EDEN Conference News
EDEN Annual Conference 2013, Oslo
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Conference Venue: Georg Sverdrups hus, Blindern. Photo: Francesco Saggio, UiO. Source Conference Dinner Venue: Oslo Military Society Conference Centre Follow the Conference on: |
EDEN Community Update
Congratulations for EDEN Executive Committee Members for their recent appointmentsDeborah Arnold is the Deputy Director at La Passerelle at Université de Bourgogne in France and Ene Koitle has been assigned as a member to the Management Board of the Information Technology Foundation for Education and the Head of the Estonian e-Learning Development Centre at the Estonian Information Technology Foundation in Estonia. We congratulate and wish Deborah and Ene further successes and many inspirational moments in their career. |
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New membersEDEN welcomes the following institutions that have joined the Association as Member since March 2013:
You can view their profile at the "New Members" link on the EDEN web |
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NAP's Annual Conference" Group: the online networking group for EDEN MembersEDEN Members have access to the Annual Conference's online group at the NAP Members Area: join "The Joy of Learning - 2013 Annual Conference Group" to post discussions, load up files, enter your presentation in the conference calendar, comment topics, find resources and share yours with others.
Only EDEN members can edit and post in the group, however the topics are visible to the public. Don't forget to arrange 'public access' when loading new content if you wish everybody to see it. |
New Article in EURODL
Rich Media e-Compendiums: A New Tool for Enhanced Learning in Higher Education
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Meet EU projects at the EDEN 2013 Conference
13 June, ThursdaySession B5: Open Education for All and ICTs by the VISIR NetworkThe theme "Open education for all - the role of ICT" will be presented, beyond the often used OER context: about openness of education from the perspective of making education "... open to people, places, methods and ideas ". |
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Session B6: Fostering the Joy of Teaching and Learning through Open Educational PracticesWorkshop participants (face-to-face and virtual participants as well) will be encouraged in an action research setting to 1) exchange their experiences about their use of Open Educational Resources (OER), to 2) discuss barriers against the use of OERs and 3) jointly develop problem solutions. |
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Session C5: Review and revive VET practicesYou are invited to Revive VET workshop - "Come and Check the Quality of TEL Provision" in Oslo. Prior to the workshop, read the Revive VET quality criteria presentations here. |
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14 June, Friday
Session D1: ICT Supported Learning: Methodology, Concept and Practice
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Session F1: Digital Competence Development in Practice: The CARER+ Digital Competence FrameworkThe Carer+ Digital Competence Framework adopts the modern notion of digital competence understood both as a key competence for employability and a comprehensive life skill. Join the workshop to learn about how to transform a vocational competence framework into learning tools! |
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15 June, SaturdaySession G4: Transitions into Higher Education: Can the Use of Digital Media, Serious Games and Virtual Worlds Support Learning to Learn Competencies?Transition from secondary school to university and moving back into training or education to reskill or upgrade competencies represent a challenge for any learner. Approaches using social media, social networks, digital media, serious games, virtual worlds, ePortfolio and blogs have potential to support the development of learning to learn competencies. The approach and the results of the project will be presented, including national pilot implementations with direct contributions of teachers, enhanced by an online webinar. |
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Session G6: Staff Development in Early Childhood Education and Care – The NEST Project |
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Session H5: How to Power-up Communities behind OER InitiativesThis workshop will begin with the development of a shared consensus on the concept of OER and OER Communities. The facilitators will provide a short overview of examples of existing OER Communities. Participants may visualise their own learning ties and reflect on the influence these learning ties have for their own use. Read also the recently launched POERUP Newsletter. |
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To see the most recent project-related developments, visit the EDEN website!To see the Deatiled Conference programme, click here. |
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Highlights from EDEN Members and Partners
EAE on the top 25 best Business Schools in the worldEDEN Member EAE has been included among the 25 best Business Schools in the world, according to the "Las Mejores Escuelas de Negocios Globales 2013" ranking. For the first time, EAE is placed among the 25 most prestigious business schools in the world. EAE is ranked between other prestigious schools such as Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, London Business School and IESE. Read more... |
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Summer schools in Rhodes by the University of Aegean, Greece1. “Innovative Educational Methodologies for Schools”, is a European Scheme based on a EU project. EU grants are available for participants. Find it also in the European Database 2. “Educational uses of 3D Graphics-Virtual Reality - SSVR '13”, is a new endeavour sponsored by the Greek ministry of education that is funded by the EU. It is about 3D graphics and virtual reality, as this is one of the fields of research that is advancing now with the increased capabilities of computers and the Internet. Find it also in the European Database |
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Call for papers on ITS in the frame of the REM-Research on Education and Media Journal.Deadline: July 15, 2013 The I-TUTOR project in collaboration with SIREM (Società Italiana di Ricerca sull’Educazione Mediale) is preparing a thematic special issue of the REM-Research on Education and Media Journal in December 2013. Authors are invited to submit papers on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) and the new horizons of the educational and technological research. The language of the publication is English. |
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Opportunités internationales - Construire une formation à distance à l’international, ParisFIED (Fédération Interuniversitaire de l’enseignement à Distance) will organise a Thematic Day the 7 June with the theme "Opportunités internationales - Construire une formation à distance à l’international" at UPMC Sorbonne in Paris. Consult the programme and visit the FIED site for more information. |
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25th ICDE World Conference extended abstract submission deadlineThe abstract submission deadline has been extended until 31 May 2013 for the 25th ICDE World Conference to be hosted by Tianjin Open University, China, 16-18 October 2013. The conference theme is New Strategies for Global, Open, Flexible and Distance Learning. Read more at icde.org |
Publications and Events
Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and PracticeRory McGreal, Wanjira Kinuthia and Stewart Marshall, Eds. May 2013 Published jointly by the Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University, Canada (UNESCO/COL Chair in OER) as CC-BY-SA and freely available to all: www.col.org/psOERIRP. |
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European Forum on Learning Futures and Innovation - The role of technologies, the challenges of scalability and mainstreamingThe forum was organised jointly by ODS, TEL MAP and the VISIR EU projects in 18-19 March 2013 in Brussels. Read report here. |
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MOOCs and Beyond, 33rd issue by elearningpapersThe elearningpapers, reference journal of the European Commission’s elearning portal, is one of the most valued scholarly journals on on-line learning. The recently released issue about the challenges of MOOCs, edited by Yishay Mor and Tapio Koskinen is now available. |
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Journal of Learning for Development by the Commonwealth of Learning has been releasedAn online scholarly journal providing a forum for practitioners and academics working in education and development to share knowledge and experience. Read more here. |
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Employees Read Work Email during Family Occasionsby Checkpointelearning. Read article... |
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