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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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CATEGORIES:Research workshops
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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.
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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/
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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.
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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/
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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/
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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/
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SUMMARY:2010 Budapest
DESCRIPTION:Learning and (e)-valuation in integrated E-learning settings\n\nE-learning increasingly becomes the inevitable form of creating\, acquiring and transmitting knowledge. In the field of assessing student performance\, evaluating the quality of teaching\, judging the value of a digital educational solution\, research has recently been intensive and successful. For many e-learning programs however\, methods of assessment remain traditional. Accreditation of online courses may be difficult because evaluation methods are not fitted to the e-learning context. \n\nThe real value of e-learning\, which is questioned for different reasons in different contexts\, may be boosted by credible and appropriate evaluation methods and practices. \nIn the context of assessment\, the quality dimension is emerging as contribution to the valuation of ICT supported learning\, its re-positioning by better evaluation methods. The quest for added value – how can contribute the new forms of learning\, in circumstances of hard socio-economic challenges – is strongly coming forward. \nThe challenge of quality in peer-produced eLearning content\nNew approaches for new ways of evaluation\, instead of basic ones are becoming apparent in the web 2.0 – social networking dominated environments. The impact of peer-to-peer networks on the Internet is evolving. Peer production and user-created content are becoming important elements as learners are no longer just consumers\, but they actively participate in the process and influence it. Producers and consumers (“prosumers”) of the learning content are working together on the peer-assessment. The market is becoming a forum for conversation and interactions. Management and facilitation of this dialogue is crucial in the value creation process. \nWhen we evaluate user generated content\, quality may be both the result of the interplay between peer production and peer validation processes of digital content. \nThe issue of transparency\, together with credibility is high on the agenda. Sensitive and prospective territories within this field are the convincing assessment and evaluation of the diversity of personal learning environments (PLE)\, the workplace learning\, competence based assessment\, media development\, e-portfolios and the accreditation of informal learning. \nOnline adaptive testing in the classroom and the workplace\nEvaluation of skills and competences are in the foreground of educational innovation. Traditional instruments are becoming however inadequate because of lower efficiency and as they hardly offer authentic testing situations. \nOnline assessment techniques are among the hot topics in educational research\, as they provide opportunity to assess skills and competences in the context they occur. Tools include the assessment of open-ended questions\, essays\, drawing and design tasks. Tests may include animation\, simulation and a responsive to user needs selection of items of different difficulty level. \n125 experts from 26 countries discussed the latest research results in Budapest. The engaging keynote speeches are available for download. 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/budapest/
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SUMMARY:2008 Paris
DESCRIPTION:  \nDistance education\, through its successive developments\, from correspondence courses to mass media and present web 2.0 learning has played a central role to make learning possible wherever it has been needed. \n\nLifelong learning – from school level up to vocational\, higher and continuing educations – has constantly looked to the flexibility of the methods and tools of open and distance learning\, and nowadays including e-learning. \nToday’s learners choose open and distance education\, for many different reasons: personal fulfilment\, employment circumstances\, everyday convenience or necessity\, philosophical and societal views\, handicap\, intense specialisation away from school\, isolated location\, at times of emergency\, and for political\, cultural and religious reasons. \nEducational institutions have to respond to learners’ situations\, on an individual and/or a collective basis\, when access to education is at stake\, and when special conditions require specific answers to bring education when and where it is needed\, by right\, by necessity\, and on demand. In such situations distance teaching institutions have most generally proven their capacity to remove barriers. \nThe most recent developments of open and distance education enhanced by ICT advances the practical functioning of distance education and improves its relevance in the contexts described above\, turning it into a key actor when and where access to education is concerned. However\, aren’t new questions arising today\, and in diversified ways in various parts of the world? The physical spread of technology-enhanced open and distance education must be of good quality\, cost-effective\, accepted by large audiences\, and engaged in meaningful linkages of pedagogy and technology in order to find the right solutions with their social\, economical and political implications. \nEDEN is continuing its series of successful Research Workshops in October 2008 in Paris. The Fifth Research Workshop\, in the jubilee year of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights\, intends to put special emphasis on the “rights” and “access” to education\, by exploring how recent developments of open and distance education enhanced by ICT turns into a key actor when and where access to education is concerned and what are the main quests for institutions\, students and the information and communication technology. \nEDEN invites European researchers\, the professional community to contribute and share experience at the Research Workshop in a magnificent surroundings\, in the City of Lights\, Paris. \nThe workshop is organised in co-operation with CNED (Centre National d’Enseignement a Distance – the French national distance learning centre)\, under the patronage of UNESCO.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/paris/
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SUMMARY:2004 Oldenburg
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nLearner support is central for success in education and training in general and in open and distance learning (ODL) in particular. The emerging use of e-learning demands that we examine\, analyse and develop our concepts and practices to ensure that they are appropriate to the changing education and training environment. \n\nThis EDEN workshop had both formal presentations and interactive workshop sessions. The theme throughout has focused on research and innovative practice in the effective support of learners in distance education and e-learning and provided the opportunity for an exchange of ideas\, experiences\, and best-practices in student support in ODL within the different and varying contexts of both academic and corporate provision. A particular emphasis has been given to recent developments in practice and the conceptualisation of practice. \nThe keynote presentations and workshops aimed to strengthen the cross-cultural and international exchange of ideas and expertise with a particular emphasis on low-cost/high-outcome approaches to student support\, building learning communities\, and sustainable institutional models of best practice. The keynote addresses were given by distinguished experts and were followed by parallel discursive workshops. The workshops had been structured around selected papers previously submitted by the participants and moderated by members of the Programme Committee. \nThe 3rd EDEN Research Workshop has been organised by EDEN and Oldenburg University to jointly celebrate The Centre for Distance Education’s 25th anniversary. During the past 25 years\, one of the Centre’s main areas of responsibility has been to provide tutorials for students of the FernUniversität in Hagen. More recently Oldenburg University launched the online Master of Distance Education (MDE) in partnership with the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). In 2003\, the Distance Learning Community of Practice of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) in the U.S. conferred upon the MDE the Program of Excellence award.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/oldenburg/
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SUMMARY:2006 Castelldefels
DESCRIPTION: \nWhile recognising that there are different perspectives on the definition of e-learning\, the workshop aims to focus on research both into fully online distance education\, and also into e-learning that combines face-to-face teaching with online learning. \nWithin the general theme\, there will be three parallel sub-themes: \n1. Research into institutional planning\, management and quality development for online distance education and e-learning\nThis theme is focused on research serving the needs of policy makers\, managers and administrators of online distance education and e-learning. \n2. Research into innovative online teaching\, learning and knowledge building (including assessment issues)\nThis theme is focused on research into new models of teaching and learning\, and is aimed primarily at teachers\, instructors and tutors of online distance education and e-learning. \n3. Research into online technology tools and services\nThis theme is focused on research into the underlying technological infrastructure and services needed to support online online distance education and e-learning\, and is aimed primarily at those concerned with designing\, building\, applying and maintaining technology for e-learners. \nThere will also be a workshop on appropriate research methods and designs for online distance education and e-learning. This will run at the same time as the parallel sessions. The workshop is aimed at students\, teachers and practitioners interested in research design.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/castelldefels/
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SUMMARY:2000 Prague
DESCRIPTION: \nIn our ages research is an indispensable activity to provide information for development\, decision-making and quality of products and services. Besides this pragmatic view research is urgently needed to learn more about the world we live in and the impacts of former as well as present innovations. This obviously is valid for the development and progress of Open and Distance Learning all over the world\, too. Even more this is the case as many changes occur and the pace as well as the extent of innovation very often seems to be dramatically fast and wide. \nOpen and Distance Learning (and teaching) seems to be a “booming bussiness” in these days again\, accompanied by \n\nfar-reaching transitions of sytems\nthe necessity to enlarge target groups and programs\na fast technological drive\na strong tendency to “virtual” teaching and learning and “virtual” organisations\nconsiderable cultural issues and challenges\nsevere social aspects\na rather strong economic pressure on diverse sides.\n\nTo foster research related to these (and other) issues EDEN introduced its own Research-Network (“R-Net”) last year. This workshop will be the first meeting point for presentation and in-depth discussion of research organised by EDEN´s R-Net. It is open to professionals inside and outside EDEN. \nThe workshop will especially focus on relationships between research and innovation in different areas of Open and Distance Learning. Thus EDEN as a network for professionals\, teams\, institutions and organisations in the field invites all those who do research\, who need research\, who want to do research and those who want to learn from others how\, where and with whom to start research activities. \nThe aims of the First EDEN Research workshop are: \n\nTo learn about research done (in order to enlarge knowledge)\nTo evaluate the potential of research for innovation (in order to provide a better ground for decision-making and development)\nTo find partners for collaboration and exchange of views (in order to highlight the benefits of networking)\nTo develop guidelines for EDEN´s research policy (in order to strenghten the networks support for researchers in the field)\n\nThe official language of the workshop is English.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/prague/
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SUMMARY:2002 Hildesheim
DESCRIPTION:The workshop dealt with the relation of research and comprehensive aspects of Open and Distance Learning and eLearning\, focusing policy and strategy issues. The event aimed to: \n\nstrengthen the position of ODL and its competent actors\, serving as reference in eLearning developments\nsupport professional development\nimprove suitable platforms for discussion with regional and national governments and funding organisations and the European Commission\ndefine relevance and potential contribution of research in ODL for political decision-making\ndiscuss ODL research from a policy-making perspective\n\nawareness\nquality\,\ndissemination\,\nsupport for decision-making and consulting\n\n\nevaluate funding frameworks and procedures\ndiscuss about guidelines for future funding policies\nreconsider research policy – aims and strategies of funding organisations
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SUMMARY:2005 Poitiers-CNED
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nThe 5th Open Classroom Conference will address the ever-increasing needs of Teachers Professional Development\, in search for Innovation and Quality in School Education\, as these needs are imposed by the emerging e-learning paradigms\, the search for new\, more effective school structures and the broader challenges that societies are facing in their way towards what has been identified as the Knowledge Economy. \n\nEDEN is organising the Open Classroom Conferences since 1997 and established the Open Classroom Working Group in 1998 which is working in collaboration with the European Experts Network for Education and Technology (EENet)\, since 2003. Previous Open Classroom events – conferences and workshops – have reflected upon the vision of schools communicating through networks as well as with various content and application service providers\, in the cyberspace\, validating open\, distance & e-learning practices. \nDuring the last decade\, certain developments and the pervasive impact of the Information & Communication Technologies on school education have been materialized and closely followed-up\, through a number of initiatives\, projects and policy actions\, engaging relevant actors and stakeholders in Europe (schools\, universities and education authorities\, training bodies and technology providers). At the same time\, social evolutions – namely social mobility\, migration\, internationalization\, multi-culture societal structures etc. –\, have already changed the mandate which School Education is up to. There is an increasing demand for a radical upgrade of quality\, in order to meet the needs for new competences and skills. \nTowards this Quest for Quality\, the already critical role of the Teacher as well as of other education professions is being significantly upgraded\, in terms of both the new competences and skills required and the emerging professional perspectives and tasks in the school environment. \nTransforming the school education system to an open (e-)learning environment in the lifelong learning perspective means significant amendments to the existing teacher profiles as well as the elaboration of new professions (and education tasks) that are necessary in order to run a school system successfully. \nThe EU has already adopted a set of policy orientations\, under the Education & Training 2010 Programme of actions (see eg. the ICT Group of Experts Report)\, in the framework of the Lisbon Process\, while most Member States are striving through resisting structures and hindering factors\, in order to introduce innovation and well-defined changes\, having the teacher at the (epi-)center. \nThe 5th Open Classroom Conference must contribute to the social\, political and research dialogue\, for the development of sustainable collaborative Teachers Training & Professional Development Models for Schools in the Knowledge Society. These models should address the new complexities\, in terms of (e-learning) processes\, new competences\, contexts and resources in school education\, fostering new roles for learners\, teachers\, experts and policy makers\, scientific\, academic and cultural entities.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/poitiers-cned/
CATEGORIES:Open classroom conferences
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SUMMARY:2002 Copenhagen
DESCRIPTION:  \nWorkshop aims and themes\n\nDuring the EDEN workshop invited panelists\, experts from around Europe and researchers representing important large scale Nordic ICT initiatives will highlight critical issues related to the openness of school system and discuss the key questions of the two main thematic areas: \n\nFlexible Teachers Training Schemes: feasibility and effectiveness\nGoing Digital: New Skills and Learning Objectives/ Curricula and Content/Learning Resources\n\nThe event will ensure a dynamic and innovative atmosphere\, a real workshop with active involvement of participants. There will not be traditional paper submission for presentation. \nWorking language in Plenary and Parallel Sessions will be English. \nAbout the conference venue – Copenhagen\nThe conference will be organised in Central Copenhagen with two venues: Christiansborg Castle\, the seat of the Danish Parliament and the headquarter of KKA\, the Copenhagen Coursecenter and Eveningschool. \nWith a rich history that is evident in its historic buildings and ancient streets; dozens of world class museums and galleries; the uniquely enchanting Tivoli Gardens; and a resident monarchy that is the oldest in the world\, the Danish capital has a host of attractions to suit all tastes. Read more on www.visitdenmark.com \nLocation for the workshops is the KKA course center located in the center of Copenhagen.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/copenhagen/
CATEGORIES:Open classroom conferences
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SUMMARY:2000 Barcelona
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SUMMARY:Teaching Online Competences: Debate in a Post Confinement Scenario
DESCRIPTION:REGISTERRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges. \nDescription\nIn recent months teachers needed to perform their activities online without proper training. They had to perform their duties in an unknown scenario for most of them. This fact and the already existing need of a teacher online reference framework motivate the need to discuss a set of teaching online requirements. A proposal already discussed by the EDEN Executive Committee will be presented followed by experiences learned. The proposal is based on a CALOHEE publication “Guidelines and Reference Points for the Design and Delivery of Degree Programmes in Teacher Education” by Julia M. González Ferreras and Maria Yarosh. A set of competencies required to teach online for level 6 of the EQF will be presented in terms of descriptors. The debate of the webinar is expected to be useful to tune the future terms of reference and to learn from recent experiences of shifting to online mode. \n  \nYou will meet\nAlfredo SoeiroEDEN Executive Committee member\, Deputy Chair of the EDEN NAP Steering Committee\, EDEN Senior Fellow\,University of Porto\, PortugalDegrees in Civil Engineering (U. Porto\, 76) and (U. Florida-Ph.D.-89). Academic director and vice president of Civil Engineering (U. Porto\, 03/07). Pro-Rector of U. Porto (98/03). Founder of EUCEN (European University Continuing Education Network\, 92); RECLA (Network of CE in Latin American\, 96) and AUPEC (Association of the Portuguese Universities for CE\, 99). Vice president of EUCEN (92/98) and SEFI\, Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (02/04); president of IACEE\, International Association of Continuing Engineering Education (01/04); president of AUPEC (01/05); president of SEFI (03/05). Vice- chair of EMC of FEANI (14/18) and of Steering Committee of NAP of EDEN (14/…)\, Vice-president of ISHCCO (19/…) and member of Executive Board of EDEN (19/…). Member of EUCEN Council (13/16)\, secretary general of AECEF (17/…) and member of IACEE Council (95/…). Medal of 800th Anniversary of U. Sorbonne (98)\, International Hall of Fame of Adult and Continuing Education title (06)\, EDEN Fellow award (08)\, IACEE Fellow (14)\, Global Engineering Education Award by IEOM (16) and EDEN Senior Fellow (18). \n  \n\n\n\nFrancesca AmenduniEDEN NAP SC Member\,University Roma Tre\, Italyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/francescamenduni/Francesca Amenduni is a PhD Student in Education\, Culture and Communication at Roma TRE University (IT). She  has developed her expertise in the e-learning field both as practitioner and researcher at national and international level. She carried out research on blended learning and her current PhD project regards semi-automated assessment of Critical Thinking short essays and open-ended answers. Part of her research has been developed at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton (NJ\, USA) where she spent a term period as visiting student\, funded by the Italian Minister of Education and Research (MIUR) through the “Leonardo da Vinci” scholarship. She has been working as researcher in several European projects in the field related to MOOCs\, Open Education\, and Digital Skills. \n  \n\nUlf-Daniel EhlersEDEN EC Member\, EDEN FellowProf. Educational Management & LLL\, Vice-president EURASHE\, Former Vice-President Co-Operative State University Baden-Wurttemberg\, GermanyProf. Dr Ulf-Daniel Ehlers is full Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at Baden Wurttemberg-State University in Germany. He has been Vicepresident for Quality and Academic Affairs at the same university for the past six years. Before he has held positions as Associate Professor in the Duisburg-Essen\, Germany\, Professor for Technology Enhanced Learning in the University Augsburg\, and Associate Professor of the Graduate School for Management and Technology of the University of Maryland. Ulf is an educational scientist and holds degrees in English Language\, Social Sciences and Educational Sciences from the University of Bielefeld\, where he finished his Ph.D. with honors in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning in 2003\, and was awarded his habilitation in 2008 from the University of Duisburg-Essen.Ulf is an award winning entrepreneur and has founded and lead three companies nationally and internationally in the field of education and technology. He has created many international\, European and national projects and has been President of the Society for Media in Science and President of the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning\, as well as serving on advisory boards to several professional associations in the field.Ulf is an internationally recognized researcher and innovator in the area of Educational Technology. He has extensive experience in helping individuals achieving superior learning performances and has run lighthouse initiatives in the field of e-learning and knowledge management as well as e-business\, including knowledge-technology consulting for small and medium sized enterprises. Ulf has developed the Learners’ Quality Model for e-learning\, which is a basis for learner centred quality development in e-learning. He is working as advisor to governments and non-governmental organisations in the field of learning and development cooperation and is member of several advisory boards and editorial committees.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/teaching-online-competences-debate-in-a-post-confinement-scenario-2/
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SUMMARY:Digitally enhanced learning at European higher education institutions – state of play and prospects
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URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/digitally-enhanced-learning-at-european-higher-education-institutions-state-of-play-and-prospects/
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SUMMARY:How to design and manage assessments for online learning
DESCRIPTION:Description\nAfter two successful webinars within the Education in time of pandemic webinar series\, we’ve taken a step back to form a quick survey of the current educational landscape and the challenges we are all facing as educators during the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve brought together the numerous chat questions asked during the previous webinars and identified specific\, emerging themes\, such as instructional design\, accessibility\, online assessment\, teaching\, and student engagement and collaboration.\nOur next webinar in the series will focus on helping you find answers to questions surrounding these themes\, while drawing on the practical experience of an expert panel comprised of three EDEN Fellows — Don Olcott\, Jr.\, Antonella Poce\, and Lisa Marie Blaschke — and moderated by EDEN President\, Sandra Kucina. This special Q&A session will give you a unique opportunity to learn from the decades of online learning experience of these panelists\, as they address your most important questions and issues.\nModerator\n Sandra Kučina Softić\nEDEN President\nSRCE\n\nSandra Kučina Softić is the Assistant Director for Education and User Support at the Zagreb University Computing Centre (Croatia). She is also the Head of the E-learning Centre and the Head of the Office for E-learning at the University of Zagreb. Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering e-learning in Croatian higher education and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching. She was appointed Croatian representative in ET2020 Working group on Digital Skills and Technologies (2016-2018) and in ET2020 Working group on Digital Education: learning\, teaching and Assessment (2018-2020). In 2018 she was appointed member of European Education and Training Expert Panel.\nHer field of interest is strategic decision making related to e-learning and distance education\, quality assurance\, educational technologies and open education and open educational resources. She has been involved in a number of projects (national and international) related to these fields and she also actively presents at international conferences. She is also author of training courses for teachers and speaker on these topics.\nShe has a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and PhD in Information and Communication Technologies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb.\nShe has been a member of EDEN Executive Committee since 2013 and in 2014 she received the EDEN Fellow Title. In 2019 she became President of EDEN.\nPresenter\nDon Olcott\, Jr.\nEDEN Senior Fellow & Vice Chair\, Council of Fellows; NAP Steering Committee\nFRSA\n\nDr. Don Olcott\, Jr. is a Global Higher Education Consultant specialising in educational leadership and open and distance education.  He is based in Romania.  Don is adjunct full Professor of Educational Leadership and ODL with the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC)\, Honorary Professor\, University of South Africa (Unisa) and an adjunct instructor with Oldenburg University\, Germany in the MTEL Master’s program.  From 2014-2017\, he served as a visiting Professor and Co-Director of the uImagine Digital Innovation Laboratory and as Head of Virtual Campus at Charles Sturt University in Australia. Dr. Olcott was the 2013 recipient of the International Council of Distance Education (ICDE) Individual Prize of Excellence for his leadership and contributions to global open and distance education\nDr. Olcott brings nearly 35 years of experience and leadership in open and distance education and business. He was a 2016 Stanley Draczek Outstanding Teaching Award recipient from the University of Maryland University College for excellence in online teaching and learning. Dr. Olcott is former Chief Executive of The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE) in the UK (2007-2011) and former Chairman of the Board of Directors and President of the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)..  Don holds dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship.  He serves on numerous editorial boards in open and distance learning.  Don was the 1998 recipient of the Charles Wedemeyer award as the Outstanding Distance Education Practitioner in North America awarded by The American Center for the Study of Distance Education and the University of Wisconsin – Madison.   He has held faculty and leadership positions in the U.S.\, UK\, Germany\, Australia\, United Arab Emirates\, and Romania.  His research interests include OER culture & business models\, leadership and organisational transformation.\n\n\n\n\nAntonella Poce\nEDEN Fellow\, EDEN NAP SC Chair Associate Professor\nUniversità degli Studi Roma Tre\, Roma\, Italy\nAntonella Poce is Associate Professor\, qualified Full professor\, in Experimental Pedagogy at the Department of Education Roma TRE University (Italy). Her expertise concerns education research methodology and evaluation. In the last few years\, her interests have been focused on methods to develop and assess transverse skills and dispositions (critical thinking\, creativity\, collaboration and communication) in different kinds of users by combining formal\, non-formal and informal methods through the use of innovative digital technologies. Currently\, within her research group\, she has been working on Critical Thinking automatic assessment through the analysis of open-ended questions and essays. She chairs the Centre for Museum Education (Dept- of Education – Roma TRE University) and the post graduate courses: (annual) Museum Education and (biennial) Advanced Studies in Museum Education. She coordinates national research units within European projects frameworks and she has been chairing international academic committees dealing with distance learning (presently EDEN NAP – Network of Academics and Professionals Chair). She is author of different publications of national and international relevance on the topics of innovation\, assessment and use of technology in teaching and learning\, in the context of heritage fruition.\n\n\n\nLisa Marie Blaschke\nSenior Fellow and Chair of the Board of EDEN Council of Fellows\nProgramme Director\, Center of Lifelong Learning (C3L)\, Oldenburg\, Germany\nDr. Lisa Marie Blaschke She is a former executive committee member of the European Distance Education and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and is a Senior EDEN Fellow and Chair of the Board of the EDEN Fellows Council. She is also a former adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland University College\, where she received the Stanley J. Drazek Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016. Lisa has a BS in Technical Communication\, and two master’s degrees (MDE\, MBA)\, and a PhD. Prior to academia\, Lisa worked for SAP for over a decade in Walldorf\, Germany\, leading and implementing enterprise-wide knowledge management and training processes and solutions. Lisa’s research interests are in the areas of self-determined learning (heutagogy)\, online collaborative learning\, pedagogical application of web 2.0 technology and social media\, and user interface design.\nJoining\n\nClick on the link for the meeting room:\nThe link will be available soon.\n\nThe link opens in your standard browser and a dialogue box is shown. Make sure that “Zoom Meetings” is chosen and choose “Open link” at the bottom of the dialogue box.\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you have the Zoom client installed the client is now opened and you will enter the meeting room.\n\nIf you haven’t got the Zoom client you will be prompted to download the client. Click “Yes” and download the client. The client is needed to be able to participate in all the interactive activities in the webinar.\n\n\n\n\n\nClick on the symbols for microphone and camera down in the left corner in the meeting room to enable audio and video.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/how-to-design-and-manage-assessments-for-online-learning/
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