Dear EDEN Member,
EDEN Annual Conference - 2011, Dublin
INVITATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper Submission: only few days left!
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
We invite EDEN members to take part in discovering the exciting conference topic from a diversity of points of interest. Scope of the Conference and information on the Paper Submission are available on the Conference web.
Submission deadline is 28 January, with some flexibility for weekend workers available. :)
The event is organised in co-operation with IADT - Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design and in partnership with USDLA - the United States Distance Learning Association.
2. EDEN-USDLA
At an audioconference held with the participation of senior members of the EDEN Executive Committee and the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) Board on 18 January, the status and further development possibilities of the relations have been discussed.
USDLA and EDEN have been collaborating for several years by exchange of information, discussion of strategies, representation and key contributions at their annual conferences. Recently, Ingeborg Bo, past EDEN President has delivered a plenary speech at the International Forum for Women in E-Learning Conference presented by USDLA in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US.
We look forward to the Annual Conference in Dublin where USDLA will be Special Partner of the event, taking part by a joint policy session with trans-continental broadcasting (supported by Polycom) and co-celebrating the 20th EDEN Anniversary.
3. EDEN-ICDE Agreement
As part of the renewal of strategic relations within ICDE, the International Council for Open and Distance Education, EDEN was offered Associate Membership in the world organisation. The envisaged closer collaboration may help EDEN to meet better the global challenges in our fields and further enhance the wider international dimension of our activities.
4. New Members
EDEN welcomes the following new institutions having joined the Association as Affiliated members since November 2010:
- Lithuanian Distance and eLearning (LieDM) Association
- Lithuanian University of Agriculture
- Lithuanian University of Health Science
- Social Innovation Fund, Lithuania
- Kaunas College, Lithuania
You can check their profile at the "Welcoming New Members" link on the EDEN web.
5. 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
6. European Commission on-line consultation on the modernisation of higher education
Europe 2020 - the EU's strategic agenda for growth - stresses the vital role of the European higher education sector in developing human capital and driving research and innovation in the knowledge economy. As part of its efforts to help develop higher education in Europe, the European Commission plans to adopt a new Communication on the modernisation of higher education in the third quarter of 2011. This will provide strategic direction for the development of European higher education in the next ten years, including in the areas of education, research and innovation.
To help prepare the new Communication, the European Commission is currently undertaking a wide-ranging consultation with stakeholders in European higher education. As part of this, you are invited to complete a short online questionnaire, asking for your views on priorities for higher education, including its research and innovation dimensions, in the period up to 2020.
You can complete the questionnaire through the following links (in different languages):
The questionnaire will be open until 15 March 2011.
7. 
Newly published articles in the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning:
- Using
Multimedia Technology to Teach Modern Greek Language Online
in Chine: Development, Implementation and Evaluation
Xiaoyin Huang, Costa Dedegikas, Jan Walls, Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada - Higher
Education Deistance Learning in Portugal - State of the Art
and Current Policy Issues
Abrar Hassan, former OECD, Wolfram Laaser, former Fern Universitat in Hagen
EURODL is indexed by ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center, the world's largest digital library of education literature.
8. News about EU projects with EDEN involvement
MOVE-ON –Professional
Learning for Adults on the Move
Runtime: Jan
2011 - Dec 2012
Coordinator: EXODUS A.E.
The EU Lifelong Learning Programme (Leonardo da Vinci's Multilateral projects for Development of innovation) co-funded MOVE-ON project starts in January 2011. The initiative aims at designing, developing and validating new vocational education possibilities ready to be offered in short episodes (10 minutes each) during 'non-place' activities (transition at airports, waiting in supermarkets, hotel rooms, commuting on highways, doing physical exercises, etc.) with the goal to increase the overall volume of participation of adults in vocational education.
EDEN, is mainly responsible for the dissemination and exploitation of the project results and outputs both via the use of electronic information channels (web sites and electronic newsletters) and via face to face events, e.g. by providing visibility within the EDEN conferences. We shall also take part in the exploitation of the mobile platform and contribute to the evaluation and validation of the overall service with real-users.
9. Call for Papers: "Redifining the University"
eLearning Papers publication is part of European Commission's portal, elearningeuropa.info, which aims to promote the innovative use of ICT in education and training.
eLearning Papers seeks contributions about 'Redefining Education' in both sections: In-Depth and From the Field. These are some of the suggested topics for articles:
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Redefining teachers' roles
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Defining new universities and schools
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The transformation of Public Education Systems
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Innovation with new methods, new media
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Education for a new society
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Ethics in 21st century schools and universities
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Education within a new communication framework
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Isolated schools in a networked world
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New curriculum or No-curriculum.
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Evaluating. what? What for?
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Teachers' reactions to change
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Redefining physical space and time (ubiquitous learning)
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Foresight in education and learning
Guest editor: Antonio Bartolomé, Universitat de Barcelona
The article submission closes on 18 February 2011. The provisional date of publication is April 2011. For further information and to submit your article, please contact: jimena.marquez@elearningpapers.eu or visit the eLearning Papers website.
10. Highlights from EDEN Members and Partners
Partner search for EU-Comenius project
The aim of the e-Training project (LLP, Comenius, Multilateral projects) is to develope a complex solution, which combines the Web2 given collaboration opportunities, the classic training and the learning-by-doing methods which helps the management and the teacher staff of the public education institutions to understand, learn and implement new methods and approaches for sustainable development and responsible leadership while cooperate with their colleagues in international and multicultural aspect.
The coordinator of the project is Horvath&Dubecz educational service company and is searching for partner organisation, a school, educational service company or association from the United Kingdom or The Netherlands.
Submission deadline is 28 February.
In case of interest, please contact Asen Asenov.
Partnership proposals for EU projects
HCI Productions Oy
HCI Productions Oy is a SME company specialized in learning solutions and learning applications. It has worked recently, in particular, with the quality issues of user-generated content, but it also has a wide experience in the assessment and evaluation of European projects and programmes as well as in the authoring of various tools (such as house-style manuals, quality manuals and procedural guides). The company's experience includes also the realisation of various types of surveys and reports (using research techniques such as Delphi questionnaires and semi-structured thematic interviews).
For additional information (corporate profile, CVs, etc), please contact Ari-Matti Auvinen, Senior Partner of HCI Productions Oy.
University of Iceland - School of Education
Themes of interest include action research on how to build and sustain a networking community of practice in the area of ICT in education in the area of ICT in education; bringing together researchers & developers; associations of ICT professionals/teachers and Home & School; and governement.
See more information here and in case of interest, please contact Sólveig Jakobsdottir, Associate Professor of distance education, Head of Centre for Educational Research on ICT & Media.
11. Interesting Readings
- European Commission - Education and Training: A plan for vocational training in Europe over the next ten years
- New
Lifelong Learning partners in Europe
From January 2011, Croatia and Switzerland will participate in the European Union’s Lifelong Learning and Youth in Action Programme bringing the total number of participating countries up to 33 (the 27 EU member states, Norway, Iceland, Turkey and Liechtenstein).
- OLnet Fellowship - open competition for researchers and practitioners who wish to contribute to the understanding of the OER design and use worldwide. Deadline 14 February 2011
- What British student think about ICT? The British Student Trade Union has undertaken a survey amongst British students about their views over the ICT application.
- Games for learning recommendations published by the European Commission, Lifelong Learning Programme funded IMAGINE project
- European e-Competence Framework and e-Skills for the 21st Century published: European e-Competence Framework 2.0 - common European framework for ICT Professionals in all industry sectors
- CEDEFOP - European Center for the Development of Vocational Training published its report on the European policy for vocational education and training 2002-10 entitled "A bridge to the future"
- The Newsletter of the EU Commission Directorate General Education and Culture, which has earlier been circulated as paper based bulletin, is now available as e-newsletter. Subscription is free and can be done at by visiting this link.
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