EDEN Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP)

Dear EDEN Member,

EDEN Annual Conference, 2011, Dublin

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.

Learning and sustainability
Changing Ecosystems of Innovation and Knowledge

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

2. Sixth EDEN Research Workshop

24-27 October, Budapest

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

Morten F. Paulsen, President of EDEN and Don Olcott Jr., EDEN Fellow

The SHARE workshop

The Sixth EDEN Research Workshop was again a great success. The excellent keynotes highlighted challenges and promises of technology enhanced learning with focus on the user generated content and the online assessment.

Keynote speeches are available on the Conference website.

Presented papers will be available for EDEN members during the coming weeks.

4. The re-newed NAP Members' Area

The new NAP members' area welcomes all the members to visit, explore and enjoy the tools and services it offers. Comments on the EDEN Research Workshop in Budapest of the EDEN Executive Committee members can be read among the newest blog entries, while members are invited to have their own discussion about the event with sharing their ideas, thoughts, podcasts, videocasts, etc. Besides the previous issues of newsflashes, the minutes of this year's EDEN Annual General Meeting is also available on the platform.

Would you have any questions in connection with the use of the tools available or in case you have forgotten your individual access details, please, do not hesitate to consult with the NAP Helpdesk.

Fostering Creativity - The Use of Open Educational Resources

Editors: Professor Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Aarhus University, Denmark;
Professor Grainne Conole, The Open University, UK

Invited contributions are asked for in the following areas for publication in May 2011:

• Studies in creativity in the use of OER in teaching and learning
• Ways in which new approaches and design can foster creativity for both teacher and learner
• Case studies and empirical studies of OER to support student creativity
• Methodological studies to enhance dialogue in approaches to creativity and empowerment of using OER

6. Upcoming Conferences' Programme Overviews

Media and Learning Brussels 2010, 25-26 November

How do learners handle video and audio in a meaningful and thoughtful manner to support their learning? How do media repositories complement existing teaching and learning materials effectively? How do young people learn by creating their own media and how can ICT enhance the teaching and learning process? Find out what your peers and experts answer on these questions at the Media and Learning Conference in Brussels. Programme downloadable as pdf

Online Educa Berlin 2010 - Learning for All, 1-3 December

This year's conference dig deep into 4 themes that form the pillars of innovation: Learning Content, Learning About Learning, Learning Ecosystems and Learning Environments, which will contribute to successful learning outcomes in the three learning domains: Institutional Learning, Workplace Learning and Lifelong Learning. Programme available online

7. Highlights and Readings

• You can contribute to the public consultation launched by the European Commission concerning policy areas that can be selected when entering your organisation on the register of interest representatives via the "Your Voice in Europe" site

• Special Recommendation: Videos of ICT 2010 Conference, held in Brussels, 27-29 September 2010,
  Digital Roadmap to the Future - Henry Makram, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

• "The rise and fall of "e"" by Bob Little on the Check.eLearning web-site

• In search of quality in e-learning by Tony Bates on the web-site of e-lerning and distance education resources

• New Book has been published by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in September:

  Perspectives in Distance Education: Teacher Education through Open and Distance Learning

by Patrick Alan Danaher (Editor), Abdurrahman Umar (Editor), Eds. (Editor)
Contributors: Tian Belawati, Hilary Burgess,, Patrick Alan Danaher, R.E. (Bobby) Harreveld, Debra Hoven, Sólveig Jakobsdóttir, Benjamin Kehrwald, Colin Latchem, Lindy McKeown, Bob Moon, Glen Postle, Ann Shelton Mayes, Mary Simpson, Ken Stevens, Bruce Thompson, Mark A. Tyler, Abdurrahman Umar, I.G.A.K. Wardani

• Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning

by David N. Figlio, Mark Rush, Lu Yin
NBER Workng Paper presenting the first experimental evidence on the effects of the live versus internet media of instruction.

• IRRODL - International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning presents its new issue with eight research articles and three book reviews. Two of the books are available in open access format from www.AUPress.ca On the site of IRRODL you can register for free subscription or volunteer as a reviewer.

• An amazing video: at the MIT Media Lab's new Fluid Interfaces Group, Pettie Maes researches the tool called SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data.

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