Join the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN) Community in the inspiring city of Barcelona to share your research, projects and practice at the EDEN 2015 Annual Conference.
EDEN 2015 Conference Themes
Expanded learning scenarios
- Augmented reality and innovative uses of smartphones
- Use of social networks within/outside the classroom
- Mixing formal and informal learning / Hybridisation of higher education
- Addressing multiculturality in the classroom
- 21st century citizen skills
- Tools and resources for learning through mobile devices
Opening the classroom, to expand education
- The intersection between higher education and MOOCs
- Institutional repositories and digital libraries as a teaching tool
- Users as creators and curators of learning resources
- Sharing open activities between higher educational institutions
- Sustainable business models for openness in education
Learning analytics from the "learning" perspective
- Helping learners, teachers and managers to visualise their achievements
- Evaluating the real impact of learning analytics
- Learning analytics for improving e-assessment
- Data-driven learning personalisation
- Reducing dropout through learning analytics
Empowering learners
- Promoting self assessment and reflection
- Practices and guidelines for e-feedback
- Distance assessment tools
- Collaborative assessment
- Platform and tools for crowd participation and peer support
Expanded learning scenarios from the teaching perspective
- Teaching development in the networking
- Digital competences for teaching
- Interplay between centralised and personal learning environments
- Scaling up pedagogies for crowd learning
New generation of methodologies
- Changing leardership models and practices
- Elements of new, digital pedagogies in context
- New learning modes – How learning happens through cognition, emotion and auto-motoric skills with new technology and media
- Challenges of diversity and its impact to learning and teaching
EDEN 2015 Keynote Speakers
- Xavier Prats Monné, Director-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission
- Jim Groom, Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington, USA
- Belinda Tynan, Pro-Vice Chancellor, The Open University, UK
- Marci Powell, Chair Emerita and Past President, USDLA, Global Director, Education, Polycom, USA
- Darcy Hardy (tbc.), Associate Vice President, Enterprise Consulting, Blackboard, USA
- Martin Weller, Professor of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK
- Albert Sangra, UNESCO Chair, Faculty Member, eLearn Center at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
- Maarten de Laat, Full Professor of Professional Development in Social Networks, Welten Institute, Faculty of Psychology & Education, TheOpen University of the Netherlands
- Audrey Watters, Journalist Specializing in Education Technology News and Analysis, Hack Education, USA
- Stavros Panagiotis Xanthopoylos (tbc.), Vice-President, Brazilian Association for Distance Education - ABED, Professor, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP), Brazil
The 2015 European Distance and E-Learning Netwok Conference (EDEN 2015) will take place at the Catalonia Barcelona Plaza Hotel (Barcelona, Spain, EU) on June 9 - 12, 2015.