Dear EDEN Member,
EDEN Annual Conference - 2011, Dublin
In the 20th Anniversary Year of EDEN, the Annual Conference will take place in Dublin, 19-22 June at the University College of Dublin.
Learning
and Sustainability
The New Ecosystem
of Innovation and Knowledge
The response to the Call, with over 200 papers submitted from all of Europe and other continents was overwhelming, and with the outstanding keynotes and the high number of valuable contributions, we have the makings of a very successful conference.
A selection of workshops to be presented:
- The New Ecosystem of Learning in Europe: From e-Competences to e-Credits
- EDEN – US
Distance Learning Association Special Session:
E-learning Strategies in Global Perspective - Building a Leadership Culture: A Workshop for Emerging Leaders in Online Learning
- Engagement in Science Education: Sustainable ICT Tools for Science Education
- Social Software for Social Inclusion: Successes or Failures?
- Supporting Teacher Virtual Mobility for Higher Education Modernisation and Openness
- Effective Self-Evaluation of Technology Enhanced Learning
- Distance Learning in a Web 2.0 World with Steve Wheeler - Social web tools in authentic teaching and learning contexts, for a personalised learning experience
Interactive demonstration sessions will present software and hardware tools with recent remarkable solutions.
- Her Excellency Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
- Sir John Daniel, President & Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth of Learning
- Dennis Pamlin, Director, UN Global Compact, WWF Consultant, Senior associate at CASS (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
- Paul Kim, Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Dean for Stanford’s School of Education
- Clare Dillon, Microsoft Head of Research/University engagement
- Graham Attwell, Director, Welsh research institute, Pontydysgu (Bridge to Learning), UK and University of Bremen, Institute of Technology and Education, Germany
- Liv Arnesen, Adventurer, guide, and motivational speaker; Ambassador for the Norwegian Refugee Council
- Kevin C. O'Rourke, Head of eLearning Support & Development, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Alfredo Soeiro, University of Porto, Portugal
The Conference Dinner on 21 June, with entertainment, will be organised in the famous Guiness Storehouse, designed in the shape of a giant pint of Guiness. The evening includes a guided visit at the end of which, on reaching the head of the pint, the Gravity Bar, you can enjoy the unique spectacular view across Dublin.
The
Annual General Meeting will take place in the evening
of Monday, 20 June. The official invitation with supporting
documents will be sent to members in due time.
Information about how to register for the event, Dublin highlights and Hotel Booking are available on the Conference web.
2. 2011 Election of Steering Committee of the Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP)
Following the recent election for the Steering Committee of the Network of Academics and Professionals, the ballot was counted on 15 April 2011. We would like to thank all the people who participated in the election by sending their votes.
We are pleased to inform that the following NAP members have been voted to join the Steering Committee (in alphabetic order):
- Ari-Matti Auvinen, HCI Productions Oy, Finland
- Helga Dorner, Central European University, Hungary
- Elsebeth Korsgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Anders Nome, NKS Online Studies, Norway
- Ebba Ossiannilsson, Lund University, Sweden
- Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, UK
The Steering Committee members will elect their Chairman and the Committee will be in touch with all members in the near future regarding the developments for NAP activities.
3. New Members
EDEN welcomes the following new institutions having joined the Association as Affiliated members since November 2010:
- Universté Paris Dauphine - UNT AUNEGE, France
- Sogn og Fjordane University College, Norway
- Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
- University College Falmouth, United Kingdom
You can check their profile at the "Welcoming New Members" link on the EDEN web.
4. 
New Deadline for EURODL Special Issue Call
The EURODL Special Themed Issue on Creativity and Open Educational Resources (OER) deadline for proposal submission has been changed. Due to colliding deadlines with other relevant publications and conferences, the decision was made to postpone the deadline to 2nd May 2011.
5. EU Lifelong Learning Programme Call for proposals
Deadline 30 June 2011.
6. News about EU projects with EDEN involvement
Webinar Wednesdays
te@ch .us and SEVAQ+projects
In the frame of the teach.us project's Webinar Wednesdays series, the next session is on 20 April, with the theme of Overcoming obstacles. This webinar is organised with the SEVAQ+ project.
From 17:00 – 18:00 CET, the teach.us project will be discussing the theme from the point of view of “How to get the best out of Web 2.0 in the classroom in education”, what are the obstacles to use Web 2.0 in teaching and how can they be overcome. The host and the presenter of the webinar will be Joe Cullen and Veronique Maes Bizz from the Arcola Research.
At 18:00 CET, SEVAQ+ will take over to look at overcoming obstacles and resistance to self-evaluation of quality.
You can join both, or just one, it’s up to you!
More details about the programme and the link for the webinar is available on the teach.us platform.
Inclusive Higher Education! – European Competition for Equity
EquNet Competition 2011
The EquNet campaign aims to provide a platform for people to express their views and their activities regarding the equity issues in the European higher education system and to raise attention of the society with ensuring high visibility for the best works. The theme is ensuring and improving access to higher education in the widest sense for socially, geographically, physically or otherwise hindered or disabled people, encouraging their involvement and motivating those who may help them.
Deadline for submissions: 10 May 2011. More information can be found on the EquNet web-site.
7. Highlights from EDEN Members and Partners
Moscow State University for Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI)
Smart e-Learning Russia Forum on 8-9 June in Moscow
International Education Forum "Smart e-Learning Russia 2011" is one of the major annual conferences on e-learning and education in Russia. More than 200 specialists from different regions of Russia and abroad take part in two-days event. During the conference days you can attend different plenary sessions, workshops and seminars. Language: Russian, English
Important dates:
Registration: 15 May 2011
Conference days: 8-9 June 2011
More information about the event: http://www.elearning-russia.ru/eng/
VIRQUAL webinars
VIRQUAL is an innovative European Project led by University of Porto, about virtual mobility, e-learning and recognition of prior learning at Higher Education and Continuing Education Levels.
The first webinar is about Virtual Mobility Implementation and will take place on the 27 of April at 11h-12h CET using an online Adobe Connect Meeting Room from University of Geneva to run the events. The invited speaker is George Ubachs, the Managing Director of EADTU (the European Association for Distance Teaching Universities) and the moderator is António Teixeira from Universidade Aberta in Portugal.
For more information, registration and other details please visit Virqual website
Registration and queries should be addressed to Alfredo Soeiro
Boise State University
3D GameLab is an online, quest-based platform that launches in closed beta this August with a three week, fully online summer camp for educators who want to engage in and design quest-based learning tied to curriculum standards. This year's camp is just for teachers, faculty and Instructional designers, and hosted by the Department of Educational Technology at Boise State University. All synchronous events will occur online in environments such as Skype, Adobe Connect, Twitter, Second Life, World of Warcraft, and more.
8. Interesting Readings and Events
- 27 major stakeholders in education and training adopted a common position paper
on their vision for the future of education, training and youth programmes:
Entitled “Investing in People through Sustainable and Inclusive EU Programmes” the position paper proposes 4 key principles on the vision for the future programmes as well as 4 steps towards more effective programmes including an annex with recommendations for the next financial regulation.
For more information: Audrey Frith, EUCIS-LLL Platform
- European
Commission - Education and Culture DG: Towards the EIT Strategic Innovation Agenda - Open public cunsultation on the future strategy for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
The consultation is open until 30 June 2011. The questionnaire can be consulted via here
- The European Commission would like to invite you to participate in a short survey on the most effective ways to increase awareness of and participation in adult learning. The objective of this exercise is to explore possibilities of how to make adult learning at all ages more popular, and identify strategies to promote the role of adult learning.
The consultation can be accessed via this link and will be closed on 22 April 2011.
- KP-Lab focuses on creating a learning system aimed at facilitating innovative practices of sharing, creating and working with knowledge in education and workplaces.
The product-oriented site with the KP-Lab project outcomes is available at www.knowledgepractices.info with content targeted for 4 different target groups: Teachers, Students, Business and Researchers.
The site informs about the Trialogical Approach to learning which aims to be a specific approach to knowledge creation. Trialogical theory provides useful tools and hints on how to learn in groups with peers producing reusable artefacts and on how to invite and involve students in doing so.
- Call for articles for eLearning Papers: Mixed realities, virtual worlds and gaming
Submission deadline: 27 May 2011
- Call for papers for Online Educa Berlin: New Learning Cultures
Submission deadline: 1 June 2011
- Call for chapters for FORMATEX: Education in a technological world - communicating current and emerging research and technological efforts
Chapter submission deadline: 22nd June 2011 / Release date: December 2011
- Call for papers for the 5th Conference on eLearning Excellence in the Middle East:
Sustainable Innovation in Education (Capacity-building, Blended Learning and Beyond)
Abstract submission deadline: 15 July 2011
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