The first Senior Fellow and Fellow Awards, launched on the initiative of Professor Alan Tait, former EDEN President, were presented at the 2007 Annual Conference in Naples. In 2016, this tradition was continued in Budapest, at the Welcome Reception of the 2016 Annual Conference – #EDEN16.
The 2016 Awards were announced to the Senior Fellows, Fellows and Young Scholars present at the event, while those who couldn’t join the Conference Reception were mentioned with applause.
The EDEN Senior Fellow Award was given in 2016, based on the decision of the EDEN Executive Committee to:
Deborah Arnold
University of Burgundy, France
Rory McGreal
Centre for Distance Education at Athabasca University, Canada
Antonio Teixeira
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
The EDEN Fellow Award was given in 2016, based on the decision of the EDEN Executive Committee to:
Paul Bacsich
Sero Consulting Ltd., United Kingdom
Antonella Poce
University Roma III, Italy
Torhild Slatto
Flexible Education Norway (FuN), Norway
Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen
Aalborg University, Denmark
Belinda Tynan
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
The Young Scholar Award was given in 2016, based on the decision of the EDEN Executive Committee to:
Dávid Sík
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Ágnes Gaul-Ács
KAPTÁR Visual Arts Workshop and Archive
The Best Practice Initiative Award ceremony was held at the conference gala dinner and went to:
Nelson Ribeiro Jorge, Willem Frederik van Valkenburg and Sofia Dopper,
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
for the conference paper on The TU Delft Online Learning Experience: From Theory to Practice
The Best Research Paper Award, also held at the conference gala dinner, was given to:
Jieun Lim and Jennifer Richardson,
Purdue University, United States of America
for the conference paper on How Social Networking Experience relates to Social Presence and attitude of Using SNS in education
Read more about the our recognitions and awards here