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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.

Keynote Speakers:

• Her Excellency Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
• Sir John Daniel, President & Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth of Learning
• Tony Long, Director European Policy, WWF
• 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.

• Ari-Matti Auvinen, HCI Productions Oy, Finland
• Helga Dorner, Central European University, Hungary
• Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Anders Nome, NKS Online Studies, Norway
• Ebba Ossiannilsson, Lund University, Sweden
• Paulo Simoes, Portuguese Air Force, Portugal
• Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

• Key Influencing Factors Behind Moodle Adoption in Irish Small to Medium Sized Higher Education Colleges
  David Walker, Lelia Livadas, Dr. Gail Miles
• Technology Enhanced Learning: Virtual Realities; Concrete Results Case study on the impact of TEL on learning
  Hayat Al-Khatib
• E-Learning in Science and Technology via a Common Learning Platform in a Lifelong Learning Project Freddy Priem, Renaat De Craemer, Johan Calu, Fran Pedreschi, Thomas Zimmer, Sylvain Saighi, Jarmo Lilja
• OERs in Context - Case Study of Innovation and Sustainability of Educational Practices at the University of Mauritius
  Santally Mohammad Issack

• Raising national awareness of lifelong learning strategies and of European cooperation in education and training
• Support for transnational cooperation in the development and implementation of national and regional lifelong learning strategies
  
  Deadline 30 June 2011.

• European Commission public consultation about "Information society". The site is also a useful source of information if you have any questions about Commission consultations.

• European Foundation for Management Development - Research generates knowledge throughout the network for the stakeholder community.
  

• About Futurism in Education - From Future Learn
  

• From the European Commission DG Education and Culture Newsletter: Learning while working - Success stories on workplace learning in Europe and Glossary / Glossaire Quality in education and training
  

• European Universities Association publication 2011: Financially Sustainable Universities II - European Universities diversifying income streams.
  From the foreword: "Financial sustainability is one of the key challenges for Europe's universities and this project report is another milestone of EUA's work agenda on this topic. While universities need to understand better the full costs of their activities and should maintain a reasonably diversified income structure, it is clear that financial sustainability cannot be achieved without sufficient and sustainable public funding."

• 6th seminar, EdReNe - Educational Repositories Network18 - 19 May 2011, The Hague, Netherlands The EdReNe thematic network invites members and interested stakeholders to the network's 6th seminar on repositories of learning resources.
  The overall theme of the seminar is Quality, divided into three categories: i) Quality in metadata, ii) Quality in usefulness and iii) Quality in relevance. For registration and pre-registration see the seminar website. Registration is open until April 25th 2011.
  

• UNESCO publication - Running to stand still: Higher education in a period of global economic crisis

• European Institute of Education and Technology (EIT): Conference report - The role of the EIT in the education landscape

• EDUMIGROM, a research project on 'Ethnic Differences in Education and Diverging Prospects for Urban Youth in an Enlarged Europe', conducted between March 2008 - March 2011, studied how ethnic differences in education contribute to the diverging prospects for minority ethnic youth and their peers in urban settings.
  The research initiative concluded with a conference held at Central European University, Budapest, in February 2011. The conference summary is available on the project website.

• OECD publication - New Nature of Innovation
  "The New Nature of Innovation provides helpful insights in how innovation has changed in recent years. It also provides helpful thinking on how governments should respond to these changes and strengthen innovation"

• IRRODL - The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning's newly published issue.

• Special issue of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET), entitled 'Virtual worlds in tertiary education: An Australasian perspective' - submissions are invited.
  
  

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