E-learn Weblog of Willem van Valkenburg

This week I'm attending the annual conference of EDEN: European Distance and E-leearning Network. TU Delft has recently joined the network of more than 200 institutional members and more than 1200 members in the Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP).

This years conference will be in Barcelona and is hosted by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. The conference has some interesting keynotes speakers. Some of the speakers I'm looking forward too:

• Xavier Prats Monné
  DG for Education and Culture of the European Commission. It is always good to hear the priorities of the EC.
• Jim Groom
  Recently resigned his job at the University of Mary Washington to continue his work on Reclaim Hosting.
• Audrey Watters
  the best EdTech journalist and interesting voice in the field op open education.
• Stavros Panagiotis Xanthopoylos
  Vice-President ABED and my fellow board member at the Open Education Consortium.

Presentations of TU Delft

Off course we are not just consuming, but we are presenting too. Together with my collegaes Nelson Jorge and Sofia Dopper we have written a paper about defining a pedagogical model: the TU Delft Online Learning Experience. We will present this on Thursday morning in session D5 (room Salon 4) at 11.30-13.00.

On Wednesday the MOOCs4all project, in which we are participating is organising a workshop about low-cost production of moocs. Janine Kiers is organising this workshop with the others of the project. This session C3 is Wednesday afternoon at 16.30-18.00 in Salon 5.

Live Stream

If you can't attend the conference, it is possible to view the plenary sessions via the EDEN youtube channel. And there will be some tweeting with the hashtag #EDEN15.