Saturday, June 9, 2012

The EDEN Presidents' blog on EDEN Welcome Reception with Fellow Awards

 EDEN Welcome Reception with Fellow Awards: The EDEN Annual Conference started tonight with the welcome reception in the Noble Hall of Alfandega Congress Center. During th...

e4qualityinnovationandlearning: Ricoeure

e4qualityinnovationandlearning: Ricoeure: There was another very interesting key note speaker in the same session as  Stephens at the EDEN annual conference in Porto PT, and that w...

Best Research Paper Award Announced

EDEN's Best Research Paper Award was announced yesterday evening by the Chair of the Jury, Ingeborg Boe at the Conference Dinner. In collaboration with the Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Research in Open and Distance Learning, with the support of a distinguished Jury.

This year's winners were Emanuele Rapetti and Lorenzo Cantoni from Universita della Svizzera Italiana in  Switzerland with their paper is entitled Reconsidering "Gen Y" & Co: From Minding the Gap to Overcoming it.

Congratulations to Emanuele and Lorenzo!

You can follow Lorenzo on Twitter or read his blog.

 Their paper will be downloadable at the Best Research Paper section of the EDEN website. Until then, take a look at the presentation of the paper on Slideshare:

Friday, June 8, 2012

Dale Stephens' References from Keynote Speech





Dale Stephens gave an inspiring speech this morning on unschooling with a remarkable speed and list of references. Here is a list for those who were not fast enough to type the links. Read the interview with Dale we did for the conference. Here you find another interview, a fellow unschooler did with Dale.

7 Steps to Learn Effectively on UnCollege
http://www.uncollege.org/7-steps-to-learn-effectively/

How Children Learn by John Holt on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201484048/

Accepted - the movie in IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384793/

Skillshare: Learn anything from anyone, anywhere.
http://www.skillshare.com/

Formerly Coursekit, now Lore: free online course-management
http://lore.com/

Online courses/tutoring:
http://generalassemb.ly/


More from UnCollege:

Open Traditional University Courses

Stanford Artificial Intelligence Course: Free online course at Stanford.
MIT Open Course Ware: Free MIT education. Various multimedia and resources for each course.
Coursera: Offers 40 free courses from leading US Universities
Udacity: 6 free computer science classes from former Stanford professors. 
OCW Consortium : Open CourseWare universities
 

Open Unconventional University Courses


creativeLIVE: Free classes live. Pay for past recorded classes.

Alison: Advanced Learning Interactive Systems Online. Offers 300+ free and interactive multimedia training courses.
saylor.org: Free ed. website with 13 areas of study each containing many courses that include readings, assignments, and other media.

Udemy: Attend or create online courses. From free to $250 on any subject. Can include video, PowerPoint, PDFs, audio, and or classes.
Learnable: Attend or create online courses from $10-50 on Web Dev, Tech, Lifestyle, and Business.

Video and Audio Lectures

TED: Tech Entertainment Design. Presentations of the most innovative ideas from around the world.
 Textbook Revolution: Student-run (crowdsourced) site that provides links to free online textbooks and other educational materials from teacher and professors.
bookboon.com: Over 1000 open ebooks written by professors and other experts for students, business professionals, and travel guides.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals. Free, full text, scientific journals. Research anything.
Project Gutenberg: 36,000+ open books (download as ebook) whose copyrights have expired.
Scribd: “The world’s largest social reading and publishing company. Share and discover entertaining, informative and original written content across the web and mobile devices.”

Online Learning Communities

iversity: The collaboration network for academia.
P2PU: Crowd sourced learning, P2P learning anything.
Sophia: Free learning packets are voted up or down by members and stamped for correctness. Over 1000 learning packets mostly in Math, English and Science.
Wikiversity: Search the 15,000+ Wikipedia resources by type, school, level, and completion status.
 The Public School: School with no curriculum, classes proposed by public, people can sign up, and when there is enough interest, they find a teacher.
Citizen Circles : Social Innovation fueled by peer learning. 3+ person groups that solve local problems.
Learning Unlimited: Learning Unlimited is leading a movement of college students teaching high school students everything and anything.

Study Groups

Course Hero: Access to the learning materials, tutors, and textbook help.
OpenStudy: 1000s of students. Find students who can help you. Post a question and others answer.
hoot.me: Switch Facebook into study mode.
Codecademy: Learn coding with your friends. Take courses for beginners.

StackExchange: Growing network of 66 Q&A sites on many diverse topics.
Kibin: Crowdsourced editing community for essays, articles, resumes, poems, and any written content.




 



Thursday, June 7, 2012

Online References from Today's Keynote speeches

Some of you are there face-to-face listening to the keynotes on site. Some of you might follow online (sorry again for the stream hickups), but all of you might want to check the references Gyula Hegy and Bob Fryer mentioned in their presentations this morning. Here are soem of them (thanks to all the Twitter contributors!)

The European Commission's Digital Agenda for Europe:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm

Digital Agenda Scoreboard (European Commission, Information Society):
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/scoreboard/index_en.htm

Study: Ages of Social Network Users:
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/16/study-ages-of-social-network-users/

Creating Capabilities -  The Human Development Approach book by Martha C. Nussbaum
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674050549

The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)  in the UK
http://www.niace.org.uk/

Quality Aging project online:
http://www.q-ageing.eu/

Grandparents and Grandchildren project online:
http://www.geengee.eu/geengee/



Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Conference Session Online Stream

The EDEN 2012 Annual Conference Plenary sessions (Thursday and Friday) and selected parallel sessions will be broadcasted via online streaming. Streaming will be online according to the schedule below. The URL for the webcasts is now available.

Technical details

the streaming works through simple Media Players, such as WMP or VLC. Please, make sure you have one of these installed on your computer to watch the video streams. To see all plenary and parallel sessions to be webcasted and all workshops with webinar function, please read the details below.

Sessions with Online Webstream

9.00-11.00 (GMT) 7 June, Thursday

Plenary Session 1

With : Morten Flate Paulsen, Ligia Maria Ribeiro, Gyula Hegyi, Isabel Leite, Bob Fryer Keynote Speakers
11.30-13.00 (GMT) 7 June, Thursday Parallel Session:
Distance and e-Learning Policy and Strategy
14.30-16.00 (GMT), 7 June, Thursday Workshop:
Learning in e-Europe in 2022: Scenarios for a More Open, Efficient, Sustainable and User-friendly Education System
16.30-18.00 (GMT), 7 June, Thursday
 
Parallel Session:
Social Web and Collaborative Learning

9.00-11.00 (GMT) 8 June, Friday

Plenary Session 2

With: Dale J. Stephens and David White Keynote Speakers
11.30-13.00 (GMT), 8 June, Friday
Workshop:
Increasing Equity in Higher Education beyond Rhetoric: Campaign Launch and Research Results of the Project’s Second Year

14.30-16.00 (GMT), 8 June, Friday

 

Panel Discussion with Keynotes Speakers

With: Gyula Hegyi, Isabel Leite, Bob Fryer, Dale J. Stephens and David White Keynote Speakers joined by ICDE Secretary General Gard Titlestad and Universidade Aberta Rector Paulo Dias
16.30-18.00 (GMT), 8 June, Friday
Workshop:
How to Give Credit for Learning with Open Educational Resources: Six Scenarios, a Guideline and a European Taskforce

Conference Workshops with Webinar funktion

Workshops below will be available as webinars as well on the dedicated webinar rooms listed below (to enter to the webinar, click on the respective Workshop link).
Workshop teams provide a facilitator who enables online participants to contribute to the live discussions. Please, note, that the webinars will be recorded and later posted on the web.
11.30-13.00 (GMT), 7 June, Thursday
 
ICT in the Process of Developing Learning to Learn Competences in Lifelong Learning Transitions: From Theory into the Practice
16.30-18.00 (GMT), 7 June, Thursday
 
Adults Learning for Intergenerational Creative Experiences
14.30-16.00 (GMT), 8 June, Friday
 
Design Principles for Pedagogic Multimedia
16.30-18.00 (GMT), 8 June, Friday
 
How to give credit for learning with OERs
9.30-10.45 (GMT), 9 June, Saturday
 
The Demographic Challenge Needs Innovation in Health Services and Cultures: How e-Networking & e-Learning can Activate New Mindsets, Unlashing Intergenerational Resources for Society?