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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DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nDescription\n\nIs lecture-centered education out-of-date?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/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:International Workshop Education open during the pandemic
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URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/international-workshop-education-open-during-the-pandemic/
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events
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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/
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events
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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: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/
CATEGORIES: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: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/
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events
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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/
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events
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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/
CATEGORIES:Open Education Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Students’ perspective and experience on higher education in 2020
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS \nType of session: presentations with discussion\nDescription\nSince the Covid-19 pandemic started and higher education activities transitioned (sometimes abruptly) to the online\, we have seen many opinions\, struggles and best practices from eLearning experts\, teachers and researchers. During this webinar\, we propose to find out how this process was seen through the students’ eyes. Students from various countries will share their experiences\, challenges and offer best practices examples. We will find out what types of activities and technologies they enjoyed more and which less. We will try to conclude with their vision about the future of higher education after last year’s experience. \n \nModerator\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. \nParticipants\nAngela SozioPsychology student at Aldo Moro University\, Bari\, ItalyAngela Sozio is currently studying Work and Organizational Psychology at Aldo Moro University\, Bari (IT). She graduated in 2019 in Psychological Sciences and Techniques.Recently\, she has been attending Psychology of Education and E-Learning in Organizations course. During the course she has worked on a research project on the evaluation of a Microlearning module\, commissioned by Lattanzio Kibs Company. As result of this cooperation with the Company\, Angela and her team have produced a literature review based on Microlearning’ s features\, and a Microlearning evaluation questionnaire. \n\n\nAnnalisa GiandomenicoPsychology student at Aldo Moro University\, Bari\, ItalyAnnalisa Giandomenico is a second-year student of ‘Work and Organizational Psychology’ at the Università degli Studi di Bari. During the last three months\, she took part in the Psychology of Education and E-learning course\, in which she had the opportunity to collaborate with Lattanzio Kibs\, an Italian strategic consulting company. The main aim of this collaboration was to create a literature review about perceptions of microlearning and its influence on learning processes\, which was used as a starting point to build a questionnaire for the evaluation of a microlearning module.\n\n\nDora TrogrlićIT student at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics\, University of Zagreb\, CroatiaDora is a second-year graduate student of the Organization of Business Systems study programme at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics\, University of Zagreb. She received her bachelor degree at the same faculty in 2019. During her studies\, she participated in the Erasmus+ student exchange program at the University of Žilina\, Slovakia\, which ultimately led her to the role of a student associate of the FOI International Relations Office. Besides that\, she held the role of student coordinator at the Center for Volunteering and Humanitarian Work at the faculty. Throughout her higher education\, she participated in many extracurricular activities\, including an innovative learning project on social entrepreneurship. \n  \n\nAlexandru Constantin Iliescu“Machine Learning” Master’s Student\, Politehnica University of Timisoara\, RomaniaAlexandru is also a student representative in the UPT Senate and Council of Administration. He started to learn this field 4 years ago\, when he realized how important it is for a student to be represented as good as possible. Alexandru is very concerned with the subject of education\, being most interested in the quality assurance in the field of education. Trying to develop in this field\, since 2018 he is a member of the national register of evaluators of ARACIS ((The Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education)\, in 2020 taking the step towards the European Students’ Union (ESU) Student Experts Pool on Quality Assurance (QA). \n  \n#EDENChat\nThe webinar will be followed by #EDENChat.Please join us on Twitter using the hashtag #EDENChat!#EDENChat is an online discussion event on Twitter initiated by Steering Committee of the EDEN Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP). It is mediated by members of the NAP community and runs for approximately 1 hour. Anyone can join in and contribute to the discussion which is presented in a Question and Answer format and focuses on current issues in distance\, open and e-learning. All sessions start at 18:00 CEST.Previous #EDENChats are listed on the EDEN website according to topics.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/students-perspective-and-experience-on-higher-education-in-2020/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Social presence and interaction in e-learning
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING \nDescription\nThis interactive session will explore the role of social interaction in online teaching and learning in higher education. The session will begin with Prof. Terry Anderson introducing the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework and the relevance of interaction. Then\, Dr Adriana Kiczkowski will share a study about students’ online interactions in formal and informal settings. Irène Charbonneau will present her study about “Social Presence and Educational Technologies in an Online Distance Course in Finnish Higher Education: A Social Constructivist Perspective”. Dr Nadia Sansone will conclude the presentations with her work “Etivity: structuring students’ online participation towards effective learning”. \n  \nType of session: presentations with discussion\n\n \nModerators\n\nDr. Inés 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 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. @inesgj3 \n\n\n\nFrancesa AmenduniFrancesa is a member of the SC of the EDEN Network of Academic and Professionals. She is Senior Researcher and Project Manager at SFIVET (Swiss Federal Institute 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 A. Poce (Roma TRE University).\n \nPresenters\nProf. Terry AndersonTerry Anderson is Professor Emeritus and former Canada Research Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University (Canada). He is a senior EDEN fellow. Terry is the editor emeritus of the open access journal\, the International Review of Research on Open and Distance Education (IRRODL). @terguy \n\n\nDr. Adriana KiczkowskiAdriana Kiczkowski is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philology at the UNED (National Distance Education University\, Spain)\, where she teaches in the Bachelor´s Degree in English Studies: Language\, Literature and Culture. She participates in the CO-Lab teaching innovation group at UNED.@colabuned\n\n\nIrène CharbonneauIrène Charbonneau is a graduate student from an MSc. in International and Comparative Education at Stockholm University in Sweden. The presentation of her Master’s thesis study on educational technologies and social presence received the “EDEN best paper award” in the October Research Workshop\, 2020. She is now working as a pedagogical designer to improve career guidance in secondary education using pedagogical and technological innovations at the University of Nantes\, in France\, while carrying out several academic projects.\n\n\nDr. Nadia SansoneNadia Sansone is a Researcher in Experimental Pedagogy and Technology Enhanced Learning at Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome where she is the eLearning Responsible and Head of teachers and tutors’ Training. She also leads the online Degree Course in Psychological Sciences and Techniques and acts as e-Learning Consultant at the School of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. His main research interests concern models for the design and analysis of e-learning paths supported by Learning Management Systems in which learners experience active approaches promoting theoretical and practical learning. Author of several international publications\, including communications to conferences\, book’s chapters and journal articles. She is Chief-editor of QWERTY – Open and Interdisciplinary Journal of Technology\, Culture and Education.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/social-presence-and-interaction-in-e-learning/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Critical thinking in education
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONThis interactive session will explore critical thinking in higher education. The session will begin with Prof. Antonella Poce\, and Dr. Maria Rosaria Re exploring the role of museums and digital storytelling in the development of student’ critical thinking skills in the University of Roma Tre. Then\, Dr Orla Feeney will describe her DCUBS Critical Thinking in Business module\, which enables students to apply critical thinking skills to real life situations.\nType of session: presentations with discussion\nModerators\nFrancesa Amenduni\nEDEN NAP SC Member\nFrancesa is a member of the SC of the EDEN Network of Academic and Professionals. 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 A. Poce (Roma TRE University).\nHer expertise is in the e-learning field both as practitioner and researcher. She has worked as e-learning tutor and instructional designer since 2015. She has carried out research related to blended learning and Critical Thinking.\n\nOrna Farrell\nEDEN NAP SC Member\nAssistant Professor- National Institute for Digital Learning\, Coordinator- Digital Learning Design Unit\, Dublin City University.\nOrna 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. She is principal investigator of the National Forum funded project #Openteach: professional development for open online educators. Orna is a founding member of Eportfolio Ireland\, a professional learning network for eportfolio practitioners and researchers.\n[bookline]\nPresenters\nAntonella Poce\nEDEN Fellow\nAssociate Professor\, PhD\, Head of the Centre for Museum Studies\, Department of Education\, Università Roma\nAntonella Poce is senior EDEN fellow and currently holds the post of Associate Professor (qualified as a full professor)\, in Experimental Pedagogy at the department of Education – University Roma TRE\, where she directs the Centre for Museum Studies and the postgraduate courses: annual “Museum Education” and biennial “Advanced Studies in Museum Education”. 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 fruition.\n\nMaria Rosaria Re\nEDEN Fellow\nResearch Fellow\, Centre for Museum Studies\, University Roma TRE\n \nDr Maria Rosaria Re is Research Fellow at the Centre for Museum Studies\, University Roma TRE (IT) and EDEN fellow. In 2020 she obtained a PhD in Experimental Pedagogy.  She used to be Temporary researcher\, Department of Education – Università Roma TRE\, carrying out research work in interactive teaching and learning online with specific reference to MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses) in museum education. She has been cooperating with the Centre for Museum Studies (University of Roma Tre) since 2013 and took part in national and European research projects in the field of museum education\, digital and transverse skills development\, critical thinking promotion\, new learning methodologies\, evaluation.\n\nOrla Feeney\nAssociate professor in accounting\, Dublin City University Business School\nChartered accountant\n \nDr. Orla Feeney is a chartered accountant and associate professor in accounting in Dublin City University Business School. She lectures predominantly in the areas of management accounting and research methodology. Her research interests include the role of the accountant in business\, the impact of digital technology on accounting and strong structuration theory. Her work has been published in journals including Accounting\, Audit and Accountability Journal and Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management.\n\nThe webinar will be followed by an #EDENChat at 18:00 CET\nPlease join us on Twitter using the hashtag #EDENChat!\n#EDENChat is an online discussion event on Twitter initiated by Steering Committee of the EDEN Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP). It is mediated by members of the NAP community and runs for approximately 1 hour. Anyone can join in and contribute to the discussion which is presented in a Question and Answer format and focuses on current issues in distance\, open and e-learning. All sessions start at 18:00 CEST.\nPrevious #EDENChats are listed on the EDEN website according to topics.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/critical-thinking-in-education/
CATEGORIES:NAP webinars
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SUMMARY:Supporting educators and education in COVID-19 crisis – EDEN perspective
DESCRIPTION:The International Council for Open and Distant Education (ICDE) will hold its President Forum on 25 November 2020. Prior to the 25 November regional consultations a series of activities will take place in the form of Satellite Engagement Events. The outcomes from these events hosted by ICDE partner associations will be used as a guide for reflection by registered delegates of the forum. EDEN is proud to contribute to the ICDE forum with an online Satellite Engagement Event on 23 November\, 2020\, 17:00-18:00 CET with distinguished speakers of the EDEN community to share their hands on experience and expertise.WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATION\nDescription\nEDEN has been the major European network for distance and e-learning in Europe and globally for nearly 30 years. In these challenging times\, EDEN has strengthened its leadership role by bringing together the professional community of experts and practitioners in online learning\, with the aim of providing and sharing its expertise and knowledge\, facilitating and fostering research and development in distance and e-learning\, and making information about current developments in education available to those confronted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a response to the global crisis and challenge of moving to fully online education overnight\, EDEN has initiated a series of practical webinars (#onlinetogether) on how to take face-to-face education online. These webinars focused on the day-to-day challenges faced by teachers and educators who are struggling with the adjustment to working and teaching online\, providing practical tips and guidance – especially helpful for those who have always taught in a traditional classroom. After very positive responses and feedback to the spring series of webinars from participants all over the world\, an autumn webinar series followed.\nAlong with #onlinetogether initiative\, EDEN has taken further steps and for the first time held a very successful first Annual Conference and first Research Workshop fully online\, exploring the potential of this innovative format and\, showing that it can meet any and every challenge.\nSpeakers\nSandra Kučina Softić\nEDEN President\nUniversity Computing Centre SRCE\, Croatia\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 Edinburgh\, UK in 2014. From 2016 to 2019 she was EDEN vice-president for Open Professional Collaboration. \n\nLisa-Marie Blaschke\nChair of the Board of the EDEN Fellows Council\nProgramme Director\, Center of Lifelong Learning (C3L)\, Oldenburg\, Germany\nDr. Lisa Marie Blaschke is programmed director of the Management of Technology Enhanced Learning master’s programme at the Center for Lifelong Learning at University of Oldenburg\, Germany\, and a senior researcher at the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg in Heilbronn. She is also a former executive committee member of the European Distance Education and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and is a Senior EDEN Fellow and Chair of the Board of the EDEN Fellows Council. She is a former adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland University College\, where she received the Stanley J. Drazek Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016. Lisa has a BS in Technical Communication\, and two master’s degrees (MDE\, MBA)\, and a PhD. Prior to academia\, Lisa worked for SAP for over a decade in Walldorf\, Germany\, leading and implementing enterprise-wide knowledge management and training processes and solutions. Lisa’s research interests are in the areas of self-determined learning (heutagogy)\, online collaborative learning\, pedagogical application of web 2.0 technology and social media\, and user interface design. \n\nTimothy Read\nEDEN Vice-president for Open Professional Collaboration\nUNED\, Spain\nTimothy 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 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. \n\nDiana Andone\nEDEN Vice President\nDirector of the eLearning Center\, Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania \nDiana Andone is the Director of the eLearning Center at the Politehnica University of Timisoara in Romania. Dr. Andone runs the team who developed the university’s award winning Virtual Campus CVUPT and is also a professor at the Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania\, in the area of multimedia and web technologies. She is passionate about the ubiquitous access to technologies and how they can be used to improve people’s lives. Dr. Andone research includes web and mobile technologies\, human-computer interaction\, AR/VR/XR in education and culture\, open education\, online and mobile learning\, OERs and MOOCs. Her publication list comprises 12 books and over 100 papers presented at international conferences\, reviewer of several journals and conferences\, and also chairs IEEE and ACM conferences. Her experience includes over 30 European funded projects\, out of which she coordinated 4\, notably ViCADiS (Virtual Campus for Digital Students)\, DigiCulture (Digital Skills for Creative Industries). She is also involved extensively in several professional organisations and associations (IEEE – Education Society Board\, EDEN – Vice-president\, IADIS\, AACE\, W3C\, IAFES)\, actively supports the local start-up movement (StartUp Weekend\, HackTM\, hackathons\, CoderDojo) and Girls in Tech\, as well as acting in the Board of local Romanian NGOs (Pentru Voi Foundation) in the Timisoara 2023 European Capital of Culture Task Force and a member of Rotary Club Timisoara and Rotary International. \n\nAntonio Teixeira\nFormer EDEN President\nUniversidade Aberta\, Portugal \nAntónio 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 University of Rome 3. He was the Pro-rector for innovation in Distance Learning at Universidade Aberta (2006-09) and President of EDEN – European Distance and E-learning Network (2013-16). As a Pro-rector at UAb\, António Teixeira conceived and managed the successful and speedy strategic transformation process of the university from a print-based distance learning institution to a fully online one. Throughout the years\, he has integrated several boards of directors and many expert committees and task forces in higher education institutions and organizations at national and international level. He’s currently an external expert for AQU Catalunya and ACPUA quality assurance agencies in Spain and the research and innovation national agency of Uruguay (ANII) among others.\nAntónio Teixeira has participated in over thirty international research projects and authored over one hundred scientific articles and other publications. He is an EDEN Senior Fellow and a member of the Board of the Council of EDEN Fellows.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/supporting-educators-and-education-in-covid-19-crisis-eden-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Other EDEN contributions,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:European Online and Distance Learning Week (backup)
DESCRIPTION:European Online Distance Learning Week (EODLW) – November 2-9\, 2020  – JOIN AND NETWORK! \nEDEN is proudly hosting for the fifth year the European Online and Distance Learning Week (EODLW). This year we are in partnership again with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) and the Open Distance Learning Association in Australia (ODLAA) jointly with Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ) who are launching the Australasian Online and Distance Learning Week. We are happy to have special contribution to EDEN EODLW from ICDE.This week will be a good time to reflect on present changes influenced by pandemic COVID-19 and to enhance the possibilities of online and distance learning in today’s “new normal”.During EODLW\, you will have access to daily online webinars and panel sessions of expert scholars and practitioners who will present a variety of cutting edge open and online learning topics\, from innovations in design to open educational research.Be sure to mark November 2-9 on your calendar! \n\n\nEDEN’s webinars during the week:\nNew international mobility perspectives and challenges for the raising European Campuses\nMonday\, 2 November 2020\, 15:00 CET \nFormat: Panel debateModerator: Elena CardirolaSpeakers: Dorothy Kelly\, Antonella Forlino\, Ignacio J. Blanco\, Liliana Moreira \nMORE DETAILS WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nThe Great EODL Week Debate: Online Learning vs. Traditional Face-to-Face Models of Education\nMonday\, 2 November 2020\, 17:00 CET \nFormat: DebateModerator: Tom FarrellySpeakers:  Diana Andone\, Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl\, Alexandra Cristea\, Mark Brown\, Don Olcott\, Jr.\, Deborah ArnoldUlf-Daniel Ehlers \n MORE DETAILS WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nPromoting Digital Education in the Commonwealth\nMonday\, 2 November 2020\, 18:30 CET \nFormat: PresentationModerator: Ebba OssiannilssonSpeakers: Sanjaya Mishra \nMORE DETAILS WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nWe are all in this together – Rising to the challenges\nTuesday\, 3 November 2020\, 15:00 CET \nFormat: Panel debateModerator: Timothy ReadPanelists: Rhonda Blackburn\, Dr. Reggie Smith III\, Marci Powell\, Sandra Kucina Softic\, Mark Brown\, Lisa-Marie Blaschke \nMORE DETAILS WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nExploring new avenues of online assessment\nTuesday\, 3 November 2020\, 17:00 CET \nFormat: Presentations with panel discussionModerator: Lisa-Marie BlaschkeSpeakers: Orna Farrell\, Richard Powers\, Aaron S. Blackwelder \nMORE DETAILS WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nPractical and pedagogical ways to assess your students online\nWednesday\, 4 November 2020\, 12:00 CET \nFormat: Presentations with discussionModerator: Orna Farell and Vlad MihaescuSpeakers: Suzanne Stone\, Rob Lowney\, Lisa Donaldson\, Tom Farrelly\, Karen Buckley\, James Brunton \nMORE DETAILS WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nNext normal: Including students’ views into shaping future higher education\nWednesday\, 4 November 2020\, 17:00 CET \nFormat: Presentations and panel discussionModerator: Daniel Ulf EhlersSpeakers: Laura Eigbrecht\, Lilith Diringer\, Carmen Romero\, Ruben Janssens \nMORE DETAILS WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nDigitally enhanced learning at European higher education institutions – state of play and prospects\nThursday\, 5 November 2020\, 13:00 CET \nFormat: Presentations with discussionModerator: Sandra KucinaSpeakers: Michael Gaebel\, Marta Zuvic\, Airina Volungeviciene\, Philippe Emplit \nMORE DETAILS WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nEuropean MOOCs for the Labour Market; Microcredentials for continuing education\nFriday\, 6 November 2020\, 13:00 CET \nFormat: Presentation with discussionModerator: Ebba OssiannilssonSpeakers: George Ubachs\, Catherine Mongenet \nMORE DETAILS WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nOpen Education Technologies for online education\nFriday\, 6 November 2020\, 15:00 CET \nFormat: Presentations with discussionModerator: Diana AndoneSpeakers: Martin Dougiamas\, Svein-Tore Griff With\, Miguel Díez Blanco\, Sandra Moldoveanu\, Diana Andone \nMORE DETAILS WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nOpening session of the Open Classroom Conference\nFriday\, 6 November 2020\, 17:00 CET \nOpening speech: Sandra Kucina SofticWelcome addresses: Sofoklis Sotiriou \n MORE DETAILS \n\nEuropean Vocational Skills Week 2020 – VET and digital tools\nMonday\, 9 November 2020\, 13:00 CET \nFormat: Presentation with panel discussionModerator: Alfredo SoeiroSpeakers: Timothy Read\, Alicia Miklavčič\, Matti Isokallio \nMORE DETAILS WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nICDE Global Outlook to OER: What’s on the calendar and how to engage?\nThursday\, 5 November 2020\, 17:00 CET \nFormat: WorkshopModerator : Ebba OssiannilssonSpeakers: Torunn Gjelsvik\, Jacques Dang\, Anaïs Røed Malbrand\, Daniel Burgos\, Davor Orlic\, Ebba Ossiannilsson \nMORE DETAILS WATCH THE RECORDING \n\nPartner events: \n \n\n\n\nTITLE\nUnboxing Micro-credentials: Certifying Your Future\nIs the Future of Education Inevitably Going to be Digital First?”\n\n\nOrganiser\nODLAA\nFLANZ\n\n\nMore info\nREGISTER\nREGISTER\n\n\nType\nwebinar\nwebinar\n\n\nDate(s)\n3 November\, 8:00 CET\n6 November\, 7:30 CET\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/european-online-and-distance-learning-week-backup/
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SUMMARY:2020 Athens
DESCRIPTION:“Open and Distance Education: New challenges and Perspectives”\, co-organised by the Ellininogermaniki Agogi and European Distance and E-Learning Network – EDEN will take on 6-7 November 2020. Taking into account the special conditions under Covid19 the conference will be available through virtual facilities (e.g. zoom and youtube) while participants will be additionally able to join at the virtual conference hall of Ellinogermaniki Agogi in Second Life. The Open Classroom strand within EDEN was launched in 1995\, with the focus on distance education and new technologies in school level education and training\, mapping and exchange of information about initiatives\, and the transfer of ideas from the more traditional areas of ODL to the school sector. The success of the first conference\, entitled “The Open Classroom”\, and the continuing interest of the international ODL professional community was the catalyst to develop this movement further within EDEN.The Athens Open Classroom Conference this September aims at exploring 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. The event is the latest of a series of Open Classroom Conferences co-organised by Ellininogermaniki Agogi and EDEN in the last years (2019: Creating Conditions for Deeper Learning in Science; 2017: Open Schools for Open Societies; 2015: Open Discovery Space: Transforming schools into innovative learning organisations; 2011: Never Waste a Crisis! Inclusive Excellence\, Innovative Technologies and Transformed Schools as Autonomous Learning Organisations.)\nTaking into account the special conditions under Covid19 the facilities can safely host 100 participants. At the same time\, the conference will be available through virtual facilities (e.g. zoom and youtube) while participants will be additionally able to join at the virtual conference hall of Ellinogermaniki Agogi in Second Life.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/athens-2020/
CATEGORIES:Open classroom conferences
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SUMMARY:We are all in this together - Rising to the challenges
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONPanel debate\nDescription: Aim of this season is to share on the global level insight on how four leading professional bodies—European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN)\, United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)\, Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) and Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ)—have risen to the challenge of supporting online and distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. A panel of representatives from each association share their lessons and experiences from supporting educators\, institutional leaders and policy-makers in the rapid shift to online education. By sharing initiatives and resources developed and made available over 2020 the panel want to emphasize the value and importance of professional networks and learning communities in these uncertain and challenging times. With joint effort you will hear how the panel believes we can support the challenges facing us and more fully harness the potential of new models of online and distance learning. Accordingly\, we invite participants to share their opinions and perspectives about what kind of support they expect from such professional bodies and what kind of problems they encounter in fostering more creative\, innovative and impactful approaches to teaching\, learning and assessment in the digital-era. This discussion will also help to inform a joint position paper arising from the collaborative activities spread across the start of November.\nModerator:\nTimothy Read\nEDEN Vice-president for Open-professional collaboration\nSenior Lecturer\, Department of Computer Languages and Systems\, UNED\nTimothy 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 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.\n[bookline]\nPanelists:\n\nRhonda Blackburn\nPresident of the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)\nRhonda Blackburn is the president of the United States Distance Learning Association and USDLA Hall of Fame Inductee.  She is past president of the Texas Distance Learning Association and past chair-elect of the National University Technology Network.  Dr. Blackburn has been a leader in distance education in both the corporate and academic environment for the past 20 and has been teaching for the Master of Distance Education Program at UMGC for the past 8 years. Dr. Blackburn is the Chief Learning Officer at Ignite Nation where she is vital in the movement from on-ground to virtual training.  Before serving as CLO with Ignite\, she was the VP and Chief Academic Officer for Barnes & Noble Education\, LoudCloud and the Senior Advisory Consultant / Strategic Account Manager for Higher Education for Desire2Learn\, where she provided guidance and planning for corporate and academic clients. She has also been the Associate Provost of Educational Enhancement at the University of Texas at Dallas and Director for Instructional Technology Services at Texas A&M University where she spearheaded advancement in instructional technology across both institutions. Dr. Blackburn received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University. Her research focus is on what enhances the teaching and learning experience\, how students can support each other to achieve their goals\, and the advancement between schools.\n\n\nReggie Smith III\nChief Executive Officer / Executive Director\nUnited States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)\nReggie Smith III currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer / Executive Director of the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA). In this current capacity\, he provides leadership to the association\, members\, and partners. Dr. Smith\, who was the first African-American president and then chairman of the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) in 2009 and 2010 respectively\, has been recognized for his distinguished service in supporting distance learning to include the USDLA Hall of Fame Award\, Black Engineer of the Year Award for Community Service\, Federal Government Distance Learning Association’s (FGDLA) Hall of Fame Award\, FGDLA Pillar Award\, Dr. Smith received his B.S. in English Communications from Lincoln University in PA\, his M.A. in International Management from the University of Maryland University College\, and his Ph.D. in Education from Capella University.\n\n \nMarci Powell\nMarci Powell and Associates\, CEO\, United States\nMarci Powell is the President/CEO of Marci Powell & Associates and has been at the forefront of many pioneering advancements in the workplace for the last 25 years. Marci’s futurist mindset and thought leadership have enabled her to provide strategic guidance to countless companies on how to revolutionize the way they work\, adapt\, and do business in the next generation workplace. As an internationally renowned keynote speaker\, business consultant\, and author\, Marci has worked remotely enjoying an award-winning and successful career with leadership roles in finance\, education\, telecommunications\, and manufacturing. She has managed globally diverse teams and inspired over 100\,000 leaders\, employees\, and students across six continents. Marci has worked with industry titans like AT&T\, FedEx\, NASA\, Deloitte\, Daimler\, and Stryker International\, as well as numerous universities\, ministries\, and small-to-enterprise sized businesses across the world. Focusing on helping organizations grow professionally and innovate their processes\, Marci has gained heavy renown as a pioneer in distance education and remote learning and working. Some of her awards include the 2019 U.S. Distance Learning Association (USDLA) Higher Education Innovation award\, USDLA Hall of Fame membership\, AT&T President’s Club\, Polycom CEO Award\, and the second American woman elected to be a European Distance & E-Learning Network (EDEN) Fellow. When not traveling or working\, you can find her enjoying coffee on her back porch or dressed head to toe in her Hogwarts house robes with her grandchildren.\n\nSandra Kucina Softic\nEDEN President\nUniversity Computing Centre SRCE\, Croatia\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 Edinburgh\, UK in 2014. From 2016 to 2019 she was EDEN vice-president for Open Professional Collaboration.\n\nMark Brown\nProfessor\, Dublin City University\nEDEN EC member\, EDEN Treasurer\nExecutive Committee Member of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA)\nMark Brown is Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) at Dublin City University (DCU). He serves on EDEN’s Executive Committee and is an EDEN Fellow. Mark is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) and an Executive Committee member of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA). He is a past President of the New Zealand Association for Open\, Flexible and Distance Learning (now FLANZ) and previously served on the Executive Committee of ASCILITE. In November 2019\, Mark was Chair of the ICDE World Conference on Online Learning that was hosted in Dublin.\n\nLisa-Marie Blaschke\nEDEN Senior Fellow and Chair of the Board of EDEN Council of Fellows\nProgramme Director\, Center of Lifelong Learning (C3L)\, Oldenburg\, Germany\nDr. Lisa Marie Blaschke is a former Executive Committee member of the European Distance Education and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and is an EDEN Senior Fellow and Chair of the Board of the EDEN Fellows’ Council. She is also a former adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland University College\, where she received the Stanley J. Drazek Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016. Lisa has a BS in Technical Communication\, and two master’s degrees (MDE\, MBA)\, and a PhD. Prior to academia\, Lisa worked for SAP for over a decade in Walldorf\, Germany\, leading and implementing enterprise-wide knowledge management and training processes and solutions. Lisa’s research interests are in the areas of self-determined learning (heutagogy)\, online collaborative learning\, pedagogical application of web 2.0 technology and social media\, and user interface design.\n[bookline]
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/we-are-all-in-this-together-rising-to-the-challenges/
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SUMMARY:ICDE Global Outlook to OER: What’s on the calendar and how to engage?
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONSInternational Council for Open and Distance Education – ICDE is the leading global membership organisation for open\, flexible and distance learning. ICDE is a not-for-profit\, Non-Governmental Organisation registered in Norway with more than 250 members and partners impacting 15+ million students across six continents. The organisation is in a consultative partnership with UNESCO and shares UNESCO’s key value – the universal right to education for all. ICDE has been active on the open education global agenda for two decades. In the past years\, ICDE has been very involved in the consultation of the UNESCO OER Recommendation and is currently strongly supporting its implementation as a member of the UNESCO OER Dynamic Coalition since its launch in March 2020. ICDE deeply believes in the potential of open education to achieve education for all. Open Education in general and OER in particular has been a continuous strategic priority and is again reflected so in the ICDE Strategic Plan for 2021-2024. In this workshop\, participants will be introduced to ICDE’s recent and upcoming projects and initiatives within OER\, and invited to interact with international experts on how to engage in these activities.\nModerator and speaker:\nEbba Ossiannilsson\nEDEN EC\, EDEN SIG TEL QE\, EDEN NAP\, EDEN Council of Fellows\, ICDE EC\, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee\, Chair\, Swedish Association for Distance Education\, Digital Job and Skills Coalition Sweden\, Swedish Institute for Standards\, ISO\nPr. Dr. Ebba Ossiannilsson\, Sweden is a senior independent researcher\, expert\, advisor\, consultant\, quality reviewer\, and influencer in the fields of open online flexible and distance learning. She is on the Executive Committee of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) and the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN). She is also the Chair of the ICDE OER Advocacy Committee. She works with ISO\, especially on quality\, but also on Futures Concepts. At national level Ossiannilsson is the Vice President of the Swedish Association for Distance Education (SADE) and Board member at the Swedish Organization for E-Competence (REK). She has worked with OER in different areas and perspectives at national and international projects and levels. Since 2000\, she has worked at Lund University Sweden. She is a frequent consultant and quality reviewer at several prestigious national universities. Ossiannilsson earned her PhD at Oulu University\, Finland in 2012. Ossiannilsson has 200+ publications in peer-reviewed journals and books\, as well as technical reports. She is a member in the Swedish Standard Institute (SIS) and the Job and Skills Coalition Sweden. She is in the Editorial Board for several Journals\, and in addition\, she is Guest Editor for several Special Issues for a variety of Journals.\n[bookline]\nSpeakers:\nTorunn Gjelsvik\nTorunn Gjelsvik\, Norway Torunn Gjelsvik assumed the position as Secretary General for International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) in January 2020. 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. She holds a Master’s Degree in Nordic languages and literature with a minor in French and History. She has additional studies in information and communication\, strategy and project management from BI Norwegian Business School. She is a member of the Orientation Board of CNED (The National Centre for Distance Education in France).\n\nJacques Dang\nJacques Dang\, France\, Technology Director at HEC Paris. He leads collaborative initiatives in technological R&D\, in cooperation with French universities\, high-tech companies from the Systematic Paris Region cluster and academic partners from Europe and French-speaking Africa. These projects involve next-generation networks\, distance learning as well as evaluation and learning analytics. He is the coordinator for the PERICLES project\, an e-education project from the national Investments for the Future program (Programme des Investissements d’Avenir). He is a member of the French delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36\, Secretary of the Board for AUNEGE\, the French OER repository for Management & Economics\, secretary of the Board for L’Université Numérique\, the federation of French OER repositories\, and a member of the board for International Council on Badges and Credentials (ICoBC).\n\nAnaïs Røed Malbrand\n\nAnaïs Røed Malbrand\, Norway\, is Senior Advisor at the International Council for Open and Distance Education – ICDE. She is the key contact at the ICDE Secretariat for the ICDE Francophone OER working group\, ENCORE+ project and the OER Advocacy Committee. She has previously held positions in New York and Santiago de Chile at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)\, in Madrid at UNHabitat\, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Organization of IberoAmerican States for Education\, Science and Culture (OEI) and at Oxfam in Spain and Guatemala. She holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from NEOMA Business School in France and a Master’s Degree in International Cooperation from the Basque Country University in Spain.\n\nDaniel Burgos\nProf. Dr. Daniel Burgos works as a Full Professor of Technologies for Education & Communication and Vice-rector for International Research (UNIR Research\, http://research.unir.net)\, at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR\, http://www.unir.net). In addition\, he holds the UNESCO Chair on eLearning and the ICDE Chair in Open Educational Resources. He also works as Director of the Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED\, http://ited.unir.net). His interests are mainly focused on Educational Technology & Innovation: Adaptive/Personalised and Informal eLearning\, Open Science & Education\, Learning Analytics\, Social Networks\, eGames\, and eLearning Specifications. He has 200+ publications (scientific papers\, European patents\, books or special issues on indexed journals). He is or has been involved in 55+ European and Worldwide R&D projects\, including the European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+). He is a Professor in a serie of universities around the world (Palestine\, Colombia\, South-Africa\, United Kingdom\, Ecuador). He has been chair (2016\, 2018) and vice-chair (2015\, 2017) of the international jury for the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education. He is a consultant for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)\, European Commission\, European Parliament\, Russian Academy of Science and ministries of Education in over a dozen countries. He is an IEEE Senior Member. He holds degrees in Communication (PhD)\, Computer Science (Dr. Ing)\, Education (PhD)\, Anthropolog (PhD)\, Business Administration (DBA) and Artificial Intelligence (MIT\, postgraduate).\n\nDavor Orlic\nDavor Orlic is an MA graduate in Digital Humanities from University College London. He co-founded VideoLectures.Net with 20.000 educational videos\, created OpeningupSlovenia national education case study\, established the UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning\, curated the 2nd UNESCO OER World Congress in 2017 and conceptualised the Internet of Education paradigm. He is the Chief Operating Officer at the International Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (IRCAI) and Knowledge 4 All Foundation with 60 global members in machine learning. He is active in Artificial Intelligence research\, open education\, policies and business innovation in education. He has managed a portfolio of European and African research projects on AI from capacity building of communities\, to applicative solutions and policy with 40+ partners and 150+ researchers across the board. He is currently working on two European Networks of Artificial Intelligence (HumaneAI\, ELISE)\, one Network in Sub-Saharan Africa (AI4D) and in the European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+).
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/icde-global-outlook-to-oer-whats-on-the-calendar-and-how-to-engage/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Digitally enhanced learning at European higher education institutions – state of play and prospects
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONPresentation with DiscussionsDescription:  The presentation will provide some data from the DIGI-HE survey report carried from March to June 2020 (within the framework of the Erasmus+ EUA-led project\, DIGI-HE). The European University Association carried out a survey on digitally enhanced learning and teaching among higher education institutions across Europe. Coinciding with the lockdown and physical distancing\, the survey results provide some information on the sector’s crisis response\, but mainly focussed on the status ante\, and on a plan for the future.The online survey was open to universities and other higher education institutions across Europe. About 80% of the participating 368 respondents in 48 European countries are conventional universities offering mainly on-campus tuition\, although the majority offered\, already before the crisis blended and also some online learning\, usually through short courses. This survey is a timely update to EUA’s 2013 survey on e-learning\,  also as it provides some insights on how institutions responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. During this session\, some of the key findings of this survey will be presented\, and discussed with a panel of three university representatives. Moderator:Sandra Kucina SofticEDEN PresidentUniversity Computing Centre SRCE\, CroatiaSandra 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.Her field of interest is strategic decision making related to e-learning and distance education\, quality assurance\, educational technologies and open education and open educational resources. She has been involved in a number of projects (national and international) related to these fields and she also actively presents at international conferences. She is also author of training courses for teachers and speaker on these topics.She has a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and PhD in Information and Communication Technologies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb.She has been a member of EDEN Executive Committee since 2013 and in 2014 she received the EDEN Fellow Title. In 2019 she became President of EDEN. \nPresenters and speakers:Michael GaebelEuropean University AssociationMichael Gaebel joined the EUA (European University Association) in 2006\, where he was first in charge of Global Dialogue and internationalisation\, to become in 2009 Head and later on the Director of the Higher Education Policy Unit. This unit focuses on issues related to higher education learning and teaching\, including the Bologna Process\, lifelong learning\, e-learning and MOOCs\, internationalisation and global dialogue. He worked for more than a decade in higher education cooperation and development in the Middle East\, the former Soviet Union and Asia. From 2002 to 2006\, he was the European Co-Director of the ASEAN-EU University Network Programme (AUNP) in Bangkok.Airina VolungevičienėDirector of Innovative Studies\,Vytautas Magnus UniversityEDEN Senior FellowAirina Volungevičienė is Director of Innovative Studies Institute at Vytautas Magnus University\, Lithuania and former EDEN president. Assoc. prof. dr. Airina Volungevičienė has been working among leading researchers\, methodology specialists and education 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. Philippe EmplitFull professor at the Université Libre de BruxellesPhilippe Emplit holds a PhD in Science and is a tenured professor of applied physics at both the Ecole Polytechnique de Bruxelles and the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). His recent research focuses\, on the one side\, on nonlinear guided wave photonics and especially on lightwave-based communication devices\, and\, on the other hand\, on questions related to education strategy in higher education institutions. Philippe used to be Vice-rector of ULB for Teaching & Learning affairs and Director of ULB Teaching & Learning Center. He presently starts a position of academic responsible of the Quality Unit at the ULB Ecole polytechnique de Bruxelles. In the frame of the Learning & Teaching Initiative of European University Association\, Philippe acted as chair of a thematic working group on “Evidence-based approaches to learning and teaching”.  Marta ZuvichVice-Rector for Students\, Studies and Quality Assurance at University of Rijeka\, CroatiaMarta Žuvić is a current Vice-Rector for Students\, Studies and Quality Assurance at University of Rijeka\, Croatia. She received her PhD in the field of Biophysics in 2002 from the University of Zagreb\, Croatia\, worked as a researcher and academic teacher at Medical Faculty\, Faculty of Engineering and Department of Biotechnology at University of Rijeka\, and established the University IT Academy and E-learning Centre. She published 41 original scientific papers\, participated in 12 scientific research projects and authored 2 university textbooks.Her professional training included one-year Managerial-Entrepreneurial Skills Development for Researchers Programme\, one-year professional study for E-learning managers\, Project management training after MSF and Quality Management in Higher Education. Since 2020 she is a member of EUA Learning and Teaching Steering Committee.
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/digitally-enhanced-learning-at-european-higher-education-institutions-state-of-play-and-prospects-2/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:Opening session of the Open Classroom Conference
DESCRIPTION:MORE INFO \n2020 Open Classroom Conference\nOpen and Distance Education: New Challenges and Perspectives\n\n  \nWelcome from Dr Sofoklis Sotiriou\, Ellinogermaniki Agogi and Jean Francois Réveillard\, DBC\nAddress from the president of European Distance and E-Learning Network Sandra Kucina Softic\n \nKeynote speeches \nChair Nikos Zygouritsas\, Ellinogermaniki Agogi\, Greece \n\n“Open Schooling for Science with and for Society”\, Sylvia Osipof\, European Commission\, Research Executive Agency\n“SELFIE: A self-reflection tool empowering schools to become agents of change in the process of digital transformation”\, Nikoleta Giannoutsou\, European Commission\, Joint Research Centre\n“Real Connection to the Real World: First Steps Towards Open Schooling”\, Yair Ben-Horin\, ORT Israel – Technology & Science Educational Network\, Israel\n“Schools as sites for food system transformation”\, Christian Bugge Henriksen\, University of Copenhagen\, Denmark
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/opening-session-of-the-open-classroom-conference/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:The Great EODL Week Debate: Online Learning  vs. Traditional Face-to-Face Models of Education
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS \nDebate\nDescription:The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in many universities and colleges rapidly pivoting to online learning in response to unprecedented times. While 2020 has been described as the year of “the great onlining” of higher education there remains a common perception that online learning is inferior to traditional face-to-face models of education. This debate aims to confront this perception as two teams respond to the moot\, “this house believes that online learning is just as good as traditional face-to-face models of education”. The debate is intended to address this serious issue as panel members present and reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of online learning in comparison to traditional delivery modes in both a scholarly and entertaining manner. This is a unique opportunity to reflect on our experience of online learning over 2020 and to ponder the future of high education in the post-pandemic digital society.Moderator: Tom FarrellySocial Science Lecturer & Educational Developer IT Tralee Tom Farrelly has lectured on Social Care\, Early Childhood\, Youth and Community and Nursing UG and Post-grad degrees\, primarily in Sociology and Research Methods. Co-developer and lecturer on a blended learning p/t Social Care degree for work based learners. Part of team that has developed a number of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Involved as a supervisor on a number of Masters by research looking at the areas of health promotion among rural men; social enterprise in youth-work and the development of communications Apps for children on the ASD.Since 2005 he has become more and more involved in Technology Enhanced Learning in support of his teaching and learning strategy and currently divides his time between research\, teaching and acaddemic developer. Has extensive experience in the development of blended delivery courses and modules and supporting teaching staff in developing digital literacy skills in support of their teaching and learning. In the past he has acted as an external examiner for Limerick Institute of Technology and the University of Western Australia. \nPanelists:\nTeam 1 – Negative (traditional)\nDiana AndoneEDEN Vice PresidentDirector of the eLearning Center\, Politehnica University of TimisoaraDiana Andone is the Director of the eLearning Center at the Politehnica University of Timisoara in Romania. Dr. Andone runs the team who developed the university’s award winning Virtual Campus CVUPT and is also a professor at the Politehnica University of Timisoara\, Romania\, in the area of multimedia and web technologies. She is passionate about the ubiquitous access to technologies and how they can be used to improve people’s lives. Dr. Andone research includes web and mobile technologies\, human-computer interaction\, AR/VR/XR in education and culture\, open education\, online and mobile learning\, OERs and MOOCs.Her publication list comprises 12 books and over 100 papers presented at international conferences\, reviewer of several journals and conferences\, and also chairs IEEE and ACM conferences. Her experience includes over 30 European funded projects\, out of which she coordinated 4\, notably ViCADiS (Virtual Campus for Digital Students)\, DigiCulture (Digital Skills for Creative Industries). She is also involved extensively in several professional organisations and associations (IEEE\, EDEN\, IADIS\, AACE\, W3C\, IAFES)\, actively supports the local start-up movement (StartUp Weekend\, HackTM\, hackathons\, CoderDojo) and Girls in Tech\, as well as acting in the Board of local Romanian NGOs (Pentru Voi Foundation) in the Timisoara 2021 European Capital of Culture Task Force and a member of Rotary Club Timisoara and Rotary International. \n\nMairéad Nic Giolla MhichílHead of the Ideas Lab@National Institute of Digital Learning\, Dublin City University Dr. Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl is Head of the Ideas Lab@National Institute of Digital Learning in Dublin City University and is responsible for a number of strategic digital learning and research initiatives within the University and in conjunction with industry. Mairéad is a Fulbright Scholar\, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (ETHE). \n  \n\nAlexandra CristeaProfessor\, Head of the Innovative Computing research group at the Computer Science Department\, Durham UniversityAlexandra I. Cristea is Professor\, Head of the Innovative Computing research group at the Computer Science Department\, Durham University. Her research includes web science\, learning analytics\, user modelling and personalisation\, semantic web\, social web\, authoring\, with over 250 papers on these subjects (over 3700 citations on Google Scholar\, h-index 31). Especially\, her work on frameworks for adaptive systems has influenced many researchers and is highly cited (with the top paper with over 180 citations and growing). She is within the top 50 researchers in the world in the area of educational computer-based research according to Microsoft Research. Prof. Cristea has been highly active and has an influential role in international research projects. She is experienced in running research projects and has led various projects – Newton funded workshop on Higher Education for All (’14-’18)\, Santander funded Education for disadvantaged pupils (’14-18′)\, Warwick-funded project APLIC (’11-;12)\, EU Minerva projects ALS (06-09) and EU Minerva ADAPT (’02-’05); as well as participated as university PI in several EU FP7 projects – BLOGFOREVER (’11-’13)\, GRAPPLE (’08- ’11)\, PROLEARN (’07) and as co-PI in the Warwick-funded Engaging Young People with Assistance Technologies (’13-’15) also featured by the BBC. Recently she has taken giving back to the community to a different level\, with the project TechUP (2019-2020) training 100 women in computer science from various (BAME) backgrounds. \n  \n\nTeam 2 – Positive (online)\nMark BrownProfessor\, Dublin City UniversityEDEN EC member\, EDEN TreasurerMark Brown is Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) at Dublin City University (DCU). He serves on EDEN’s Executive Committee and is an EDEN Fellow. Mark is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) and an Executive Committee member of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA). He is a past President of the New Zealand Association for Open\, Flexible and Distance Learning (DEANZ) and previously served on the Executive Committee of ASCILITE. In November 2019\, Mark was Chair of the ICDE World Conference on Online Learning that takes place in Dublin.  \n\nDon Olcott Jr.Global Higher Education ConsultantDr. Don Olcott\, Jr. is a Global Higher Education Consultant specialising in educational leadership and open and distance education.  He is based in Romania.  Don is adjunct full Professor of Educational Leadership and ODL with the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC)\, Honorary Professor\, University of South Africa (Unisa) and an adjunct instructor with Oldenburg University\, Germany in the MTEL Master’s program.  From 2014-2017\, he served as a visiting Professor and Co-Director of the uImagine Digital Innovation Laboratory and as Head of Virtual Campus at Charles Sturt University in Australia. Dr. Olcott was the 2013 recipient of the International Council of Distance Education (ICDE) Individual Prize of Excellence for his leadership and contributions to global open and distance educationDr. Olcott brings nearly 35 years of experience and leadership in open and distance education and business. He was a 2016 Stanley Draczek Outstanding Teaching Award recipient from the University of Maryland University College for excellence in online teaching and learning. Dr. Olcott is former Chief Executive of The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE) in the UK (2007-2011) and former Chairman of the Board of Directors and President of the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)..  Don holds dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship.  He serves on numerous editorial boards in open and distance learning.  Don was the 1998 recipient of the Charles Wedemeyer award as the Outstanding Distance Education Practitioner in North America awarded by The American Center for the Study of Distance Education and the University of Wisconsin – Madison.   He has held faculty and leadership positions in the U.S.\, UK\, Germany\, Australia\, United Arab Emirates\, and Romania.  His research interests include OER culture & business models\, leadership and organisational transformation. \n  \n\nDeborah ArnoldNational and International Projects Coordinator\, AUNEGeMember of the Board of EDEN Fellows Council Deborah Arnold\, Formerly Digital Strategy and Communication Officer in the Directorate for Digital Affairs at the University of Burgundy\, and Manager of the Learning Technology and Distance Education unit\, has nearly 20 years’ experience in European projects. 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 Communication (2015-2016). She was awarded Senior Fellowship of EDEN in 2016\, currently serves on the EDEN Fellows Council board\, and represented EDEN in the ET2020 Working Group on Digital Skills and Competences (2016-2018). \n  \n\nExpert commentator:Ulf-Daniel EhlersEDEN EC memberProfessor\, Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State UniversityUlf-Daniel Ehlers is a learning innovation expert and has been appointed Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University in Karlsruhe in 2011. From 2011-2017 he held the position of Vice-president at the same university and has been responsible for Quality and Academic Affairs. He held positions as Associate Professor of University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)\, Professor for Technology Enhanced Learning of University Augsburg (Germany) and Associate Professor of the Graduate School for Management and Technology of the University of Maryland University College (USA). \n  \n \n 
URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/the-great-eodl-week-debate-online-learning-vs-traditional-face-to-face-models-of-education/
CATEGORIES:European Online and Distance Learning Week,Virtual events
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SUMMARY:2020 Lisbon
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URL:https://eden-europe.eu/event/lisbon-3/
CATEGORIES:Research workshops
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