EDEN Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP)

Dear EDEN Members,

we are pleased to announce that the European ODL Liaison Committee, with the major contribution of Claudio Dondi, Vice-President of EDEN, have elaborated a new Policy Paper, entitled: "Distance Learning and eLearning in European Policy and Practice: The Vision and the Reality", commenting the status of eLearning in Europe.

The paper gives a review of the approach that European institutions have adopted towards eLearning in recent years and concludes its strengths and weaknesses. It provides survey on the perspective of eLearning in the light of the next generation of EU educational programmes and formulates recommendations for re-establishing the policy momentum for the eLearning Initiative and its being integrated, together with the use of ICT for learning, in the lifelong learning agenda.

The full text of the Policy Paper can be read at:
www.odl-liaison.org/pages.php?PN=policy-paper_2004

Comments and reflections from EDEN members are welcome.