The importance and impact of a major Association such as EDEN comes from its ability to give a true and powerful expression to the aspirations and concerns of the community it serves. This means to be able to represent all kinds of actors involved and convey its different voices. In the field ...
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2339 days ago
The publication last September of the OECD report “Students, Computers and Learning: Making The Connection” has caught a wide attention in the media all over the world. The idea conveyed to the public opinion was that contrary to previous belief data had shown that the use of techn...
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2381 days ago
Losing Control: The true democratisation of learning - Keynote interview with Albert Sangrà
Interview by Ebba Ossiannilsson I have the privilege to interview one of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 Annual Conference (Barcelona, 9-12 June 2015), Albert Sangrà, the Academic Director of the UNESCO Chair in Technology and education for Social Change at the Open Universit...
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2584 days ago
Reflecting On Today’s Mobile Learning - Guest post by Grainne Conole
Current technological developments are pushing us in the direction of ever more flexible, hybrid, personalised and mobile communication and work environments. This trend is naturally changing the scenarios in education. EDEN has been following these developments closely since the beginning. In...
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2600 days ago
Understanding the Context: Interview with Maarten de Laat
Interview by Antonella Poce Following the debate started by #EDENRW8 Research Workshop Rapporteur Tony Bates, we now meet Maarten de Laat, keynote speaker at the 2015 EDEN Annual Conference in Barcelona, who gives us some interesting hints for reflection in this pre-conference interview.&n...
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2648 days ago
Learning Today As We Should Be Learning Tomorrow
The very high quality of the presentations and discussions held in Oxford this week made the EDENRW8 a tremendous success. In fact, the ongoing transformations taking place in the field of open, distance and digital learning are confronting the research community with a set of new and complex ...
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2801 days ago
eLene2learn 6th Newsletter – Final Activities
The eLene2learn project provides a set of practical recommendations to teachers, tutors and learners in the secondary, higher and adult education sectors on the use of ICT and digital media to support the development of learning to learn competencies. After almost 3 years of hard work – ...
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2852 days ago
LIBE Supporting LifeLong Learning with Inquiry-Based Education
The project aims at designing, developing and try out, in 3 different countries in Europe (Italy, Portugal, Norway), an innovative e-learning management system devoted: To develop key information processing skills for ICT (literacy, numeracy and problem solving), with an inquiry-...
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2941 days ago
The Open, The Digital and The Face-to-Face - Prof. Jeff Haywood in Interview
by Alastair Creelman (@alacre) Prof. Haywood is one of the keynote speakers of the EDEN 2014 Annual Conference in Zagreb (#eden14). Alastair Creelman (Linnaeus University, Sweden) sat down for an in-depth interview prior to the Conference to discuss open learning, certific...
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3034 days ago
Let's Make Literacy Attractive: an Interview with David White
'The absolutely vital about education is that people who are getting it have to want it.' Motivation is the key for learning and David White, former Director at the European Commission's DG Education and Culture, is motivated to learn. Watch him responding to 3 questions in this in...
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3556 days ago