Twenty Years with EDEN

Morten Flate PaulsenNKI Nettstudier

Dublin, June 21, 2011

What happened in 1991?

What happened in 1991?June 1991

Sunday 09:The congress of the Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.

Monday 10:In what was dubbed "The Mother of All Parades," New York City hosts a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm.

Wednesday 12:Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.

Tuesday 25:Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.

Thursday 27:Slovenia, which declared independent two days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft.

www.spiritus-temporis.com/1991/

What happened in 1991?

• February 26Tim Berners-Leeintroduced theweb browser.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

• In the history of virtual learning environments, the 1990s was a time of growth, primarily due to the advent of the affordable computer and of the Internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments_in_the_1990s

Virtual Learning Environments20 years ago

In 1991, I was at Penn State without e-mail contacts in Norway

There, I was the Founding Editor of DEOSand published The first EDEN Newsletter

http://home.nki.no/morten/index.php/english-menu/online-journals/deosnews/123-deosnews-volume-2-number-25.html

THE EDEN EXECUTIVE

President: Dr Erling Ljosa, Managing Director, NKS Ernst G. Mortensen Foundation.

Vice Presidents: Professor Armando Rocha Trindade, Rector, UniversidadeAberta. Professor Tamas Lajos, Technical University of Budapest.

Members: Dr John Daniel, Vice Chancellor, The Open University. Mr FredNickolmann, FernUniversitat. Mr Bernard Loing, Recteur d'Academie, CentreNational d'Enseignement ` Distance.

Observer: Reidar Roll, Secretary General, ICDE Permanent Secretariat

Secretariat - UK: Ms Kerry Mann, Executive Secretary, EDEN

Secretariat - Hungary: Dr Szucs, TEMPUS Hungarian Office

• Mailing list at www.museumofdistanceeducation.com• We are looking for photographs, documents, artifacts, and personal

and organizational histories that are related to distance education and related technologies to add to our online museum on the web and in the virtual world.

• We will be holding webinars, virtual world meetings and invite guest speakers.

• There will be publications available.• One of our longer term goals is to fund graduate research.

• Please contact William C. Diehl at wdiehl@museumofdistanceeducation.com

MuseumofDistanceEducation.com

EDEN Timeline

1990 - Budapest Platform 1991 - EDEN Launched 1994 - EURODL launched 1995 - First EDEN Open Classroom Conference 1996 - NAP – EDEN EC Memorandum 1997 - Secretariat moves to Budapest 1998 - First EU Project with EDEN Involvment 1998 - EDEN Web launched 1999 - Electronic Newsflash substitutes paper 2000 - First EDEN Research Workshop

EDEN Timeline

2006 – Changed name from European Distance Education Network to European Distance and E-Learning Network

2007 - First Online Conference Registration System 2007 - First Conference Proceedings on CD 2007 - First EDEN Fellows awards 2008 - Best Research Paper Award launched 2008 - President’s Blog launched 2009 - Conference Blog at the Gdansk conference 2010 - NAP Member Area launched 2011 - EDEN on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin

EDEN Presidents7. Morten F. Paulsen, 2010 -

Professor of Online Education, Director of Development, NKI Nettstudier

6. Alan Tait, 2007-2010 Pro-Vice-Chancellor, The Open University, UK, Chair of the NAP Steering Committee,

5. Ingeborg Boe, 2003 - 2007 Executive Director, NADE

4. Erwin Wagner, 2000-2003 Director of Centre for Distance and Continuing Education, University Hildesheim,

3. + Valerio Grementieri, 1997-2000 President, Associazione CAMPO, Italy,

2. Tamás Lajos, 1995-1997 Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, Founder of EDEN,

1. Erling Ljosa, 1992-1995 Head of Product/Market Unit, NKS, Norway, Founder of EDEN,

Institutional membership

NAP members

Conference attendance

The Future Seen from the Past

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5144094928842683632#

Anniversary Reflections

In 1991, our future was on the InternetIn 2011, our daily life is on the InternetIn 2031, our history will also be on the Internet

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