- Plenary Session 1
- Coffee Break
- Parallel Sessions A
- Lunch
09:00 – 11:00 Plenary Session 1
- Conference Welcome Addresses:
- Inga Bostad, Pro-Rector, University of Oslo, Norway
Morten Flate Paulsen, EDEN President
Kristin Halvorsen, Minister of Education and Research, Norway
- Address by the Executive Director of HETL
- Patrick Blessinger, The International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association – HETL, United States of America
- Keynote Speech:
- Anna Kirah, Making Waves, Norway
Meaning Mining: Towards a People-centered Approach to Learning
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions A
Session A1
Enhancing Learning Experience: Student Motivations and Attitudes
Chair: Wim Van Petegem, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Stories of Joy and Despair in the Virtual Classroom
- Mark Brown, Helen Hughes, Massey University, New Zealand, Mike Keppell, Natasha Hard, University of Southern Queensland, Liz Smith, Charles Sturt University, Australia
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Learner
- Bill McNeill, The College of Estate Management, United Kingdom
- Motivation, Collaboration and Quality Management of Modules of a German Career Service
- Anja Graube, Christian-Andreas Schumann, Cindy Jaenisch, Helge Gerischer, Markus Haubold, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany
- The University Students’ Uses of ICT: Their Perspective
- Anna Escofet Roig, Marta Lopez, University of Barcelona, Spain
Session A2
Online Learning with Serious Games
Chair: Lisa Marie Blaschke, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Playing Games: Do Game Consoles have a Positive Impact on Girls Learning and Motivation?
- Lucy Kitching, Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
- Adaptive and Adaptable Gameplay: An Instructional Design Approach for Individual Differences
- Marie Maertens, Frederik Cornillie, Piet Desmet, Mieke Vandewaetere, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- New Tools for New Students Game about Decision Making Adapted to Various Learning Contexts (GADEMAVO)
- Anne-Dominique Salamin, David Russo, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland – HES-SO, Switzerland
- Seeking for the Added Value of Videogames and Simulations
- Sergio Vasquez Bronfman, École Superieure de Commerce de Paris, France
Session A3
Contemporary e-Learning Theory
Chair: Michael G. Moore, Academic Advisor, Studiesenteret.no, Norway
- Interaction Equivalency in the OER and Informal Learning Era
- Terumi Miyazoe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan, Terry Anderson, Athabasca University, Canada
- Navigating the Risk Society How the Educational Enterprise Gets Stuck and Why it Needs Poetry
- Joe Cullen, Arcola Research LLP and The Tavistock Institute, London, United Kingdom
- Joy and Creativity in Three Dimensional Virtual Learning Environments (The Case of Second Life)
- Costas Tsolakidis, Angeliki Nikolaou, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Up to a 5 Star Learning Environment! A Short Reflection about Educational Challenges for 2013
- Filip Vervenne, Katholieke Hogeschool Zuid-West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Demonstration Session A4
Chair: Sonia Hetzner, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Algo-Bot – Serious Game: The Game about Coding a Game
- Herve Docq, Delphine Rousseau, Technobel, Belgium
- Response in 1-2-3 with Student Response System
- Knut Bjorkli, John Birger Stav, Sor-Trondelag University College – HiST, Norway
- A New Learning Narrative for Open Educational Resources. The Open University Experience of the iTunesU App
- Mark Wade, The Open University, United Kingdom
Workshop Session A5
- Owning the Place of Learning: Principles for Designing Personal Learning Spaces for Learners and Teachers
- Grainne Conole, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Personal learning spaces constitute the formal and informal spaces and technologies customised by the learner or teacher. However, insufficient attention has been given to providing assistance to learners and teachers to design their own personal learning spaces. This workshop provides a framework for personal learning spaces that includes: distributed learning spaces, seamless learning and principles of learning space design that assist learners and teachers to design their own personal learning spaces. Seven principles of learning space design include: comfort, aesthetics, flow, equity, blending, affordances and repurposing By taking account of distributed learning spaces, seamless learning and principles of learning space design both learners and teachers will be empowered to construct their own personal learning spaces.
Workshop Session A6
- OportUnidad: Faculty as Game Changers into OER-OEP Enhanced Learning Experiences
- Marcelo Fabian Maina, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya – UOC, Spain, Antonio Moreira Teixeira, Universidade Aberta, Portugal, Cristobal Cobo, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Cristina Stefanelli, Consorzio FOR.COM, Ilaria Mascitti, Universita Telematica Guglielmo Marconi, Italy
OportUnidad is an action-research project financed by the European Union under the ALFA III programme aimed at promoting Open Educational Practices (OEP) and Open Educational Resources (OER). The project is lead by 4 European and 8 Latin America Universities and includes a network of over 60 EU and Latin American higher education institutions. The workshop aims to share and discuss insights and examples on how institutions challenged the adoption of institutional strategies around Open Educational Practices.
Reflexology Session A7
- The Medium is the Massage Solving Challenges in the Use of Social Media
- Ari-Matti Auvinen, HCI Productions Ltd., Finland
This session provides unique combination of an intensive one-to-one consultancy in the use of social media with a relaxing foot reflexology massage. The objective is to create a trustful and relaxed atmosphere to solve the key issues in the use of social media in education and training.
Few places only are available which can be booked in beforehand in timeslots of 45 minutes. The key issue(s) the delegate would like to tackle during the session should be mentioned at the booking. The issues tackled with some key notions and proposals will be posted to social media and also in the workshop room (anonymously).
Booking will be open for delegates with completed registration process, including payment.
The presenter, Mr Ari-Matti Auvinen (HCI Productions Oy, Helsinki, Finland) is Chair of the EDEN NAP (Network of Academics and Professionals), a well-known expert in the use of social media in education. Since 2009 Mr Auvinen has studied reflexology and also practices reflexology and lomi lomi massages in his wellness studio in Helsinki.
Places for these sessions are limited and bookings will be confirmed on first come first served basis. Sessions are really one-to-one and cannot be attended by observers.
Please, only book if it is certain that you will show up in the indicated timeslot. We thank for your understanding and reliable co-operation.
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Lunch Served in the Cafeteria of “Frederikke” building