EDEN Conference News
EDEN Synergy Workshop
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EDEN 2014 Annual Conference11-13 June 2014 Zagreb, Croatia In co-operation with the University of Zagreb and their University Computing Center PENCIL THE DATE IN YOUR CALENDAR! |
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Community Update
ICDE 75th anniversary year75 years ago ICDE held its first World Conference in Victoria, Canada, and the then International Council for Correspondence Education was inaugurated. EDEN congratulates ICDE and encourages our members to join the Anniversary celebration actions. |
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New resources at NAP Members Area
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European Commission's Corner
New Eurostat figures on social Europe and educationEurostat has published the 1st edition of the “pocketbook” on European Social Statistics with a chapter on Education and Training. The publication provides a comparative overview of the latest results for ‘social’ headline indicators available in the Member States. This is an accessible and useful tool with schema and comments detailing figures of school enrollment, tertiary education, foreign language learning, lifelong learning and educational expenditure. The statistics back up for instance the assumption that the higher is the education level, the lower are the risk of poverty. Eurostat also published two articles on youth unemployment and participation in education and the labour market. |
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New Articles in EURODL
The Tutors' Views on the Utilization of E-learning System in Architectural Education
Connectivism: 21st Century's New Learning Theory
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Projects, practices, showcases
REVIVE VET Newsletter - Issue 3
Whether you are in the private or public sector, check out the Self Assessment Quality Criteria Tool for Technology Enhanced Vocational Education Training here. The tool was developed as part of the Revive VET project. Read more in the REVIVE VET Newsletter. |
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NEST Newsletter - Issue 2In the second newsletter we give you an update on the NEST - Network of Staff and Teachers in Childcare Services community which started to spread its wings. National groups begin their collaborations in Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Finland, Greece and Hungary and created a multilingual pool of resources concerning Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). In this issue, the focus lays on Finland, where early childhood education law is changing as ECEC becomes the part of the education and training system. We provide some insight on this process and introduce the Finnish system. Read Newsletter here. |
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I-TUTOR Newsletter - Issue 2The Intelligent Tutoring for Lifelong Learning – I-TUTOR project published its second newsletter with an update on piloting the plug-in prototype, an invitation to its final conference in Bari, Italy and some interesting inside information in the form of an interview with one of the developers on the process of developing a multi-agent based, user-friendly intelligent tutoring system to support online teachers, trainers, tutors and learners. The project has launched a call for papers for its final conference aiming at collecting experiences, cases, visions, approaches on artificial intelligence use in learning environments. Read Newsletter here. |
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What is Your Best Experience in Using ICTs for Teaching?A short survey for the European initiative called Digiskills project invites teachers, trainers, professors and academic staff to reflect on what works and what doesn't work in an educational setting with ICTs. With only 6 questions to answer, this questionnaire maps good practices in teaching and learning with ICTs and collects brief information on how teachers' competences are related to ICT use. Your experiences support a new project called Digiskills, a 3 year long European initiative to be introduced for the first time at EDEN's Synergy Workshop this fall. Some of the practices submitted via this survey will be invited to be shared online and live. The event is for free and will be accompanied with an online workshop. To be considered for invitation, after answering the questions, don't forget to enter your e-mail address. |
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Open education for all - the role of ICT: VISIR at the EDEN Annual Conference in OsloThe theme "Open education for all - the role of ICT" was aimed to be presented from a broader perspective, beyond the often used OER context: about openness of education from the perspective of making education "... open to people, places, methods and ideas" - by the example of the most successful European initiative of the OU UK. Read report about the Seminar. Reports of other VISIR Seminars are available on this page. |
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Guidance for inclusion: practices and needs in European UniversitiesThe Report “Guidance for inclusion: practices and needs in European Universities” (PDF download) presents the results of the research work carried out in STAY IN project. Executive Summary of the report is available in English, Italian, Spanish and Hungarian. The overall aim was to review the ‘landscape’ of student guidance and counselling, taking into account the policies, programmes and practices that have developed in the field, and using the lessons learned to feed into the design of the STAY IN services. |
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Winter school for teachers on competence based learning3-7 February 2014. The deadline for applications is September 17th, 2013. Participation is FREE. Organised by the Open Discovery Space project, on the location of UAB Metis Baltic, J.Kubiliaus g. 6-7, 08234, Vilnius, Lithuania The five-day ODS winter school programme invites teachers interested in training to use new and freely available ICT tools which support their own needs in terms of planning, implementing and sharing pedagogical ideas. Participation in this event is funded by the European Commission. The list of eligible countries and the contact details of the National Agencies can be found here. Also, the detailed guidelines on how to apply for a grant are displayed here. For any further information please contact Metis Baltic (urte@metisbaltic.lt). More information about the Open Discovery Space project: |
Highlights from EDEN Members and Partners
PhD and postdoc vacancies12 PhD and 2 postdoc position vacancies as part of the EU-Funded FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network: EDUWORKS Positions
Successful applicants will receive a competitive salary.
Read more: http:/ Application deadline: 15th October 2013 23:59 CET |
Publications and Events
LLinE Journal – Now available online for freeLLinE (Lifelong Learning in Europe) is dedicated to the advancement of adult education and lifelong learning through intercultural collaboration and best practice research. The last issue presented by LLinE, “Active Citizenship”, was focusing on the “golden ideal of democracy”. |
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A Guide To Quality in Online LearningThis new publication, co-edited by Sir John Daniel, looks at quality from an international perspective, bringing together best practices and practical tools from around the world organized around 16 key questions. Read more... |
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Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice
Published by the Commonwealth of Learning |
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