A memorable 2013 Annual Conference
As the 2013 Annual Conference closed its doors and nearly 400 participants from 45 countries headed towards the airports and their home, the EDEN community experienced an event worth to remember. 94 paper presentations, 24 workshops, 25 poster presentations and 10 demonstrations, inspiring and provocative keynote presentations, a uniqe experience of cross-continent, ICT enhanced dialogue between Sir Ken Robinson and Prof Sugata Mitra, the increasing voice of young scholars and students as well as a series of memorable social events marked this year's conference. "THE JOY OF LEARNING - Enhancing Learning Experience, Improving Learning Quality" was this year's theme with high quality research and practice demonstrated through the presentations.
Did you miss the event?
- Keynote presentations are displayed here.
- Best Research Paper donwloadable here.
- Pre-conferernce keynote speakers' interviews and on-site video interviews by Steve Wheeler (incl. Sugata Mitra, Michael G Moore, June Breivik and more) are available here.
- Presentations shared with us are being collected on EDEN's Scoop.it
You may read the reflections of participants on the social online conference tools: Conference blog | EDEN NAP Conference Group | Tweet #EDENOslo | Facebook | Content curation on Scoop.it
We thank the Norwegian Association for Distance and Flexible Education (NADE) and the University of Oslo for their collaboration
2013 Fellow Awards
The 2013 Annual conference Welcome Cocktail hosted this year's Fellow Award ceremony. Upon the recommendation of the EDEN Executive Committee, Morten F Paulsen, former EDEN President handed over the awards to two Senior Fellows and six Fellows. To read the list of the 2013 Senior Fellows and Fellows, click on 'Details'.
2013 Senior Fellows
- Morten F. Paulsen, Nordic online Academy - NooA, Norway;
- Sofoklis Sotiriou, Head of R&D Department, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece.
2013 Fellows
- Ari-Matti Auvinen, Chair, HCI Productions Ltd.;
- Grainne Conole, Professor of Learning Innovation, Director, Beyond Distance Research Alliance University of Leicester, United Kingdom;
- Sonia Hetzner, Innovation in Learning Institute, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany;
- Thomas Kretschmer, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany;
- Bill McNeill, Reader in Distance Education, College of Estate Management, UK;
- Ilse Op de Beeck, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Teaching and Learning Department, Belgium.
Prof Antonio Teixeira elected as new EDEN President
It's our great pleasure to announce, that the EDEN Annual General Meeting elected former Vice-President, António Teixeira, Professor of Distance Education, Universidade Aberta, Portugal as new President of the Association.
Details > >António Teixeira (Lisbon, 1965) is a Professor at Universidade Aberta, the Portuguese Open University (Department of Education and Distance Learning) since 1991, and a researcher at the University of Lisbon (Philosophy Center) since 2004. Find out more on Antonio's background and activities on the Executive Committee page.
Sandra Kucina elected as new Executive Committee member
The 22nd EDEN Annual General Meeting elected Sandra Kucina, Head of E-learning Centre, University Computing Centre and E-learning Office, University of Zagreb, Croatia as new Executive Committee member for a 3 years term.
Details > >Sandra Kucina is focusing on promotion and implementation of the E-learning at the University of Zagreb, monitoring and providing support and advice to institutions, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching processes.
We congratulate Sandra and look forward to a fruitful collaboration. Read her bio on the Executive Committee page.
Recognising Excellence: 2013 Best Research Paper Winners
The tradition of awarding the EDEN Conference Best Research Paper will be continued, in collaboration with the Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Open and Distance Learning. The Award was presented by Albert Sangra, head of this years' Jury at the EDEN 2013 Annual Conference's Dinner on 14 June. Based on the unanimous vote of the Jury, the Best Research Paper Award goes to:
Eliciting Students’ Voices through Screencast-assisted ‘Feedback on Feedback’
Maria Fernandez-Toro, Concha Furnborough, The Open University, United Kingdom
Nominated finalists were:
Session A1 - Stories of Joy and Despair in the Virtual Classroom
Mark Brown, Helen Hughes, Massey University, New Zealand, Mike Keppell, Natasha Hard, University of Southern Queensland, Liz Smith, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Session A2 - Seeking for the Added Value of Videogames and Simulations
Sergio Vasquez Bronfman, École Superieure de Commerce de Paris, France
Session A3 - Interaction Equivalency in the OER and Informal Learning Era
Terumi Miyazoe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan, Terry Anderson, Athabasca University, Canada
Session B1 - Eliciting Students’ Voices through Screencast-assisted ‘Feedback on Feedback’
Maria Fernandez-Toro, Concha Furnborough, The Open University, United Kingdom
Session C1 - eTandem Language Learning Integrated in the Curriculum: Reflection from Students’ Perspectives
Jue Wang-Szilas, PLIDAM, INALCO, France; ESTAS, Université de Genève, Claudia Berger, ESTAS, Université de Genève, Switzerland, Ling Zhang, French Department, Hubei University, China
Session C2 - Virtual Representations in 3D Learning Environments
Miri Shonfeld, Miki Kritz, Jacob Gujski, Kibbutzim College of Education Technology and Art, Israel
Session D1 - Concept Learning via SMS Delivery at the University Level
Yaacov Katz, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Session G1- Teachers’ Use of Technology and their Ideas about Learning
Tim Seifert, Bruce Sheppard, Marg Wakeham, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Session H2 - Evaluating Learning Activities: A Design Perspective
Michelle Harrison, Melissa Jakubec, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
Session H3 - The Motivated, the Encouraged, and the Wilful Ignorant
Thomas Richter, Heimo H. Adelsberger, University of Duisburg-Essen - UDE, Germany
Fully registered delegates may read all papers in the downloadable Conference Proceedings. To reserve a seat at the Award ceremony during the Conference Dinner, please, book your place for the Dinner by filling in the relevant section of the Online Registration Form.
See the programme schedule. Previous winners at: http://www.eden-online.org/publications/best-research-papers.html
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The NAP – Network of Academics and Professionals is the EDEN community of individuals either nominated by their member institutions or individual members. The NAP is electing its Steering Committee every 3 year and has its own dedicated online community with all NAP members signed on. The Network of Academics and Professionals numbers over 1200 individuals and has its own online community, the NAP Members Area.
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