Dear EDEN Member,
1. A Blast of the Past: This and more happened in 2011
What makes a year spectacular for us? It marked our 20th Anniversary, with a series of special events and activities. The world hasn't stopped spinning for our celebrations, though. Technology development gave us tablets and catapulted mobile and ubiquitous learning to informal and formal learning settings. Open Educational Resources became a much hyped keyword for learning professionals, while content is more and more on-demand in social media. The world lost one of the most successful visionaries, Steve Jobs, and social media played the most important role in the history of its existence: it enabled the Arab Spring, a major learning experience to anyone who ever doubted the power of social media. Content is now in the center of attention for learning professionals: record it, share it, download it, stream it, tweet or post it, blog it, syndicate it, as you wish, with the tools like, educational evangelists are masters if this genre. Where do we go from here? To 2012 and keep on walking. |
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We very much look forward to the Annual Conference in Porto about Open learning generations. The short video above gives an amazing example and hopefully, inspiration for your contributions and joining.
2. EDEN Annual Conference on 6-9 June 2012, Porto
Call for Contributions - Deadline: 10 February 2012
Keynote speakers:
The 2012 Annual Conference will be supported and accompanied intensively by social networking, sharing, online and virtual presence and involvement possibilities: Facebook, Twitter. This will be strengthened by and implemented through the EDEN Members Portal: the NAP area on the web and its services. |
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3. Membership Renewal 2012
The information about the 2012 membership has recently been posted (both email and hard copy) to all institutional and individual EDEN members, accompanied by the invoice and a reminder about EDEN membership services and benefits. Institutional members are kindly reminded and invited to exploit the possibility of nomination of colleagues to the Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP) who can receive for free full individual membership services. The 2011 Annual General Meeting has considerably raised the quota for nomination. Please use extensively this excellent opportunity to include as many as possible experts and interested people from your institution in professional networking, the use of the NAP portal and many other benefits. |
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4. The Unconventional Learner - A conventional interview with Dale J. Stephens, keynote speaker at EDEN's 2012 Annual Conference
The youngest keynote speaker of all times at EDEN conference, Dale J Stephens is the voice of the generation in and out of our universities/colleges now. With ideas painting an entirely different picture of learning system, Dale reflects on traditional school system with a non-traditional take.
"The first time my virtual walk led me to the website of Dale’s UnCollege movement I blinked with surprise on the courage and positive approach the Manifesto's words radiate on what education should be. Hundreds of questions popped up in my head on this young man, so absolutely sure in his choice of abandoning institutional education's path and being proud of it. Where institutionalized educational paths guide carriers, he decided for his independent personal learning experience and shares it with everyone interested. After dropping out of college following long hesitation, he now considers himself an educational futurist and offers new visions on education not only to his generation thanks to his Thiel ’20 under 20’ Fellowship. Dale runs UnCollege with a small and enthusiastic team and is a Thiel Fellow, currently writing his first book Hacking Your Education. With ideas painting an entirely different picture of learning system, Dale J Stephens is the voice of the generation in and out of our universities/colleges now."
Read the full interview on the NAP Members' Area and reflect on it directly there, on Facebook or Twitter.
5. News from the EDEN Executive Committee Deborah Arnold is from January 2012 Director of Learning Technology at the Universite de Bourgogne, France. Tapio Koskinen, EDEN Executive Committee member (Aalto PRO, Aalto University, Finland) is appointed as Secretary General of the European Design Innovation Initiative (EDII). Aalto University was selected by the EU DG for Enterprise and Industry as a host for the EDII Secretariat. Tapio will work on preparing policy recommendations for innovation and design in Europe. We congratulate Tapio and Deborah and wish them lots of success in the new positions!
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6. News from the European Commission - Education & Training Horizon 2020: The views in Brussels The European Commission has released its official proposal for Horizon 2020, the EU’s new research funding scheme. A roundup of first reactions by Science|Business. European Institute of Innovation and Technology - EIT Conference Good practices and learnings from the EIT: linking business, research and higher education. Find more information about the event here. |
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7. New articles in 
- Virtual Schooling Through the Eyes of an At-Risk Student: A Case Study
Michael K. Barbour, Jason P. Siko
- eNOSHA, a Free, Open and Flexible Learning Object Repository – An Iterative Development Process for Global User-friendliness
Peter Mozelius, Enosha Hettiarachchi
- Using Creative Multimedia in Teaching and Learning ICTs: A Case Study
Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Giselle Ferreira, Judith Williams, Clem Herman
- Private Cost of Education: A Comparative Study of Distance and Campus-based University Students in Nigeria
Felix K. Olakulehin, Santosh K. Panda
8. Highlights from EDEN Members and Partners
K.U.Leuven - Media and Learning Unit
The EU-funded project EU-VIP (Enterprise-University Virtual Placements) looked at how virtual mobility can support or even enable international work placements.
As a result of this project, partners have recently published a new handbook “Make it work! Integrating virtual mobility in international work placements.” Please find more information in the attached press release or download the handbook from the EU-VIP website.
On this website you can also find a quick guide, which summarizes the main findings presented in the handbook. The quick guide is available in English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian and Polish.
EFMD Annual Conference 2012
Sophia Antipolis (French Riviera), 13-15 May 2012
hosted by SKEMA Business School, chaired by Santiago Iñiguez, Dean, IE Business School, ES
The theme of the conference is “Beyond Maturity: Innovating in Management Education”.
The following speakers have already confirmed their participation:
- Malini Sen, Editor, Education Times, Times of India, IN
- John A. Byrne, Poets & Quants, US
- Stuart Crainer, Management writer and co-author of the Top 50 Thinkers Initiative
The draft conference programme as well as more practical information regarding EFMD’s Annual Conference is available here. If you register before 29 February 2012, you will benefit from our advantageous early registration fee.
Media & Learning Conference 2012
Brussels, 14-15 November 2012
Aimed at policy makers, service providers and practitioners, the third annual Media& Learning Conference will build on the success of Media & Learning 2011 which attracted over 298 people from 39 countries with a packed programme of talks, discussions and demonstrations.
Closing date for submission is 1 June 2012. For more information, visit the Media & Learning Conference website: http://www.media-and-learning.eu
9. Interesting Readings and Events |
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- EFMD report now available - How to develop effective strategies and practices to promote workplace learning
- Microsoft - Fuelling the European Economy
30 January 2012, 11:00-15:00, Microsoft Executive Briefing Center
The EU cloud computing strategy strives to build a digital single market and a "cloud active" Europe, enabling us to take full advantage of transformative innovations built on the cloud platform. This event focuses on the opportunities delivered by cloud computing to reenergize productivity, efficiency and competitiveness both for private industry – big and small - and public sector, stimulating innovation, growth and the European economy.
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