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EDEN Newsflash - October 2009

Dear EDEN Member,

1. EDEN Seventh Open Classroom Conference, Porto - 15-17 October 2009

The european school 2.0

 

We are pleased to report that the Open Classroom Conference in Porto resulted a good success, with over fifty paper contributions and five workshops in the parallel sessions. The number of presentations by the local professional community and the lively discussions represented a great asset for the event.

The keynote speeches can be accessed at the conference website.

At the conference, five outstanding contributions have been awarded as "Leading Innovative Practice". You can find these presentations also at the conference web.

If you are interested in seeing how Twitterers commented the conference, go to Twitter Search and enter with "#EdenPorto09". Last week this has been one of the most active Twitter links in Portugal!

The "EDEN Porto Message: Creativity and Innovation in School Education" can be read here.

MEDIA INSPIRATIONS FOR LEARNING Where is the Impact Coming From? The Annual Conference in 2010 will take place in Valencia, Spain, in collaboration with Universidade Politechnica de Valencia. The opportunity offered by digital media and social networking leads to the development of new organic learning environments. A major challenge is how to turn these environments into instrumental knowledge. Where do new media take us as educators? For teachers and learners, what is the value of being active in new media? What is the validity of knowledge in Web 2.0 How is media portraying the changing open and distance learning practice? How can we control the potential of media to ensure that it works for all? How is all this affecting the modes of knowledge organisation? To learn more about the scope of the event and consult the themes, please visit the respective conference pages. The Call for Papers is open and is waiting for your contributions online. Proposals both in English and Spanish are welcome!

3. New EDEN Executive Committee member

With a recent unexpected vacancy in the EC, Wim Van Petegem, Director of AVNet at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Vice-Chairman & Treasurer of EuroPACE, has been co-opted to serve as a member of the EDEN Executive Committee.

We warmly welcome Wim in the EDEN Executive and wish him much success!

4. New Members

EDEN welcomes the following new institutional members having joined the Association since June 2009

• University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Otava Folk High School, Finland
• Platon Schools, Greece

You can check their profile at the "Welcoming New Members" link on the EDEN web.

5. Fresh articles in EURODL

The newly published articles in the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning are:

6. Minutes of the 2009 Annual General Meeting

The draft Minutes of the EDEN Annual General Meeting held on 11 June 2009 in Gdansk is now available at the NAP Members' area. According to the Constitution the document is subject of approval by the next AGM to be organised during the 2010 Annual Conference in Valencia, Spain.

7. Summer Course for Multigrade Schools in 2010

The University of the Aegean is organising a summer school entitled "Multigrade Teaching: New Educational Methodologies for the “Standard” and Multigrade Schools" for teachers, teacher's trainers, policy makers, school managers, members of student councils involved in multigrade education. Participants will be able to use and get access to materials developed in the framework of MUSE project and the educational materials that are available on the NEMED portal.

To learn more, please, visit the course description available at the European Commission's Training Database.

8. EdReNe's 3rd Expert Workshop on Engaging Users and Producers

EDEN invites its members to the Educational Repositories thematic network's third expert workshop on Engaging users to educational web-repositories 18 - 20 November 2009, Linz, Austria. The workshop is the third and final in the series on engaging users and producers. However, new members and stakeholders may also benefit from jumping into the network’s exchange of experiences. At previous events members prioritized a list of possible models/solutions, which can be explored further in EdReNe. The list and further information on hit event can be found on the Online Dissemination Board of the EDEN website.

To discuss participation conditions (including registration and emerging costs), please, contact Eva Suba at the EDEN Secretariat

EdReNe’s thematic synthesis report on standards and interoperability is now available.

9. Online Educa Berlin - 2009

We are pleased to communicate ICWE's continued special offer for EDEN Members. The discounted rate of 600 Euros instead of the regular 790 Euro is available if you insert AC 120 as special association code.

To register for the conference, kindly visit this page. Type manually "600" into the field marked "Special Rate" in the "Conference Participation - Payment" section. Then enter the term "AC 120" in the field "Association Code", which you will find under the "Personal Details" section. The term "AC 120" in the field "Association Code" will automatically validate the 600 Euro special rate.

10. News from EDEN member organisations and partners

USDLA - 2010 Annual Conference

The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) announced the Call for Proposals for the 2010 Annual Conference. Proposals are now being accepted based on the 2010 theme, “Distance Learning: Diverse, Innovative, Efficient, and Sustainable. The submission deadline is 4 December 2009.

Further details about the conference can be read here.

MENON - Survey on the use of video clips in teaching

A survey into how educators select and use video clips in their teaching is condacted as part of EdutubePlus, a European project to design a bespoke curriculum related video clips library for educators.

This survey is designed to explore how educators search and select video resources and how they subsequently use them to support learning. Contributions from all sectors and phases of education who use video clips in their teaching are welcome. The results will be published and will help to inform policy and practice in this area.

To complete the survey should take no more than 15 minutes. In recognition of the contribution to this research a new Apple iPod Video Nano (8GB) as a prize is offered.

ELIG AGM 2009

The Annual General Meeting of ELIG - European Learning Industry Group was held 22-23 September 2009 in Lausanne.

A summary of the key outcomes with and donwloadable copies of presentations and resources can be found on the ELIG agenda web page.

E-Learning Debate at The Oxford Union

The inaugural E-Learning Debate at The Oxford Union was organised on 30 September. Those who were not able to join, have not completely missed out, as the debate continues online at www.elearningdebate.com. As well as participating by submitting your own arguments and comments, you are now also able to view photographs and video highlights of the speakers’ arguments, and there is a further opportunity to vote for/against the motion.

CNIE - Third International Conference, 16-19 May 2010

The Canadian Network for Innovation in Education, CNIE is organising its conference next May with a title "Heritage matters:Inspiring tomorrow" in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Canadians would like to have some Europeans accross the Atlantic Ocean and visit, as well as have a great time in Maritime Canada.

If you are interested, please find here the detailed Call for contributions.

United Nations Online Courses - September-December 2009

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research has annnounced its September to December 2009 e-Learning Course Calendar. The courses are based on a decade-long experience in public finance and negotiation training. See UNITAR website for registration procedure, fees and other course details.

11. Highlights and readings

• Press release and full independent report submitted to the European Commission titled: "Gender inequalities in education persist" by NESSE networks of experts is published here.
  
• First European Institute of Innovation and Technology Director appointed. The EIT Governing Board has appointed Gérard de Nazelle as first EIT Director. The Director will play a key role in guiding the EIT and its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) towards full operationality, and will be responsible for the daily management of the EIT headquarters in Budapest.
  
• European Patent Office is recruiting an administrator at the European Patent Academy in Munich (Germany). The mandate of the Academy reflects the need to improve patent-related intellectual property training and education structures in Europe via distance learning, virtual classroom and traditional classroom methods.

 

 

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