eden president airina volungeviciene's opening speech at #edenrw9
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EDEN Oldenburg RW9
Assoc. Prof. Airina VolungevičienėEDEN President
Director of ISI at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
October 4-6, 2016
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EDEN Oldenburg 2004 best paper award
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More from EDEN Oldenburg 2004• From conventional to open, distance and e-learning• Designing learner support in open and distance learning• Assessment strategies that strengthen the learner• Institutional strategies in open and distance learning• Learning communities for professional development• The tutor in open, distance and e-learning• Drop-in/ drop-out and retention issues in open, distance and
e-learning• Cost – effective strategies and solutions in ODL• And other important topics….
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The legacy of ODL research was continued
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Innovations changing the landscape of education in Europe since 2004
• The most influential technological innovations:– Open Educational Resources– Open Educational Practices– Virtual Mobility and international virtual exchange– Massive Open Online Courses– Open Science, open data– Learning analytics– Personalization and flexibility of learning– Recognition of open learning
EDEN Oxford RW8 – 2014 DEVELOPMENTS AND STATE OF THE ART/ OUTCOME
1. Online forms of education provision are no longer being seen as a curiosity or a niche market, but a central part of any HE institutional offer
2. Massive open learning emerged and resulted in disruption and transformation of education
3. HE meets the challenges of industrialization, demography, and globalization, direct impact of lifelong learning service provision needs
4. Diversification of target groups in HE makes considerable impact upon institution sustainability models
Institutions have to identify and apply sustainable and scalable sustainability models
• negative side effects • inadequate theoretical frameworks and established
practices• Innovations are introduced episodically• Confusion exists in terms of concepts and phenomena• Sudden and disruptive development, as well as
segmented integration of innovation in an organization often lose the desired effect and anticipated impact
• Such instances demonstrate irresponsible decisions, bring negative effect to strategic planning and may generate wrong feedback to European discussions on best practices
EDEN Oxford RW8 – 2014 DEVELOPMENTS AND STATE OF THE ART/ OUTCOME
IMPORTANT ACTIONS
Higher education institutions need to open up their organization, methods and services in order to be able to cope with the challenges of an open
educational culture
a need for solid research to develop new practice models built upon appropriate foundations which take into account the basic principles of open education and take the most out of the new networked social environments
EDEN Oxford RW8 – 2014 DEVELOPMENTS AND STATE OF THE ART/ OUTCOME
EDENRW8 DEVELOPMENTS• TEL concept has significantly changed existing dominant practices,
introduced innovations and continues to change the landscape of learning services at education institutions
• A broader concept of TEL has emerged implying the value of judgment of improved learning services for students and new, innovative scenarios in learning and teaching
• MOOCs – is a form of TEL!
New providers of TEL should try to base their approaches on the legacy of already existing research and best practices in order to keep the current high quality standards of practice.
MOOCs have not invented neither TEL nor online learning but the other way around.
STATE OF THE ART
IMPORTANT ACTIONS
Objectives for EDEN• To continue with the dimension of openness• To base new approaches on the legacy of already
existing research and best practices in order to keep high quality standards of practices
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EDEN operates as an open organization
Through Open Governance
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Through transparency, participation and recognition
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EDEN operates as an open organization
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Through open research
Through involvement and leadership
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EDEN operates as an open organization
Through Open Professional Collaboration and Community Development
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EDEN operates as an open organization
Open (and virtual) universities (12 of them being members of EDEN) and their professionals are great contributors and mentors towards opening up
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EDEN operates as an open organization
Through the values of digital and networked society
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And we are back to Oldenburg – 2016To shape the future of ODL!
EDEN Oldenburg RW9 addresses• Historical perspective of research in ODL• Self-learning vs tutored learning• Learning design• Virtual internationalization• Quality of ODL• Massive open online learning• Digital skills and employability• Socio - economic aspects of ODL• Learning analytics and profiling of online learners• Motivation, interventions, participation and negative effects – and whether digital
devices are to blame• National case presentations• OERs• New research directions and opportunities
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• Scholarly journals editorial panel• Focus group session• Workshop Session• Parallel sessions• Poster sessions• Synergy sessions• Something old, something new! – Oxford style debate• Conference dinner and Best paper awards
All this and more is prepared for you! – Get ready and answer the question with your session peers and excellent keynotes -
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The question for EDEN Oldenburg RW9
How shall we prepare for future learning and what recommendations EDEN Oldenburg RW9
will prepare for the next 12 years?
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