The Open University, UK hosted the first time announced Best Poster Award at the EDENRW8 - Research Workshop in Oxford. The Award was voted by the participants of the event on site. We are happy to announce, that the award goes to:

Elaine Walsh, James Brunton, Dublin City University, Ireland
for their poster: 
Assessment Strategy - Designing and Developing Assessments for Online Distance Education (PDF download)

The Award was presented by Belinda Tynan, Pro... Read full post

Last Sunday, the 26th October, the EDEN Executive Committee met for the 100th time, in Oxford. Looking at the EC at its very first meeting in Warsaw, in 1991, (picture in left) and in its most recent form, during the EDENRW8 (on the right), you're bound to find quite a few differences. The setting, the style options, the size of the group and even the gender balance are obviously not alike. The topics on the agenda were also... Read full post

Laudatio:

There were two papers that stood out from all the rest. One was an extremely well conducted, classic, quasi-experimental, quantitative study, that resulted in significant findings that have immediate applicability in the field of online distance learning and indeed beyond. The other raised issues critical to the development of the use of Big Data for learning analytics. Using student consultation through forums and content analysis the authors identified a number of... Read full post

UPDATE: Winner(s) of the EDENRW8 Best Research Paper Award will be announced tonight.

Since 2008, EDEN is continuously granting the Best Research Paper Award at EDEN’s Annual Conferences as well as at EDEN’s bi-annual Research Workshops. A high quality standard selection process shall guarantee the branding of a distinguished and reputable award for scholarly conference papers in the field of open, distance and e-learning.

The selection process takes place in... Read full post

When an organization is leading its field as EDEN does, it needs to break through uncharted ground. Building a roadmap becomes therefore a critical task. Our network should feel proud on how it is successfully finding its way through a rapidly changing landscape.

Rolex Learning Centre, EPFL, Lausanne | Source: Association des étudiants en génie mécanique AMAC

As referred in my previous posts, over the last months EDEN has been quite active and... Read full post

As promised in my first post, the EDEN President's Blog is a collective voice of our network's leadership. Fulfilling that promise, I'm delighted to introduce you to our Blog's first guest writer my dear friend and EDEN Vice-President Alan Bruce. He wrote us an inspiring post sharing his vision on how innovation can contribute to shape the future of our schools. You can find more about Alan's background, interests and work here.

As you know, school innovation has... Read full post

For the European education community, the end of the summer break represents always a time of starting over and of a cyclic new beginning. We tend to look forward in anticipation for the new academic year that is just beginning trying to determine what will come. This is a time for imagining and planning the future, of looking beyond our horizon. But, for me personally, these special late summer days represent also an important moment of reflection. After all, in our field of practice looking... Read full post

EDEN's Annual Conference last June was once again one of the highlights of the year for the for the European open, distance and eLearning community. Coinciding with the first anniversary of Croatia's entering into the European Union, the EDEN community visited Zagreb for the very first time and what a happy occasion this was. The conference was once again a meeting point for the community, attracting over three hundred experts from all over the world.

His... Read full post

Public consultation on the Commission's Stakeholder Consultation guidelines

From 30/06/2014 to 30/09/2014

The guidelines focus on consultations carried out in policy preparation. They also apply to consultations in the context of evaluations. They provide advice and support on all aspects of carrying out consultations from the definition of the consultation&'s objectives to the evaluation of the consultation exercise.
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Dear Colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to the Themed Issue of the Journal Distance Education to be published May 2015. The theme is: Distance Education and Time: Instructional and organizational implications for managing time, workload, and costs. The announcement is made at the ODLAA website http://www.odlaa.org/, which includes the link to the Call for Papers at http://odlaa.org/images/pdf/de-36-2-cfp.pdf.

If you are interested in this topic and consider contributing a... Read full post