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Sixth EDEN Research Workshop

24-27 October, Budapest

User Generated Content Assessment in Learning:
Enhancing Transparency and Quality of Peer Production

Emerging educational technologies and digital assessment methods

Late Submissions Awaited

As the summer holidays are just finishing, some flexibility with receiving your paper may be possible. Please give a sign by sending a message to the Conference Secretariat that you intend to submit! For reading the paper submission guidelines, please visit the Call for Papers on the web

The online registration is now open. To read the registration procedure and conditions as well as registration fees arranged, please, visit the Registration menu on the web and use the Online Registration Form to join the event.

Special arrangements for Young Scholars, up to the age of 35, as well as Combined participation and membership fee are available.

2. Pre-Announcement - EDEN Annual Conference , 2011

In the 20th Anniversary Year of EDEN, the next Annual Conference will take place in Dublin, at the University College of Dublin. The event is organised in co-operaton with IADT - Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design.

Please, mark the dates 19-22 June, 2011 in your diary, not to miss this important conference.

3. New Members

EDEN welcomes the following new institutions having joined the Association since June 2010:

The University of the South Pacific, Republic of the Fiji Islands
University College Lillebalt, Denmark

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

4. Fresh Articles in

Please, kindly note also that all articles published in the Journal can be downloaded in .pdf format.

In case you like these and previous articles at EURODL, feel free to recommend them for reading to your colleagues on your social networking account and use the RSS service of the Journal to be informed as soon as new articles get published. As EURODL has a rolling issue, all submitted articles passing the peer reviews get published instantly.

We are delighted to announce that the first "EDEN Secretariat Baby", Zoe was born on 9 August. The mother is Eva Szalma, EDEN Project Officer.

Barbara Lazar has joined the Secretariat as Conference Officer, with fixed term contract. A slight internal restructuring of tasks is ensuring the continuous good operation of the Secretariat.

With the start of the new academic year, members who have not yet entered the new NAP members' area, are kindly invited to visit, enrich with latest pieces of information and share with colleagues relevant experiences or launch groups, elaborate plans for the future.

Would you have forgotten your individual access details, please, ask for it at the NAP Helpdesk

The EdReNe - Educational Repositories Network organises its 5th seminar on 6 - 7 October 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark. The seminar will present and discuss recommendations and experiences on repository strategies, the engagement of users and producers, relevant standards to ensure interoperability, and handling of intellectual property rights.

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya - UOC

EDEN member, UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of UOC - organizes the VII International Seminar on "Mobile Technologies for Learning and Development" to be held October 6-7, 2010 in Barcelona (Spain). The seminar will explore the potential of mobile technologies as a learning medium which every day lures more and more educators, software and hardware developers, policymakers and telecom providers.

Scienter case studies report on "Pedagogical Innovation in New Learning Communities: An In-depth Study of Twelve Online Learning Communities" was published by IPTS and is available by clicking here

The Centre, Member of EDEN, is launching a three-day (13-15 October) workshop on learning methodology. It will be innovative, participatory and intercultural. The event is for trainers, facilitators and subject-matter experts who want to ensure that their activities generate learning. If interested, please, contact Ms. Monica Lisa

Education 2011-2021: Summit on Global Challenges and Perspectives of Blended and Distance Learning, 15-18 February, 2011. The event in Sydney will focus on three themes i) Research and Development, ii) Community and Open Learning and iii) Learning and Teaching. Though the full paper submission deadline is over, posters, workshops, research notes and plenary panel proposals are welcome by the 25 September 2010.

"From Rhetoric to Reality" - 40th EUCEN Conference, 18-20 November 2010, Lille. The main objective is to contribute more concretely to the implementation of LLL strategies in Higher Education Institutions on basis of common experience, initiatives and actions and the results of projects.

EURASHE - the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education invites you to participate in their 20th Annual Conference, in Tallinn (Estonia), 14-15 October 2010. With partners in EU project called EquNet, a special conference track will be organised on "The Social dimension aspect in the higher education reform process: Research findings about Fair Access to Higher Education". It will focus on Fair Access to Higher Education by disseminating the recent findings on barriers in higher education due to educational background, socio-economic conditions and structural problems.

The e-Skills Manifesto: A Call to Arms authored by Ade McCormack - Financial Times columnist, adviser and ICT market commentator - makes its European debut today. Teasing out the strengths, opportunities and challenges ahead for Europe, the book is universally endorsed by the European digital technology industry sector as an outstanding reference text for policy and decision makers
Mapping Major Changes to Education and Training in 2025
Overview of Education & Training FP6/7 projects - might be useful for inspirations in the coming months.
Empower European Universities - Manifesto. Twenty outstanding thinkers and practitioners of higher education call for urgent change in the manifesto. Key words for let universities grow are: variety, empowerment through autonomy, proper nourishment, and internationalization.
The OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation announces the release of a joint publication with the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning (CRELL) of the European Commission on Assessing the Effects of ICT in Education: Indicators, Criteria and Benchmarks for International Comparisons.
The European Lifelong Learning Index (ELLI) is an annual measure of Europes state of play of learning throughout the different stages of life from cradle to grave and across the different learning environments of school, community, work and home life.
Open Educational Quality Initiative - The survey on the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in Higher Education and Adult Learning Institutions is part of an important study mapping the use of OER and finding out if it improves the quality of educational practices. The findings will be openly shared amongst participants and then on a broader scale within the educational community.
European Qualification Framework Newsletter and new Cedefop study - The second edition of the EQF Newsletter was released in July to bring attention on recent achievements in this area. This edition features, among other topics, a new report by Cedefop on the development of national qualifications frameworks in Europe.
In the series of ACA Papers on International Cooperation in Education a new book is published: International Student Support in European Higher Education. Needs, Solutions, and Challenges. Attempts to make sense of the international student service landscape, at both national and institutional levels, in six European countries.

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