- Conference Registration
- Pre-Conference Events
- Welcome Cocktail
15:00 – 18:00 Conference Registration
Conference delegates arriving and registering can familiarise themselves with the environment.
Venue: Catalonia Barcelona Plaza Hotel
15:00 – 18:30 Pre-Conference Events
15:00 – 18:30 Open Round Table of International Editors in Educational Technology Journals Educational Technology and Scientific Journals Today
Challenges and opportunities in a new scientific communication scenario
The Editors Workshop (upon invitation only) will be followed by an Open Round Table in the afternoon. Attendance is open to all interested EDEN 2015 Conference participants, although registration is necessary due to space limitations.
Participating journals: Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, British Journal
of Educational Technology, Educational Technology and Society, Electronic Journal of
E-Learning, European Journal of Open, Distance and E-learning, International Review of
Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society,
Journal of Interactive Media in Education, Journal of New Approaches in Educational
Research, Online Learning, Open Learning, Open Praxis, RUSC. Universities and Knowledge
Society Journal Attendance is subject of prior online registration.
Buses will leave from UOC headquarters to the Welcome Reception at 18:30.
Venue: UOC ? Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Av. del Tibidabo, 39, 08035 Barcelona
15:00 – 18:30 Workshop – How Europe Seizes the Opportunities Offered by MOOCs
The programme will start with a general overview of the status of MOOC offering in Europe.
The recent report “Institutional MOOC strategies in Europe” will be discussed as well as the
analysis of the 15 position papers for European cooperation on MOOCs. In addition, latest
analysises will be presented on didactical and pedagogical approaches, shared (educational)
services and sustainable business models for joint European MOOCs. Please register here.
Organised by EADTU ? European Association of Distance Teaching Universities,
HOME project ? Higher education Online: MOOCs the European way
Venue: Catalonia Barcelona Plaza Hotel (Sala 7-3, 7th floor)
15:00 – 18:00 OER Uptake in Adult Education Institutions: What do Stakeholders Need?
UOC is Partner and EDEN is Associate Partner in the OERup! project that develops a training
package for OER in adult learning. Therefore, we invite decision makers of adult education
institutions, educational professionals, practitioners and anyone interested in open
education to join a lively discussion about the training’s structure and content. Please register here.
Venue: CosmoCaixa (the Science Museum), Isaac Newton, 26
16:00 – 18:00 EDEN 2015-2020 – Strategy and Services of the Association in the Light of the EU 2020 Policy Aims
Old Friends and Newcomers Welcome!
Short presentations by Antonio Teixeira, EDEN President and Ildiko Mazar, Deputy Secretary
General, followed by informal discussion about the activities, services, developments of
EDEN with the Network of Academics and Professionals ? NAP Steering Committee and
Secretariat members
Venue: Catalonia Barcelona Plaza Hotel
19:30 – 21:30 Welcome Cocktail
Courtesy of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Venue: Centre Cultural el Born (Placa Comercial, 12)
Welcome
Josep A. Planell, President, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
António Moreira Teixeira, EDEN President
Presentation of EDEN Fellow Awards
António Moreira Teixeira, EDEN President
Recognition of the EDEN Young Scholar Award winners
Catalan performance, the so-called castells (human tower) is organised outside the
building. (At the end of the reception)