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SUMMARY:2021 Open Classroom Conference - Athens
DESCRIPTION:Co-organised by Ellinogermaniki Agogi\, the Institute of Educational Policy\, the European Distance and E-Learning Network and the EDEN Digital Learning Europe in the framework of the Reflecting for Change project\, the aim of the Open Classroom Conference 2021 “Real change takes place in deep crisis” is to explore the idea of “Open School” as an engaging environment that effectively introduces novel methodologies\, tools and content by re-designing learning to accommodate and include difference and by bringing together families\, community groups\, local businesses\, experts\, universities\, into an innovation ecosystem. \nΤhe event will take place on 22-24 October 2021. Taking into account the special conditions under Covid19\, the conference will take place with all necessary measures in the premises of EA at Pallini\, while it will be available through virtual facilities (zoom and EA youtube channel). Participants will be additionally able to join at the virtual conference hall of Ellinogermaniki Agogi in Second Life. \nSubmit your proposal by 19/9/2021. \nRegistration and further information at the conference site: http://openclassroom2021.ea.gr/
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/open-classroom-conference-athens/
CATEGORIES:Open classroom conferences
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SUMMARY:European Online and Distance Learning Week (EODLW)
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDINGS EDEN is proudly hosting the European Online and Distance Learning Week (EODLW) for the sixth time! The event is organised in partnership with the Open Distance Learning Association in Australia (ODLAA) jointly with Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ) who are launching the Asia-Pacific Online Distance Education (APODE) Week and with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)\, who will be holding its National Distance Learning Week (NDLW). A special webinar contribution by ICDE is also planned. \n\nEDEN thanks all the participants\, moderators\, panelists\, organisers and partner associations who supported us in hosting once again an insightful European Online and Distance Learning Week. We welcomed a total of 700 online attendees at 8 webinars\, with 36 moderators and speakers. This year we renewed our partnership with USDLA\, ODLAA and FLANZ. We had a special contribution from ICDE and Blackboard. \n\n\nStudents’ voice was represented in the session lead by Airina Volungevičienė. \n\n\nWe closed the EODLW series of webinars with a motivating discussion lead by Sandra Kucina\, featuring Georgi Dimitrov\, Josep A. Planell Estany\, Mark Brown\, Airina Volungevičienė and Alfredo Soeiro. \n\n\nThis week represented an excellent opportunity to reflect on the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic\, with the aim to identify and pursue the good practices in online teaching and learning. Among the topics\, MOOC\, XR technologies\, OER and microcredentials were discussed by experts in these fields. \n\n\nEODLW in numbers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy did we need a pandemic as the catalyst for the digital transformation of higher education?  \n\n\nThe transformation has been apparent\, a real transformation requires time and determination from all stakeholders involved (from Mark Brown’s speech). \n\n\nWe have to build new models to facilitate the online learners\, digital tools shall serve us to improve communication (from Alfredo Soeiro’s speech). \n\n\nOpen universities have the duty to lead the digital transformation from the experience they have since before the pandemic (from Josep A. Planell Estany’s speech). \n\n\nWhat is the role of the Digital Education Action Plan in contributing to shaping a new European Education Area? \n\n\nThe DEAP will support building a European digital education area\, which is a priority of the European Commission. The Digital Education Hub will create an interface of cooperation between policy\, research and private sector and aims to increase and deepen the dialogue with member states on the present needs in digital education (from Georgi Dimitrov’s speech). \n\n\n\n\nWe thank Blackboard Europe for participating in the webinar ‘Stepping up to the plate! How technology has supported ODL during and after the pandemic‘. \n\n \n[bookline] \nAll webinars at EODLW 2021\nWednesday\, November 3\, 2021\, 14:00-15:30 CET \nPractices in Digital Education for Universities\nModerator: Vlad Mihaescu \nSpeakers: Diana Andone\, Edmundo Tovar\, Alfredo Soeiro \nWATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS MORE INFO \n\nThursday\, November 4\, 2021\, 11:00-12:30 CET \nStepping up to the plate! How technology has supported ODL during and after the pandemic\nModerator: Alastair Creelman \nSpeakers: Andrei Ternauciuc\, Jesús Boticario\, Lisa Marie Blaschke\, Annabell Busch\, Nicolas Albouze \nWATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS MORE INFO \n\nThursday\, November 4\, 2021\, 13:00-14:00 CET \nStudent Voice on the Opportunities and Benefits of Online and Distance Education during the Pandemic\nModerator: Airina Volungevičienė \nSpeakers: Orna Farrell\, Sinead Lynch\, Ausra Rutkiene\, Vusala Idrisli\, Tamari Ivanidze\, Lina Kaminskienė\, Sandra Lovrenčić \nWATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS MORE INFO \n\nFriday\, November 5\, 2021\, 13:00-14:30 CET \nYou can handle you can teach it: Use of XR technologies to enhance teaching and learning methods in online higher education\nModerators: Luis Villarejo\, Gizeh Rangel-de Lazaro \nSpeakers: Fridolin Wild\, Pierre Bourdin \nWATCH THE RECORDING MORE INFO \n\nMonday\, November 8\, 2021\, NEW TIME: 15:00-16:30 CET \nMaking Higher Education 4.0: The Inside Story\nModerator: Elaine Beirne \nSpeakers: Mark Brown\, Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl\, Conchúr Mac Lochlainn \nWATCH THE RECORDING MORE INFO \n\nTuesday\, November 9\, 2021\, 13:00-14:30 CET \nMultisectoral collaboration for OER: adaptation and development to ensure quality Open\, Flexible and Distance Learning (ICDE contribution)\nModerators: Anaïs Røed Malbrand \nSpeakers: Jacques Dang\, Alan Masson\, Ebba Ossiannilsson \nWATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS MORE INFO \n\nTuesday\, November 9\, 2021\, 19:00-19:45 CET \nGlobal Perspectives Panel\nJoint association webinar in the frame of USDLA National Distance Learning Week\nJoin this session to learn from senior executives of our peer organisations around the world. Speakers: \n\nMr. Eric Jones\, President-Elect of the United States Distance Learning Association\nDr. Mark Brown\, Vice President of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA)\nDr. Josep Duart\, President of the EDEN Digital Learning Europe\nDr. Simon Paul Atkinson\, President of the Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ)\n\n\nWednesday\, November 10\, 2021\, 12:00-13:30 CET \nA Report Card on the Crisis: What is the Legacy of the Great Onlining of Higher Education?\nModerator: Sandra Kučina Softić \nSpeakers: Georgi Dimitrov\, Josep A. Planell Estany\, Mark Brown\, Airina Volungevičienė\, Alfredo Soeiro \nWATCH THE RECORDING MORE INFO \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/european-online-and-distance-learning-week-eodlw/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:No. 7 – A Primer for Developing and  Managing University Micro-Credentials
DESCRIPTION:Description \nThis webinar will introduce participants to the basics of micro-credentials including emerging definitions\, the drivers of micro-credentials\, affordances and challenges\, types of micro-credentials\, development of competency-based approaches for learning\, minimum levels of performance and skill level domains for certification.  The panel will also share practical examples of micro-credentials from their respective institutions and professional networks. \n  \nModerator\nMairéad Nic Giolla MhichílFellow of EDENDirector of Micro-Credential Strategy and Innovation and Head of DCU Studio\, Dublin City University\, IrelandDr. Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl is Dublin City University’s Director of Micro-Credential Strategy and Innovation and Head of DCU Studio\, which is engaged with micro-credential development on behalf of the University. Mairéad is a Fulbright Scholar with the University of Notre Dame in the USA and an EDEN Fellow. Mairéad is a member of the MC2 – Multi-Campus Micro-Credential initiative\, a national university sector initiative to develop out a micro-credential framework and implementation in Ireland\, along with this she is co-leads the micro-credential WP in DCU in the ECIU University\, European University alliance. Mairéad is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (ETHE) which will publish a special edition on micro-credentials. Mairéad has contributed widely to the national and international policy development and institutional implementation on micro-credentials working both with governmental and industry bodies.Links: \n\nPublications\nDublin City University\nNational Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL)\n\nSpeakers \n\nDeborah ArnoldSenior Fellow of EDENFrench Digital University for Economics and Management (AUNEGe)\, FranceDeborah has worked as national and international projects coordinator at AUNEGe\, the French digital university for economics and management\, since 2018. She is currently coordinating the Erasmus+ project ECCOE (European Credit Clearinghouse for Opening up Education) which aims to foster the uptake of digital credentials through a focus on trust\, transparency and recognition.Deborah has three decades of experience in the field of education and training in France. From 2012 to 2017 she was the head of the learning technology and distance education unit at the University of Burgundy\, before leading the education strand of the institution’s digital strategy. She is currently completing a PhD on the topic of digital education leadership in higher education at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.From 2010 to 2016 Deborah served on the Executive Committee of EDEN (European Distance and E-learning Network) and held the position of Vice-President for Communication. She is a Senior Fellow of EDEN\, Vice-Chair of the EDEN Fellows Council Board\, and Secretary to the board of the Media and Learning Association. Deborah also serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions.Links: \n\nAUNEGe\nECCOE\nEDEN Fellows Council Board\nIJELT\n\n\nUlf-Daniel EhlersSenior Fellow of EDENProfessor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University\, GermanyUlf is founder of mindful-leaders.net\, serial entrepreneur\, and full Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University. In 2011 the Ministry of Higher Education called him to spearhead the launch of Germany’s first Cooperative University as Vice-President\, a large scale initiative\, with today 35 thousand students. In 2017\, he launched NextEducation\, an international boutique-research group focussing on Future Skills\, Microcredentials & digital transformation in higher education. Just recently he was appointed as Scientific Director at the Future Learning Laboratory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).Ulf has worked with numerous universities on all 5 continents and held leading senior research positions and appointments as guest-\, full- and associate professor in various countries in Europe and the US. Ulf holds several European executive mandates. A focal point of his work is to support the integration of the European Higher Education Area where he currently co-chairs the EU inter-ministerial group for future of teaching and learning. He also serves as elected Vice President of  the European Association of Institutes of Higher Education (EURASHE)\, one of four cornerstone institutions of the Bologna Process. He is an elected director of the Executive Council of the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) where he has been awarded EDEN senior fellowship honours. For the European Ranking Initiative U-Multirank he has been appointed as member of the Advisory Board by the European Commission.Ulf has delivered keynotes and been speaking to audiences in more than 45 countries. He is author/ editor of more than 13 books and 200 scholarly articles with over 4.500 academic citations. Ulf is a trained systemic coach\, facilitator and expert for mindful and non-violent communication\, and holds degrees in English Language\, Social Sciences and Education Sciences from the University of Bielefeld. His writings on quality in education are internationally awarded.Links: \n  \n\nUlf’s web & videos\nFuture Skills Reserarch\nThe NextEducatuion Research Group\nHigher Ed beyond Corona\nMindful communication & coaching\nEDEN Fellows Council Board\n\n\nRebecca FergusonProfessor of Learning Futures in the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) \,The Open University\, UK\nRebecca is Professor of Learning Futures in the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her primary research interests are educational futures and how people learn together online. She was academic lead on The Open University’s microcredentials for two years\, and has been both an educator and a learner on microcredentials\, as well as researching and evaluating them.Rebecca is a leading member of the international learning analytics community and an Editor in Chief of the Journal of Learning Analytics. Her work has been influential in shaping the field\, supporting implementation across Europe\, and promoting a focus on social learning analytics. She has been invited to lead events in this area on five continents\, including several associated with her work as principal investigator on the European Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE) and on LAEP\, a project that helped European policymakers to set out an agenda for high-quality and stimulating ways of learning and teaching through the use of learning analytics.She is currently a principal investigator on the European project: European MOOC Consortium: Labour Market. She was a Program Chair of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge 2018 (LAK18) conference in Sydney\, Australia\, and LAK19 in Tempe\, Arizona. Rebecca has been a pedagogic adviser to the FutureLearn MOOC platform since its foundation\, supporting its development of conversational learning. Her extensive experience of MOOC development and evaluation provides a firm basis for her research on learning at scale and on MOOC platforms.Links: \n  \n\nRebecca’s website
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-7-a-primer-for-developing-and-managing-university-micro-credentials/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Time for Action in Shaping HE 4.0,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Asynchronous approaches to teaching and learning
DESCRIPTION:Description\nAsynchronous approaches to teaching and learning have been part of the DNA of distance and online education for over forty years. However\, during the Covid-19 pandemic pivot online\, synchronous video conferencing quickly became the norm and asynchronous approaches were largely ignored. However\, the literature indicates that active communication between students and instructors using asynchronous discussion forums promotes interaction and social presence in online courses (Farrell & Brunton\, 2020; Buck\, 2016; Gauvreau\, Hurst\, Cleveland-Innes\, & Hawranik\, 2016).The session will begin with Dr. Sarah Lohnes Watulak and Dr. Jeni Henrickson sharing their experiences of creating The Asynchronous Cookbook\, a collaborative and open textbook. Then\, Rima Al Tawil will present her research on non-verbal communication in asynchronous discussion forums. Finally\, Dr Caitriona Ni She\, will share research and practice on asynchronous engagement drawn from the #Openteach project.Type of session: presentations with discussion \n  \nModerator\nOrna FarrellDr Orna Farrell is Assistant Professor specialising in online and blended education in Dublin City University (DCU). Orna holds a PhD in Education from Trinity College Dublin. Orna is EDEN NAP SC Deputy Chair.Currently\, Orna is Head of the Open Education Unit at Dublin City University\, which provides online programmes to off campus students through the DCU Connected platform. From 2020-21\, Orna led the Digital Learning Design Unit\, created to support DCU’s pivot to hybrid learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic. From 2017-20\, she was Chair of the DCU Connected Online Humanities programmes.Working within DCU’s National Institute for Digital Learning. Orna’s research interests include online pedagogy\, online student success and engagement\, eportfolio and open educational practice. She has a growing publication record in her fields of interest\, including a range of book chapters\, journal articles\, invited presentations and conference papers. She has published in high ranking journals such as Distance Education\, the Journal of Interactive Media in Education\, Research in Learning Technology\, and the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. Dr Farrell is an editor of the open access online journal The Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning. \n\nVlad MihaescuEDEN NAP SC ChairFaculty of Electronics\, Telecommunications and Information Technology\, Politehnica University of Timisoara.Vlad 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. \n  \n\nSpeakers\n Sarah Lohnes WatulakDr. Sarah Lohnes Watulak is the Director for Digital Pedagogy and Media in the Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry (DLINQ) at Middlebury College in Vermont (USA)\, where she gets to work with awesome colleagues to create digital learning opportunities and environments that support learner agency and equity. More at Sarah’s website: http://sarahlw.middcreate.net/ \n\nJeni HenricksonDr. Jeni Henrickson is an Instructional Designer in the Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry (DLINQ) at Middlebury College in Vermont (USA)\, where she helps facilitate thoughtful tech integration and meaningful learning experiences in digital spaces across the institution. She enjoys engaging diverse groups in transformational learning experiences\, building learner confidence and community\, and designing learning that is playful and visually engaging. \n  \n\nRima Al TawilHailing from Toronto\, Ontario\, Rima is a Lebanese-Canadian educator with a passion for using educational technology to create interactive and engaging experiences that lead to deeper learning. She started her career in the field of education as k-12 teacher in Lebanon and the U.A.E.\, then transitioned to adult education and employee professional development. Throughout her profession as an instructor\, senior learning consultant\, and instructional designer in the academic and corporate worlds\, she has designed\, developed\, and implemented curricula using multiple modalities\, with a special focus on asynchronous\, text-based communication. For her EdD studies at Athabasca University\, she is researching the influence that nonverbal cues may have on the students’ interaction and engagement in the online course asynchronous discussions. She conducted an initial research on the same topic while completing her Master’s in Adult Education at Yorkville University. \n  \n\nCaitríona Ní ShéDr. Caitríona Ní Shé is currently working in Trinity College Dublin as an Academic Developer. In her previous role she worked on the National Forum’s Professional Development of All Those Who Teach priority. Caitríona has worked on a number of online teaching and technology enhanced learning projects including the #Openteach (online teaching) and the Assessment for Learning (Mathematics resources) projects.  In addition\, she has worked in a variety of roles across the higher education sector both in supporting academics enhance their teaching skills and students achieve their learning goals. Caitríona worked previously on the first iteration of the PACT short course and is now\, along with the National Forum team\, supporting the roll out of the Open Courses platform across the sector.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/asynchronous-approaches-to-teaching-and-learning/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Collaborative online trusted relationships for multicultural exchange
DESCRIPTION:DescriptionVirtual mobility and virtual exchange have become a way for international and intercultural collaboration of institutions\, teachers and students\, when the development of key competences and transversal skills are at focus.\nIn fact\, the importance and need for HE institution modernisation/internationalization and focus on student centred learning approach\, as well as rapid technological developments in everyday life require new actions\, perspectives and approaches from organizations involved in education and training activities.\nExamples\, EU projects and theoretical methodology will be discussed in this webinar\, both for virtual mobility and exchange.\n[bookline] \nModerator\nSandra Kučina Softič\nPresident of EDEN\,\nAssistant Director for Education and User Support\, University Computing Centre SRCE\, Croatia\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.\n[bookline] \nSpeakers\nAirina Volungevičienė\nPresident of EDEN Digital Learning Europe\nDirector of Institute for Study Innovations\, Vytautas Magnus University\, Lithuania\nProf. dr. Airina Volungevičienė has been working among leading researchers\, methodology specialists and education policy makers in the area of technology enhanced learning (TEL) development in Europe and Lithuania since 1997. Having established the national network for distance and e-learning in the country\, then Lithuanian Distance and e-Learning association (2010)\, she continued as a leader in research and project work to promote the development of TEL in Lithuania and Europe\, introducing many innovations in different education organizations from school\, VET\, adult learning and higher education sectors. Her main concern at Vytautas Magnus University is to direct Institute activities to implement its mission: to advise University teachers to design distance learning and teaching (DL/T) curriculum\, to ensure DL/T quality\, to get DL/T curriculum quality assurance at University\, to organize online studies successfully\, and to ensure DL/T accreditation and quality assurance at the national and international level.\nShe is involved in EDEN Governance since 2009\, as the Board member\, Vice President for Research (2016 – 2019) and the President (2016 – 2019). Collaboration with UNESCO IITE in application of technologies in education\, OER development\, as well as UNESCO IBE for Collaborative Master study program of „Curriculum development“ allows mainstreaming of expert knowledge and the development of open professional collaboration of teachers and academia on global level. \n\nFrancesca Helm\nResearcher at the Department of Politics\,\nLaw and International Studies at the University of Padova\, Italy\nMy research is in the areas of intercultural communication and virtual exchange\, online literacies\, applied linguistics\, education and language policy\, ethical internationalisation. I am currently researching the European Commission’s Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange pilot project.\nI’ve published in several international journals and am a reviewer for LLT\, Linguistics and Education\, and a member of the editorial board of the journals ReCALL and System. I was chair of the Education Innovation working group of the Coimbra Group of Universities\, and member of the Steering Committee of Scholars at Risk Italy. \n\nWim Van Petegem\nProfessor at KU Leuven\, Belgium\nEURODL Editor-in-Chief\nWim Van Petegem (1964\, Belgium) holds an MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ghent (Belgium) and one in Biomedical Engineering from the KU Leuven (Belgium). He got his PhD in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven in 1993. He has worked at the University of Alberta\, Edmonton (Canada)\, at the Open University of the Netherlands and at the Leuven University College (Belgium). From 2001 till 2012 he was the head of the Media and Learning Center (formerly known as AVNet) and later he became Director of the Teaching and Learning Department at KU Leuven (Belgium). Currently he is Professor at the Faculty of Engineering Technology at KU Leuven. He is actively involved in different networks of universities (like EuroPACE\, SEFI\, EDEN\, IACEE\, MEDEA and the Coimbra Group). His current research interests are in the field of multimedia production\, new educational technology\, networked e-learning\, virtual mobility\, lifelong learning\, open and distance learning\, knowledge transfer\, innovative entrepreneurship and science communication. He and his team are involved as contractor\, partner\, coordinator\, expert\, or evaluator in many implementation and development projects mostly financed by the European Commission (DG Education and Culture). He is also heavily engaged in development cooperation with the South\, and volunteer board member of several non-profit organizations. \n\nElena Caldirola\nDirector of the eLearning Center of the University Pavia\, Italy \n\nDirector of the eLearning Center of the University of Pavia since 2010. She has a master degree in Political Science and a Postgraduate Specialisation in eLearning Management and Digital Communication. Skilled in eLearning environments\, MOOCs\, Learning Spaces\, Blended Learning\, Digital Corporate Training\, and online learning. Since 2009 she takes part in the eLearning Task Force of the Coimbra Group. From 2013 until 2015 she was Chair of the CG eLearning Task Force and from 2016 till now she is member of the CG Education Innovation group. Since 2012 she is member of the Scientific Board of the Italian eLearning Society and since 2018 she takes part in the Executive Board of EDEN (European Distance and eLearning Network).
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/collaborative-online-trusted-relationships-for-multicultural-exchange/
CATEGORIES:Other EDEN contributions,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Continuing Education in practice as a tool to keep health professionals updated
DESCRIPTION:Description\nOne of the goals of the Higher Education Institutions is to extend the education process to professionals through Continuous Education Programs among which those useful to keep updated health professionals. Higher education institutions are not the only players within this field including also scientific societies\, health services organizations and their health and management staff\, communications societies\, and industries operating in the broad medical field. The webinar offers an overview of the different players/stakeholders involved.\n[bookline] \nModerator\nSandra Kučina Softič\nPresident of EDEN\,\nAssistant Director for Education and User Support\, University Computing Centre SRCE\, Croatia\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.\n[bookline] \nSpeakers\nTommaso Minerva\nDept. of Surgery\, Medicine and Dentistry\, Coordinator and director of EDUNOVA\, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia\, president of EduOpen and of the Italian eLearning Society. Tommaso Minerva has contributed to develop e-learning within the academic Italian institutions and to build a reference and standardized frame for e learning experiences within Academy.\n  \n\n Stefano Denicolai\n\nProfessor of ‘Innovation Management’ at the University of Pavia (Italy)\, where he is also Head of the Master degree – Laurea Magistralis – in ‘International Business and Entrepreneurship’ (MIBE)\, Director of the Executive MBA\, and the Director of the Master in ‘Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship’. He is the coordinator of modules on innovation for the Executive Master EMMLOS for top managers in healthcare.\nHe has been Visiting scholar and/or professor in several universities\, such as: Harvard Business School (US)\, SPRU – University of Sussex (UK)\, and Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3 (FR).\nHis research interests include the following topics: Innovation Management; Impact of AI and emerging technologies on business model of organizations; business implications of Precision Medicine. In terms of industries\, special attention goes to Life Science and Healthcare.\nHe is author of several books and articles in the above-mentioned fields\, including in journals such as R&D Management\, Journal of World Business\, Technological Forecast and Social Change\, International Business Review\, and Tourism Management.\nStefano Denicolai is also scientific advisor for several big companies and digital ‘scale-ups’\, supporting these organizations in the development of innovation strategies. Now is member of the Data-Driven Covid19 Task Force – Italian Ministry of Innovation (for more info\, see: https://www.digita4good.unipv.it/). \n\nAntonio Memeo\nHe graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milan in 1983. In 1988\, he obtained his specialization in Orthopedics and Traumatology and in 2000\, in Hand Surgery at the University of Milan. In 2001 he achieved the University Master in Orthopedics and Childhood Traumatology at the University of Milan. He is currently the Director of the ‘Pediatric Orthopedics and Traumatology Complex Operative Unit’ at the Gaetano Pini Hospital in Milan.\nAuthor of many national and international scientific publications. He has acquired particular experience in the field of infantile orthopedics by participating with reports in conferences in Italy and in the rest of the world. Co-supervisor of degree thesis in Medicine and Surgery and specialty in Orthopedics and Traumatology. He is part of the organizational secretariat of national and international congresses and conferences.\nHigh assignments\nSince 2016\, he is full Professor at the University of Milan for the Degree Course for Orthopedic Technicians.\nPresident of the Italian Society of Pediatric Orthopedics (SITOP).\nMember of the following scientific societies:\nEPOS (European Society of Pediatric Orthopedics)\nSIA (Italian Society of Arthroscopy)\nSICOE (Italian Society of Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery)\nSIFE (Society of external fixation) \n\nStéphane Freneix\nPresently works as Strategic Advisor and Board member in the healthcare industry\, he has a long experience in managing marketing and communications of the pharmaceutical industry. In the last ten years he has held various top management roles with Jakin\, GenePredictis\, McCann Health\, AboutPharma and Sanofi. He is the co-founder and lecturer of MAMAF (master in Pharmaceutical Management) of the university of Pavia\, first launched in 2006.  Stéphane Freneix has a degree as a Pharmacist from the Paris-Sud university and was admitted and gained the ESCP Business School master title.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/continuing-education-in-practice-as-a-tool-to-keep-health-professionals-updated/
CATEGORIES:Other EDEN contributions,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Digital skills and training practices in disruptive industries: a European perspective
DESCRIPTION:Description\nNew\, flexible and on-demand skills training is needed to tackle digital disruption and generate employment and productivity\, especially in disruptive industries. According to OECD\, many EU countries have a strong focus on formal education which does not lead to the desired results. Especially adults with low skills are left behind and participation does not always yield good labor market outcomes for them. This EDEN NAP webinar presents an analysis on how companies and company members approach learning\, training and digital technologies in various disruptive sectors in four European countries. This analysis has been carried out within the framework of the Erasmus+ Project StiLLLearning\, a project aimed at 1. identifying the most relevant key competences needed in European disruptive industries; 2. Co-creating an idea back for innovative learning and training solutions for work-based learning 3. Designing and implementing an open hypervideo-based cMOOC (collaborative massive open online course) for competence developers in industries and vocational and adult educators https://www.stilllearning.net/A total of 63 participants were interviewed from Tourism (Italy and Switzerland)\, Textile (Italy and Switzerland)\, Automotive (Germany)\, Building (Switzerland) and Bioeconomy (Finland) sectors. The speakers will present the general results of this international study\, discussing differences and similarities among sectors\, countries and roles (employer\, employee and adult educators). Results suggest that the most mentioned tools for learning at work were for communication\, followed by productivity and video tools\, whereas learning content management systems and innovative applications were less recognised.After the presentation of the general results\, each speaker will discuss some qualitative country-based considerations. Discussion with participants will be focused on practical implications for HR managers\, learning specialists and VET schools in disruptive industries.Type of session: presentations with discussion \n  \nModerators\nFrancesca AmenduniSenior Researcher\, SFUVET\, SwitzerlandFrancesca Amenduni is a member of the Steering Committee of the EDEN Network of Academic and Professionals. She is Senior Researcher and Project Manager at SFUVET (Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training). She is a PhD candidate in Experimental Pedagogy with a research on semi-automated assessment of Critical Thinking in essays and open-ended answers (AES) carried out under the supervision of Professor Antonella Poce (Roma TRE University). \nVlad MihaescuEDEN NAP Steering Committee ChairLecturer at the Faculty of Electronics\, Telecommunications and Information Technology\, Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania\n \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 the Politehnica University of Timisoara. \n  \n\nSpeakers\n Paolo NardiInternational Affairs and Research Officer\, Cometa VET Centre\, ItalyDr Paolo Nardi is International Affairs and Research Officer at Cometa VET Centre (Italy) and Coordinator of the UNESCO-UNEVOC Centre for Italy. Co-opted Board Member of VETNET (association of researchers in VET. Board Member of the Journal Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment. \n\nAlberto CattaneoProfessor and head of research\, SFUVET\, SwitzerlandDr. Alberto A. P. Cattaneo is professor and head of the research field “Educational Technologies in VET Programmes” at SFUVET. His actual main research fields concern the integration of ICT in teaching-and-learning processes\, reflective learning in VET\, instructional design\, multimedia learning\, teacher education and their professional competence development\, in particular related to digital competence. \n  \n\nEssi RyyminPrincipal Research Scientist\, Häme University of Applied Sciences\, FinlandDr. Essi Ryymin works as a Principal Research Scientist and Teacher Educator in HAMK Edu Research Unit at Häme University of Applied Sciences. She leads Future Work Research & Development -team and her interests include digitalization in education\, continuous learning at work and transnational competence development programmes. \n  \n\nKatja MaetoloaProject Specialist\, Häme University of Applied Sciences\, FinlandKatja Maetoloa (MSc.) works as a Project Specialist at HAMK Edu Research Unit at Häme University of Applied Sciences. She leads and participates in international research and development projects focusing on continuous learning at work\, future work skills and educational change in global context.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/digital-skills-and-training-practices-in-disruptive-industries-a-european-perspective/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:EDEN #onlinetogether webinar series
DESCRIPTION:After the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic\, we were faced with a physical lockdown as well as education having to move fully online. When the pandemic first hit\, EDEN promptly responded with the #onlinetogether initiative\, gathering the EDEN and global education community together in order to share\, to discuss\, and to engage with each other\, forming a strong alliance in support of educators worldwide in their pivot to online learning.Here you can find the list of all #onlinetogether webinars. \nEDEN webinar series: Time for Action in Shaping HE 4.0\n#onlinetogether #covid19\nMORE INFO \n\n[postlist count=-1 pt=”eden_conference” tax_name=”eden_conference_category” term_slugs=”onlinetogether3-upcoming\,onlinetogether3″ part=”conference” masonry=true]\n \n\n\nEDEN webinar series: Education in time of a new normal\n#onlinetogether #covid19\nMORE INFO \n\n[postlist count=-1 pt=”eden_conference” tax_name=”eden_conference_category” term_slugs=”education-in-time-of-new-normal ” part=”conference” masonry=true]\n\n\nEDEN webinar series: Education in time of a pandemic\n#onlinetogether #covid19\nMORE INFO \n\n[postlist count=-1 pt=”eden_conference” tax_name=”eden_conference_category” term_slugs=”onlinetogether\,upcoming-onlinetogether” part=”conference” masonry=true]
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/eden-onlinetogether-webinar-series-2/
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SUMMARY:No. 5 - Embracing New Pedagogies for New Times: The Rainbow After the Storm
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONSDescription \nSince the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic\, new pedagogies have emerged which have the potential to dynamically impact education both now and in the future. Our expert panel of researchers will share their views on these new teaching and learning approaches and how and why they are poised to exert a powerful influence on our classrooms and institutions across all education sectors. During this session\, you will have an opportunity to engage in a question and answer period with our panelists and to discuss questions such as:  \n  \n\nWhat are the new pedagogies that are on the horizon? \nHow are these pedagogies likely to impact teaching and learning?\nWhat will the impact of the new pedagogies mean for students\, educators\, and institutions? \n\nModerator\nLisa Marie BlaschkeEDEN Senior FellowLearnlife\, Barcelona  \nLisa Marie is a former EDEN executive committee member\, and is a Senior EDEN Fellow. Currently\, she is program lead of the online Home Hub at Learnlife\, a K-12 education center in Barcelona\, Spain. Previously\, she was program director of and instructor in the Master in Management of Technology Enhanced Learning (MTEL) at the Center for Lifelong Learning (C3L)\, at University of Oldenburg\, Germany\, as well as a senior researcher at DHBW in Heilbronn. Prior to academia\, Lisa worked for SAP 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\, and the pedagogical application of web 2.0 technology and social media.\n\nSpeakers\nRoisin LyonsAssistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation\, formerly DCU moving to University of Limerick – July 2021Roisin holds a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship Education and has taught innovation\, entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship to cohorts in Dublin and Saudi Arabia for over 10 years. Research focuses on open source innovation\, entrepreneurial tendency development\, and pedagogy (hackathons\, gamification\, experiential activities for large-class contexts). Former high school science teacher\, Roisin is heavily involved in many social enterprise and start-up initiatives such as Enactus/ StartupWeek\, and is a founding member of TeamOSV.Title of Talk: Using hackathons to leverage a hybrid learning experience \n\nKathrin Marie Otrel-CassProfessor\, University of Graz\, AustriaKathrin Otrel-Cass is a professor in educational science and worked over the years at Universities in New Zealand\, Denmark and in Austria. Her interest is in innovative approaches in teaching and learning both in higher education as well as primary and secondary school education. Kathrin has a special interest in teaching and learning in science\, technology and increasingly works in interdisciplinary research environments. Amongst other associations she  is a member of the Human Factor in Digital Transformation network at the University of Graz. \n  \n\nMarta MarkowskaPolicy Officer\, Digital Education\, European Commission\nMarta Markowska is a Policy Officer for Digital Education in the Directorate-General for Education\, Youth\, Sport\, and Culture at the European Commission in Brussels. Her previous policy work in the European Commission focused on social inclusion and equality\, implementation of the European Strategic Framework for Education and Training as well as working as a Press Officer.Prior to joining the European Commission\, Marta worked as a teacher\, television story producer and public relations adviser in Canada\, the US and South Korea.  She completed her undergraduate honours degree at Queen’s University in Kingston\, Ontario and her post-graduate studies at Algonquin College in Ottawa.  Born in Poland\, and raised in Canada\, she returned to Europe whereby she completed her Masters Degree in European Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow\, Poland after which she started her work with the European Commission. She currently lives in Brussels and is a mom to two little boys. \n  \n\n Thomas RybergProfessor\, department of planning\, Aalborg Centre for Problem Based Learning (www.ucpbl.net)\, Aalborg University\, Aalborg\, Denmark\nThomas Ryberg is Professor of PBL and digital learning in the Department of Planning at Aalborg University (AAU)\, Denmark. He is part of the “Aalborg Centre for Problem Based Learning in Engineering Science and Sustainability under the auspices of UNESCO”. His primary research interests are within the fields of Networked Learning and Problem Based Learning (PBL). In particular\, he is interested in Problem Based Learning\, and how new media and technologies transform our ways of thinking about and designing for networked and hybrid Learning. He is co-chair of the International Networked Learning Conference and co-editor of the Springer book series ‘Research in Networked Learning’. Currently\, he is engaged in the PBL future project which is developing new directions for PBL in a digital age.Link to full institutional profile and publications: https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/109500Title of talk: Expanding Problem Based Learning Pedagogies
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-5-embracing-new-pedagogies-for-new-times-the-rainbow-after-the-storm/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Time for Action in Shaping HE 4.0,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Faculty Development and Going Beyond Teaching: Building Experience
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nDescription\nDistance teaching and learning needs faculty skills development in addition to the training of the participants\, therefore the initiatives of distance teaching have to be accompanied by specific faculty development programs providing both pedagogical and technological tools. Moreover\, distance teaching should not be limited to formal “academic” teaching \, but has to include practice sections and new tools/models to build and transfer an experience to the attendants. \nChair\nElena CaldirolaEDEN EC member\, EDEN FellowDirector of the eLearning Center of the University Pavia\, ItalyDirector of the eLearning Center of the University of Pavia since 2010. She has a master degree in Political Science and a Postgraduate Specialisation in eLearning Management and Digital Communication. Skilled in eLearning environments\, MOOCs\, Learning Spaces\, Blended Learning\, Digital Corporate Training\, and online learning. Since 2009 she takes part in the eLearning Task Force of the Coimbra Group. From 2013 until 2015 she was Chair of the CG eLearning Task Force and from 2016 till now she is member of the CG Education Innovation group. Since 2012 she is member of the Scientific Board of the Italian eLearning Society and since 2018 she takes part in the Executive Board of EDEN (European Distance and eLearning Network). She has been acknowledged as EDEN Fellow in June 2021\, receiving recognition of professional excellence \nSpeakers\nGuido BastianelliUniversity of PaviaEar Nose and Throat surgeon. Professor at the University of Aden\, Faculty of Medicine. WHO Ear Surgery Advisor for Africa and the Middle East . Elearning trainer in ENT surgery – University of Aden. E-learning teacher in international health cooperation – University of Florence. Honorary Consul of the Republic of Yemen in Florence. Director of the Study Center of the Honorary Consuls Union of Italy – Rome. Prof. Bastianelli has a long experience in learning\, constantly looking for new languages and forms of communication to eliminate geographical and social distances. Among his recent projects: curator of the e-learning project on cardiac resuscitation “The Bridge: hope in your hands” in collaboration with the University of Pavia and Policlinico San Matteo-Pavia. Ear and throat consultant at Villa Donatello Clinic\, Florence.  \n\n Gabriella CusellaUniversity of Pavia\, Associate professor of Human Anatomy\, director of the Institute of Human Anatomy. She teaches in various degree courses: medicine\, health degrees\, medical specialization schools and in courses of Sport Sciences.Gabriella’s goal is try to change her teaching method by transforming “ex cathedra” lessons into an interactive experience to stimulates students’ interest by involving them in practical activities in which they use anatomical models\, human prosections and digitized human anatomy\, both in person or remotely.  \n  \n\nStefano GovoniUniversity of PaviaProfessor emeritus of Pharmacology\, former rector’s delegate for teaching and learning activities. Stefano Govoni guided the initial steps in the creation of a group (now called MIDA group – innovative methodologies for teaching and learning) aimed to update and train the University of Pavia teachers.  \n  \n\nStefano Perlini University of PaviaCurrently in charge of the First Aid and Emergency Medicine of the IRCCS San Matteo Polyclinic Foundation as Full Professor of the Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Therapy of the University of Pavia. Cardiologist\, referent since 2001 for the Center for the Study of Systemic Amyloidosis of Pavia. He spent several research periods abroad (London\, UK; Oxford\, UK; Worcester\, MA\, USA) and was Visiting Professor at Boston University. Simulation Instructor since 2002\, he applies this teaching method with students and specialists in the teaching of Semeiotics\, Medical Clinic and Emergency Medicine. He participated in the drafting of the Programmatic Document and the Dictionary of Simulation in Health of SIMMED.  \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/faculty-development-and-going-beyond-teaching-building-experience/
CATEGORIES:Other EDEN contributions,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:No. 4 - Do we develop digital competences or digital skills? – DigCompEdu to balance your way through the storm
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording \nDescription\nWhen all education organizations moved online in Spring\, 2020\, many of them had no time at all to think about consistent development of digital competences and existing frameworks\, but took rapid actions to find most suitable technological solutions to ensure teaching and learning and filled in the skill – gaps of their educators to apply technologies to transfer information in the smooth and inclusive way.However\, by the pandemic year\, several important instruments describing digital competences of educators already exited\, namely\, competence metaframeworks\, covering knowledge\, skill and attitude/ responsibility level\, as well as digital competence framework for educators – DigCompEdu – and many others. When the storm surpassed\, we have to look around us to reflect on our practices and the way how digital competence development is addressed in education organizations and how this is in line with the competence definition in the broad sense.Moreover\, several important initiatives in the European projects among academics and professionals prepared suggestions on how to address DigCompEdu competence groups and how to match DigCompEdu framework with the competence maturity model. Others raised important questions if digital competence framework is important for educators only\, and how student digital competences are to be considered in this perspective.The webinar dedicated to address these issues will address the challenges and needs that education institutions experience in digital competence development\, will look at the proposal of new meta competences as suggestions for DigCompEdu\, the maturity model proposal\, and will discuss how the pandemic highlighted the need for development of digital competences. \n  \nModerator\nAirina VolungevičienėEDEN Digital Learning Europe\,Vytautas Magnus University \nProf. dr. Airina Volungevičienė has been working among leading researchers\, methodology specialists and education policy makers in the area of technology enhanced learning (TEL) development in Europe and Lithuania since 1997. Having established Lithuanian Association of Distance and eLearning Association (LieDM association) in (2010)\, she continued as a leader in research and project work to promote the development of TEL in Lithuania and Europe\, introducing many innovations in different education organizations from school\, VET\, adult learning and higher education sectors. Her main responsibilities at Vytautas Magnus University is to direct the Institute for Study Innovations activities to implement its mission: to advise University teachers to design online study curriculum\, to ensure online learning and teaching\, as well as curriculum quality\, and to experiment with the innovations in education before mainstreaming them in university studies. Airina is involved in EDEN Governance since 2009\, as the Board member\, Vice President for Research (2016 – 2019) and the President (2016 – 2019).\n\nSpeakers\nNicole JohnsonResearch Director at the Canadian Digital Learning Research AssociationDr. Nicole Johnson is the Research Director of the Canadian Digital Learning Research Association (CDLRA) (the mission of the CDLRA is to measure the evolution of digital learning at publicly funded post-secondary institutions in Canada and to assess its impact on employment\, skills development and digital competencies across the country). Outside of her role with the CDLRA\, Nicole is also involved in research studies through Bay View Analytics investigating faculty experiences with digital technology and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on online learning in the United States. Additionally\, Nicole is part of a research team at Royal Roads University that is exploring the future of higher education. She has experience researching changes in academics’ online participation over time and informal learning experiences among adults in digital contexts related to competency development. \n\nJochen EhrenreichSenior researcher at DHBW\,Cooperative State University of Baden – WürttembergJochen Ehrenreich’s research focuses on HE strategy adaptation to micro-credentials and online learning. At DHBW\, he coordinates the work on the Erasmus+ projects EdDiCo\, OEPass and MicroHE\, with the Learning Passport\, the MicroHE meta-data standard\, the Credentials Clearinghouse and a Self-Assessment and Recommendation Tool for Educators’ Digital Competences as major outputs. Before joining DHBW\, he developed new approaches to technology transfer and lifelong learning at the University of Freiburg\, and he was responsible for all study programme accreditation and quality assurance processes at Esslingen University. He holds a master’s degree of Economics and Business Administration from the University of Witten/Herdecke. \n  \n\nYasmin DjabarianProgram manager at Stifterverband in Berlin\nDr. Yasmin Djabarian is a program manager for Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (HFD) at Stifterverband in Berlin. Here\, her work focuses on digitally supported teaching\, student participation\, and innovation processes at universities. She coordinates HFD’s nationwide student future working group DigitalChangeMaker. Before joining Stifterverband\, Yasmin was as a research fellow at the Center for Quality Assurance and Development at the University of Mainz\, focusing on educational and academic staff development in higher education and digitalization in higher education didactics. She studied American Studies and Communication in Mainz\, Washington\, DC\, and Atlanta\, and holds a PhD in American Studies. \n  \n\n Anastasia EconomouJoint Research Centre\, European Commission\nAnastasia Economou works at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission since February 2020. She is leading SELFIE for Teachers\, the self-reflection tool based on the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators and the DigCompEdu project. In her previous position at the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute\, she led a number of projects on teachers’ professional development and digital technologies for teaching and learning. She received her BSc in Education from Boston University in 1993\, her Master´s degree in Educational Technology from Arizona State University and her MBA degree from the University of Cyprus in 2008. \n  \n\nStefano MenonProject manager at Fondazione Politecnico di MilanoStefano Menon’s focus is on innovation of didactics\, working transversally with different target groups: from Kindergarten to HE and Lifelong Learning. Graduated in 2000 in Psychology\, he has soon started working in the training and educational sector. Since 2004 he has been involved in projects supporting innovation of didactics. He has been working in the academic framework\, since 2001. From 2005 to 2012 he worked in METID- Politecnico on elearning and ecollaboration. Since 2012 he has been engaged in Fondazione Politecnico di Milano to design and promote the use of innovative teaching and learning methodologies as a sustainable and effective opportunity\, at any level: from kindergarten to vocational and adult lifelong learning. He has a long experience in international projects\, starting in 2004 with Life Long Program and being involved currently in many Erasmus+. Project manager\, program manager and head of a unit dedicated to digital learning and innovation are some of the roles managed in the years. Strongly interested in the progressive matching between learning needs transformation and competences evolution. Teachers’ trainer on digital learning. He is a member of the Open Education Italia national workgroup.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-4-do-we-develop-digital-competences-or-digital-skills-digcompedu-to-balance-your-way-through-the-storm/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Time for Action in Shaping HE 4.0,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Mentors and Enablers
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS \nDescription\nEven the brightest students need guidance in their work. Teaching is usually not enough\, and tutors should do their best to mentor students in additional sessions\, individual or in group. In these Covid times\, students struggle with anxieties\, with lack of social interaction\, with lack of motivation and with several distractions\, while working and studying from home. We\, as teachers\, need to find out the proper ways in which to transmit the correct motivation to our students in order to reach the desired and necessary competencies we expect from them. In this webinar\, we will hear examples of good practice of facilitation and mentoring from three experienced teachers.Type of session: presentations with discussion \n  \nModerator\nVlad MihaescuEDEN NAP SC ChairLecturer at the Faculty of Electronics\, Telecommunications and Information Technology\, Politehnica University of TimisoaraVlad 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. \n\nSpeakers\n Alfredo SoeiroEDEN Executive Committee member\, EDEN Senior FellowUniversity of Porto\, PortugalAlfredo Soeiro holds a degree in civil engineering from University of Porto\, a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He was pro-rector of the University of Porto for Continuing Education between 1998 and 2003. Dr. Soeiro was a founding member of EUCEN (European University CE Network); RECLA (Latin American CE Network)\, and AUPEC (Portuguese University CE Association) His positions held were the vice presidency of EUCEN\, vice-presidency of SEFI\, president of IACEE\, president of AUPEC and president of SEFI. His main interests are engineering education\, continuing education and online learning\, focusing on networking\, international cooperation and student evaluation. He has also been an evaluator for the professional engineering association\, was invited in several projects as external evaluator and has participatedand coordinated some European projects on quality assurance of education. \n\nAntonella PoceEDEN Senior FellowProfessor\, University of Modena and Reggio EmiliaAntonella Poce currently holds the role of Full Professor in Experimental Pedagogy at the Department of Education and Humanities – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia\, where she directs INTELLECT (Centre for Research  into Museum Education\, Well-being and Teaching Technology) and she is the Head of the one-year post graduate course “Heritage Education and Digital Technologies”. She is Scientific director of two post graduate courses\, annual Museum Education and biennial Advanced Studies in Museum Education\, at University of Roma Tre. She coordinates national units within European project frameworks and she has been chairing international academic committees dealing with distance learning. 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 education experiences. \n  \n\nJulia González FerrerasJulia González Ferreras was awarded the Bo Gregersen award in 2011 for elaborating\, designing and coordinating the innovative project Tuning Educational Structures in the World\, with Robert Wagenaar. Based on close cooperation of hundreds of academics from Europe and around the world\, Tuning has contributed to the modernisation of higher education by developing an approach for designing and implementing curricula using the student-centred approach and the concept of key competences and learning outcomes as focal points.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/mentors-and-enablers/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Other EDEN contributions\, Virtual events
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nDescription\n\nIs lecture-centered education out-of-date? Pros and cons of synchronous tools at the Faculty of Medicine (on an example of the Jagiellonian University)\nHow to make curricula transnational (on an example of Cologne University)\nHow to facilitate interactive learning activities among students?\nAre online test examinations useful not only during the pandemic?\n\nThe above issues will be tackled during the webinar. \nChair\nSandra Kučina SoftičPresident of EDEN\,Assistant Director for Education and User Support\, University Computing Centre SRCE\, Croatia \nHer work is focused on monitoring and fostering the e-learning implementation in higher education institutions in Croatia and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in the learning and teaching process.  She was appointed Croatian representative in ET2020 Working group on Digital Skills and Technologies (2016-2018) and in ET2020 Working group on Digital Education: learning\, teaching and Assessment (2018-2020). She obtained a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh\, UK in 2014 and doctoral degree in Information and Communication Technologies at the University of Zagreb in 2020.\nSpeakers\nAndrzej FilipSpecialist at the eLearning Centre of the Jagiellonian University. His tasks include the development of e-learning platforms and other educational tools for online teaching. He is also responsible for live video broadcasts and hardware-based videoconferencing as well as actively engaged in disseminating digital innovation among the academic community. \n  \n\nPrzemko KwintaPediatrician and neonatologist\, Head of the Department of Paediatrics of the Jagiellonian University.From 2016 Vice-Dean for organizational matters of the study and education program of the Faculty of Medicine. Member of the European Society for Pediatric Research and the European Society for Neonatology. For years\, he has been involved in educating students of medical faculties and professional development of young doctors. Voivodship Consultant for Paediatrics in Małopolska Region. \n  \n\nJohannes MüllerUniversity of Cologne\, Head of Dept. International Science at the International Office of UoC\, responsible for Digital Internationalization\, director of studies of the Cologne Global Study Program\, teaches contemporary history of Europe at the Department of History\, member of the Education Innovation Working Group of the Coimbra Group\, holds a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute. \n  \n\nWojciech PudłoIT and multimedia specialist\, graphic designer and movie editor in the eLearning Centre of the Jagiellonian University; member of the Educational Ecosystem team in the Strategic Program Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University.  \n  \n\nJacek UrbaniecHead of the  eLearning Centre of the Jagiellonian University\, member of the Education Innovation Working Group of the Coimbra Group universities\, co-founder of the Association for Academic E-learning in Poland\, member of the Committee on Science Studies of the Polish Academy of Science.Teaches Ph.D. students on new technologies in education.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/other-eden-contributions-virtual-events/
CATEGORIES:Other EDEN contributions,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:No. 3 - Teaching After the Storm: Reimagining the Traditional Lecture
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER ADD TO CALENDAR \nDescription\n\nIn this webinar\, we explore the question is the lecture dead? Will the traditional lecture format be a casualty of efforts to build back better? One of the biggest challenges facing educators when quickly moving to emergency remote online teaching was how to teach large classes effectively. At the beginning of the COVID crisis\, many people merely replaced their traditional face-to-face lecture with a live synchronously delivered session through Zoom\, Teams\, Collaborate\, or other online platforms. It soon became apparent that lecturing down a digital pipe to a large group of students passively watching from their screen-tops was not the most engaging form of online learning. While this approach was understandable during the height of a crisis\, students’ feedback and a commitment to providing quality higher education challenge us to do better. The pandemic experience raises longer-term questions about the value of the traditional lecture method—irrespective of the delivery mode. A diverse and experienced group of international educators reflect in this panel discussion on the challenge of teaching large classes both during and beyond the pandemic. Post-pandemic\, what is the future of the lecture? Is there still a place for the lecture? Is the traditional lecture antithetical to promoting active and meaningful learning that develops more creative\, innovative and imaginative learners? Beyond the storm\, how do we avoid the danger of grafting old 19th Century teaching methods onto new 21st Century digital technologies? If the lecture still has a place in the new digital learning classroom\, what should it look like? How might we develop a hybrid model of the lecture that harnesses the best of older pedagogies with new digital technologies to enhance the student experience when teaching large classes? As part of this lively roundtable discussion\, the panel will consider these questions\, and more\, as well as those posed by participants as we defend\, challenge and reimagine the lecture.  \nModerator\nMark BrownEDEN Treasurer@mbrownz \n\nMark Brown is Ireland’s first Chair of Digital Learning and Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) at Dublin City University. He is an EDEN Fellow and plays an active role in several leading professional bodies\, including the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) and the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA). In November 2019\, only a few months before the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis\, Mark was Chair of the ICDE World Conference on Online Learning in Dublin. \n\n\nSpeakers\n Ann Marie Farrell@AnnMFarrell \nAnn Marie Farrell is a lecturer in the School of Inclusive and Special Education\, Institute of Education\, Dublin City University (DCU).  She has a background in teacher education and won the DCU President’s Overall Award for Excellence in Teaching 2020. Also in 2020\, Ann Marie led a team of researchers investigating the challenge of moving large classes online in response to the closure of campuses. Her research interests include\, teaching in large class setting; co-teaching in the university setting; curriculum and programme development; using technology to enhance teaching and learning; developing collaborative practice at university level.  \n\n David Hornsby@DavidJHornsby \nDavid Hornsby is a Professor of International Affairs in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) at Carleton University\, Canada. A passionate educator\, David has published in both the biological and social sciences\, and maintains a real interest in large class pedagogy and the massification of higher education. David is a distinguished lecturer having previously been awarded the Faculty of Humanities Teaching and Learning Award and the Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Award (Individual) at the University of the Witwatersrand.  \n\nBlaženka Divjak \nBlaženka Divjak holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Zagreb. She is a Full professor at the University of Zagreb\, Faculty of Organization and Informatics. Blaženka has served as Vice-Rector for students and study programs at the University of Zagreb (2010-2014) and she was twice elected Vice-Dean for scientific work and international cooperation in the period 1999 – 2003 and 2007- 2010 at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics. She was the Croatian Minister for Science and Education from June 2017. until July 2020. Blaženka was leading four major reform processes: curricular reform of general education\, reform of vocational education and training\, enhancement of relevance of higher education and excellence of research. \n\nPaul Prinsloo@12prinsp \nPaul Prinsloo is a Research Professor in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in the College of Economic and Management Sciences\, University of South Africa (Unisa). His academic background includes fields as diverse as theology\, art history\, business management\, online learning\, and religious studies. Paul is an established researcher and has published numerous articles in the fields of teaching and learning\, student success in distance education contexts\, learning analytics\, and curriculum development. His current research focuses on the collection\, analysis and use of student data in learning analytics\, graduate supervision and digital identity. Paul reports that he was born curious and in trouble. Nothing has changed since then.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-3-teaching-after-the-storm-reimagining-the-traditional-lecture/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Time for Action in Shaping HE 4.0,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Developing Teaching and Learning Opportunities and Facilities in Children Care
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATION \nDescription\nThe reference frame is the CHILD C.A. project aimed to improve children’s care in Central Asia (CA) countries through a modern and innovative postgraduate training of the specialists devoted to their care.\nThe goal of the present webinar is to introduce a course based on five meetings\, this included\, helping the participating Higher Education Institutions (HEI) of the Central Asia to build an interconnected\, multidirectional environment\, aimed to promote the interaction between students and teacher\, also from distant resources\, thus helping to update educational methodologies. Accordingly\, four speakers will present the core topics of the course. \nChair\nSandra Kucina Softic\nPresident of EDEN\,\nAssistant Director for Education and User Support\, University Computing Centre SRCE\, Croatia \n\nHer work is focused on monitoring and fostering the e-learning implementation in higher education institutions in Croatia and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in the learning and teaching process.  She was appointed Croatian representative in ET2020 Working group on Digital Skills and Technologies (2016-2018) and in ET2020 Working group on Digital Education: learning\, teaching and Assessment (2018-2020). She obtained a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh\, UK in 2014 and doctoral degree in Information and Communication Technologies at the University of Zagreb in 2020. \n\nSpeakers\nElena Caldirola\nEDEN EC member\nDirector of the eLearning Center of the University Pavia\, Italy \n\nDirector of the eLearning Center of the University of Pavia since 2010. She has a master degree in Political Science and a Postgraduate Specialisation in eLearning Management and Digital Communication. Skilled in eLearning environments\, MOOCs\, Learning Spaces\, Blended Learning\, Digital Corporate Training\, and online learning. Since 2009 she takes part in the eLearning Task Force of the Coimbra Group. From 2013 until 2015 she was Chair of the CG eLearning Task Force and from 2016 till now she is member of the CG Education Innovation group. Since 2012 she is member of the Scientific Board of the Italian eLearning Society and since 2018 she takes part in the Executive Board of EDEN (European Distance and eLearning Network). \n\nStefano Govoni\nUniversity of Pavia\, professor emeritus of Pharmacology\, former rector’s delegate for teaching and learning activities \n\nStefano Govoni guided the initial steps in the creation of a group (now called MIDA group – innovative methodologies for teaching and learning) aimed to update and train the University of Pavia teachers. \n\nTommaso Minerva\nDept. of Surgery\, Medicine and Dentistry\, Coordinator and director of EDUNOVA\, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia\, president of EduOpen and of the Italian eLearning Society \n\nTommaso Minerva has contributed to develop e-learning within the academic Italian institutions and to build a reference and standardized frame for e learning experiences within Academy. \n\nGian Battista Parigi\nPediatric surgeon\, Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences\, Past President UEMS Section and Board of Pediatric Surgery\,\nPresident Committee for International Cooperation at University of Pavia \n\nGian Battista Parigi has a long experience on the training of health staff working in an international and multicultural setting requiring attention to the health needs and sustainability. \n\nJacek Urbaniec\nHead of the  eLearning Centre of the Jagiellonian University\, member of the Education Innovation Working Group of the Coimbra Group universities\, co-founder of the Association for Academic E-learning in Poland\, member of the Committee on Science Studies of the Polish Academy of Science \n\nTeaches Ph.D. students on new technologies in education
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/developing-teaching-and-learning-opportunities-and-facilities-in-children-care/
CATEGORIES:Other EDEN contributions,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:No. 2 - Sharing and collaborating our way out of the storm
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS \nDescription\n\nDuring the last year\, with education restrictions due to the global pandemic\, when educational organizations across the globe were forced to move online under demanding timelines and with budget constraints\, many educators have relied on open educational resources OERs to fill a critical need. Open education and OERs have been used for two decades at different education levels\, not always gaining full traction in schools or higher education. In this webinar\, we will identify whether OERs were a solution or being used in the last year in education; and how OERs may be used in the future. In our quest for shaping the future of higher education\, do we consider open education a solution and OERs and practices as part of the education ecosystem?  What problems might OERs help educators resolve and how we can harness the value of OERs for higher education?  Can we consider the future of education is open and\, if yes\, what strategies can we use to make this happen? Three dynamic and insightful speakers with extended experiences and whose voices are valued and command attention in the education community\, will try to inspire us for how to share and collaborate our way through the storm that has encapsulated higher education. \nModerator\nDiana AndoneEDEN Vice-president\,Director of the eLearning Center of Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania \n\nDr. Diana Andone is the Director of the eLearning Center of Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania\, responsible for planning and implementing digital education\, and the university award winning Virtual Campus CVUPT. She is also associate professor at the Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania\, in the area of multimedia\, interactive and web technologies. Since 1998\, she teaches course modules in universities from UK\, France\, USA\, Finland\, Italy\, Greece. She has extensive research experience with intense publication (over 17 books\, 100 research papers\, 11 Best paper Awards) and more than 30 research and educational projects\, mainly funded by the European Commission. Dr. Andone actively promotes the use of OERs\, MOOCs and the open education principles\, training for digital skills\, and digital culture and heritage\, acting in international associations as EDEN Vice-President for Communication and Communities\, and member in IEEE Education Society Board of Governors\, and in IEEE Romania Section the Educational activities Chair. She is passionate about the ubiquitous access to technologies and how they can be used to improve people’s life. \nhttps://elearning.upt.ro/ro/diana-andone/ \n\n\nSpeakers\n Melissa HightonSeniorCMALT\, FCLIP\, FHEA\, Director of Learning\,Teaching and Web Services and Assistant Principal Online Learning at University of Edinburgh\, UK \nDr Highton leads services and projects in support of the University’s strategic priorities for digital and distance learning on global platforms\, blended learning\, virtual learning environments\, technology enhanced learning spaces\, the digital student experience and use of the web for outreach and engagement. She has particular interests in digital skills\, 21st century curricula\, open educational resources\, research led teaching and online media. She leads the continuing expansion and diversification of the University website and provision of digital AV technology services in over 400 teaching rooms across the campus. Melissa is strategic lead in the University for a wide range of technologies and support for innovative learning and teaching\, including blended learning tools\, bespoke  web development\, online video\, lecture recording\, VLEs\, open education resources\,  partnerships with platforms such as Coursera\, Edx\, FutureLearn and Wikimedia. Her teams support a range of online provision including taught online Masters programmes\, Micromasters programmes\, CPD and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The Learning\, Teaching and Web Directorate is one of the most successful and comprehensive learning technology groups in the UK\, with diverse teams of multi-professional staff\, student interns and expert consultants.  Melissa is an invited speaker at conferences about learning technology leadership\, distance learning strategies\, library and learning technology futures\, learning innovation\, equality\, diversity and inclusion( EDI) and digital skills. \nhttps://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/melissa-highton \n\n Stephen DownesDigital Technologies Research Centre at the National Research Council of Canada \nStephen Downes works with the Digital Technologies Research Centre at the National Research Council of Canada specializing in new instructional media and personal learning technology. His degrees are in Philosophy\, specializing in epistemology\, philosophy of mind\, and philosophy of science. He has taught for the University of Alberta\, Athabasca University\, Grand Prairie Regional College and Assiniboine Community College. His background includes expertise in journalism and media\, both as a prominent blogger and as founder of the Moncton Free Press online news cooperative.  He is one of the originators of the first Massive Open Online Course\, has published frequently about online and networked learning\, has authored learning management and content syndication software\, and is the author of the widely read e-learning newsletter OLDaily. Through a thirty-five year career Downes has contributed pioneering work in the fields of online learning games\, learning objects and metadata\, podcasting\, and open educational resources. Recent projects include: gRSShopper\, a personal learning environment; E-Learning 3.0\, a course on new e-learning technologies; research and development in the use of distributed ledger technology in learning applications; and research on ethics\, analytics and the duty of care. Downes is a member of NRC’s Research Ethics Board. \nhttps://www.downes.ca/ \n\nAlastair CreelmanSpecialist e-learning\, Linnaeus University\, Sweden \nSpecialist in the field of online and distance education working in the section for higher education development at Linnaeus University in Sweden. Monitors developments in the field and is active in several national and international projects in areas such as distance/online learning\, quality questions\, open educational resources (OER)\, MOOCs\, social media in education and virtual exchange/mobility.Course leader on an open course for university teachers\, Open Networked Learning\, in collaboration with colleagues from 14 partner universities in Sweden\, Finland\, Germany\, Switzerland\, South Africa and Singapore.EDEN Fellow (2017) and committee member of the Swedish network for IT in higher education (ITHU)Very active on social media\, primarily through two blogs on educational technology – a reflective blog in English\, Corridor of Uncertainty\, and a news blog in Swedish\, Flexspan. Active on Twitter as @alacre. \nhttps://lnu.se/en/staff/alastair.creelman/
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-2-sharing-and-collaborating-our-way-out-of-the-storm/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Time for Action in Shaping HE 4.0,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Changing Assessment due to Covid-19: Experiences and Impact
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATION \nDescription\nThis interactive session will explore the change in assessment in higher education due to the pandemic. Dr. Monica Ward will present a case study from the DCU School of Computing detailing how they managed the change and the types of assessment they adopted. The next speakers will present overviews of the change to online assessment from the students’ perspective. Dr. Linda Amrane-Cooper and Prof. Stylianos Hatzipanagos’ presentation draws from a project at the University of London evaluating the students’ experience of the transition to digital assessment. Then\, Dr. Inés Gil-Jaurena will introduce a study undertaken at UNED about the impact of the change in online assessment on student’s performance and perceptions.Type of session: presentations with discussion \n  \nModerator\nOrna Farrell \nOrna Farrell is Assistant Professor specialising in online and blended education in Dublin City University (DCU). Orna holds a PhD in Education from Trinity College Dublin. Currently\, Orna leads the Digital Learning Design Unit\, created to support DCU’s pivot to hybrid learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Previously\, she was Chair of the DCU Connected Online Humanities programmes for four years.Working within DCU’s National Institute for Digital Learning. Orna’s research interests include online pedagogy\, online student success and engagement\, eportfolio and open educational practice. She has a growing publication record in her fields of interest\, including a range of book chapters\, journal articles\, invited presentations and conference papers. She has published in high ranking journals such as Distance Education\, the Journal of Interactive Media in Education\, Research in Learning Technology\, and the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education.\n\nSpeakers\n Monica WardMonica is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Head for Teaching Excellence in the School of Computing at Dublin City University. She has extensive experience in teaching and assessing a range of subjects from technical to transversal skills modules. She is a pioneer of the use of technology in education and she advocates a co-creation and culturally-responsive approach with academics and students. \n\nStylianos HatzipanagosStylianos is CDE (University of London Centre for Distance Education) Fellow and Executive Co-lead for Research and Dissemination. His expertise is in technology enhanced learning\, research informed innovation of academic practice\, and doctoral/postgraduate education management. His research and scholarship portfolio includes: learning design and evaluation of online learning environments\, formative and technology-enhanced assessment\, computer supported collaborative work\, flexible and distance education\, digital literacies\, social media and social networks in an educational context.@hatzips \n  \n\nLinda Amrane-CooperLinda is head of the University of London’s (UoL) Centre for Distance Education (CDE). She leads a team that support the development of expertise in the field of distance education\, providing a focus for the development of high quality teaching and research in open and distance learning. Linda is also in the senior leadership team as Director of Strategic Projects leads the UoL PG Learning and Teaching in HE programme at UoL.@lamranecooper \n  \n\nInés Gil-JaurenaInés is an EDEN Fellow and member of the Steering Committee of the EDEN Network of Academic and Professionals (EDEN NAP). She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education at the National Distance Education University (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia-UNED)\, Spain. She coordinates the CO-Lab teaching innovation group at UNED. Her research in open and distance education includes topics such as assessment and curriculum design.@inesgj3
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/changing-assessment-due-to-covid-19-experiences-and-impact/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:No. 1 - Learning Design in the Eye of the Storm
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS \nDescription\n\nIndeed\, today most teachers and educators work in an online learning environment\, yet for many of them their immersion in online teaching was a necessary response to the global pandemic. Overnight we changed physical\, traditional\, learning environment to an online environment. This brought many challenges for teachers. A high number of them needed different and new skills and experiences in teaching as well as the support and collaboration with people of different backgrounds and expertise. Support units\, learning technologists and instructional and learners designers now become more than ever in focus by extensively helping teachers to navigate this new environment and select appropriate tools for planned activities\, to implement new pedagogies\, and to design efficient\, effective and enjoyable learning experience for their students.  Learning designers across the globe led teachers out of the storm.  The pandemic forced steps forward and an online pivot that were planned and foreseen for many years and prompted teachers everywhere into action by opening new opportunities for teaching and learning and highlighting the critical importance of learning design. In addition\, it has moved the focus from content creation to the users learning experience supported by appropriate learning environments. How teachers navigated these pedagogical changes\, what kind of challenges they experienced and what kind of support they required with designing their courses is the topic of this session. \nDuring the session\, we will also discuss the questions: \n\nWhat is learning design in 2021 and post-pandemic?\nHow does learning design differ from instructional design?\nWhat is next for the learning designer?\nWhat is the future of the learning designer’s role?\nWhere does the learner designer fit in the new digital learning ecology?\nWhat barriers do learning designers face?\nHow can reflective learning design improve student experience?\n\nModerator\nDr. Sandra Kučina SoftićEDEN President\, University Computing Centre \n\nSandra Kučina Softić is EDEN president and Assistant Director for Education and User Support at the University of Zagreb University Computer Centre (SRCE). Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering the e-learning implementation in higher education institutions in Croatia and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in the learning and teaching process.  She was appointed Croatian representative in ET2020 Working group on Digital Skills and Technologies (2016-2018) and in ET2020 Working group on Digital Education: learning\, teaching and Assessment (2018-2020). She obtained a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of the Edinburgh\, UK in 2014. From 2016 to 2019 she was EDEN Vice-president for Open Professional Collaboration. \n\n\nSpeakers\n  Dr. Gearóid Ó SúilleabháinHead of the Department of Technology Enhanced Learning in the Munster Technological University\, Ireland \nDr. Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin is Head of the Department of Technology Enhanced Learning in the Munster Technological University (http://tel.cit.ie). Over a twenty five year career in the field\, Gearóid has worked on and led a wide range of innovative EU-funded and commercial ed-tech and technology enhanced learning projects and has also published and presented widely on an array of related topics to do with\, inter alia\, the integration of e-learning systems in higher education\, the pedagogy of online learning\, learning transfer\, and game-based learning. He chairs the Ed Tech and E-learning research group in MTU and is course director of the university’s MA in E-learning Design and Development (http://tel.cit.ie/ma-in-e-learning). \n\nDr. Alexandra MihaiAssistant Professor of Innovation in Higher Education in the Department of Educational Research and Development\, School of Business and Economics\, Maastricht University\, the Netherlands \nDr. Alexandra Mihai is Assistant Professor of Innovation in Higher Education in the Department of Educational Research and Development\, School of Business and Economics\, Maastricht University. Previously she worked as Learning Designer at University College London (UCL)\, Curriculum Designer at the Institute of European Studies\, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and led the Centre for Teaching Innovations at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Alexandra has a strong background in e-learning\, learning design and innovative teaching strategies. In her PhD she analyzed in how far technology is used in teaching practices at European universities. \n\nNick BarrattDirector of Learner and Discovery Services at the Open University\, UK \nDr. Nick Barratt joined the Open University in 2019\, and leads the Learner and Discovery Services unit. Within the portfolio lies operational responsibility for the design\, development and production at scale of all Open University modules\, as well as new products such as microcredentials published on FutureLearn; free\, informal learning resources hosted on OpenLearn; and an increasing range of learning design services for third party clients. His career background is in archives\, libraries and the heritage sector as well as higher education\, though his doctorate and publications track record relates to medieval and public history.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/no-1-learning-design-in-the-eye-of-the-storm/
CATEGORIES:EDEN webinar series,Time for Action in Shaping HE 4.0,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:2021 Madrid
DESCRIPTION:Lessons from a pandemic for the future of education\n\n\n\nThe gradual transition from traditional classroom-based education to online teaching and learning has been accelerated by the global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since it started\, our way of life\, work\, and education have been irrevocably changed. When we look back upon this extraordinary period in our history\, we see that this crisis has forced educators to reappraise their roles\, professional practices\, and beliefs. As a consequence\, teachers and students have been forced online\, highlighting a range of skills and knowledge that were sorely in demand. There has been an inevitable need for educational institutions to make key strategic decisions on how to provide both access to relevant tools\, support in their use\, and training for both educators and learners\, so that teaching staff can engage online with their students in a meaningful way. \n\n\n\nEDEN has a long history of supporting educators in online and distance education\, providing a forum for discussion\, learning\, and refinement of best practices in this area. This pandemic has been no exception. Since the first national lockdowns started in European countries back in early 2020\, a series of initiatives have been launched to support EDEN members during this crisis. The interest shown by members for these initiatives has been very high\, with large numbers of participants and a clear desire to share and reach consensus. \n\n\n\nThis year’s conference is\, therefore\, intended as a continuation of the efforts of EDEN to support educators by providing a space to explore the issues and insights that have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is intended to enable educators to share their experiences and best practices related to a range of topics relevant to this situation. These topics are explicitly listed below but include issues such as: learner-centeredness in education; the continued evolution of online and distance learning; transitioning from emergency remote teaching to online learning; digital preparedness\, digital literacy\, and digital citizenship; the continued adoption of Artificial Intelligence; methodological advances; potentiating health and wellness in online education; and non-traditional assessment solutions. \n\n\n\nNot only does this conference provide attendees with the perfect opportunity to explore this range of topics\, but it also provides us with a space to reflect upon the role that online and distance education will have after the pandemic. As noted in our webinar series #covid19 #onlinetogether Education in a time of a pandemic\, fully online education on a global scale is unprecedented in the history of education. Today we are talking about the “new normal” and “future normal”. What will this future look like? How can EDEN members help to shape it and bring their insights to bear? \n\n\n\nPhD Symposium Madrid 2021 \n\n\n\nThe EDEN 2021 PhD Symposium Madrid will be organized on 21 June 2021\, in the frame of the Annual Conference. \n\n\n\nThe Symposium\, held in previous years in Barcelona (2018)\, Bruges (2019)\, Dublin (2019)\, Timisoara (2020) and Lisbon (2020) has been designed to foster the exchange of experiences and knowledge among doctoral students doing research in the area of technology enhanced online\, digital\, open and distance learning\, providing a valuable forum for the advancement of doctoral research. The Symposium is led by a panel of international experts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConference Proceedings and Short Paper Book\n\n\n\nEuropean Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) Conference Proceedings 2021 Annual Conference\, Madrid Lessons from a Pandemic for the Future of the Education issue is available at the Journal site (ISSN 2707-2819). \n\n\n\n2021 Annual Conference Short Paper Book entitled Lessons from a Pandemic for the Future of the Education (ISBN 978-615-5511-31-8) is available here.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/madrid/
CATEGORIES:Annual conferences
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SUMMARY:Madrid
DESCRIPTION:For more information please visit the Conference website.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/madrid-2/
CATEGORIES:Phd Symposium
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SUMMARY:What do I do as an educator with learning analytics?
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nDescription\nIn this interactive webinar for EDEN\, we will share lived experiences of how four organisations in six countries are using learning analytics on a daily basis. Some of these organisations have implemented learning analytics at an institutional scale\, while others have created more specific and bespoke applications and practices. At least two of these organisations provide rich learning analytics data directly to students\, while all four also provide rich and aggregate data to educators. For example\, at Nottingham Trent University students can easily access their own data about how engaged they are with their studies. At Maastricht University in one course students are given their own data about their learning dispositions and engagement data\, which they use for learning statistics and afterwards use to reflect on their practice. In other institutions like the Open University over 3000 teachers are given weekly data about their students via interactive dashboards\, and whether (or not) the predictive learning analytics system predicts whether a student will pass the next assignment. At Mountain Heights Academy\, an online high school in the US\, teachers are using an Action Dashboard (or data-driven to-do list) to spend more time reaching out to their students rather than clicking through disparate systems to find the data they need to intervene with struggling students. In this webinar we specifically will focus on the role of the educator\, and how you could use learning analytics in your own classroom. Each of the five speakers will provide practical examples of their practice\, and you will be able to work with real-examples of how to consider applying learning analytics. \n  \nType of session: presentations with discussion\nModerator\nIgor BalabanEDEN NAP SC memberAssociate Professor at FOI\, Vice-dean for science\, international cooperation and projects\, and Head of Laboratory for advanced technologies in e-learning\, University of Zagreb\, Croatia \nIgor Balaban is Associate Professor at FOI\, Vice-dean for science\, international cooperation and projects\, and Head of Laboratory for advanced technologies in e-learning. He was actively involved in a dozen of European and national projects\, and coordinated several of them. He authored and co-authored 50+ scientific and professional papers and cooperates with European Commissions’ Joint Research Centre as an external expert for DigCompOrg & DigCompEdu frameworks and SELFIE tool. He organized and conducted dozens of workshops\, talked at more than 20 conferences\, and was invited speaker at some of them. He is also a reviewer for several highly respected journals such as Computers & Education\, International Journal of ePortfolio and International Journal of Information Systems. His main field of interest is technology supported learning with special focus on adaptivity and personalization in learning environments and digital transformation of educational organizations. He also has a traceable scientific record in assessing the successful implementation of information systems.\n\nPanelists\nProf Bart RientiesOpen University UKDr. Bart Rienties is Professor of Learning Analytics and programme lead of the learning analytics and learning design research programme at the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University UK. He leads a group of academics who provide university-wide learning analytics and learning design solutions and conduct evidence-based research of how students and professionals learn. As educational psychologist\, he conducts multi-disciplinary research on work-based and collaborative learning environments and focuses on the role of social interaction in learning\, which is published in leading academic journals and books. His primary research interests are focussed on Learning Analytics\, Professional Development\, and the role of motivation in learning. \n\nAnna GillespieOpen University UKAnna Gillespie is an Associate Lecturer at the OU teaching health and social care subjects. She is also conducting research into understanding how teachers working in distance education can use LA to support student success: What are the barriers preventing teachers from using LA and how do we address these? \n  \n\n\nEd FosterNottingham Trent UniversityEd Foster is the Head of Student Engagement & Analytics at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). His team implements learning analytics throughout the University making data available for students\, tutors and professional support staff. He directs research activities to improving the use of learning analytics to support students at risk of early departure and currently leads the Onwards from Learning Analytics (OfLA) Erasmus+ project (2018-2021). Ed blogs (badly) at www.LivingLearningAnalytics.blog. Ed will look at the way NTU used learning analytics to coordinate a communications campaign to support students during the coronavirus pandemic. \n  \n\nDr Dirk TempelaarMaastricht UniversityDirk Tempelaar is an associate professor at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. His main task is the teaching of introductory mathematics and statistics to large sections of first-year students. That teaching applies blended learning following the flipped-class philosophy\, where LA serves the function of supporting students to self-regulate the learning in the e-tutorials. Our LA takes into account both log data from e-tutorials as well as survey data of learning dispositions\, enabling richer learning feedback. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nDr Robert BodilyZappee\, LLCDr. Robert Bodily received his PhD in educational technology from Brigham Young University. His research focuses on improving teaching and learning using learning analytics data and methods. He specifically focuses on teacher-facing and student-facing learning analytics dashboards\, and is currently working on an Action Dashboard to help teachers reach out more effectively to struggling students. He works as a Senior Data Scientist and Researcher\, bringing expertise from the data side and the research side to make his learning analytics tools more effective.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/what-do-i-do-as-an-educator-with-learning-analytics/
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SUMMARY:International Workshop Education open during the pandemic
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SUMMARY:Taking OER to the Next Level: European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nPresentations & panel discussion\nDescription:The European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+) is a new initiative launched by more than 10 organisations from higher education and business and co-funded by the European Commission. During the next 3 years\, the initiative aims at creating four engaging European network communities – open to anyone interested – which will jointly consolidate a new\, integrated vision and understanding of how OER and Open Education can foster innovation in higher education and business. Within each of the four communities\, positions and visions will be elaborated: \n\nHow can a new vision for an EU ecosystem of OER repositories look like?\nWhat are effective Open Education policies and practices for business as well as for higher ed?\nWhat does an effective quality model look like for OER?\nHow is Open Education stimulating innovation in business and higher ed?\n\nWe invite you to take part in an initial event in which the founders of the initiative from across Europe take up the thread and to become part of the conversation along with your community peers in order to help shape what Europe’s OER initiative towards 2030 should ideally look like.Background Resources: ENCORE+ is led by ICDE and was jointly initiated by: \n\nInternational Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)\, Norway (Project Coordinator) – https://www.icde.org/ \nBaden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)\, Germany – https://www.dhbw.de/ \nThe Open University (OUUK)\, United Kingdom – http://www.open.ac.uk/ \nUniversidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)\, Spain – www.unir.net \nKnowledge 4 All Foundation Ltd. (K4A)\, United Kingdom – www.k4all.org \nJoubel AS (JOUBEL)\, Norway – https://joubel.com/ \nFondazione Politecnico di Milano (FPM)\, Italy – www.fondazionepolitecnico.it \nInstructure Global Ltd. (CANVAS)\, United Kingdom – www.instructure.com \nDublin City University (DCU)\, Ireland – www.dcu.ie \n\nModeratorUlf-Daniel EhlersProfessor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning\, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University\, GermanyUlf is a learning innovation expert\, founder of mindful-leaders.net\, serial entrepreneur\, and Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Karlsruhe since 2011. From 2011-2017 he held the position of Vicepresident at the same university and has been responsible for Quality and Academic Affairs. He held positions as Associate Professor of University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)\, Professor for Technology Enhanced Learning of University Augsburg (Germany) and Associate Professor of the Graduate School for Management and Technology of the University of Maryland University College (USA). Ulf has delivered keynotes and been speaking to audiences in more than 45 countries. He is author/ editor of more than 15 books and 150 scholarly articles with over 3000 academic citations. Ulf is a trained coach\, facilitator and expert for mindful communication\, and holds degrees in English Language\, Social Sciences and Education Sciences from the University of Bielefeld\, where he finished his Ph.D. with honors in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning in 2003. He was awarded his habilitation in 2008 from the University of Duisburg-Essen. His writings on Quality in education are internationally awarded.Presenters:Ulf-Daniel EhlersProfessor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning\, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University\, GermanyUlf is a learning innovation expert\, founder of mindful-leaders.net\, serial entrepreneur\, and Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Karlsruhe since 2011. From 2011-2017 he held the position of Vicepresident at the same university and has been responsible for Quality and Academic Affairs. He held positions as Associate Professor of University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)\, Professor for Technology Enhanced Learning of University Augsburg (Germany) and Associate Professor of the Graduate School for Management and Technology of the University of Maryland University College (USA). Ulf has delivered keynotes and been speaking to audiences in more than 45 countries. He is author/ editor of more than 15 books and 150 scholarly articles with over 3000 academic citations. Ulf is a trained coach\, facilitator and expert for mindful communication\, and holds degrees in English Language\, Social Sciences and Education Sciences from the University of Bielefeld\, where he finished his Ph.D. with honors in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning in 2003. He was awarded his habilitation in 2008 from the University of Duisburg-Essen. His writings on Quality in education are internationally awarded. \n\n \nTorunn GjelsvikSecretary General\, International Council for Open and Distance Education\, Norway \nTorunn Gjelsvik is the Secretary General for International Council for Open and Distance Education – ICDE. She has held several executive leadership positions in various educational institutions and organizations\, including the national membership association Flexible Education Norway. From 2015 to 2018 she was Head of Development at the ICDE Secretariat\, and her international experience covers policy development\, international networks\, global events and cross-country project management related to the global field of online\, open and flexible education. Gjelsvik has been a member of the Orientation Board of CNED (The National Centre for Distance Education in France) since 2016 and represents Norway in the “NVL Digital” network of the Nordic Network for Adult Learning (NVL). \n\nRobert FarrowDr. Robert Farrow is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University\, UK. He has led and contributed to a wide range of research projects in open education\, including the OER Research Hub; the Global OER Graduate Network; BizMOOC; UK Open Textbooks; and currently ENCORE+\, where leads the work around OER and innovation. \n  \n\nOrna FarrellAssistant Professor\, National Institute for Digital Learning; Coordinator\, Digital Learning Design Unit\, Dublin City University\, IrelandOrna holds a Phd in Education from Trinity College. Working within DCU’s National Institute for Digital Learning Orna’s research interests include online pedagogy\, online student success and engagement\, and eportfolio based learning. Currently\, Orna is coordinator of the Digital Learning Design Unit\, created to support DCU’s pivot to hybrid learning. Previously\, Orna was programme chair of the DCU Connected online Humanities programmes. She is principal investigator of the National Forum funded project #Openteach: professional development for open online educators. She is the DCU PI for the Erasmus funded Encore project. Orna is a founding member of Eportfolio Ireland\, a professional learning network for eportfolio practitioners and researchers. Orna is deputy chair of the European Distance and E-Learning NAP committee.  \n  \n\nJuliane GranlyProject and Development Manager\, International Council for Open and Distance Education\, NorwayJuliane is the Project and Development Manager at International Council for Open and Distance Education\, ICDE. She has spent several years working with NGOs on inclusive and innovative education programs focusing on increased job-opportunities and entrepreneurship. She is currently the project manager for the Erasmus+ project\, European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+) which is coordinated by ICDE in a consortium of 9 different partners within Europe. \n  \n\nLaura BarlassinaProject Manager\, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano\, ItalyThrough her studies in Communication Design at Politecnico di Milano\, where she graduated\, Laura acquired graphic\, photographic and video-production skills. Thanks to her working experiences\, she has then specialized in the eLearning field. Actually she operates at Fondazione Politecnico di Milano where she combines the theories of visual communication with the good practices of active learning\, in order to effectively convey the contents. Her activities are indeed focused on the design and the development of digital learning projects. In particular\, she deals with graphic design\, video editing\, motion-graphic animations and interaction design. Additionally\, she deals with web design and UX/UI design. \n  \n\nSilvia BaldirisTechnology-enhanced teaching and learning specialist\, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja\, SpainSilvia is professor and researcher at Universidad Internacional de la Rioja. She collaboratively works with many colleagues around the world on technologically-based solutions and methodologies to improve teaching and learning processes which provoke positive changes in people’s lives. Silvia has participated in different research projects\, such as EU Inclusive Learning or OER Map LATAM to promote the use of OER and also the inclusiveness of teaching practices. \n  \n\nTina Marie MonelyonResearcher\, Chair of Education Management and Lifelong Learning\, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Karlsruhe\, GermanyAs part of the NextEducation research team\, Tina manages European education projects at the Chair of Education Management and Lifelong Learning at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) and is pursuing her PhD in the field of European higher education and future skills. She furthermore teaches academic skills and marketing. Before joining DHBW in 2021\, Tina supported a Digital Innovation research cluster at Mainz University of Applied Sciences and furthered online research competence as part of a digital hackathon project turned research project funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Between 2008 to 2020\, she managed global strategy projects based out of China and India and spearheaded a consulting company.Tina completed her Master of Science in Management (German Diplom-Kauffrau) at the University of Mannheim in Germany where she discovered her passion for research and teaching. As an avid lifelong learner she has on a part-time basis further pursued a PG Diploma in Modern and Contemporary Indian Art and Curatorial Studies at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum\, formerly the Victoria & Albert Museum Bombay\, and a PG Diploma in Critical Theory\, Aesthetics and Practice at Jnanapravaha Mumbai. \n  \n\nMihajela ČrnkoProject Coordinator\, Knowledge 4 All Foundation\, United KingdomMihajela has been leading projects\, repositories and initiatives related to OER for years and is a project coordinator at Knowledge 4 All Foundation. She is also Chief Communications Officer at IRCAI\, International Center in Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO and head of VideoLectures. NET; an award-winning\, free\, open-access scientific video lectures repository with more than 27\,000 freely available educational videos. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/taking-oer-to-the-next-level-european-network-for-catalysing-open-resources-in-education/
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SUMMARY:Open Education Week\, Virtual events
DESCRIPTION:Open Education Week\, Virtual events #OEW\nThe goal of Open Education Week\, Virtual events is to raise awareness and showcase impact of open education on teaching and learning worldwide. Open Education Week\, Virtual events has become one of the most foremost global events recognizing high achievement and excellence in open education. \nThe week-long event spotlights amazing work from over a dozen categories including live\, face-to-face events\, webinars\, projects\, and resources. \n[postlist count=-1 pt=”eden_conference” tax_name=”eden_conference_category” term_slugs=”oew-summary” part=”conference” masonry=true]
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/open-education-week-virtual-events/
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SUMMARY:Open Education Week 2021
DESCRIPTION:With the EDEN Open Education Week\, Virtual events 2021 having come to an end\, EDEN wishes to thank all the participants\, moderators\, panelists\, organisers and partner institutions for supporting us in hosting an incredibly insightful and significant online event series\, for the sixth year already. The online webinar series organised by EDEN arching through five days (March 1–5) was a great opportunity to reflect on changes and achievements influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and to enhance the possibilities of online and distance learning in the hopefully not so distant “new normal”. Participants had access to daily online webinars and panel sessions of expert scholars and practitioners who presented a variety of cutting edge open and online learning topics\, from innovations in design to open educational research. We held six webinars added by a partner event organised by the Politehnica University of Timișoara\, with 1070 participants altogether (via Zoom\, YouTube and Facebook Live)\, from 79 countries all over the world.You van revisit all webinars on our Youtube channel by clicking the button below. \nWATCH THE RECORDING \n\n[postlist count=-1 pt=”eden_conference” tax_name=”eden_conference_category” term_slugs=”oew-2021″ part=”conference” masonry=false flex=true]
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/2021-open-education-week-virtual-events/
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SUMMARY:Online educational courses on cultural topics - helping the Creative Industries sector reinvent itself during a crisis- EDEN NAP webinar
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nPresentations & panel discussion\nDescription:This webinar proposes to present innovative pedagogical trends\, of MOOCs created around the topic of digital cultural heritage. The study cases will demonstrate how these courses are created in order to have a better interaction with students remotely in synchronous and asynchronous ways. As there is a clear gap in creative and cultural industries education related to digital technologies\, these good practice examples will help a large variety of people\, from teachers who can find creative ways to interact with their students\, people involved in the creative industries and students who can find opportunities for learning.Last year was filled with lockdowns and restrictions\, which hit the Creative Industries sector very bad\, thus making such courses related to digital culture very useful for those who more and more need to reinvent themselves.Moderators:Alfredo SoeiroEDEN Executive Committee MemberEUCEN – European Universities Continuing Education NetworkActive in other educational and training networks\, Alfredo brings more opportunities to cooperate with other educational networks and associations. As an EDEN Fellow Alfredo has worked for many years with EDEN even in the times of ODL Liaison Committee.Alfredo Soeiro holds a degree in civil engineering from University of Porto\, a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He was pro-rector of the University of Porto for Continuing Education between 1998 and 2003. Dr. Soeiro was a founding member of EUCEN (European University CE Network); RECLA (Latin American CE Network)\, and AUPEC (Portuguese University CE Association) His positions held were the vice presidency of EUCEN\, vice-presidency of SEFI\, president of IACEE\, president of AUPEC and president of SEFI. His main interests are engineering education\, continuing education and online learning\, focusing on networking\, international cooperation and student evaluation. He has also been an evaluator for the professional engineering association\, was invited in several projects as external evaluator and has participated and coordinated some European projects on quality assurance of education. \n\nVlad MihaescuEDEN NAP SC ChairFaculty of Electronics\, Telecommunications and Information Technology\, Politehnica University of Timisoara.Vlad 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.Presenters:Diana AndoneEDEN Vice-President for Communication and Communities of PracticeDirector of the eLearning Center at the Politehnica University of Timisoara\, RomaniaDr.ing. Diana Andone is the Director of the eLearning Center of Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania\, responsible for planning and implementing digital technologies\, online learning technologies\, and the university award winning Virtual Campus CVUPT. She is also associate professor at the Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania\, in the area of multimedia\, interactive and web technologies. Since 1998\, she teaches course modules in universities from UK\, France\, USA\, Finland\, Italy\, Greece. She holds a PhD in Designing eLearning Spaces for Digital Students with Brighton University\, UK\, has extensive research experience with intense publication (over 17 books\, 100 research papers\, 11 Best paper Awards) and more than 30 research and educational projects\, mainly funded by the European Commission.  She is passionate about the ubiquitous access to technologies and how they can be used to improve people’s life. Dr. Andone actively promotes the use of OERs\, MOOCs and the open education principles\, training for digital skills\, acting in international associations (EDEN\, IEEE\, AACE\, IADIS\, IAFES\,) actively supports the local start-up movement (StartUp Weekend\, HackTM\, hackathons\, CoderDojo) and Girls in Tech\, Women in Tech and STEM education. She also acts in the Board of Romanian NGOs (Pentru Voi Foundation)\, in Timisoara 2021 European Capital of Culture Task Force and in other voluntary organisations. Dr. Andone is EDEN Vice-President for Communication and Communities\, and member in IEEE Education Society Board of Governors\, and in IEEE Romania Section the Educational activities Chair. https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/diana-andone/ \n  \n\nAchilles KameasProfessor of Pervasive and Global Computing Systems at Hellenic Open UniversityIn HOU he serves as Deputy Dean of the School of Science & Technology\, Director of the MSc course “Pervasive and Mobile Computing Systems” and Director of the Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing\, Quality and Ambient Intelligence Laboratory. He is the Founder and Head of DAISSy (Dynamic Ambient Intelligent Sociotechnical Systems) Research Group (http://daissy.eap.gr) and Scientific Coordinator of Research Unit 3 at Computer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus”. Achilles serves as Chair of the Board of ALL DIGITAL European network and member of the ESCO Reference Group on ICT Services\, the CEN PC428 on e-competences and ICT professionalism\, the CEPIS IT Professionalism in Europe\, the EADTU Course & Curriculum pool of experts\, the ELOT Standardization Committee on Smart Cities\, the National Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition and the ReBrain Greece initiative. He has participated in more than 70 EU and national R&D projects (coordinated more than 10 of them)\, has published more than 200 scientific articles\, co-authored more than 10 books and received more than 2000 citations. Achilles has been teaching formal and non-formal courses on ICT topics for over 25 years\, pioneering the development of several MOOCs and blended courses on digital skills. He has contributed to standards EN 16234 (eCompetence Framework) and ISO 37101 (Smart and Sustainable Cities – Greek adaptation)\, used and evaluated DigComp 2.1 and co-authored the Manifesto for Enhancing Digital Competences across Europe. He is promoting the acquisition of ICT and digital skills by students\, professionals and policy makers at regional\, national and European levels. His current research interests include peer learning platforms and social systems\, STE(A)M education\, IoT and smart environments\, digital skills\, profiling of job roles and flexible learning paths.  He can be contacted at https://www.linkedin.com/in/achilleskameas/ \n  \n\nIsabel CrespoEuropeana EducationDesigning hybrid spaces with cultural heritageIsabel Crespo develops partnerships with relevant players in education\, including MoEs\, industry and non-profit organizations in order to promote the reuse of digital culture in formal and informal settings. She possesses a BD in Political Sciences\, a MA in Cultural Management and a MSc in Corporate Communications. She’s been working as a consultant for the Administration and in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona\, where she was involved in educational projects.   \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/online-educational-courses-on-cultural-topics-helping-the-creative-industries-sector-reinvent-itself-during-a-crisis-eden-nap-webinar/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Open Education Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Finding Open Nuggets: Discovering and Demystifying the Published Literature
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nPresentations & panel discussion\nDescription:This webinar explores the rich offerings available to European educators in open access journals. It begins by sharing some “good reads” published over the past year and then discusses key lessons\, tensions and takeaways emerging from a rich colour pallet of openly available literature in the field of open\, online and digital education. Join a lively discussion with experienced authors and journal editors as we uncover some of the “nuggets” available to educators in the open access literature. The conversation aims to help demystify a number of critical reading strategies to support practitioners\, scholarly professionals\, and new and emerging researchers to successfully locate\, critique and translate contemporary theory and research into practice\, and back again. By the end of this webinar participants will be better equipped and more knowledgeable about how to locate\, interpret and respond to relevant literature in their own educational contexts. Moderator:Mark BrownMark Brown is Ireland’s first Professor of Digital Learning and Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) at Dublin City University (DCU). He is both a Fellow and Executive Committee member of EDEN and also serves on the Supervisory Board of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU). Additionally\, Mark is an Executive Committee member of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) which publishes the Q1 journal Distance Education. He serves on several journal editorial boards and coordinates the NIDL’s annual list of top 10 open access publications selected each year over the past 5-years. In 2017\, Mark was recognised by the Commonwealth of Learning as a world leader in the area of Open\, Online and Digital Education.Presenters:Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichil Dr. Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow\, with the National Institute of Digital Learning in Dublin City University\, researching digital innovation and implementation in higher education. Mairéad is the institutional lead on micro-credentials and has conducted the first national micro-credential survey of employers and employees in Ireland. She serves on a national steering committee to develop and implement a national approach to the development and delivery of micro-credentials with other sectoral stakeholders. She is a Fulbright Scholar with the University of Notre Dame in the USA and lectures in Information Technology in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in DCU. Mairéad has spent time working for national and international organisations in financial\, computing and consulting positions including extensive involvement in tech start-ups. Mairéad is involved in a number of European research projects as both PI and researcher. Mairéad is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (ETHE) and on the board of ALT-J and is an active reviewer for a number of journals. \n\nWim Van Petegem Dr. Wim Van Petegem is Director of AVNet\, a central support unit at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven\, Belgium. He is an EDEN Senior Fellow\, member of the board of the EDEN Fellows Council\, and former EDEN Vice-President for Research.  At the start of 2021 Wim began as Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Open\, Distance and eLearning. This is EDEN’s own journal and Wim is committed to ensuring this important European publication maintains open and follows the highest academic quality standards as a basic principle. \n  \n\nInés Gil-JaurenaDr. Inés Gil-Jaurena is an EDEN Fellow and member of the Steering Committee of the EDEN Network of Academic and Professionals (EDEN NAP). She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education at the National Distance Education University (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia-UNED)\, Spain. She is Editor-in-chief of Open Praxis\, a scientific journal published by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE). She coordinates the CO-Lab teaching innovation group at UNED. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/finding-open-nuggets-discovering-and-demystifying-the-published-literature/
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SUMMARY:Role of the openness in shaping of the post-pandemic education (Role of international associations)
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nPanel discussion\nDescription:We are facing the biggest disruption of education in history caused by the global health pandemic and it is more important than ever to ensure access to education. As schools closed\, over a billion of students have been hampered from learning in the way they used to\, and inequalities in access to education have become even more evident. If we take the position that education is common good and should be reachable and available to all\, it is our obligation to join efforts and work in this direction. Open Educational Resources (OER) can help in achieving inclusive education aiming to ensure that learners with diverse needs and preferences (such as those with disabilities) have equal opportunities in accessing learning resources\, services\, and learning experience in general. The Open Education movement is evolving\, and besides creating and publishing OERs\, focus is shifting to Open Education Practices that can be implemented using OER. It is evident that the Covid-19 crisis has resulted in a paradigm shift in how learners of all ages\, worldwide\, can access learning. It is\, therefore essential\, more than ever that the global community come together now to foster universal access to information and knowledge through OER. In this session\, we plan to discuss what actions and approaches could be taken by international associations and communities to contribute to this goal.Questions that will be discussed: \n\nWhy is openness in education and research still an issue?\nHow can collaboration and exchange of experience contribute to expanded understanding of benefits of open education?\nHow to foster OERs to support learners and educational professionals in online learning? What experiences and initiatives have there been so far?\nHow can the visibility of best practices be ensured?\nHow can the adoption of OEP in higher education be obtained?\nDoes the application of OER and OEP vary depending on the educational level (pre-school to adult education)?\nHas the demand for MOOCs and short non-degree courses changed during pandemic?\n\nModerator:Ebba OssiannilssonProfessor\, Dr.\, EDEN EC\, EDEN Fellow\, EDEN SIG TEL QESwedenProfessor\, Dr. Ebba Ossiannilsson is a Consultant\, Expert\, Influencer and Quality Assessor in the field of open\, flexible\, online\, and distance learning\, is an advocate and promotes and improves open and online learning in the context of SDG4\, and Futures of education. She is on the Executive Committee both for ICDE and EDEN. She works as an international quality assessor for EADTU and ICDE. Ossiannilsson chairs the ICDE OER Advocacy Committee. She has even several other missions for ICDE\, as ICDE Quality Network\, and she was research director for the Global Overview of Quality Models Study 2014/15\, and on Blended Learning 2017. Ossiannilsson received the title EDEN Fellow 2014\, the EDEN Council of Fellows 2018\, the Open Education Europa Fellow 2015\, and ICDE Ambassador for the global advocacy of OER 2017. Ossiannilsson has nearly 20 years of experience in her field. Ossiannilsson works in addition with the European Commission and ITCILO. She works with ICoBC (International Council on Badges and Credentials). She is a member of the Ed Board for several scientific journals\, and Guest for several SI. She is regularly invited as a keynote speaker at conferences. Her publications comprises over 200+ At the national level she is Vice President in the Swedish Association for Distance Education (SADE) and National Organization for e- Competence (REK).Presenters:Sandra Kučina SoftićDr.\, Assistant Director for Education and User Support\, University Computing Centre (SRCE) Head of the E-learning Centre at SRCE\, EDEN PresidentCroatiaSandra Kučina Softić is EDEN president and Assistant Director for Education and User Support at the University of Zagreb University Computer Centre (SRCE). Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering the e-learning implementation in higher education institutions in Croatia and providing support and advice to institutions\, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching process.  She was appointed Croatian representative in ET2020 Working group on Digital Skills and Technologies (2016-2018) and in ET2020 Working group on Digital Education: learning\, teaching and Assessment (2018-2020). She obtained a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh\, UK in 2014  and doctoral degree at the University in Zagreb\, Croatia\, in 2020. From 2016 to 2019 she was EDEN vice-president for Open Professional Collaboration\, and in 2019 elected EDEN President.  \n\n George Ubachs Dr.\, Secretary\, General EADTUNetherlandsGeorge Ubachs is Managing Director of EADTU\, the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities. EADTU is Europe’s institutional association of leading universities in online\, open and flexible higher education. He is coordinator of international academic cooperation networks on networked curricula\, virtual mobility\, on business models for lifelong learning\, Diversity and Inclusion\, E-assessment and AI in education. He is further coordinator of the European MOOC Consortium (EMC)\, representing the Common Microcredential Framework (CMF) and the E-xcellence movement on quality assurance in online\, open and flexible education. In this position\, EADTU is leading the ICDE focal point for QA in online education for Europe. With the EMPOWERing universities network\, EADTU represents some 80 experts that cover 13 specific fields of expertise related to online\, open and flexible education. \n  \n\n Neil Fassina Professor\, President\, Athabasca University\, CAPresident ICDEDr. Neil Fassina has been president of Athabasca University since 2016\, overseeing the university’s five-year strategic plan to transform AU into a world-leading\, digital-first university. Imagine: Transforming Lives\, Transforming Communities\, is a strategy that builds on AU’s rich history as an innovator in higher education and positions it to take on the challenges of the learners of the future.As president of Canada’s online university\, Neil is a strong advocate for accessible\, flexible\, lifelong learning to enable adult learners to improve their lives and their communities.Before joining Athabasca University\, Neil held several leadership roles at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)\, including provost and vice president academic\, as well as dean of the JR Shaw School of Business and the School of Culinary Arts.Throughout his academic career\, Neil has worked to maintain strong connections to the communities he serves\, volunteering on the boards of directors for several not-for-profit organizations. He is past chair of the Council of Post-Secondary Presidents of Alberta and is president of the International Council of Distance Education.With a background in human resources and applied decision-making\, Neil has blended his leadership and academic careers in the areas of strategic thinking and planning\, leadership\, effective negotiation strategies\, conflict management\, and human resources.Neil holds a PhD in Management from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto\, a BSc in psychology from the University of Calgary\, and is a chartered professional in human resources (CPHR)\, and a chartered director through the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D). \n  \n\n Asha Kanwar Professor\, President & CEOCommonwealth of LearningProfessor Asha Singh Kanwar\, one of the world’s leading advocates of learning for sustainable development\, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth of Learning. Throughout a career spanning over 35 years\, she has made outstanding contributions in the areas of teaching\, research and international development.Professor Kanwar received her undergraduate\, Master’s and MPhil degrees from the Panjab University in India and a DPhil from the University of Sussex\, UK. Her areas of expertise include open distance and technology-enabled learning\, open educational resources\, quality assurance\, gender and organizational development. Professor Kanwar has written and edited a dozen books\, published over 100 papers and articles\, and delivered numerous keynotes at prestigious international conferences.Prior to joining COL\, Professor Kanwar was a senior consultant in open and distance learning at UNESCO’s Regional Office for Education in Africa (BREDA). She has also served as Director\, School of Humanities and as Pro-Vice Chancellor at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in New Delhi\, India. She was a Fulbright Fellow for post-doctoral research at Iowa State University in the US\, where she was later invited to teach. Currently\, she serves on the boards of several organizations\, including the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies and Education (IITE).Professor Kanwar won several international awards\, including the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) Prize of Excellence\, and the Meritorious Service Award for outstanding contributions in open and distance education from the Asian Association of Open Universities. She has been conferred eight honorary doctorates from Universities in Asia\, Africa\, Europe and North America. \n  \n\n Zeynep Varoglu Dr.\, UNESCO OER Dynamic CoalitionZeynep Varoglu is the Programme Specialist in the Digital Innovation and Transformation Section of the Communications and Information Sector at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Ms. Varoglu‘s  work currently focuses on the implementation of the UNESCO OER Recommendation and  the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT CFT) as well as initiatives in open\, distance\, flexible and online education.   Ms Varoglu holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from the University of Toronto and a Master of Education (M.Ed)   from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (O.I.S.E.)\, University of Toronto.  \n  \n\n Eva Cendon Professor\, Vice-President EUCENProf. Cendon is an educational scientist involved in lifelong learning with focus on higher education in the German speaking and European context since many years. She acts as national and international expert for competency and learning outcome orientation\, for teaching and learning in higher education\, new roles of teachers and ways of implementing lifelong learning at universities. Eva is professor of University Continuing Education & Teaching and Learning at the FernUniversität in Hagen\, Germany\, and Vice-President of EUCEN\, the European University Lifelong Learning Network. Her main expertise and research interest lies new forms of linking academic and professional knowledge in university teaching and learning. \n  \n\nLena PattersonVice-President of the Board of Directors at Open Education GlobalLena is Senior Director\, Programs and Stakeholder Relations at eCampusOntario. Lena has eight years of experience working in and alongside government at the provincial and federal level and five years of experience in non-profit and post-secondary education.Lena has been part of the eCampusOntario team since the organization was created in August 2015. She worked closely with academic and government partners to establish the collaborative consortium model and now heads up a growing project team in her role as Senior Director\, Programs and Stakeholder Relations. Lena’s work has focused on bridging higher education and industry\, online and technology-enabled teaching and learning\, and open education. Lena is Vice-President of the Board of Directors at Open Education Global. Lena is currently pursuing doctoral studies at Western University in the EdD program in Educational Leadership. \n  \n\nMichael GaebelHigher Education Policy Unit of the European University Association (EUA)Michael Gaebel is the Director of the Higher Education Policy Unit of the European University Association (EUA)\,  which follows the Bologna Process\, issues in learning and teaching\, including  lifelong learning\, digitally enhanced learning\, internationalisation and global dialogue. Michael represents EUA in the Bologna Follow-up Group\, and has been actively involved in several of its working groups over the past decade. EUA represents 33 national university associations (rectors’ conferences) and more than 800 universities from all over Europe. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/role-of-the-openness-in-shaping-of-the-post-pandemic-education-role-of-international-associations/
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SUMMARY:Supporting teaching and learning in schools through OER: Lessons from the pandemic
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nPresentations & panel discussion\nDescription:As a result of the impact of Covid-19\, schools across Europe and the world had to close for long periods. Learning activities had to be conducted remotely. The massive transition of the European school system to online learning was facilitated by the large number of open educational resources available on the internet. OERs and MOOCs could be found in dedicated aggregator portals\, institutional repositories curated by universities\, foundations and public agencies or through individual recommendations by peers. Teachers were advised to actively search\, use and share them.In the webinar a number of experts\, representing the European Commission\, Unesco\, universities\, NGOs and the school system\, will discuss how OER use and reuse has expanded during the pandemic and how this has contributed to support the quality of teaching and learning during these challenging times. They will also analyse what is the role of OERs in the ongoing digital transformation of schools. \nModerator:António TeixeiraEDEN Senior FellowAssociate Professor\, Universidade Aberta\, Lisbon\, PortugalAntónio Teixeira is an Associate Professor of open\, distance and network education at Universidade Aberta (UAb). He’s also a researcher at the University of Lisbon and collaborates with the Laboratory for Distance Education and eLearning (LE@D) and the University of Rome 3. He was Pro-rector for innovation in Distance Learning at Universidade Aberta (2006-09) and Director of the Department of Education and Distance Learning (2016-20). He was also President of EDEN – European Distance and E-learning Network (2013-16). From 2007 to 2009\, he was a member of the Academic and Administration boards of the Asia’s International Open University (UAIA) and of the Portuguese Rectors Council (CRUP) specialized committees on Scientific Research and Knowledge Transfer\, and Evaluation\, Quality and Innovation. He’s currently an external expert for A3ES\, AQU Catalunya and ACPUA quality assurance agencies in Portugal and Spain\, as well as the research and innovation national agency of Uruguay (ANII) among others. Having participated in over thirty international projects\, mostly funded by the European Commission and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, his research focus in particularly on educational innovation and open education. António Teixeira is an EDEN Senior Fellow and a member of the Board of the Council of EDEN Fellows. \nPresenters:Abby RossChief Executive OfficerCurrikiNew York\, USAAbby Ross is a seasoned technology entrepreneur with a passion and background in education technology. She started her career in Product Management at a start-up that grew to 10M users and was acquired by Expedia in 2010. Abby then led the strategy and growth of a web and mobile development firm as a Managing Partner. In 2013\, Abby co-founded ThinkCERCA\, a venture-backed education technology company focused on helping build critical thinking skills through writing across the curriculum. Abby was integral in raising over $20M in capital across 3 rounds of funding\, developing ThinkCERCA’s initial product offering and go-to-market strategy to launch as an enterprise K-12 program. Abby led ThinkCERCA organization for 8 years as the Chief Product Officer from pre-revenue to nearing profitability. Abby is thrilled to be leading Curriki in this next wave of innovation and growth. \n\nAndreia Inamorato dos SantosScientific Officer\, DG Joint Research Centre (JRC)\, European Commission\, Seville\, SpainDr. Andreia Inamorato dos Santos joined the JRC in September 2013. Her role involves research and policy support on ‘ICT for Learning\, Skills and Open Educational Resources (OER)’. Her work contributes to finding opportunities and challenges of ICT and OER implementation at a policy level to innovate and modernise teaching\, learning and training practices in Europe. Her current focus is on the promotion and uptake of openness in higher education institutions and Member States. Andreia has a PhD in Educational Technology from the Open University of the United Kingdom (2011) and a Masters in Research Methods for Educational Technology from the same institution (2003). She also has a Masters in Linguistics and Literary Studies in English Language from The University of São Paulo\, Brazil (2001). She worked as an OER researcher for the Open University (2006-2011) and has since been involved in several other OER and ICT-related research projects in the UK and abroad. Andreia produced a national report on OER in Brazil which was published by UNESCO IITE (2011). She also acted as a consultant for DigiLearn (2011-2013)\, focusing on awareness raising and continuous professional development on OER and open education for governmental bodies\, private and public higher education institutions and high profile enterprises in Brazil and Latin America. \n  \n\nAgueda Gras-Velázquez Science Programme Manager / Head of the Science Education DepartmentEuropean Schoolnet\, Brussels\, BelgiumDr Agueda Gras-Velazquez is the Science Programme Manager of European Schoolnet (EUN). She is the Head of the Science Education Department at EUN\, in charge of overseeing and coordinating all the Maths and Science projects in which EUN is involved. Additionally\, she is in charge of the day to day management of “Scientix” (the community for science education in Europe\, http://scientix.eu)\, coordinates EUN’s work with regions and EUN’s Ministries of Education STEM representatives Working Group. In her 8 years at EUN\, Agueda has been involved in over 25 European Commission funded projects and 12 private funded ones and also sits in the advisory board of a number of projects. Prior to joining EUN in May 2008\, she worked as an independent eLearning Professional\, as Tutor\, Content designer\, IT manager\, Administrator\, Project Manager and Consultant for international projects. She has co-authored several papers in the area of Science Education Research and has a PhD in Astrophysics from Trinity College Dublin\, which she carried out at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. \n  \n\nSofoklis Sotiriou Head of R&D DepartmentEllinogermaniki Agogi\, Athens\, GreeceDr. Sofoklis Sotiriou has worked at CERN\, at the National Center for Scientific Research “DEMOKRITOS” in Athens and in the Physics Laboratory of Athens University. He holds a PhD in High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics and a PhD in Science Education. He is the Head of R&D Department of Ellinogermaniki Agogi\, one of the biggest educational institutions in Greece\, where has been active in the co-ordination and development of research projects on implementation of advanced technologies (e.g. mobile applications\, wearable computers\, VR and AR applications\, robotics) in science education and training. Since 2001 he is the Director of the Ellinogermaniki Agogi Center for Teachers Training. His main research field is the design\, application\, and evaluation of virtual and digital media environments that could bridge the gap between formal and informal science learning. He has been involved in a long series of EU joint research and technology funded projects. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences (since 2003)\, member of the board of ECSITE (since 2004) and has served as Expert Evaluator to the European Commission FP5 & FP6 Programmes. He has also act as a consultant to the development of the FP7s Science in Society Work programme. \n  \n\nTel Amiel Director\, UNESCO Chair in Distance EducationUniversity of Brasilia\, Brasília\, BrazilTel Amiel is a professor in the Department of Methods and Techniques at the Faculty of Education of the University of Brasília\, where he coordinates the Distance Pedagogy course. He is Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in Distance Education (UnB). He was coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in Open Education (NIED / Unicamp\, 2014-2018). He was a visiting professor at Utah State University\, and visiting fellow at Stanford University and University of Wollongong. Conducts research related to public education and teacher training\, in the insertion between open education\, educational technology and school improvement. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/supporting-teaching-and-learning-in-schools-through-oer-lessons-from-the-pandemic/
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SUMMARY:Insights from an internationally co-developed MOOC on digital citizenship
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nWebinar\nDescription:Within the Erasmus+ NEXUS project\, a MOOC on active digital citizenship has recently been developed\, with the rationale that\, due to recent influx of migrants into Europe\, a majority of European universities have a student population who are excluded from broader civic or political participation. In a way that is different from the typical MOOCs\, that are designed and developed by a single professor\, as a “translation” of face-to-face teaching practices in to a massive online experience\, the NEXUS MOOC was conceived\, designed\, developed and reviewed in a fully collaborative fashion among six organizations from different countries. The webinar will reflect on this experience\, that was both extremely enriching for the participating groups and contributed to the coexistence of different perspectives within the MOOC\, while being less effective from a production point of view. The underlying question of the webinar will be: can a break-even point between international co-production and effectiveness be found within MOOCs? \nModerator:Timothy ReadEDEN Vice-President for Open Professional CollaborationSenior Lecturer in Computer Languages and Systems\, UNED – Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia\, Madrid\, SpainTimothy Read is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems at UNED. He did his first degree in Real Time Computer Science at the University of The West of England and his Doctorate in Cognitive Science at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). After leaving England\, he has worked at the University of Granada before moving to UNED in Madrid. He is the co-founder of the ATLAS research group and has directed several national and international funded projects on applying Information and Communication Technologies to Languages for Specific Purposes. He is currently working in the areas of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning and Language Massive Open Online Courses\, and their applications for social inclusion and employability\, and the role of analytics in these areas. He has also been a member of diverse scientific committees and has collaborated as an evaluator of national and international research project proposals. As well as his academic career\, he has worked in different international companies including Rolls Royce (the work he undertook there was subsequently patented)\, Hewlett Packard\, and the telecommunications company I.T.T. In 2015\, he was awarded the title of EDEN Fellow from the Executive Committee of the European Distance and E-Learning Network in recognition of the work he has undertaken in this area. \nPresenters:Fabio NascimbeniSenior Expert\, UNIMED – Unione delle Università del Mediterraneo\, Rome\, ItalyFabio Nascimbeni has a degree in Economics with an international management specialisation and a PhD on Networking for Development. He works as assistant professor in the International University of La Rioja\, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sao Paulo (USP)\, where he collaborates with the CEST Centro de Estudos sobre Tecnologia e Sociedade. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Distance and eLearning Network (EDEN)\, of the Editorial Board of the EURODL Journal\, of the Scientific Committee of the Web Based Communities and Social Media Conference\, of the Scientific Board of the Institute for the Relations between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean. He has been active in the field of innovation and ICT for learning since 1998\, by designing and coordinating more than 40 research and innovation projects (such as the projects HELIOS\, Learnovation\, VISIR) and promoting European collaboration in different learning areas\, from school education to higher education to lifelong learning. Further\, he has coordinated a number of international collaboration actions in fields spanning from Science and Technology\, ICT research\, information society development\, educational research\, specifically focusing on Latin America\, the Caribbean and Asia. Fabio’s research interests and experiences include learning innovation\, equity in education\, social and digital inclusion\, social networking\, social innovation. He has been working on assignments by the European Commission (DG Education and Culture\, DG INFSO\, Europeaid\, DG Research\, DG Employment)\, as well as collaborating with international organisations such as UNESCO\, CEPAL or ITU. He has actively participated in the set up of a number of international entities such as the MENON Network\, the Multipalio EEIG\, the European Foundation for eLearning Quality (EFQUEL) and the VIT@LIS Network. Further\, he has been collaborating with a number of networks in the field of learning innovation in Europe and internationally such as the European Distance and e-learning Network (EDEN)\, the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)\, the European Association for Distance Learning (EADL)\, the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL)\, the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG)\, European SchoolNet\, OER Universitas\, the ASEAN University Network (AUN)\, the Red Eurolatinamericana de Education Continua (RECLA). \n\nCristina StefanelliProject Manager\, UNIMED – Unione delle Università del Mediterraneo\, Rome\, ItalyOpen Education enthusiast\, she works at UNIMED\, the Mediterranean Universities Union\, as project manager\, and she is involved in international projects in the field of digital education\, teaching and learning technologies\, open education and virtual exchange. \n  \n\nBeatriz SedanoResearch Associate\, UNED – Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia\, Madrid\, SpainBeatriz Sedano has a Ph.D. focused on MOOCs through the ICT Doctoral program at the National University of Distance Learning\, Spain (UNED). She has participated in numerous national and international congresses and her research focus has been online learning\, instructional design and MOOCs. She is currently working at UNED on an Erasmus + project called MOONLITE\, focused on curating and designing MOOCs for refugees and migrants to build their language competences and entrepreneurial skills for employment\, higher education\, and social inclusion. Her role encompasses the research\, coordination and administration of the project. \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/insights-from-an-internationally-co-developed-mooc-on-digital-citizenship/
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