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 University of Catalonia, Spain. It is a great pleasure for me to interview you Professor Dr. Albert Sangrà for the upcoming EDEN Conference in wonderful Barcelona.

Albert Sangrà is the... Read full post

The US power-duo Marci Powell and Darcy Hardy talks to Lisa-Marie Blaschke in their #EDEN15 Pre-Conference Interview: Collaboration is Key: The power of togetherness.

Marci Powell, Chair Emerita and Past President of USDLA and Darcy Hardy, Associate Vice President, Blackboard, USA discuss their path from academia to distance and e-learning industry from the female perspective in working in the field. Their interview also touches on the potential of collaboration across continents and... Read full post

In one of my previous posts, entitled «Building a Roadmap», I announced that one of EDEN's exciting new initiatives in the pipeline was the redesign of our web presence. This is indeed an important part of our strategy. For EDEN the web is not just an extension of its activities. On the contrary, a major part of what the association is and does today happens on and because of the web. Our goal is therefore to develop a more integrated, interactive, dynamic, ubiquitous and open... Read full post

In a time of such a rapid expansion of the learning scenarios as the one we're experiencing, educational research is quite often an exercise of anticipation. However, given this is also a time of scarce recourses we cannot afford to lose focus and need to be strategic in our goals. What are the priorities for research then? What are the main challenges ahead? What are the topics and issues we should target? Last April 23rd, upon the invitation from my colleague Professor Anja... Read full post

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 one of his posts in the President's Blog, former President and my good friend Morten Paulsen has already reflected on the tremendous potential of these transformations. However, this ongoing movement... Read full post

Airina Volungeviciene Vice-President of EDEN interviewed Belinda Tynan, Pro-Vice Chancellor of The Open University, UK ahead of her keynote speech at the #EDEN15 Conference in Barcelona.

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Airina Volungeviciene is the Director of Innovative Studies Institute at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania and Vice-President of EDEN. Airina has... Read full post

Interview by Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University, UK

Recently on this blog I featured an interview with Martin Weller, one of the keynote speakers at #EDEN15.

I was also privileged to conduct an interview another of our EDEN keynote speakers, Jim Groom, adjunct professor at Mary Washington University in Virginia, the transcript is reproduced below:

1) What is Bavatuesdays, and why are you known as the Reverend?

bavatuesdays (the b is lowercase!) is the... Read full post

As announced on the EDEN portal, last 15th-16th January, I've hosted a meeting in Lisbon at the Universidade Aberta (UAb) with Professor Anja Oskamp, the President of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities. Anja, being the Rector of the Open University of the Netherlands, is also a distinguished EDEN member. This gathering of colleagues and friends included also the Secretary Generals of EDEN, Dr. Andras Szucs, and of EADTU, George Ubachs. You can see a quick summary of... Read full post

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. 

Maarten de Laat is a full professor of professional development in social networks at Welten Institute Research Centre for Learning, Teaching & Technology, Faculty of Psychology and Education... Read full post

"What works in one context may well not work in a different context. This leads to problems of generalization in research into human learning, because the conditions of learning can vary enormously."

Tony Bates

Last year's #EDENRW8  - EDEN Research Workshop was an extraordinary occasion to explore a most condensed aggreated top contemporary research into online and distance learning. Participants and speakers contemplated current complex challenges facing... Read full post