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The Seventh Open Classroom Conference: Call for Contributions

Incubating Creativity and the Capacity for Innovation:
Open Content, Social Networking Tools and
Creative Learning for All

15-17 October 2009
Porto, Portugal

 in the European Year of
Innovation and Creativity

 

Call for Contributions

 

Organised in collaboration with:

Universidade Aberta
Universidade do Porto

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Important New E-Learning Book Published


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. 

Table of contents

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President's Blog

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.

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News from the EDEN Executive Committee

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.

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EDEN Senior Fellow and Fellows 2009

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
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Success of Content, Inventions and Interactivity

 

 

EDEN Annual Conference, 2009

in the European Year of
Innovation and Creativity

Keynote speeches

Video message from Commissioner Jan Figel

The Gdansk Music and Conference Center hosted the EDEN 2009 Conference - a perfect venue for knowledge sharing and networking.

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EDEN 2009 Best Research Paper Award

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”.

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Professor Trindade passed away

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.
 

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New articles have been released in EURODL, the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning

The newly published articles are:

  • 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
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New Readings - Projects Practice Showcase

REVIVE

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.

Express of Interest: HEXTLEARN project's network signup

LOGOS

The videocast and the proceedings of the project's final conference is now available.

Please, click here to download the Conference Proceedings.

EdReNe

The Educational Repositories Network invites interested stakeholders to its Repository strategies - third expert workshop (Sestri Levante, Italy, September 17th - 18th 2009).

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Welcoming New Members

We are delighted to announce that during the last one year the following institutions and individuals have joined the EDEN Membership.

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EDEN panorama

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.

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