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watch the recording Format: Presentation with discussion Description:Â 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:Â Panel discussion Description:Â Â 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:Â Panel discussion Description:Â 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: 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:Â Presentation and panel discussion Description: Â 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 […]
WATCH THE RECORDINGDescription The rise of open online learning and e-learning poses more than ever quality-relevant questions. The development where learners take personal responsibility for their own learning is only one of the issues when quality is discussed, another problem is when quality is expressed as norm-based versus process-based. In view of the global challenges […]
Watch the recordingDescription In this webinar Dr Tharindu Liyanagunawardena will talk about her research, Automatic Transcription Software: Good Enough for Accessibility? A case study from built environment education, which was awarded the Best Research Paper Award at the 28th EDEN annual conference, Bruges, Belgium 16-19 June 2019. The increasing use of multimedia in learning resources […]
watch the recordingDescription This talk explores three principles for inclusive innovation and describes three research and development projects through which these principles have been developed and applied. Rather than seeing the need to be accessible to all as a barrier to innovation, innovation in educational projects can be at its most effective when the goals […]
Watch the Recording View the PresentationsPresentations & panel discussion Description: Aim of this webinar is to show examples of good practice of use of Open Education Resources (OER) in teaching and learning. Open Education Resources and Open Education Movement are high on the agenda in EU but also worldwide, yet teachers and educators are struggling […]
WATCH THE RECORDING View the PresentationsPresentations & panel discussion Description: The world is changing towards a more inclusive and interconnected global marketplace, where technology is playing an intensive role. Education actively responds to these changes by including more and more open education principles, quite often using diverse technologies to achieve so. Those institutions that enhance […]
WATCH THE RECORDING View the PresentationsPresentations & panel discussion Description: Open education has a key role to play in potentiating social inclusion. As noted by the European Commission for education in general (but is particularly relevant for open education) it helps to establish common values key to such inclusion: human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the […]
WATCH THE RECORDING View the PresentationsPresentations & panel discussion Description: For flexible, open and online education to become reality, it is vital to increase trust in recognition and credentials through robust and reliable solutions. In Europe, we already have standards and tools that can be used to transparently describe qualifications. The European Qualifications Framework gives […]