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
- Her Excellency Mary McAlisee, President of Ireland (Official opening)
- Sir John Daniel, President & Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth of Learning
- 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
- Paul Kim, Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Dean for Stanford’s School of Education
- Liv Arnesen, Adventurer, guide, and motivational speaker; Ambassador for the Norwegian Refugee Council
- Alfredo Soeiro, University of Porto, Portugal
- Tony Long, Director European Policy, WWF (invited)
We invite EDEN members to take part in discovering the exciting conference topic from a diversity of points of interest. Information about how to register for the event are available on the Conference web.
2. Election of EDEN NAP Steering Committee 2011
Nominations invited by 7 March
The Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP), which has in January 2011 near 1100 members, is co-ordinated by a Steering Committee, elected by a ballot of its members.
The Chair of the NAP Steering Committee, is ‘ex officio’member of the EDEN Executive Committee.
The present Steering Committee was elected in March 2008 for a three-year period of time. The term of office of the present NAP Steering Committee will be terminated in April 2011, the Steering Committee is subject of election which shall take place by electronic voting.
All NAP members are invited to take part in the nominations and the election.
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Please visit the 2011 NAP SC Elections pages on the Members Area
3. 
Special
Issue of the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-learning
(EURODL):
Fostering Creativity - The Use of Open Educational Resources
The Chief Editor, Alan Tait, Professor Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen and Professor Grainne Conole, as guest editors are awaiting your submissions on the notion of creativity in the context of Open Educational Resources. Papers can be either single or multiple authored. To read the entire Call for Papers, please, visit the EURODL website.
4. News about EU projects with EDEN involvement
Inclusive
Higher Education! - European Competition for Equity
EquNet Competition for Equity
Would
you like to show how you imagine Equity in higher education?
Would you like to be part of a European-wide awareness raising campaign?
We invite you to take part in the EquNet campaign that 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.
Works are awaited in both visual/audio-visual category and writings category until 10 May 2011.
More information are available on the Competition web-site.
Learning 2.0 for an Inclusive Society - Collection and analysis of local initiatives online
Links-up is research project about how ‘Web 2.0’technologies –e.g. social networking software –are changing the face of education and training for disadvantaged people. The project website shares Experiences from the real world. They tell us about what works and what doesn’t work. The observations made based on the experiences distinguish the general trend from the particular and local circumstances. Take a look at the website and share your experiences by registering and adding your good or bad practices on the field. The e-library of the project offers the first study on in-depth case studies of innovative examples of the use of Learning 2.0 and Web 2.0 for inclusive lifelong learning.
5. Highlights from EDEN Members and Partners
EFMD - European Foundation for Management Development
The EFMD Annual Conference 2011 is organised in Brussels 5-7 June 2011 under the theme „Business Education in 2025”. The Conference will be combined with the 2011 PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) Summit which will take place at the same venue on 7-8 June 2011 and will focus on “Partnership in Responsibility: Embedding PRME in Support of the Corporation for the 21st Century”.
More information about these events is available here. If you have any questions, please contact Diana Grote (EFMD Annual Conference) or Tavis Jules (PRME Summit).
The EFMD Excellence in Practice Award attracts case studies describing an effective and impactful Learning and Development (L&D) partnership. The specific field of the Learning and Development intervention might be Leadership, Professional, Talent or Organization Development. The programme described in the case is deployed by an organisation either together with its in-house L&D unit or with an external L&D provider (Business School, Exec Education Center, etc...).
In case
you are interested in participating, please consult the detailed
assignment brief and submission guidelines. Deadline for the
submission of cases for the 2011 Award: 1st May 2011.
This competition is open to EFMD members and also non-members.
The Turin Learning Link
The Turin Learning Link is an event created to be a meeting place for capacity development policy makers and practitioners. The goal is to explore existing knowledge within the extended community of practice while fortifying the culture of cooperation among development training and learning institutes (DTLIs).
The call is addressed to all organizations that are willing to share their knowledge and experiences in a participatory learning setting from April 11-15 at the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin, Italy.
AVU Launches an Interactive OER Portal
The African Virtual University (AVU) has launched its Open Education Resources (OER) interactive portal. The portal OER@AVU is available in 3 languages: English, French and Portuguese. The portal is expected to host some 219 commissioned AVU courses in Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Teacher Education Professional Courses, and ICT in Education.
6. Interesting Readings and Events
-
Consultation: Green Paper on a Common Strategic Framework for future EU Research and Innovation Funding
- In connection with the Safer Internet Day1 on 8 February 2011, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, presents a selection of statistics concerning internet security. The main results can be read in the Eurostat news release.
- “Does
it make a difference? Researching and evaluating the impact of
repositories and OERs on teaching and learning” - A JISC funded
event, in collaboration with SCORE and LORO.
23 March 2011, SCORE, East Perry Building, The Open University, Milton Keynes.
- MEDEA
AWARDS 2011 website is
now open
Deadline for submitting entries is 16 September 2011
- Supporting policies create increased impact for OER. The Open Educational Quality Initiative "Beyond OER" study report is published. For more information about the initiative, visit the Open Educational Quality website.
- Denmark leads the European Union in Lifelong Learning - press release about the first results of the European Lifelong Learning Index (ELLI) on the website of Bertelsmann Stiftung
- European
University Association Conference - Investing Today in Talent
for Tomorrow
13-15 April 2011, Aarhus University, Denmark
- EADL
2011 Annual Conference
European Association for Distance Learning
Hotel Intercontinental, Vienna May 25th - 27th, 2011
- Systemic
Changes in Higher Education on the ineducation.ca website
by George Siemens and Kathleen Matheos
- News & Information on the eLearning Africa Conference, an Annual Event for Developing eLearning Capacities in Africa
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