[EDEN-News] EDEN Annual Conference, Oslo 2013 – Programme On The Web!

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Conference Programme on the web! We are pleased to announce that the detailed conference programme with the schedule of plenary and parallel sessions is now available at the conference website. Near 100 papers, 50 posters, 17 workshops and 9 demonstrations will highlight the state of art in ICT supported learning in Europe and beyond. Keynote Speakers Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian Minister of Education and Research, Norway Prof. Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, United Kingdom Sir Ken Robinson (via live satellite), Professor emeritus, internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation, United States Anne Kirah, Chief Experience Officer, Making Waves, Norway Ana Carla Pereira, Head of Unit at European Commission, DGEAC Bernie Luskin, President for the Media Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, United States of America Torunn Gjelsvik, Norwegian Association for Distance and Flexible Education – NADE, Norway Patrick Blessinger, Executive Director, The International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association – HETL, United States For the list with details click here. Kristin Halvorsen Sir Ken Robinson Sugata Mitra Anne Kirah Bernie Luskin The Norwegian Association for Distance and Flexible Education will have their strand about best practice of distance and e-learning during the NADE Day “Disruptive Education”, 14 June. You can meet the Nordic e-learning community representatives, deemed one of the best in the world. Workshops selection Open Education for All and ICTs by the VISIR – “Vision, Scenarios, Insights and Recommendations” on ICT and Learning Network ICDE-EDEN Joint Workshop on Open and Distance Learning Futures: The increasing societal impact of online education OportUnidad: Faculty as Game Changers into OER-OEP Enhanced Learning Experiences Meeting Social Justice Goals in Open Distance and e-Learning: How are we Doing? The Online ‘Nobel Prize’ Competition Workshop with teams of students (by the Davidson Institute of the Weizmann Institute) Owning the Place of Learning: Principles for Designing Personal Learning Spaces for Learners and Teachers Accessing Labs and Infrastructures Remotely from European Classrooms Fostering the Joy of Teaching and Learning through Open Educational Practices How to Power-up Communities behind OER Initiatives Why Spend Time on Open Educational Resources? How do you Improve the Joy of Learning – European Panorama Registration The EDEN Secretariat is taking care of the registration for the 2013 Annual Conference. Please, use the Online Registration Form. The registration fee includes all conference facilities and materials (electronic Proceedings, Book of Abstracts), the Welcome Reception on 12 June, lunches and coffees on 13-15 June. We offer combined EDEN membership and conference fee discounted packages as well. For detailed information visit the conference website. Recognising Excellence The tradition of awarding the EDEN Conference Best Research Paper will be continued, in collaboration with the Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Open and Distance Learning. Awards will be presented at the Conference Dinner on 14 June. Exciting Interviews with the Keynote Speakers Read the pre-conference interviews with the EDEN 2013 Keynotes and learn about their particular approaches and stimulating themes at the conference web. The NVL Distance Network has arranged for a Nordic webinar on 16 May, interviewing Anna Kirah, Keynote Speaker. In this webinar you have the opportunity to get a more personal impression and at the same time you get a taste of what will be discussed at the Conference. Online and Social The Conference will be supported and accompanied intensively by social networking, sharing, online and virtual presence and involvement possibilities. You are invited to share on Twitter, Facebook, Slideshare and Youtube. The conference hashtag is #EDENOslo. A curated Conference news service is collecting related information via it’s Scoop.it account. Follow the The EDEN Oslo Facebook group which has been active for several weeks, sharing a lot of relevant information about and around the Oslo Conference. Social Events The Conference offers a great opportunity to socalize and network in an informal setting as well. The Welcome Reception will take place on 12 June in the foaje at the University of Oslo where you can start preparing yourself at the event. The EDEN fellow award wil be presented during the reception. It has developed into tradition of the EDEN Conferences to organise a Book and Wine Party, a gathering in the end of the first day (13 June) for the lovers of literature and good wines where they can share by short presentations their latest interesting reading experience. The Conference Dinner on 14 June, with a folklore programme at the beginning, will be organised in Oslo Military Society Conference Centre, a beautiful building in neo-romantic style. The Conference Centre is located in the city centre by the Oslo Fjord, besides the famous medieval Akershus Castle. Conference Venue, Oslo Oslo has a special combination of city life and easy access to the great outdoors, the Oslo fjord and the forests. You may enjoy the view on the roof of the new Opera House, the new Ski Jump Holmenkollen, or you may pay a visit to the Munch Museum and the Nobel Peace Center. Georg Sverdrups hus, Blindern. Photo: Francesco Saggio, UiO. Source Oslo Military Society Conference Centre Ski Jump Holmenkollen You may follow conference updates via Facebook and Twitter. If you would like to be removed from our mailing list, simply follow the link on the bottom of this letter.

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[Eurodl] New Articles Published In EURODL – April 2013

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Fresh Articles – April 2013

Dear EURODL subscriber, We kindly inform you that new articles have been accepted for publication recently. Take a look at the newly published articles: Communication and Social Presence: The Impact on Adult Learners’ Emotions in Distance Learning Christina Angelaki, Ilias Mavroidis Enriching Learning for First Year Chemistry Students: Introduction of Adobe Connect Erica Smith, Ben Greatrex, Michelle Taylor, Ieva Stupans Effectiveness of Personalised Learning Paths on Students Learning Experiences in an e-Learning Environment Mohammad Issack Santally, Alain Senteni Digital Resilience in Higher Education Martin Weller, Terry Anderson Disrupting the Implementation Gap with Digital Technology in Healthcare Distance Education: Critical Insights from an e-Mentoring Intensional Network Practitioner Research Project Gurmit Singh In case you like these and previous articles at EURODL, feel free to recommend them for reading to your colleagues on your social networking account by clicking at the “Share” button above the article’s title. We are announcing with great pleasure the two excellent keynote speakers at the EDEN 2013 Annual Conference in Oslo, Sugata Mitra (an interview with him can be read here) and Sir Ken Robinson. You are kindly invited to check the other reputable key speakers, as well. The conference programme will soon be available at the website. The registration is open, please, check the details at this page.. Feel free to contact us in case you have any inquiries. Kind regards, Anna Wagner If you would like to be removed from our mailing list, follow the link on the bottom of this letter.

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[EDEN-News] STAY IN – Call for Survey

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Newsletter March 2013 Issue 1

Your opinion counts! Join our survey! STAY IN – Student guidance at university for inclusion is a two-year project co-funded under the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning programme that aims to provide a comprehensive on-going guidance service, including e-guidance, to students in higher education, to contribute increasing their educational achievement. We invite you to take part in our survey and share your experience with us. Your suggestions will serve the improvement of the STAY IN eGuidance services. You can find the survey here. Filling it in takes cc. 10 minutes. Thank you for your time and contribution! More about STAY IN Guidance services at university are generally focused on access (learning guidance), and exit (placement, career services). Support for students during their studies is less well-addressed, or not addressed at all. However, most students dropping out from university, point to the need for continuous support during the study lifecycle. This is particularly the case for distance students, given the fact that support services are often available only at the universities’ premises. STAY IN therefore seeks to design and develop a service capable of supporting students in higher education during their academic career, by offering guidance and e-guidance to access available and prospective opportunities within the universities and in the communities where the universities are active. Guidance is conceived of as personalised support for each student to tackle potential obstacles that lead to disengagement and drop-out. Key expected results include: an integrated guidance and counselling system for the universities, covering processes, methods, tools; an eGuidance platform for European universities, designed and developed in order to address the specific needs of higher education institutions and higher education students for guidance and counselling services, and suitable for supporting on-going guidance and counselling; an updated picture of the practices across Europe on guidance for inclusion, and of the student’s point of view on guidance and e-guidance needs during their educational experience. For more information, visit: http://stay-in.org Contacts The STAY IN Consortium includes three universities (University of Macerata, Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Universidad de Sevilla), international research and consultancy companies (MELIUS, ARCOLA Research), an educational software developer company (LYNX), and two international educational networks (European Students Union and European Distance and E-Learning Network). Partner Contact person University of Macerata, Italy Pier Giuseppe Rossi Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Krisztina Fehér University of Seville, Spain Juan de Pablos Pons MELIUS, Italy Maria Chiara Vita Finzi European Distance and E-Learning Network – EDEN, UK Livia Turzó ARCOLA Research, UK Joe Cullen LYNX, Italy Stefano Penge European Students Union – ESU, Belgium Natalia Tarachiu

[EDEN-News] Invitation to the VISIR 2nd Consultation

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Understand, network, mainstream ICT for learning in Europe

Dear Colleagues, The VISIR project – “Vision, Scenarios, Insights and Recommendations“ is the initiative of seven European networks one research centre and one University involved in the open, distance and e-learning field. It aims to develop a shared vision on how ICT may help making lifelong learning a reality. Many such visions have already been elaborated. We trust that the strength of VISIR is that it is based on real-life scenarios and insights and built with a bottom-up approach, involving relevant stakeholders in the field. No doubt: Many such visions have already been elaborated. We trust that the strength of the present initiative is that it will be based on real-life scenarios and insights and built with a bottom-up approach, involving relevant stakeholders in the field of learning and ICT. VISIR Stakeholders consultation – Invitation to the Second survey “Reacting to change and transforming European LLL: the contribution of ICT in addressing key concerns related to learning innovation” The European Union has set the objective to establish the strongest education system in the world by 2020, and ICT could be one of the levers to support the process of innovation of European learning systems. National governments in EU still struggle with a fragmented picture in terms of effective use of ICT for learning. Research in the field is progressing, good practices increase but a meaningful use of technology has not yet been achieved. There is a need for research to support policy makers at EU and national level in understanding how ICT can support educational innovation. A wide consensus is available that ICT has a potential to contribute to learning innovation, and the VISIR consortium feels the need to discuss how to do so. In this survey, we would like to discuss how ICT can contribute to a set of key policy objectives, identified by the Stellar Network of Excellence in 2012: Cost reduction and effectiveness of learning Transferability of learning results across lifelong learning sectors and contexts Employability value of Education New assessment methods Scalability of innovation Learning attractiveness. For these objectives, a set of options are provided on how ICT can contribute to achieve them. You are kindly invited to give opinion on the options and to suggest further policy objectives how to do so. Join the consultation to share your views! The survey takes max. 15 minutes. Consultation is available in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. Results of the first consultation The theme was: “What are the most relevant factors of change and how do they affect LLL?”, and it run in June 2012, aiming to analyse trends on ICT and learning in Europe, the VISIR domains of change, polarities and tensions and the main lines of evolution, trying to outline future scenarios till 2020. You can download the 1st Consultation Executive Summary and the full 1st Consultation Paper. The project is co-funded by the European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme. Stay tuned on the VISIR website to know about the publication of the second report!

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[CNIE-L] EDEN Newsflash – Special Issue, March 2013

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March, 2013

Projects, practices, showcases VISIR 2nd Stakeholders Consultation Launched The VISIR project – “Vision, Scenarios, Insights and Recommendations “ is the initiative of seven European networks one research centre and one University involved in the open, distance and e-learning field. It aims to develop a shared vision on how ICT may help making lifelong learning a reality. In this 2nd survey, we invite you to discuss how ICT can contribute to a set of key policy objectives in the field of learning. The title of the consultation is: “Reacting to change and transforming European LLL: the contribution of ICT in addressing key concerns related to learning innovation” Consultation is available in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. Participation takes max. 15 minutes. Results of the First consultation “What are the most relevant factors of change and how do they affect LLL?” are downloadable: 1st Consultation Executive Summary and the full 1st Consultation Paper. visir-network.eu Join the NEST Community: Network of Staff and Teachers in Childcare Services NEST is a European project funded by the European Commission within the Lifelong Learning Programme with the aim of establishing a network in the field of staff development in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Europe. The project has just finished its first year, dedicated to stakeholder analyses, initial network building and the setting up of a multilingual NEST portal, where communities of pracice of ECEC professionals in Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovenian, Greek, Finnish and German national working groups are foreseen. The portal also includes a multilingual and expanding pool of repositories where professionals and researchers alike can find data, good practices, policies and learning resources etc. The partnership published a project newsletter (available also in German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish and Greek) to share the results achieved and to invite interested parties to join the NEST community to have the opportunity to reach fellow ECEC professionals working with children under 6, trainers and institutions of ECEC staff development, as well as researchers focusing on these areas. nest-project.eu

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