We are delighted to announce that the Book titled "Distance and E-learning in Transition – Learning Innovation, Technology and Social Challenges", was recently published jointly by ISTE and Wiley. The book is a selection of the best EDEN conference papers from the past years, revisiting research, innovation and professional practice in distance and e-learning.
Visitors are kindly invited to read the new post on the blog.
Alan Tait, President of EDEN in his latest post titled "Enquiry: at the core of everyday" writes about the complexity of the theme and inter-relation of scholarship, research, knowledge and enquiry. His previous posts about the Executive Committee meeting in Porto, different tasks EDEN was kept busy during March, as well as his previous blog entries, and those of Executive Committee members are also recommended to your kind attention.
We congratulate to Morten Flate Paulsen, Director of Development, NKI Distance Education as he has been elected by the Executive Committee as a Vice-President.
At the EDEN Annual General Meeting held in Gdansk, 11 June 2009, Alan Bruce from Universal Learning Systems and Mehmet Kesim from Anadolu University, were elected to serve as EDEN Executive Committee members. Mehmet Kesim resigned on 18 June 2009.
Alan Bruce is Director of the Universal Learning Systems, Ireland. He is a sociologist who undertook his academic studies in Los Angeles, Galway, Amsterdam and Hull. He has lectured in universities in France, England and Ireland and worked in policy research for the European Commission in Brussels.
Mehmet Kesim is a Faculty Member and Vice Dean of Open Edueation Faculty at Anadolu University.
We congratulate Alan and Mehmet and welcome them warmly in the EDEN Executive!
With expiration their term of office in the Executive Committee, Ulrich Bernath and Albert Sangra have retired. Hereby EDEN would like to thank both of them for their service in the Association.
At the EDEN 2009 Annual Conference in Gdansk, EDEN Senior Fellow title was granted in recognition of his contribution to the development of open, distance and e-learning in Europe and for his valued commitment and support to the evolution and progress of EDEN to:
Ulrich Bernath, Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Research in ODL, Germany
EDEN Fellow title was granted as expression of acknowledgement of professional merit for NAP members, who have demonstrated excellence in professional practice in the field of flexible and distance learning:
Thomas Fischer, Institute for Learning Innovation (FIM - NewLearning), Germany
Anna Grabowska, PRO-MED Co. Ltd., Poland
Mehmet Kesim, Anadolu University, Turkey
Dénes Zarka, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
The EDEN 2009 Best Research Paper Award during the Conference dinner was presented by President Alan Tait and Professor Otto Peters to Alda Pereira, Isolina Oliveira, Luís Tinoca, Lúcia Amante, Maria de Jesus Relvas, Maria do Carmo Teixeira Pinto, Darlinda Moreira, all from Universidade Aberta, Portugal for their paper on „Evaluating Continuous Assessment Quality in Competence-Based Education Online: The Case of the e-Folio”.
We announce with deep regrets that Professor Armando Rocha Trindade, Founding Rector of the Universidade Aberta, Portugal, former EDEN Vice-President passed away on 28 May.
Professor Trindade was member of the first EDEN Executive Committee in the early nineties. He also served as President of ICDE - the International Council for Distance Education.
His great policy and international experience has been an invaluable support for the European collaboration in distance learning and for the development of EDEN in its initial years.
EDEN will keep his memory with great respect in the European professional community.
Swimming in the Deep-end: an e-Mentoring Approach to Help Mature Students' Transition to Higher Education, Palitha Edirisingha
The E-Learning Readiness of Cyprus Primary Teachers Ahead of Dias System Integration into Cyprus Schools, Panayiota Hadjiathanasiou
Towards Innovative Virtual Learning in Vocational Teacher Education: Narratives as a Form of Meaningful Learning, Matti Haverila, Marjatta Myllylä, Hanna Torp
Mobile Learning: From Single Project Status into the Mainstream?, Dr. Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Dr. Tom Brown, Dr. Rhena Delport
The international conference "Adult Learning and e-Learning Quality" (25-26 November 2008, Kaunas, LT), was combined with the kick-off meeting of the REVIVE project. The programme and the presentations can be downloaded from the conference web site.
HEXTLEARN
The project's newly launched LinkedIn group boosts networking on the net. The group "Hextlearn" is publicly available, all HEI professionals are invited to join.
The Educational Repositories Network invites interested stakeholders to its Repository strategies - third expert workshop (Sestri Levante, Italy, September 17th - 18th 2009).
The picture below shows the panorama of Budapest and buildings of the University seen from the office of the Secretariat. You can explore the broader view of the panorama by moving the mouse over the picture.
