Keynote presentations of outstanding scholars at the EDEN conferences :
Her Excellency, Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
Opening Speech
EDEN 2011 Annual Conference, Dublin
Sir John Daniel, President & Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth of Learning
20 Years of Distance Education in the Garden of EDEN: Good News and Bad News
EDEN 2011 Annual Conference, Dublin
Dennis Pamlin, Director, UN Global Compact, and WWF Consultant, Senior associate at CASS (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Information, Knowledge and Wisdom in the 21st Century
EDEN 2011 Annual Conference, Dublin
Graham Attwell, Director, Welsh research institute, Pontydysgu (Bridge to Learning), UK and University of Bremen, Institute of Technology and Education, Germany
Context, Authenticity and Learning in the Real World
EDEN 2011 Annual Conference, Dublin
Paul Kim, Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Dean for Stanford University School of Education, USA
Mobile Innovations and Evolutions in Education Ecosystem
EDEN 2011 Annual Conference, Dublin
Kevin O’Rourke, Head of eLearning Support & Development, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
eLearning and Sustainability: Quality over Quantity?
EDEN 2011 Annual Conference, Dublin
Alfredo Soeiro, University of Porto, Portugal
Valuing Learning for All, Everywhere and in Any Mode: A Dream?
EDEN 2011 Annual Conference, Dublin
Martin Bean, Vice-Chancellor, The Open University, United Kingdom
The Journey from Informal to Formal Learning
EDEN 2010 Annual Conference, Valencia
Brian Holmes, Head of Unit, Lifelong Learning: Comenius, ICT and Languages, Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency
ICT for Education in Europe and the new EU2020 Strategy – Policy and Practice – Part 2
EDEN 2010 Annual Conference, Valencia
Bernard Luskin, Provost and CEO for global eLearning Programs, Touro College and Touro University, USA
Exciting”: E-Learning and the Big “E”
EDEN 2010 Annual Conference, Valencia
George Siemens, Strategist and Researcher at Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute, Athabasca University, Canada
Knowledge Coherence in Fragmented Information Ecologies
EDEN 2010 Annual Conference, Valencia
Nicholas H. Allen, Provost Emeritus & Collegiate Professor, University of Maryland University College, Member of the Executive Strategic Council of IMS Global Learning Consortium, USA
What Must We Invent for Tomorrow? Five Critical Forces That Will Challenge the U.S. Learning Community (and Perhaps Yours) to Innovate for the Future
EDEN 2009 Annual Conference, Gdansk
Fred Litto, Professor, University of Sao Pauolo, Vice-President of ICDE, the International Council of Distance Education, President of the Brasilian Association of Distance Education, Brazil
Innovation in Distance Learning? I Can’t Define It, But I Know It When I See It!
EDEN 2009 Annual Conference, Gdansk
Anna Kirah, Future Navigator, Denmark
Meaning Mining Rebels: Exploring People-Centered Concept Making and the Design Mindset
EDEN 2008 Annual Conference, Lisbon
David White, Director, EU Commission DG Education and Culture, Lifelong Learning, horizontal Lisbon policy issues and international affairs
Innovative Learning for Europe
EDEN 2008 Annual Conference, Lisbon
Marci Powell, President, US Distance Learning Association, USA
New Learning Cultures from the U.S. Perspective – How are institutions in the U.S. Dealing with Intercultural Complexity in Today?s (e)learning Environments?
EDEN 2008 Annual Conference, Lisbon
Teemu Arina, CEO, Dicole Oy, Finland
Serendipity 2.0: Missing Third Places of Learning
EDEN 2007 Annual Conference, Naples
Grainne Conole, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK
Insights from the student perspective: an evaluation of students’ use and experience of technologies
EDEN 2007 Annual Conference, Naples
Erik Duval, Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
The Snowflake Effect: open learning without barriers
EDEN 2007 Annual Conference, Naples
Michael Graham Moore, Professor of Education, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
The Bottles are New but What of the Wine? Managing Learning and Teaching in Web 2.0
EDEN 2007 Annual Conference, Naples
Maruja Gutierrez-Diaz, Head of Unit, DG Education and Culture, Innovation and transversal policies, European Commission
eLearning for Innovative Lifelong Learning
EDEN 2006 Annual Conference , Vienna
Andy diPaolo, Executive Director, Stanford Center for Professional Development, Stanford University, USA
Moving to Anywhere, Anytime Learning: Institutional Strategies for Meeting the Online Education Needs of Lifelong Learners
EDEN 2006 Annual Conference , Vienna
Stephen Downes, Senior Researcher, National Research Council, Institute for Information Technology’s e-Learning Research Group, Canada
Understanding Learning Networks
Fourth EDEN Research Workshop, 2006 Barcelona
Betty Collis, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Quality on (the) line: What, How and When Should We Be Measuring for Quality Assurance in Online Distance Education and E-learning?
Fourth EDEN Research Workshop, 2006 Barcelona
Börje Holmberg, Professor Emeritus for Distance-Education Research at the FernUniversität Hagen, visiting professor at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
The Peters-Moore-Holmberg theory debate
Fourth EDEN Research Workshop, 2006 Barcelona
Gary Miller, Associate Vice President for Distance Education and Executive Director, World Campus, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Distance Education in North America: A New Mainstream
EDEN 2006 Annual Conference, Vienna
Richard Straub, Chairman, eLIG ? European eLearning Industry Group
Sustaining Employability – Innovation in Lifelong Learning
EDEN 2006 Annual Conference , Vienna
Carl Holmberg, Secretary General, International Council for Open and Distance Education
The Open Classroom 2005 ? Learning Equity, Innovation & Quality for the 21st Century School
Fifth Open Classroom Conference, 2005, Poitiers
Tony Bates, CEO and President, Tony Bates Associates Ltd and Responsible for developing a program of research into e-learning at Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain
Why E-Learning Has Failed and Why It Will Succeed?
EDEN 2005 Annual Conference, Helsinki
Werner Hermann, Senior Advisor h.c., European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP)
The Challenge of Learning in the 21st Century: Strategies, Visions and Realities in a Global Policy Context
EDEN 2005 Annual Conference, Helsinki
Markku Markkula, Director, Lifelong Learning Institute, TKK Dipoli, Finland
Critical Competencies for Adult and Lifelong Learning
EDEN 2005 Annual Conference, Helsinki
Otto Peters, Professor Emeritus, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Visions about learner autonomy and knowledge building
Third EDEN Research Workshop, 2004, Oldenburg
Gilly Salmon, Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise, Open University Business School, United Kingdom
New roles of teachers & tutors
Third EDEN Research Workshop, 2004, Oldenburg
Michelle Selinger, Manager for Education, Cisco Systems
Cultural considerations for global e-learning: the relevance for modernising Europe and the inclusion of the new regions
EDEN 2004 Annual Conference, Budapest
David Vincent, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Strategy, Open University, UK
Regionalisation and Educational Policy
EDEN 2004 Annual Conference, Budapest
Hans-Uwe Erichsen, President, German Accreditation Council
Quality Assurance by Accreditation
EDEN 2003 Annual Conference, Rhodes
Kenneth Edwards, European University Association
Towards a Global Metacampus – What might it look like?
EDEN 2002 Annual Conference, Granada
Diana Laurillard, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Open University, UK
Changes of conceptual framework of distance education
EDEN 2001 Annual Conference, Stockholm