Dublin Castle
Registration for Learning and Sustainability: EDEN 20th anniversary conference (EDEN = European Distance Education Network) is now open.
To read the registration procedure and conditions as well as registration fees arranged, please, visit the Registration menu on the web and use the Online Registration Form to join the event. All attendees (presenting or visiting) are expected to register.
The conference is in Dublin, Ireland, between 19-22 June, 2011
Dublin Castle
Learning and Sustainability: EDEN 20th anniversary conference (EDEN = European Distance Education Network)
19-22 June 2011
Dublin, Ireland
Aim
‘The role of innovative learning as critical awareness raising factor for global sustainability links organically to education around understanding the contexts of ecological challenges. The aim of the 2011 EDEN conference is to highlight different ways and approaches, in order to integrate better the concept of responsible and sustainable development within learning, in its widest sense.’
[If you know what that means, please tell me.]
Call for Contributions
To learn more about the scope of the event and consult the themes, please visit the respective conference pages.
The Conference web-site and the Call for Contributions is open.
As usually, there will be opportunities for submitting and presenting papers, workshops, posters and demonstrations. The conference theme implies in the meantime high level of openness and creativity both in choosing the topics and applying/proposing formats of interactive and involving ways of presentations.
Schedule and Deadlines
Paper Submissions – 28 January, 2011
Registration Open – Mid February
Notification of Authors – 31 March
On-line Registration Closes – 1 June
Organised in collaboration with Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology
Sixth EDEN Research workshop
USER GENERATED CONTENT ASSESSMENT IN LEARNING: ENHANCING TRANSPARENCY AND QUALITY OF PEER PRODUCTION
Budapest University of Technology, Budapest, Hungary
Call for Papers
You are invited to submit full proposals (no abstracts are required) for paper presentations in parallel sessions, or posters that relate to one or more of the conference themes. Poster presentations will also be themed and moderated in related panel discussions. For details and format requirements please, visit the respective conference page.
There will also be space in the programme for a limited number of workshops, introducing a more comprehensive theme and for interactive (learning café or cracker barrel) sessions. The maximum number of workshops, cracker-barrel/learning café sessions will be 10 altogether.
Papers should be submitted in English through the online submission form.
Research Questions in Focus
The real value of e-learning, which is questioned for different reasons in different contexts, may be boosted by credible and appropriate evaluation methods and practices. In the context of assessment, the quality dimension is emerging as contribution to the valuation of ICT supported learning, its re-positioning by better evaluation methods.
The quest for added value – how can contribute the new forms of learning, in circumstances of hard socio-economic challenges – is strongly coming forward.
Online assessment techniques are among the hot topics in educational research, as they provide opportunity to assess skills and competences in the context they occur.
Peer production and user-created content are becoming important elements as learners are no longer just consumers, but they actively participate in the process and influence it.
When we evaluate user generated content, quality may be both the result of the interplay between peer production and peer validation process of digital content. The issue of transparency, together with credibility is high on the agenda.
Important deadlines
Deadline for submissions – 23 August
Deadline for later submissions – 5 September
Notification of authors: 6 September and
15 September (for later submittors) and Economics
Registration opens: 1 September
EDEN 2010 Annual Conference
Valencia, Spain,
June 9-12
The EDEN conference organizers are pleased to announce that the detailed conference programme with the schedule of plenary and parallel sessions is now available at the conference homepage.
Keynote Speakers
On the first day of the Conference, 10 June, the outstanding plenary speakers, Martin Bean, Martine Vidal and George Siemens will help to draw up the conceptual frame of the conference with strategic keynotes.
On Friday, 11th Maruja Guiterrez-Diaz and Brian Holmes will introduce “ICT for Education in Europe and the new EU2020 Strategy”, Andy DiPaolo will speak about the role of Online Education in Career Development, Ciaran McCormack will discuss the User-generated Content theme.
On Saturday, Bernard Luskin will highlight the media psychology context of e-learning and Sanna Vahtivuori-Hanninen will present the Roadmap for the Future Schools of Finland with Innovative Use of ICTs and Media.
Bernath, U. et al. (2009) Distance and E-learning in Transition – Learning Innovation, Technology and Social Challenges New York: ISTE and John Wiley
The book is a selection of the best EDEN conference papers from the past years, revisiting research, innovation and professional practice in distance and e-learning.
The Editorial Team included
Ulrich Bernath, Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and Chair of the Trustees of the Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Open and Distance Learning, Germany
András Szűcs, Secretary General, EDEN, Director of the Centre for Learning Innovation and Adult Learning at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Professor Alan Tait, EDEN President, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Curriculum and Awards) at The Open University, United Kingdom
Martine Vidal, Vice-President of EDEN, Research Director to the Rector, General Director of CNED, and Chief Editor of the Journal “Distances et savoirs”, France
The Book in Two Parts
Part one of the book pays particular attention to all the aspects related to institutionalised approaches to distance education and e-learning, the reform and development through sustained social and educational policies and practices.
The second part of the book explores the continued impact of ICT on teaching and learning. The articles assembled here span over eight years reflecting on an evolving process, even if not a consistent one. We can through these papers witness the change in the ways actors in the field of distance and e-learning have engaged with ICT, and how researchers have examined the new technologies and how they have evolved conceptual analyses.
Table of contents can be seen here.
Ordering the Book
Order form is available here and also can be downloaded from the EDEN web-site.
The price of the Book is 127 Euro (plus postage cost). Special discounted price of 99 Euro is available for EDEN Members and for the participants of the EDEN Conference in Gdansk.
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