Conferences

Supporting professional development of distance and e-learning: The EDEN conferences

One of the continuing missions of EDEN is to ensure active forums for exchange of academic and professional experience that promote efficient navigation and information reach on this rapidly evolving scene.

The EDEN conferences

• have become major academic and professional ODL events in Europe, supporting professionalisation and international exchange of experience and expertise in the field;
• are gatherings where comprehensive and orientative contributions are presented by outstanding experts, politicians and academics; 
• are based on collecting best practice: every year papers presented in conference sessions are selected for publication in the proceedings serving as important resources for the professional community.

The integrating approach of the conferences is consciously encouraged and maintained by EDEN in order to attract contributions from and share knowledge with interdisciplinary fields of information and communication technology and education. This helps to create and consolidate the international community of professionals, for whom these conferences represent a great variety of experience and innovation. They are useful both in capitalising on the knowledge of proficient actors and assisting in the introduction of newcomers interested in joining the professional community.

Importantly, these conferences have a community feel to them. Given the rate of attendance, they can be regarded as not only contentwise and highly relevant but also major social events which induce prospective co-operation. Also, they serve as the media of establishing rapport and receiving feedback.

To cater for all needs, EDEN organises both Annual Conferences and thematic workshops. These events ensure that you are kept up-to-date on what is really worth knowing about open, distance and e-learning in our information-polluted age.

On the EDEN web site you can find the programmes of the EDEN conferences and download some of the PowerPoint presentations of conference keynote speeches. To check the table of Content of Conference and Workshop Proceedings and order them, please visit the "Publication" site.

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