March 10, 2015 by EDEN Secretariat
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Steve Wheeler's interview with Martin Weller
Now and then, I have the privilege to interview some great thought leaders in the field of education. I usually feature them on this blog under the banner of 10Q - ten questions. This time, I'm very happy to interview two of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 conference, which will be held in Barcelona. In a few days I'll post my interview with Jim Groom, but first, here's the conversation that ensued when I... Read full post
January 9, 2015 by Antonio Moreira Teixeira
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Opening up the education system has been embraced by European Governments and institutions throughout the continent as a main goal of the decade. As I've already mentioned in previous posts this bold challenge is speeding up considerably the transformation in our field as open and digital learning becomes mainstream. A major driver for this development has been the extraordinary and to some extent unexpected impact of MOOCs, or better said open education at (large) scale. As the recent... Read full post
December 24, 2014 by Antonio Moreira Teixeira
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The year of 2014 was undoubtedly a very good and significant one for the open, distance and e-learning community both in Europe and across the world. This was also a very successful and important year for EDEN. As open and digital education provision becomes mainstream across sectors and our professional field experiences a dramatic expansion, EDEN has managed to anticipate this development and adjust to the changing environment in the best way. Our position as Europe's largest association... Read full post
November 28, 2014 by Antonio Moreira Teixeira
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EDEN is a comprehensive and multidimensional organization representing all actors in open, distance and digital learning. As such it combines institutional membership with a network of individual members. This Network of Academics and Professionals - NAP - is the largest European association of experts in our field and one of the most important ones worldwide. Amongst their numerous initiatives, the NAP has been successfully conducting in the past months the #EDENChat, in which relevant topics... Read full post
November 18, 2014 by Antonio Moreira Teixeira
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In his final, fourth guest blog post, the EDENRW8 rapporteur Tony Bates gives us a synthesis of the event's main discussion trends and conclusions. As he states in the latest post in his own personal blog, one of the most important roles for the largest global organizations in the field, such as EDEN, is to disseminate research in online learning. We do agree with him and intend to carry on EDEN's legacy of supporting the promotion, dissemination and recognition of quality research in... Read full post
November 14, 2014 by Antonio Moreira Teixeira
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Today I publish the third of a series of four guest posts by Tony Bates reporting on the EDENRW8 held in Oxford in 26th-28th October. In today's post, he concludes his detailed analysis of the very high quality research papers presented.
Antonio
A Report on the State of Art of European Research into Open and Distance Learning - Part III - by Tony Bates
THE RESEARCH PAPERS (SECTION B)
As I've referred in my previous blog post, my reports on the EDENRW8... Read full post
November 12, 2014 by Antonio Moreira Teixeira
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Following up on the previous guest post, Tony Bates continues to share with us today his expert perspective on the main discussion trends and conclusions of the EDENRW8 held in Oxford in 26th-28th October. In this second post, he starts his analysis of the research papers presented.
I take this opportunity to reiterate my congratulations to all the authors for the high quality of their work and in particular to the joint winners of the EDEN Best Research Paper Award. The BRPA is a valuable... Read full post
November 10, 2014 by Antonio Moreira Teixeira
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As announced in my latest post, I've invited EDENRW8 rapporteur Tony Bates, who is an EDEN Senior Fellow and also a very dear friend, to share with us his expert perspective on the main discussion trends and conclusions of such a remarkable event. As a result he wrote a collection of four excellent blog posts, which I'll publish over the course of this week.
In each post Tony gives an insight on a particular aspect of the EDENRW8. In the first one I'm publishing today, he... Read full post
November 5, 2014 by EDEN Secretariat
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The EDEN Fellow Awards Ceremonies usually take place at the Welcome Receptions of annual conference and research workshops. At Eighth EDEN Research Workshop - EDENRW8 in Oxford this tradition continued.
EDEN Senior Fellow Award has been granted by the Executive Committee of EDEN based on the nomination of the Open University, UK to:
Professor Tony Bates
as expression of acknowledgement of professional... Read full post
October 29, 2014 by Antonio Moreira Teixeira
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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 challenges. How we can do our things even better and also how we do better things is clearly the main question we need to respond to as researchers. Tony Bates will be giving a closer look to the... Read full post