Description: In EDEN we offer opportunities for people to meet, to discuss, to network, to share new ideas, to create new knowledge, etc. We do that for professionals, teachers and researchers, for students and supervisors, for academics and non-academics. We recognize the importance of fundamental, empirical or action research and want to share the outcomes with […]

Description: Open education is advocated by many as a means of improving educational effectiveness, access,  and equity. However, openness in education is increasingly under threat. More platforms and tools are raising paywalls and several MOOC platforms are already experimenting with fees for access to course material, thus making the open aspect of MOOC redundant. In […]

Format: Presentations and discussion Description:  With new technologies and digital devices we have changed our everyday life. We do not use books, now we use e-books, we do not watch how someone is doing something live, we watch the video, children do not play game outside but online, student do not need to travel to […]

Format: Presentation/panel discussion Description: The learning landscape looks completely different today than it did five years ago. The way that learners are learning is changing dramatically. Today learning is available anywhere, and everywhere, and through any kind of device. Mobile learning is the first choice for most people today. Within a context of globalization and […]

Format: Panel debate Description: “Learning Spaces” (LS) is the term used in a report published in 2006 by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, “as a way to embrace a different view of future learning”. The context for learning in the schools and HEIs, at any level, is already changing, and thus the characteristics and […]

Watch the recording Format: Panel discussion Description: Digital learning opened new ways for society members to start early careers on a global scale, but also to seek for the possibilities to re-enter HE at different stages of life, to seek for (re-) qualification in a variety of ways. Digital and network society is the new target group […]

Watch the recording Format: Panel discussion Description:    Technology has been changing the landscape of education for years and one of the greatest advancements has been in distance education. ICTs have been playing an important role in the delivery strategies of distance learning and providing a variety of new techniques for educators and learners to enhance […]

watch the recording Format: Presentation with discussion Description:  In this webinar four experts in the field of e-learning and distance education will reflect upon how the very nature of learning at a distance is changing to meet the needs of the modern society, reductions in expenditure in higher education, the incursion of face-to-face universities in […]

watch the recording Format: Presentations with discussion Description:The rapidly growing number of open educational materials and repositories makes the issue of how to find the most relevant and best quality resources to be integrated in teaching and learning offers. In addition, overlapping and competing standards, size of the search pool, quality of metadata represents issues that […]

Watch the recording Format: Panel Discussion Description: Education offers incredible potential for the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, with several significant opportunities — and challenges — that the introduction of artificial intelligence could bring, especially to higher education. Increasingly, higher education institutions, as well as adult and professional learning are being transformed by intelligent systems […]

Watch the recording Format: Presentation and panel discussion Description:   In the past decade open, distance, and eLearning and distance learning (ODeL) continue to build upon their foundational roots of education accessibility, making great strides towards openness in education by leveraging the affordances of technology, through open educational resources (OER), MOOCs, open pedagogy, and research. But […]