digitised content which accommodate different learning pathways\, widening participation and promoting shared learning experiences between generations contributes to closing the technology gap. \nThe EDEN 2012 Conference\nThe Annual Conference approached the key questions of learning methodology and technology focusing on the ?Open learning generations?\, the contexts of socially significant target groups: junior and senior e-learners. We will explore their learning cultures\, technology use patterns\, and discuss new approaches in pedagogy and andragogy that respond to them. \nThe changing technology dimension: development of networking tools\, new platforms and standards\, and interoperability questions\, will also be addressed from the perspective of different groups of users. \nPragmatic observers may state meanwhile that there is not that much novelty in new generations applying different tools and approaches to changing social and technology conditions. Thus there is space for interpretation by established distance learning professionals to consider the diverse practice and experience with young and adult learners in the open learning arena. \nDownloads\n\nthe Book of Abstracts (PDF\, 1.51 MB) available  here\nDetailed Programme Booklet (PDF\, 3.2 MB) available here. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/porto-2/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20120530T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20120530T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230411T052304Z UID:9599-1338336000-1338336000@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2012 Leuven DESCRIPTION: \nHow students are driving teachers\, instructors in the fields where new learning technologies play important role?  How does instruction work\, where borders between physical and virtual learning environments disappear\, where roles of students and teachers have changed\, where new pedagogical paradigms and didactic approaches are introduced? \nThese were only some of the key questions participants discussed in Leuven. The main focal point was how does instruction work\, where borders between physical and virtual learning environments disappear\, where roles of students and teachers have changed\, where new pedagogical paradigms and didactic approaches are introduced. Student-centred learning is high on the agenda. Still\, there are contexts of mass higher education which represent a real challenge to student-centred approaches\, even with the support of ICT. \nResources\n\nThe Book of Abstract including the detailed programme is downloadable here.\nKeynote presentations can be read here.\nThe 2012 Best Research Paper is downloadable here. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/leuven/ CATEGORIES:Research workshops END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20110628T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20110628T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9598-1309219200-1309219200@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2011 Dublin DESCRIPTION:Different Perspectives on Sustainability\nThe issue of a socially and environmentally sustainable future is high on the global agenda. We now face problems of an exceptionally complex nature. Sustainability is therefore acquiring a new meaning as an inclusive concept\, where its scope extends far beyond purely environmental dimensions. \nMany policies and programmes now take on board a new vocabulary of sustainable development. This includes a range of environmental\, financial\, social or economic issues. Movements around sustainability and ecology in the past decade changed our approaches and thinking in radical and inclusive ways. Even in everyday actions\, systems thinking is now stronger than ever. We can calculate an intellectual carbon footprint ? even for innovative e-learning… \nTrends that capitalize new technologies in a sustainable way are now critically important. Moving consciously from quantitative towards qualitative growth\, from technological evolution to innovation\, implies the development of smart approaches for human-centered actions. \nSustainable strategies also include the flexibility offered by ICT-supported solutions. Smart use of ICTs in learning is one of the vital factors in making our world more sustainable. Learning always implies critical enquiry. Exploring the complexity of sustainability as well as its connected economic\, political\, social\, cultural\, technological and environmental aspects is central to this enquiry. \nSustainability is linked to mass collaboration. Critical understanding is linked to challenging and empowering individuals on a personal level. The web itself is a kind of ecosystem of innovation for learning. The sustainability scenario includes re-interpretation of mobility: being always connected by new generations of mobile devices\, realizing virtual collaboration through e-infrastructures. \nNew Technologies and Openness for Sustainable Learning\nThe aim of the 2011 EDEN conference is to highlight different ways and approaches\, in order to integrate better the concept of responsible and sustainable development within learning\, in its widest sense. \nThe links between sustainability and the world of learning and education are numerous and natural. Embedding learning as a critical factor in the diversity of socio-economic settings plays an important and acknowledged role in strategic viability and impact. We can visualize the relationship between sustainability and learning in many contexts. E-learning\, learning innovation\, open learning\, ICT enhanced learning\, so called atypical learning forms: all are modernization factors enhancing the ecological consequences of technical development. The main elements of the sustainable professional learning toolkit include: good instructional design\, user-friendly learning environments\, responsible use of technologies\, informal learning\, accreditation of prior learning experience. \nAmong the elements which sustain and shape our quality of life and well-being\, the issue of ?eco-design? of learning spaces ? including e-learning ? is central and also closely connected to creative aspects and the arts which further broaden this paradigm. \nAspects around equality and access are nowadays increasingly being understood and treated with deepened sensitivity and importance. Equal opportunities and socially inclusive outcomes are emerging as key aspects of social sustainability ? particularly evident as part of intergenerational approaches and access. We therefore need to revisit how e-learning may contribute to increasing quality of opportunity\, empowering participation in the sustainable learning communities of the future. \nSustainable e-learning linked to professional development is based on organic organizational and pedagogic perspectives\, while using ecologically appropriate technological solutions. In this context\, it is most important to conceptualize and analyze the changing nature of learning ? including lifecycles of learning and knowledge and their methods and paradigms. This connects naturally to the conscious use and re-use (recycling) of learning objects\, in a matrix of organic sustainable development. \nSustainability and openness go hand in hand. Transformed approaches around access to information\, resources and knowledge in the digital world have fundamentally changed business models\, structures and processes. Sustainability and openness together represent collaborative creativity\, connectivity\, access and transparency – while also maintaining a balanced\, flexible and dynamic level of operation. \nHigh rates of change\, due to information technology development and the momentum of innovation in e-learning\, mean we must seriously approach sustainability of the culture and community of e-learning. Education has an essential role to play in motivating and empowering people to participate in more sustainable lifestyle changes. Thus the role of innovative learning and training as critical awareness raising factors for global sustainability links organically to education around understanding the contexts of ecological challenges and opportunities. \nThe Keynote Speeches\nThe presentations of the keynotes are available in the Publications section of the website. \nThe Recordings of the keynote sessions are available here. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/dublin/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20110502T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20110502T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T051213Z UID:9597-1304294400-1304294400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2011 Athens DESCRIPTION:Conference Scope\nCrisis\, change and innovation\nRecent waves of economic crisis and uncertainty have re-aligned a range of European and global issues. This sense of crisis and challenge however may also serve to energize system transformations\, identify alternatives\, suggest new directions and act as a driving motivating force when old modes are broken. \nFor a positive interpretation of ?crisis? and the way out\, let?s turn again to the Ancient Greek ??ß??? (a separating\, power of distinguishing\, decision\, choice\, election\, judgment\, dispute) < ??ß?? ( ?pick out\, choose\, decide\, judge?). \nInnovation and creativity in times of change are vital for creation of dynamic alternatives. That is equally true for schools and teaching practice. For the world of learning\, a major task is to observe  changes and shifts and ascertain what teachers and other stakeholders (employers\, policymakers\, parents)  need. \nEnhanced use of information technologies in communication and community building is vital in education and training. To turn theoretical knowledge and research into  meaningful action and outcomes\, both practitioners and academics  need to collaborate for sustainable impact.  In a context of systemic socio-economic crisis and transformation\, co-operation and communication between teachers\, pupils and parents are key. \nThe aim of EDEN Open Classroom 2011 was to familiarize teachers\, policy makers and learning community stakeholders with leading edge educational technologies\, innovation methods\, opinion sharing\, collegial discussions and training experiences that will provide an alternative to crisis: new educational tools\, inclusive strategies and creative best practice methodologies. \nKeynote Speakers\nKeynote presentations available here and on Slideshare. \n\nProf. Kirsti Lonka\, Helsinki University/Karolinska Institutet\, Finland\nDr. Claudio Dondi\, Scienter\, Italy\nProf. Demetrios Sampson\, University of Piraeus & CERTH\, Greece\nProf. Kostas Tsolakidis\, University of the Aegean\, Greece\nDr. Nikitas Kastis\, Lambrakis Foundation\, Greece\nDr. Alan Bruce\, Universal Learning Systems\, Ireland\nProf. Erik Duval\, Catholic University Leuven\, Belgium URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/athens/ CATEGORIES:Open classroom conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9593-1298678400-1298678400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2009 Gdansk DESCRIPTION:  \nInnovation\, learning and learning innovation in Europe\n\nEurope’s growth potential needs to be enhanced for sure. Europe needs a strategic approach to boost its capacity for creativity\, whilst establishing an environment where knowledge is successfully converted into innovative products and services. For a flexible\, competitive and open economy\, independent innovation as the main driver of development has been fully acknowledged. \n\nThe development of Europe’s population its human capital –  is critical for the success of this strategy. The role of education and training as a determining factor in enhancing creativity\, innovation performance and competitiveness is recognized in the concept of the “knowledge triangle”\, comprising education\, research and innovation. Without education as a core policy\, innovation in Europe may remain unsupported. \nPresent education and training systems are however still inadequately equipped to face this challenge. The extent of innovative uses of technology is lower than had been hoped for: a new “innovation oriented” wave of policy making is urgently required. Substantial learning innovation is needed for which the knowledge base is now only fragmentary. \nDeveloping creative\, innovative skills demands the renewal of traditional teaching approaches\, to be replaced by learner-focused models which support active involvement in the process of reflection and interpretation. An organisational culture supporting openness and creativity is a precondition for successful learning and innovation. \nThe birth of new knowledge and the process of its manifestation in this environment is being re-valorised. Pathways to novel solutions must be significantly shortened. In this process\, Lifelong Learning and ICT are key boosters of change. Informal and non-formal learning helps shift the diffusion of innovation into every day life-practice. Supported by ICT\, collaborative methods\, exploratory learning\, the social web\, knowledge sharing and management occupy important positions. \nAt present modern practical strategies and communication channels are being created\, and new businesses built\, changing the conventional patterns. The innovation ecosystem seeks inventions\, with strategic thinking and business value\, enabled by technology. \nEducation vs. Innovation\nWhat is the actual relation between innovation and education? Is innovation really a leading paradigm in our society? We often hear that education even kills innovation. And in reality\, standardisation in big systems – nowadays a permanent process accompanying modernisation practice – may well contradict requirements for innovation. A critical relationship persists: original\, creative ideas\, more often than not\, occur outside educational systems. \nThere are important related questions to answer: \n\nHow to empower innovation within the huge diversity of different learning situations and settings?\nHow is it possible to measure creativity and innovation in learning systems?\nHow can we evaluate learning results if traditional learning objectives are not the only ones to be measured?\nHow to measure collaborative learning efforts?\nHow to use existing and emerging technologies to create new value for learning?\nWhat are the key drivers for competitiveness and innovation in learning?\n\nThe European Year\nCommunities of creativity and innovation are often not well connected\, thus the European Year aims to bridge these worlds. Innovation is the successful realisation of new ideas; creativity is the sine qua non of innovation. \nThe objective of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation is to promote creativity for all as a driver for innovation and as a key factor for the development of personal\, occupational\, entrepreneurial and social competences through lifelong learning. \nThe First Five Years of EU25\nNot so long ago though it is already half a decade since 2004\, the European Union realised its most significant enlargement process. The EDEN conference will also address this theme\, in the context of human resource development and learning systems innovation. We particularly encourage colleagues to join us from the new EU member countries! URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/gdansk/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9594-1298678400-1298678400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2010 Valencia DESCRIPTION:  \nTaken by Storm\n\nThe volume of information we get is enormous and there is a revolutionary change in the ways we use media. New social media culture is extending human capacity\, reshaping identity and community. The awareness of the many forms of digital media is increasing and of the skills that allow better intellectual and emotional understanding. \n\nThe diffusion of digital creative content and the multiplication of online and mobile platforms\, the changeable\, participatory\, rapidly re-created information generate unprecedented opportunities for the world of learning. Teachers’ and learners’ abilities to make informed and diversified choices for media now make up a significant part of their skills portfolio. \nThe many economic\, social and technology drivers are changing the nature and methods of education and training. In particular\, the informal learning field is being transformed and re-positioned. All this represents huge challenges for the professional development of teachers\, tutors and instructors. A quest for new structural and institutional models is emerging within the learning society. \nIn Europe\, content industries create added value by exploiting and networking European cultural diversity\, with innovation being part of the Lisbon strategy beyond 2010. The EU i2010 initiative aims to boost competitiveness in the ICT sector and create a single European information space. \nNew Criteria for New Media in Learning\nThe opportunity offered by digital media and virtual reality leads to the development of new organic learning environments. A major challenge is how to turn these environments into instrumental knowledge. New elements include development of mobile\, ubiquitous and contextual computing\, microlearning\, functional networking\, direct access to databases\, with which to build up integrated knowledge bases. Within the new distribution channels\, trends in the media habits of learners show significant changes. \nThere are quite a few related questions to answer: \n\nWhere do new media take us as educators?\n\nWhat in the end is their suitability for education?\n\n\nFor teachers and learners\, what is the value of being active in new media?\n\nHaving a presence on Twitter?\nBeing an active blogger?\n\n\nWhat is the validity of knowledge in Web 2.0\n\nHow can we measure recognition and achievement?\n\n\nHow do media portray the changing open and distance learning practice?\nHow can we control the potential of media to ensure that they work for all?\nHow all is this affecting the modes of knowledge organisation?\nWith the convergence of media\, how are the major issues of learning mirrored in the “traditional” media channels\, in TV\, newspapers and journals?\n\nOpenness Emerges\nOrganically linked to these developments are the further changes in form and function\, representing the greater and greater potential of open collaboration and information sharing. Globalization\, information technology and the flow of information are transforming our economies and communities. The evolving new openness is unlocking the potential effectiveness in implementing open ICT ecosystems and enabling innovation and growth. \nCollaborative creativity\, connectivity\, access and transparency\, are revolutionizing how we communicate\, learn\, connect and compete. Openness reshapes ICT ecosystems\, and makes it possible to rewrite business models and deliver customized services to citizens. Increasing these capacities helps to create flexible\, service-oriented ICT applications in the world of learning. This has also profound implications for the publishing industry\, leading to a kind of new knowledge and media economy. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/valencia/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9595-1298678400-1298678400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2001 Stockholm DESCRIPTION:Informal arenas of learning\nMuch learning occurs beyond traditional lecture halls and formal credit programmes.This strand addresses different aspects of integrating multiple forms of learning opportunities into daily life and in the workplace. \nTearing down boundaries\nDistance education methods are often embedded in the developing new structures of education. Ways of working in different education systems seem to merge. Do we also need a merge between education systems and the breaking of barriers between educational sectors and institutions? \nOpening the systems\nOpen systems are placed on the political agenda in some countries. New student groups and new providers are expected to enter education putting new demands and challenging the education systems. One key question is how to provide efficient and fast credit transfer across different forms of education and experience.\nSearching for best practice\nHighlighting and sharing new trends and practices gives an unlimited chance for professionalisation. New demands on education grow in praxis and so do new methods. Students\, clients make choices and express their expectations of service and quality outcomes. Teachers and practitioners invent new ways of arranging situations for learning. What is the state of the art? \nThe European dimension\nNetworking and co-operation within Europe is of growing importance and it is strongly supported by the European Commission. How can that work further develop? What are the impact of globalisation on the European learning arena? URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/stockholm-2/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9592-1298678400-1298678400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:Lisbon DESCRIPTION:Valuing learning cultures – a step towards shrinking the digital divide\n\nAmong the primary factors influencing the development and implementation of e-learning\, those that look beyond just the aspects of technology and management are fast gaining importance. Information and knowledge moves in cyberspace through very different learning environments. Exploratory learning has recently developed into a widely-used term. More and more educational activities are supported on the Internet and interaction can largely be managed virtually. The understanding of cultural  features in communication processes and their impact on e-learning\, together with the most effective positioning and interpretation of intercultural issues pose today highly relevant questions. \n\nIntroducing and embedding learning into every human activity is high on the agenda. A holistic approach in distance and e-learning requires a deep understanding: the ability to compare\, understand and integrate. Understanding the relevance of the ‘cultural dimension’ requires intense efforts\, if we are to go beyond its abstract meaning\, beyond slogans. \nThe year 2008 will be the year of intercultural dialogue\, offering the opportunity to put the issue of learning cultures and their impact as the focus of the EDEN Annual Conference. Intercultural issues are becoming even more relevant in the light of emerging policy initiatives – like the ‘Riga Declaration’; the proposed 2008 e-inclusion initiative\, and i2010 – that link ‘culture’ and ‘learning’ within the context of e-government\, active citizenship and social cohesion. Learning to be a good citizen and learning to be a good European require a new orientation for e-learning\, that can help to bring together different cultural backgrounds. \nWe are witnessing the emergence and manifestation of different ‘digital learning patrimonies’\, which have in the recent period become key terms and have been instrumental in understanding the contemporary e-learning phenomenon. The extension of this understanding is highly relevant to the closely linked ‘cultural patrimonies’. \nCultural understanding\, efficiency and quality go hand in hand\nBridging professional cultures is not only important for the development of human understanding but also from the e-learning perspective for adopting and facilitating the integration of tools and solutions and developing synergies. There is a challenging variability in the cultural adaptation of ICTs. A well-understood intercultural approach is instrumental in re-structuring the educational enterprise and exploring new development scenarios. The effectiveness of technology may be reduced or improved by factors such as the values and learning styles of users. The emotional and motivation aspects for learning also emerge as highly relevant. \nOpen thinking and building on well integrated cultural diversity can also promote help in creating a reflective learning space. Cultural understanding in learning also means gaining knowledge from other training cultures and learning design solutions\, which have developed in different professional sectors or geographical regions\, where the settings necessitate the application of different approaches. Importantly\, cultural understanding also supports diversity\, releasing aspirations for achievement\, the desire for self-sufficiency and independence – essential factors of 21st century knowledge and competence development. \nLearning culture – how  does it work in the ‘2.0’ environment?\nLearning is becoming an increasingly personalised experience. We can learn practically everywhere and it is more and more the student who finds the ways to learning. The social web has also largely extended the scope of collaboration in learning. The new generation technology solutions and Web 2.0 tools are necessarily cultural matters. Cultural understanding may help to raise and exploit fully the new e-learning concepts based on social web. \nCollaboration and partnerships in distance and e-learning reduce fragmentation\, promote integration and cohesion\, improving not only the pooling of knowledge but also engagement. The intercultural approach helps to understand and better support the much quoted inclusion and access aspects of ICTs and learning. On the other hand\, if we use intercultural learning as an operational concept\, for understanding and exploiting different learning styles and learning methods\, this may well help both to increase learning efficiency and to implement new learning systems. \nCultural aspects certainly make part of the social change and inclusion scenario in e-learning\, raising the ‘solidarity’; ‘individuality’ and ‘communality’ questions. Broadening of the idea of the ‘civilised society’ can also evidently be promoted through learning. The increased mobility of both individuals and groups\, but also within communities and nations\, has stressed the great importance of learning to cope and to understand cultural diversity. People are communicating more than ever\, but being as physically apart from each other as never before. This phenomenon is changing the very nature of our way of learning\, working and living. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/lisbon/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9591-1298678400-1298678400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2007 Naples DESCRIPTION:Snapshot of the Scene\nThe rush is on: the rapid evolution and widespread penetration of new media and technologies\, emerging new tools and solutions constantly change and challenge  the ways and means of accessing and sharing knowledge. \n\n\nThe educational landscape is now also alive with catchwords about the ”hot technology tools”\, the Web 2.0\, aggregators\, the Social Web\, collaborative content creation\, writing and bookmarking\, etc. The road for the ”nomadic learners” on the web is paved by online knowledge communities – social tagging – folksonomies – inquiry learning – ubiquity – digital learning games\, etc. \nA growing pressure persists to improve ICT uptake in support of the European strategy to become a powerful knowledge economy\, to help the development for growth and jobs. The importance of workplace learning\, non-formal and informal learning is increasing\, influencing more and more the culture of learning.\nQuality – recognition – assessment – accreditation\, together with competences\, remain core issues in the light of the coming European Qualification Framework and the EU Lifelong Learning Programme starting in 2007. \n\nTrust or Not?\nThe critical voices are however also present. ”E-learning is not a shortcut to happiness” – ”Don’t trust e-learning – as it is now”…  The usability of e-learning is questioned\, ICTs are criticised for not meeting the requirements of the future\, rather serving the learning needs of the past. \nIt is apparent that it will take quite more time to learn how to use the e-learning technologies properly\, to change learning paradigms to benefit fully from the possibilities offered by ICTs. But all in all: is e-learning really transformative? Whilst it is often stated that new technology solutions require new pedagogical approaches and organisational structures\, no radical de-institutionalisation seems to occur\, as it was earlier predicted. Emerging technologies are far from being implemented and supported in the systems. A gap exists between concepts and visions on e-learning and the real impact of the new technologies on mainstream education and the training process. Looking critically at the vision for e-learning seems to be a responsible response once again. \n\nWanted: Realistic Futurists and Progressive Practitioners\nE-learning is evolving\, like is the world around us. The relationship between learning\, working and the rest of life is also subject of profound changes. The quest for a long term e-learning model and the concern of e-learning as distinct field being ”dissolved” by the limitless penetration of ICT in everyday life are present in parallel. Successes are vulnerable because of the never-ending paradigm shifts. The poor visibility of valuable achievements hinders the mainstreaming of credible solutions. \nReaching the point of critical mass with convincing examples and practices should help to consolidate the professional knowledge. There is an ever stronger need for the validation of the visions\, the conceptualisation of the results available\, the credible ”demonstrations of the possible”. A kind of strategic mechanism for accelerated progress could support the timely consolidation. \nThe need for a transversal\, holistic approach is strengthening\, in the meantime\, a kind of cycle in the innovation process seems to have come to an end. We can expect a new wave of ambitious initiatives to come. This may be realised quite differently in the corporate environments\, in training\, in higher education\, in informal learning\, etc. \nThe traditional educational systems and settings are changing slowly. Together with visionaries and the socio-technical forerunners\, important role remains with the progressive practitioners\, who investigate\, develop\, experiment with new solutions and deliver proofs of good practice in e-learning. \nWhilst many researchers anticipate quick the transformative impact of the social web and the consequent radical conversion in the world of learning\, quite a few successful practices seem to show consolidation along the well known open and distance learning methods and principles. \nSeveral professionals argue that successful and acknowledged e-learning practice in most cases has a lot to do with well designed and implemented distance learning in contemporary technology environments. In the years to come\, hard work will be needed to develop\, test and validate the methodologies\, in order to identify their role accurately. \n\nDigital Territories\, Continuities and Divides\nThe present transformations are accompanied by the emergence of “new digital territories” – as well as the web: geopolitical\, social spaces\, academic and subject territories\, different fields of e-learning and training. They may generate or facilitate both continuities\, or on the contrary\, divides of several kinds\, between what has traditionally been well demarcated and what should not be divided. \nSocial exclusion is becoming nowadays a major concern. A developing praxis leads from the ideal conception of ‘inclusiveness’ to the reality of embedded inclusive learning. New economic and business models may bridge the divide between the creative and social values\, and commercial interests. The fast increasing interest in the questions related to open content and open educational resources is a good example of emerging significant trends. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/naples/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9590-1298678400-1298678400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2006 Vienna DESCRIPTION: \nExperience and understanding of the knowledge society is taking ever greater root in Europe. Globalisation\, technology development\, and changes in the economic and social environment are modifying the ways in which the knowledge society is developing. The accelerating development of information and communication technologies\, especially with their integration in so many different fields of life\,  is creating way forward to new solutions. \nThe impact of economic challenges\, market developments and macro-level policies – both at national and European levels – have considerably influenced these processes. Growth and employment are the present keywords\, that embody the strong message of the relaunched Lisbon strategy. Intended change in education and training systems in connection with the world of work are above all seen from this perspective. \nIn this broad context innovation is the key element. It has been one of the core factors emphasized in recent understandings of modernisation and economic growth. Innovation systems and industrial policy share common interests\, and there is an ever stronger demand for the integration and more effective use of innovation in the economy\, particularly in the knowledge industries. \nAccording to the recent EU Economic Policy Guidelines\, all forms of innovation should be facilitated\, accompanied by the improvement of innovation support services\, and the creation and development of innovation poles\, bringing together universities\, research institutions and enterprises. The development of ICT and content industries make up key areas to be promoted. Increased performance in these fields is expected to contribute to the creation of the sustainable knowledge economy. \nNew competences – E-learning – European competitiveness\nThe academic and professional community is continuously at work on developing efficient solutions and identifying new\, creative forms of education. It is becoming increasingly clear that the new learning space will be realised in the context of its contribution to employment and economic development. E-competences and professional development are important elements in establishing the background for competitiveness and economic growth. The need for flexible response to new challenges\, for better adaptability\, for training the workforce with renewed competences\, and above all the broad concept of lifelong learning\, make up the key terms in the new generation EU educational programmes. \nE-competences are essential for successful careers and for the promotion of links between education\, training and business. E-learning is the major enabling factor for the efficient involvement in the new competence development process\, contributing also to the mainstreaming of innovation. A developing consensus is confident that e-learning has moved from vision to reality\, accompanied by the evolution of its practical meanings and concepts. \nPart of this process is the constantly growing need for the development of ICT skills for citizens. However e-competences are used in a much wider sense than the term ‘digital literacy’. The new competency system is strongly rooted in and related to e-learning\, using collaborative and knowledge management tools\, in the increasingly integrated contexts of education – training – work – home. \nProper identification and development of competences\, and e-competences in the digital economy requires the reconsideration of different modalities of achieving knowledge and integrating it into personal portfolios. The ongoing Bologna process is adding further requirements to the new structuring of skills and competences\, with creative contributions from the educational community. \nRecognition of informal and non formal learning – from the uncertain attempts to define what it was only recently – is fast becoming a massive movement\, incorporated in educational and employment policies\, and with the prospect of leading to a European qualification framework. An even more confident approach to issues of quality in learning is a pre-requisite for consolidated implementation. \nEducational research\nNew forms of learning\, and the process of their contributing to the economy\, are also very challenging in academic and educational research contexts. A related substantial question is therefore the promotion of educational research in Europe\, particularly in Learning Systems Innovation and with information and communication technologies. EDEN has been devoting sustained attention to the support of research in distance and e-learning\, strengthening both academic and professional backgrounds. An important message of the conference should be the promotion of policy efforts\, oriented towards guaranteeing focus\, effectiveness and synergy with other actions at EU and national level\, to reduce and eventually remove the existing knowledge and research gap in education\, training and lifelong learning at large\, including e-learning. \nArts and culture\nICTs have for a long period contributed to the European dimension\, and to reinforcing European identity. Acknowledging and welcoming the strenghtening role of interdisciplinarity in developing innovation and creativity in education\, the EDEN 2006 Conference intends to encourage the inclusion and presentation of the themes of arts\, culture and languages in the context of e-competences\, open\, distance and e-learning. URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/vienna/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20110226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260507T011500 CREATED:20230227T103311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T050509Z UID:9588-1298678400-1298678400@eden-europe.eu SUMMARY:2003 Rhodes DESCRIPTION:Scope and objectives of the conference\n\nThe “Quality issue” has become one of the leading concepts in modern society\, economy and education. It serves different perspectives and stakeholders: providers\, customers\, partners and citizens. Different stakeholder perspectives give rise to different “quality cultures”. In the emerging range of open\, flexible\, distance and eLearning settings\, there is an increasing need for information and understanding to permit judgement on the quality of the educational offer\, including schools\, universities\, vocational training and adult education. Quality frameworks and quality assurance procedures represent the priority for both the policy makers and educational providers as well as for the learners\, students\, trainees and the corporate sector. \neLearning is perceived either as new ICT media and pedagogies\, making up the emergent flexible learning environments\, or as the new paradigm of knowledge acquisition with related competencies in the Information Society. Whichever the perception\, in order to succeed with the mainstreaming of the various ICT-supported learning solutions\, it is essential to bring about dialogue between experts\, academia\, the ICT industry and the publishing sector as well as the education and training authorities across Europe. There is huge interest in the definition of quality assurance practice to be deployed by the broad range of stakeholders in education and training in the public and private sectors\, in order to consolidate knowledge\, ensure consistent approaches and to add value. \nThe aim of the 12th Annual Conference of the European Distance Education Network organised in Rhodes\, Greece in 2003 was to raise awareness and disseminate knowledge\, addressing this strategic area in the learning agenda in Europe. The Greek Presidency of the EU\, during the first semester of 2003\, has already prioritized ICT and Lifelong Learning as the means for pursuing the upgrading of quality for European education systems. \nThe conference themes\n\nQuality assurance\, quality management systems and frameworks in flexible and eLearning\nDistance and eLearning quality approaches\, criteria\, standards – formulation and implementation; theory and practice\nConvergence towards standardization and platforms\nPrinciples and practice of accreditation of courses and institutions\nDevelopment and operation of quality concepts and frameworks in open and distance learning with the integration of emerging ICT solutions\nQuality in the context of innovation\, competitiveness and marketability\nEvaluation and benchmarking methods and procedures\, testing and certification\nCompetencies and the added value of different learning cultures and quality approach URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/rhodes/ CATEGORIES:Annual conferences END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR