The 4th EFQUEL Innovation Forum took place in Lisbon, Portugal in collaboration with the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) and the National Institute for Public Administration of Portugal (INA).

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The conference took place at the Instituto Nacional de Administração (INA), situated in the gardens of the old Palace de Marqueses de Pombal in Oeiras, close to Lisbon, Portugal. 

Interesting opportunity to participate, listen and share the modern concepts about the current paradigms and evolution of the Open Educational Resources (OER) and Games Based Learning (GBL) in school education in line with the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.  

The Forum started on September 8th with a pre-conference day

 OPEN PROJECT LABORATORY

followed by the main conference September 9-10. 2010.

On the 8th September during the "OPEN PROJECT LABORATORY" the ENGAGE workshop 3 "Games in school - a serious matter to consider for excellent classrooms...?!" led by Sébastien Reinders, Gina Souto and Rolf Reinhardt joined an interested group of teachers and stakeholders of the educational sphere.

Gina Souto presentation and theme discussion : "Creative learning in the digital age" (OER, GBL, Mobile Learning at Secondary School).

Sébastien Reinders presentation : "Serious Games on learning". 

Rolf Reinhardt was the ENGAGE moderator.

The conference theme : 

Open Educational Resources (OER) are high on the agenda of social inclusion policies and supported by many stakeholders of the educational sphere. User Generated Content is more relevant than ever, co- and peer-production increasingly at the heart of content development.

At the same time, assessment and quality assurance processes are put to test because well contributed experts' and teachers' led approaches to assess and certify quality seem to become less effective in view of user created content and freely available resources.EFQUEL

Parallel Session 1: How can open educational practices contribute to better inclusion, innovation and excellence in education?

I have joined this parallel session where Mr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers (EFQUEL, Belgium), Ms. Gráinne Conole (Open University, United Kingdom), Prof. Roberto Carneiro (Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal) were excellent facilitators.

On a graphic panel created by a student of UN ViE, the developed vision of the participants has been added as well as a common set of recommendations to promote innovation, inclusion and excellence through open educational practices (OEP). 

An interactive session! All participants presented an overview about their own open educational practices, trying to contribute to better inclusion with innovation and quality in education.

The 4 parallel sessions took place in  the rooms of the Palacete Marqueses de Pombal and the Plenary sessions at the Auditorium of Gulbenkian (Oeiras). 

For three days, researchers, practionners, producers, in open interesting debates between all the participants shared ideas and experiences about "Open Educational Resources (OER) on the agenda of social inclusion policies".

All the workshops, four parallel sessions took place in  the rooms of the Palacete Marqueses de Pombal and the Plenary sessions at the Auditorium of Gulbenkian. 

The Forum had as moderator of the Conference  Prof. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, vice-president of EFQUEL. He has been an excellent communicator as well Prof. Roberto Carneiro, professor at the Portuguese Catholic University, where he also chairs the Study Centre on Peoples and Cultures. He is dean of the Institute for Distance Learning. 

Both enriched completely the international community of practitioners who attended the Forum with their vision about innovation on learning and teaching for social inclusion.

Mr. Claudio Dondi, the President of EFQUEL was one of the keynote speakers at the Plenary Session here. 

Claudio Dondi was the rapporteur and the moderator of the Final Panel discussion: "Re-focusing on quality: How can quality approaches evolve and enhance inclusion, innovation and excellence" here.

The 9th September, a Conference dinner at the INA gardens joined a big group among the participants.

After the dinner, the awarding ceremony “EFQUEL Award 2010 “ took place.

Creators: Graphic facilitation panel

Team of the United Nations University

Vice-Rectorat in Europe (UNU-ViE).

The event was broadcast live stream on the Internet and offered various possibilities to interact with participants on Twitter and Facebook

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