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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.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/lisbon/
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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/
CATEGORIES:Research workshops
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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.
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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/
CATEGORIES:Research workshops
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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
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/hildesheim/
CATEGORIES:Research workshops
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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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URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/barcelona/
CATEGORIES:Open classroom conferences
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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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SUMMARY:Virtual Events
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SUMMARY:Designing online courses: a practical approach
DESCRIPTION:REGISTERRegistered webinar participants will be awarded by EDEN open badges. \nDescription\nLiving in these times is challenging for everyone involved in education\, students and teachers alike. Many teachers woke up one day with the obligation to transfer all their teaching to the online environment. However\, many of them lacked the knowledge on how to do this in an optimal way\, due to reasons varying from lack of ICT skills to lack of training offered by educational institutions. The question that arises here is how to efficiently transfer teaching practice online\, using the available tools\, avoiding to use learning management systems as online repositories.\nThis webinar proposes to fill parts of the gaps existing in teachers’ knowledge related to instructional and learning design in regards to online education\, by presenting hands-on approaches already used by teachers who are experienced with online learning and especially in transferring teaching methods online.\nThere are two main topics which will be presented during this webinar: \n\nBest practices of instructional and learning used in different online courses.\nIntegration of MOOCs in online learning courses.\n\n\nPresenters\nVlad Mihăescu\nEDEN NAP SC Chair\nFaculty of Electronics\, Telecommunications and Information Technology\, Politehnica University of Timisoara \nVlad Mihaescu has a PhD in educational and technological models of MOOCs and has more than 10 years’ experience as a trainer and teacher in areas like multimedia technologies\, social media\, e-tourism\, e-learning\, usability\, entrepreneurship\, programming\, soft skills and leadership. Author of over 25 scientific papers and book chapters published in international conferences and journals\, Vlad is involved in several European research projects in the field of eLearning. He is also a lecturer for UPT.\nVlad Mihăescu\nEDEN NAP SC Chair\nFaculty of Electronics\, Telecommunications and Information Technology\, Politehnica University of Timisoara \nVlad Mihaescu has a PhD in educational and technological models of MOOCs and has more than 10 years’ experience as a trainer and teacher in areas like multimedia technologies\, social media\, e-tourism\, e-learning\, usability\, entrepreneurship\, programming\, soft skills and leadership. Author of over 25 scientific papers and book chapters published in international conferences and journals\, Vlad is involved in several European research projects in the field of eLearning. He is also a lecturer for UPT.\nMaha Bali\nAssociate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo\, Egypt\nMaha Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She has a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield\, UK. She is co-founder of virtuallyconnecting.org (a grassroots movement that challenges academic gatekeeping at conferences) and co-facilitator of Equity Unbound (an equity-focused\, open\, connected intercultural learning curriculum\, which has also branched into academic community activities Continuity with Care\, Inclusive Academia\, and Community Building Resources). She writes and speaks frequently about social justice\, critical pedagogy\, and open and online education.\nShe blogs regularly at http://blog.mahabali.me and tweets @bali_maha. \n\nMia Zamora\nAssociate Professor of English\, the Director of the MA in Writing Studies\, and the Director of the Kean University Writing Project in Union\, NJ\, USA\n\nMia Zamora\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English\, the Director of the MA in Writing Studies\, and the Director of the Kean University Writing Project in Union\, NJ\, USA. She has recently received the Kean University “Professor of the Year” Award. Dr. Zamora’s commitment to equity\, digital literacies\, data rights\, and intercultural understanding is clear in both her scholarship and leadership work. She has founded several global learning networks including Equity Unbound (#unboundeq) and Networked Narratives (#netnarr)\, and was Co-Chair of ALT’s #OER20 conference on “Care in Openness”. \n\nAutumm Caines\nInstructional Designer at the University of Michigan – Dearborn\, USA \n\nAutumm Caines is an Instructional Designer at the University of Michigan – Dearborn in the Hub for Teaching and Learning Resources\, prior to which she held professional appointments at St. Norbert College and Capital University. She holds a MA in Educational Technology from The Ohio State University. In the Open\, she is a Co-Director of Virtually Connecting where her work explores questions of presence and spontaneity in synchronous virtual conversations as well as equity and inclusion in online community. She also helps to organize and facilitate Open/Connected online events for the purposes of faculty development and her own practice in digital stewardship\, most recently with the tags #DigCiz\, #DigPINS\, and #EthicalEdTech. Autumm tweets @autumm and maintains a web portfolio at https://autumm.org\nSources:\nBali\, M.\, Caines\, A.\, Hogue\, R. J.\, DeWaard\, H. J.\, & Friedrich\, C. (2019). Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Hybrid Video Dialogue: The Context of Virtually Connecting. eLearning Mag (special issue). Retrieved from: https://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=3331173\nBali\, M.\, & Caines\, A. (Dec. 2018). A call for promoting ownership\, equity and agency in faculty development via connected learning. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-018-0128-8\nEquity Unbound site https://unboundeq.creativitycourse.org\n \n \n\n\nPrevious EDEN webinars\nOPEN
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/designing-online-courses-a-practical-approach/
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SUMMARY:EDEN #onlinetogether webinar series
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SUMMARY:Granada
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe conference was collecting examples of existing good experience\, trends and their evaluation\, encouraged partnerships\, supported collaboration with special regard to co-operation and joint research in ODL\, collaboration in design and development of e-learning courses\, distance education to create virtual communities of learners and consideration of Europe’s educational import – export relationships – what can we offer in the export-import exchange with the other continents? \nThe conference themes were: \n\nTo which extent are the present motivations and interests in the educational world relevant to follow the internationalisation trends?\nHow can the scope be widened for those involved in European co-operation\, to enter into activities outside the continent?\nHow can the role of internationalization in the consolidation\, standardization and professionalisation of the European ODL and eLearning be described properly?\nWhat are the appropriate means to find and support excellence in countries which are not in the forefront?\nCan co-operation in ODL really efficiently go beyond borders and enter small markets?\nWhat did we learn from the evaluation of models of virtual mobility?\nHow should we develop and design new models of production and delivery in ODL and eLearning in the international perspective\nHow can we identify points of excellence\, in respect of European co-operation\, and their outcomes?\nHow can ODL contribute to professionalisation and internationalisation of training of teachers?
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/granada/
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SUMMARY:Helsinki
DESCRIPTION:  \nLifelong learning is high on the agenda in Europe: having enjoyed a continuously increasing policy profile\, it is now the key term for the new generation of integrated educational and training programmes of the European Union in 2007 – 2013. ICTs represent in the programme a most important transversal strand of activities\, crossing all educational sectors.\nBringing e-learning closer to lifelong learning is very relevant today. Education systems are seriously facing the modernisation challenge as a result of the Lisbon process. The importance of flexible delivery modes and institutions is increasing\, the scenario is changing on all levels. Lifelong learning obviously implies intensive interaction between the world of work and the different educational sectors. Adult and lifelong learning represent a more and more essential part of the portfolio of traditional educational institutions. Higher education is specially positioned for producing\, and disseminating knowledge\, but also acting as an important interlocuteur in raising awareness\, and promoting the culture of learning. \nThe integration of ICTs in the different sectors of education is an intensive ongoing process\, accompanied by consolidation of the e-learning field. Professionalisation of methodologies and management plays an important role: with the increasing understanding and realisation of advanced concepts of learning and teaching and the proper use of technologies\, e-learning is better positioned to receive new important assignments from the society than ever before. \nAll the above aspects emerge in an integrated context and make up a good basis to believe that this will lead indeed to increased uptake of modern educational methods. Improving e-learning services and products permit institutions to elaborate and implement well-founded strategies and new partnerships with the corporate sector. Academic knowledge and professional experience accumulated in the field of open\, distance and e-learning should be highlighted with all its complexity and achievement in this important period. \nThe EDEN Annual Conference in 2005 will focus on open\, distance and e-learning from the perspective of lifelong learning\, with the approach of collaboration and knowledge transfer from all educational sectors\, including adult and vocational education. The event intends to bring together and present the related experience of professionals and practitioners in ICT supported learning\, introducing the state of the art and providing a survey of what we expect to happen in the next years. The conference will especially address the transversal and intersectoral issues\, in particular the role of universities\, as well as post-secondary and tertiary further education. \nThe conference venue and the host institution offer more than perfect conditions for the event. The Finnish economy is one of the best examples worldwide in realizing development and modernisation\, in organic synergy with science and education. Dipoli and Espoo\, with the campus of the Helsinki University of Technology and the Otaniemi Science and Technology Park is a symbolically important environment for a future oriented gathering of educational experts. The Lifelong Learning Institute of the University has pioneered at national and European levels a number of flagship initiatives in a range of various sectors of education and economy in Finland. \nEDEN\, continuing its successful series of conferences\, invites you to join the European community of educational professionals with interest and experience in ICTs\, open\, distance and e-learning in discovering the state of art\, innovative practice and future scenarios for the European agenda of lifelong learning.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/helsinki/
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SUMMARY:Porto
DESCRIPTION: \nInnovation and Creativity are considered to be key drivers for development in the 21st Century\, and thus Knowledge-based societies need to place strong emphasis on establishing those flourishing conditions\, which will make for the Creation of Ideas and Knowledge as well as for the better use of Knowledge and Innovation\, in order to build value for their social systems. A set of Key Competencies are required\, which enable all people to embrace change as an opportunity and to welcome as well as produce new ideas and approaches\, in order to respond effectively to the challenges of the new participatory cultures and globalization. \n\n\nSuch Key Competencies favor innovative and creative social acting in the personal\, interpersonal and intercultural fields. Sustaining Creativity and Innovation in Education constitutes a promising strategy to reach societal well being\, through increasing understanding and promoting growth as well as addressing social inequalities. Placing Creativity and Innovation among the key objectives in the learning process\, starting from early childhood through tertiary education\, in the Lifelong Learning perspective\, could be a major contribution to innovativeness in society. Learner-centered education supports the enhancement of Key Competencies\, as the 21st Literacies\, having the Learning to Learn\, Mathematics\, Mother & Foreign Language\, Science & Technology\, Cultural Awareness and Entrepreneurship\, as major competencies among them. \nIn this context\, sustainable change in Knowledge Building and Curriculum Development as well as the Pedagogies and the Teachers Professional Development could only be addressed by motivation and incentives\, leadership and quality upgrade. In order to introduce this new Learning Culture\, education authorities and institutions need to adopt changes in the fields of organization and governance and be reflective to emerging bottom-up initiatives\, in a new balance between top-down planning and grass-roots implementation and quality regulation. Today’s education systems have to cater for experimental innovation and tolerance of failure\, thus encouraging innovative approaches and practice. School Autonomy – whether formal or informal – provides with the grounds for releasing and developing Creativity and Innovation. So\, it seems that the enhancement of School Autonomy\, Teachers professional development as well as of Networking among school communities\, constitute an effective way for moving towards the future\, by serving Excellence and Learning Efficiency while catering for Equity and Social Inclusion. \nTo bring up and reflect upon these considerations\, EDEN in the framework of its Open Classroom Initiative is organizing this Conference on The European School 2.0: Incubating Creativity and the Capacity for Innovation\, together with the Universidade Aberta\, the Portuguese Open University\, and the University of Porto as well as the support of other European and international expert bodies. The Conference aims at enriching the European dialogue around the 21st Century School\, while contributing to the European Education policies and the objectives of the European Year for Creativity and Innovation 2009. It will offer the opportunity to European schools and teachers to present and reflect upon their innovative experiences\, in such a way to enhance cross-country Good Practice on introducing and managing Innovation in the school systems\, to the benefit of the quality in education.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/porto/
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SUMMARY:Stockholm
DESCRIPTION:  \nSurrounding evidence fostered by a number of developments coming with the pervasive impact of the Information & Communication Technologies on school education\, is leading education researchers and pedagogists as well as policy makers and international agencies to adopt the hypothesis of an emerging Paradigm of Schooling\, in the 21st century.\nIn the years to come we need to further intensify our joint efforts in order to better understand\, plan and act upon the social evolutions\, namely the social mobility\, migration\, internationalisation\, multicultural societal structures\, that are changing the mandate of School Education\, in Schooling 21C. \nTransforming School Education systems to open (e-)learning environments\, in the Lifelong Learning perspective implies evolutionary changes as regards: \n\nthe way we understand the emerging learning needs of youngsters at school ages\, the way we define learning objectives and how we go about meeting them through structured learning offers;\nthe planning and the running of schools and networks of schools\, teachers\, classes and classrooms\, with individualized learning paths and collaborative learning experiences;\nconcerning the way we innovate and scale-up\, by validating new forms of education content development\, consolidation and knowledge building and sharing of experiences.\n\nThe Sixth Open Classroom Conference aims at offering an opportunity to present\, be informed about and join the European dialogue about how families\, teachers\, experts\, authorities and societies at large are experiencing and handling the changes that are leading towards Real Learning in Virtual Worlds.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/stockholm/
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