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

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

The EDEN Synergy workshop in Budapest (October 19th-21st) was the perfect opportunity to celebrate the 10th anniversary of eLene, a vibrant group of people and institutions who form a network and community of practice around e-learning related projects.

As one of the initiators of eLene, I had the honour and pleasure of telling the eLene story in the opening plenary earlier today.

Here is the text version of my speech:

"I'd like you to take your minds back to... Read full post

Those of you who know me might be surprised to learn that this is my very first blog post! I'm surprised myself, but now the EDEN NAP area has put this opportunity in my hands, I have no excuse to be absent from the blogosphere any longer. I also read with interest Steve Wheeler's convincing arguments for blogging, and so here I am!

Last week I was asked to contribute to the exciting project Gender-IT with the story of how, as a woman, I came to be involved in ICT. And this... Read full post