What: Challenges for research into Open & Distance Learning: Doing Things Better: Doing Better Things
‘The focus of the event is on quality research discussed in unusual workshop setting with informal and intimate surroundings. The session formats will promote collaboration opportunities, including: parallel ‘research-speed-dating’ papers, team symposia sessions, workshops and demonstrations.‘
When: 26-28 October, 2014
Where: Oxford Spires Four Pillars Hotel, Oxford, England
Who: The Open University (UK) is the host institution in collaboration with the European Distance and E-Learning Network. Main speakers include:
- Sian Bayne, Digital Education, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Cristobal Cobo, Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK
- Pierre Dillenbourg, CHILI Lab, EPFL Center for Digital Education, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Allison Littlejohn, Director, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University, Chair in Learning Technology, UK
- Philipp Schmidt, Executive Director, Peer 2 Peer University / MIT Media Lab fellow, USA
- Willem van Valkenburg, Coordinator Delft Open Education Team, Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands
How: Submission of papers, workshop themes, posters and demonstrations are due by September 1: see: http://www.eden-online.org/2014_oxford/call.html
Dr. Tony Bates is the author of eleven books in the field of online learning and distance education. He has provided consulting services specializing in training in the planning and management of online learning and distance education, working with over 40 organizations in 25 countries. Tony is a Research Associate with Contact North | Contact Nord, Ontario’s Distance Education & Training Network.
