EDEN Conference News

Call for Contributions: 8th EDEN Research Workshop (EDENRW8)
27-28 October 2014, Oxford

Challenges for research into Open & Distance Learning:
Doing Things Better: Doing Better Things

EDEN and the Open University invite you to the 8th EDEN Research Workshop (EDENRW8) to be held in Oxford on 27-28 October 2014 ('zero day' 26 October).

The session formats will promote collaboration opportunities, including: Parallel ‘Research-speed-dating’ papers, team symposia sessions, workshops and demonstrations.

Find out more on the details: Invitation| Workshop Scope | Workshop Themes |
Call for Contributions | Submission Guidelines | Online submission form

Submission deadline: 1 September

Submissions will be double peer reviewed by the Conference Committee. Accepted contributions will be published in the electronic Conference Proceedings with ISBN and their summary in the printed Book of Abstracts. The selected best papers will be invited to be published in a joint special issue of the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning (EURODL) and Open Learning.

Keynotes Speakers

• Sian Bayne, Digital Education, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Cristobal Cobo, Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK
• Pierre Dillenbourg, CHILI Lab, EPFL Center for Digital Education, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Allison Littlejohn, Director, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University, Chair in Learning Technology, UK
• Philipp Schmidt, Executive Director, Peer 2 Peer University / MIT Media Lab fellow, USA
• Willem van Valkenburg, Coordinator Delft Open Education Team, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

In collaboration with

founding member of EDEN

Reflections: the 2014 Annual Conference in Zagreb

We thank the keynotes, the speakers and all delegates for joining the EDEN 2014 Annual Conference, for their inputs and contribution to the achievements and nice atmosphere of the event. The Conference gathered 320 delegates from 40 countries, with over 170 presentations with rich content and networking.

This year's EDEN Fellow Awards were announced at the Welcome Reception. The Award in 2014 goes to:

• Sandra Kucina, University of Zagreb, University Computing Centre, Croatia
• Ebba Ossianilsson, Lund University, Sweden
• Marci Powell, Polycom, USA

Best Research Paper Award:

Digital Storytelling as a Reflective Practice Tool in a Community of Professionals
Corrado Petrucco, University of Padua, Italy

Beyond more information including the list of the finalists, the winner paper as well as previous years' Best Research Papers are available from our Publications' site.

Online resources:

Keynotes' presentations | Opening speech by the President of Croatia

Book of Abstracts: EDEN website (download) | issuu.com (online)

Photo Album | The Conference Group | Facebook event| #eden14 | The conference through your peers' lense

We thank the University of Zagreb, University Computing Centre - SRCE for their excellent collaboration.

In collaboration with

EDEN Fellows in 2014

BRPA Ceremony