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Format: Presentations and panel Presenters: Fabio Nascimbeni, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, EDEN Senior Fellow. Title of presentation: Building Critical Digital Literacy for HE Teachers: the Eduhack approach Jean-Claude Callens, Vives University, title of presentation: Evaluation in distance education @ VIVES: some tools and trends Simon Paul Atkinson, Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy […]
Format: Presentations/panel Description: As lifelong learning is coming from a myth to reality, education is increasingly diversifying. No longer a standard formal degree is the rule of the day but more and more education is an episodical process throughout life. While policy enthusiastically embraces these and related ideas, practice is still struggling with following. And in […]
Format: Panel debate Description: If we reflect today on Distance Education what can we say, does it satisfy learners needs today? How distance education has evolved through decades? It can be said that technology have been core to the nature and organization of learning and teaching for millenia. What tools are used today for distance […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide, the free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now.With the success of previous years' Open Education Weeks in the background, EDEN once again […]
Presentation and discussionWatch the recording Moderator: Antonella Poce, EDEN Fellow, EDEN NAP SC Chair, University Roma III, Italy Description: In the context of Open Education, quality assessment tools are necessary. Speaking of quality means quality assurance, quality audit and quality enhancement. Atenas and Havemann (2014) list a series of actions to identify resources to be […]
Presentation and discussionWatch the recording Moderator: Lisa Marie Blaschke, EDEN Senior Fellow, Chair of EDEN Council of Fellows, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany Description: A number of innovative and unique initiatives around the topic of open education have been emerging throughout Europe, specifically in the areas of micro-credentialing and prior learning assessment and […]
Panel discussionWatch the recording Moderator: Mark Brown, EDEN EC member, EDEN Fellow, Dublin City University, Ireland Description: The Open University has a long tradition and this webinar brings together four distinguished speakers who will share their reflections on following questions: What makes the Open University unique from other universities? What major challenges have open universities […]