WELCOME TO EDEN AND THE CONFERENCE

Professor Morten Flate Paulsen, President of EDEN

HOW DO WE WORK ?

• Strong background in active membership

• Meeting place: an influential “hub” in lively networks

• Functions and activities in synergy:– membership,– conferences,– project work,– policy

MEMBERSHIP

• Varied, active, developing community • EDEN Membership in 2011:

– 195 institutional members– 1150 individuals in NAP – Altogether 56 countries

• Over 400 institutions represented• Joined EDEN last year:

– 35 institutions– 135 NAP members

EDEN has 40 Fellows and 13 Senior Fellows from 17 countries

Annual Conferences

20. Dublin, 201119. Valencia, 201018. Gdansk, 200917. Lisbon, 200816. Naples, 200715. Vienna, 200614. Helsinki, 200513. Budapest, 200412. Rhodes, 200311. Granada, 200210. Stockholm, 20018. Moscow, 19997. Bologna, 19986. Budapest, 19975. Poitiers, 19964. Birmingham, 19953. Tallinn, 19942. Berlin, 19931. Krakow, 1992

Open Classroom

9. Athens, 20118. Oporto, 20097. Stockholm, 20076. Poitiers, 20055. Copenhagen, 20024. Barcelona, 20003. Balatonfüred, 19992. Crete, 1997

1. Oslo, 1995

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Research Workshops

6. Budapest, 20105. Paris, 20084. Barcelona, 20063. Oldenburg, 20042. Hildesheim, 20021. Prague, 2000

EDEN 20th Anniversary in 2011 !

EDEN 2.0 Anniversary in 2011 !

EDEN 2.0 – Facebook and

Slideshare

EDEN 2.0 – Linkedin, Twitter and paper.li

#edendublin

EU PROJECT WORK

• Focus on innovative, strategic projects• The EDEN potential acknowledged and

utilised in EU programmes

• In the past 8 years: EDEN collaborated with 168 institutions in projects

QUALITY AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Conferences– EDEN conferences: major academic

and professional events in Europe;

• European Journal of Open, Distance and E-learning (EURODL)

• Fellow Awards – EDEN Fellow and Senior Fellow

Respected scheme of recognition

• Best Paper Awards

• The EDEN Book:Distance and E-learning in TransitionLearning Innovation, Technology and Social Challenges

PARTNERSHIPS WITH INTERNATIONAL FELLOW ORGANISATIONS

• EDEN: constructive partner in the European distance and e-learning networking initiatives – The Learnovation Stakeholders Round Table, – European Learning Industry Group – ELIG,– EFQUEL (European Foundation for Quality in E-learning),– European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD),– Observatory of Borderless Higher Education, (OBHE),– Elearningeuropa.info,

• Reciprocal membership, liaison with international networks– EuroPace, European Students’ Union, European Society for

Engineering Education (SEFI), International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE), European Association for Distance Learning (EADL), MENON Network, European Universities Continuing Education Network (EUCEN)

– US Distance Learning Association (USDLA), Sloan-C Consortium (US)

WHAT NEXT?

• Improve further the membership services for collaboration and engagement

• Strenghten academic value and professional competence

• Valorise the new web services and NAP Portal • Encourage and recognise excellence:

EDEN Fellow Scheme, EURODL, Best Research awards

• Maintain the good branding of the Association

Look forward to the next modernisation wave in EDEN!

Welcome to Dublin !

Welcome to the EDEN Family!

HAVE AN EXCELLENT CONFERENCE!

Recognition of

Corporate partner of the EDEN 2011 Annual Conference

Certificate presented to: Marci Powell, Global Director for Education, Polycom

USDLA Chair Emerita and Past President

We acknowledge with special thanks the collaboration of

The Open University, UKUniversidade Aberta

Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia – UNEDThe Danish Association of Flexible Learning – FLUID

Norwegian Association for Distance and Flexible Education – NADENKI Nettstudier, Norway

NKS Online Studies, NorwayNorway Opening Universities

as Institutional Members of the Association since 1991

Jubilee Certificate of Fidelity