28th EDEN Annual Conference 2019 - Connecting Through Educational Technology to produce effective learning environments
Date : du 16-06-2019 au 19-06-2019
Lieu : Bruges
Organisation : European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN)
Programme :
How can information and communication technology in the age of Industry 4.0 create and enhance synergies between online learning programmes, the increased diversity of stakeholders, the workplace experience, socio-cultural influences and students’ work-life balance?
Technology is with us everywhere which validates the horizontal-holistic approach for imperative questions of the period. For the transforming education landscape, challenges come increasingly from the socio-cultural-economic, structural and policy fields. Education has to be visionary to reach efficiency gains, new sources – and to offer sustainable services, reflecting the complexity of modern societies.
Market realities put similar pressures on the corporate and University worlds. Stakeholders expect academia to respond to needs beyond teaching and research, better promote innovation and the knowledge economy, manage the new student populations. Universities are expected to detect and attract talents, be magnet of inputs from practitioners, resulting cooperative surplus.
Vocationalisation of education also means the emergence of new skill sets. The progress in industrial automation and ICTs opens possibilities for lifelong learning resources, for work based learning and integration of human-machine intelligence models.
Educational technologies are about connections among information, knowledge, action, emotion and value: knowledge construction, learning activities by sharing and thinking, interactivity, aggregative mechanisms, cooperation and integration – to meet the requirements of the knowledge age, to satisfy the needs of social transformation and learning innovation.
New generation of learning technologies and networks are ubiquitous, embedded and mobile which reshape access to and delivery of learning. Cutting edge fields are artificial intelligence, learning analytics, micro-learning, new credentialing, revolution of assessment, massive open online courses (MOOCs), personalized learning, game-based learning, flipped classroom, Digital Makerspaces and alike.
The question remains: Which one(s) of these will have significant and sustained impact in the future? Can the network society become an enhanced learning society?
Conference tracks
For the EDEN 2019 Annual Conference, the major tracks set-up will be:
- Global connections: How to organise online study programmes that enhance the students’ international competences, provide connections with international partners and promote virtual mobility?
- Connections with workplace: How can innovative study programmes be developed to involve the workplace impact and experience (virtual dual learning, (distance/digital) internships)?
- Connections with the community: How to organise study programmes that focus on relations of curriculum, delivery and the socio-economic environment – like community service learning, social partnerships, interdisciplinary projects?
- Connection with learners: Caring about the work-life balance of the students, attentive to learners’ needs, expectations and the changing behaviour of diverse student populations including career, other studies, family-life.
Keynote speakers
JAN ELEN
Jan Elen is a full professor at the KU Leuven, Center for Instructional Psychology and Technology.
NELL WATSON
Nell Watson is an engineer, educator, and tech philosopher who grew up in Northern Ireland.
LKKA TUOMI
Mr. Tuomi is Chief Scientist at Meaning Processing, an independent public research organization located in Helsinki, Finland.
BERT WYLIN
Bert Wylin has both an academic as well as a business profile. He works at the KU Leuven since 1993.
STEVE WHEELER
Steve Wheeler is a Learning Innovations Consultant and former Associate Professor of Learning Technologies at the Plymouth Institute of Education where he chaired the Learning Futures group and led the Computing and Science education teams.
YVES PUNIE
Yves Punie is a senior scientist and Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Seville, Unit Human Capital and Employment.
TRACY TAN
Tracy Tan, Director of the MicroMasters Program at MIT will give a special keynote speech at the Annual Conference in Bruges introducing delegates to the MicroMasters programs.
ANGELIKI DEDOPOULOU
Angeliki Dedopoulou is an EU Affairs adviser to DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission for the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) and the Digitally Signed Credentials of the new Europass.
URL : http://www.eden-online.org/.../
• résumés : http://www.eden-online.org/.../
• enregistrement vidéo : http://www.eden-online.org/.../
Le livre de résumés (94 p.) ainsi que les actes complets (623 p.) sont disponibles en téléchargement sur le site de la conférence, sur la page "ressources".
Les vidéos des interventions plénières peuvent également être visionnées à partir de cette même page d'actualité, ainsi que les diaporamas correspondants.
mot(s) clé(s) : enseignement et formation à distance
