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EDEN Newsflash - January 2009
Dear EDEN Member,
1. EDEN Annual Conference, 10-13 June, Gdansk, Poland
INNOVATION
IN LEARNING COMMUNITIES
What did you invent for tomorrow?
IN
THE EUROPEAN YEAR OF
The online submission will remain open until 31 January 2009.
We look forward to receive your contribution in the following categories for the conference: paper, poster, demonstration or workshop.
2. New Members
EDEN welcomes the following new institutional members having joined the Association since last month:
- e-TUTOR, Greece
- University of Reading, United Kingdom
You can check their profile at the "Welcoming New Members" link on the EDEN web.
3. Global Forum on Cross-Border Higher Education, 2009
The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education will host its 2009 Global Forum entitled "Global Connections – Local Impacts: Best Practices, Models and Policies for Cross-Border Higher Education," in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia, 21-24 October 2009.
The Forum promises to be a highly engaging professional venue for global colleagues to exchange ideas, strategies, and best practices about internationalism and cross-border higher education.
The Call for Papers is currently available on the Observatory’s new website and also can be read on this link. Further information about registration and the Forum’s programme will be available in early 2009.
Deadline for receiving the contributions is 21 March 2009.
4. KEYLINKS survey to raise the quality of project management
Within the Grundtvig project KEYLINKS is intended to raise the quality of project management education and training by defining standards. On this purpose a survey is being made to ask specialists, project managers and experts from different institutions in all European Union countries who have participated in differing roles in "EU projects" (for example projects funded within EU programmes or national/regional funding programmes) to share their experiences in project planning and management.
You are kindly invited to share your expertise and experiences and support this Europe-wide study by filling in our online survey form. Please follow the link – it will only take you 15 to 20 minutes!
5. EUQIPE Plus project – EUCEN
EQUIPE Plus is a project network of 33 university partners, represented by their lifelong learning expert, and has been funded under Grundtvig 4 of the European Socrates programme. Launched in October 2005 it was coordinated by EUCEN (the European University Continuing Education Network) and built on the work of the successful EQUIPE Network (2002 – 2005).
Please, see a report of EUQIPE Plus on this link. More information is available at the project website: www.equipeplus.org, or by contacting the co-ordinator: C.Stewart@liverpool.ac.uk.
6. New Skills of New Jobs - new EU Communication
The European Commission has released its much anticipated communication: New skills for new jobs. Anticipating and matching labour market and skills needs. In case you are interested in this field, communication and the staff working document can be read here.
7. Call for papers: New Learning Generation
eLearning Papers looks contributions on "New Learning Generation". The invited editor of this issue is Mr. Yves Punie, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, European Commission.
This issue on the "new learning generation" and on "new ways of learning" enabled by ICT seeks to bring together evidence, practice and/or theories on the key elements of this emerging new learning landscape.
Possible questions to be addressed:
- What are the similarities and differences with current and previous learner generations and learning styles?
- What is the role of ICT applications (social computing, social media, web 2.0, learning 2.0, mobile learning, and game-based learning) in the new learning?
- Where is the learning in the "new" learning? Is it new?
- Is learning becoming more efficient, equitable, innovative, and creative?
- What are the implications of the new learner generation for lifelong learning?
Read more here.
- The deadline for article submissions is 30 March 2009.
- Provisional publishing date is June 2009.
For further information and to submit your article, please contact: editorial@elearningeuropa.info.
8. Interesting reading
Alec Keith, Senior Learning Consultant, looks back at the predictions he made in 2006 following his Global Watch Mission to the US. How accurate was his crystal ball?
9. Vacancy: IT and Learning Professor
Stockholm University wishes to employ a Professor of Computer and Systems Sciences with a particular focus on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences. Last date for application: February 12, 2009. The Call for Applications can be read here.