EDEN Research Workshop 2020: Plenary sessions broadcast Live. Keynote speakers and detailed program
The e-Learning Center invites you to the 11th edition of EDEN Research Workshop, during October 21-23, 2020! Follows FREE, LIVE, on YouTube, presentations Keynote and Oxford live debate on the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on research in open, distance and online learning in a networked society
EDEN Research Workshop 2020: Improving the human learning experience with technology: New challenges for research in digital, open, distance and network education
The one 11th edition of EDEN Research Workshop will take place ONLINE, on October 21-23, 2020, being organized in collaboration with Open University and LE @ D and proposes to reflect on the current challenges facing researchers in terms of the impact of digital technologies emerging and of artificial intelligence into the quality improvement and the sustainability of the experience of human learning.
Keynote Speakers
Plenary sessions broadcast live on YouTube
Welcome ceremony
Wednesday, October 21 18:30 (17:30 CEST)
See HERE details about the event
Watch LIVE on YouTube (updating)
Opening plenary session
Thursday 22 October 2020 - 10:00 (09:00 CEST)
President: Sandra Kucina, President of EDEN
Speakers: Sandra Kucina Softic - President of EDEN
Carla Oliveira - Rector UAb
Tony Bates - Assoc. Research, Contact North
Ellen Elsper - Professor of Digital Inequalities, London School of Economics, UK
António Nóvoa - Portuguese Ambassador to UNESCO, former Rector of the University of Lisbon
Oxford-style debate
Thursday, 22 October 2020 - 18:45 (17:45 CEST)
The Covid pandemic will not have a lasting impact on learning and teaching in universities and colleges
Oxford-style debate on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on research in open, distance and online learning in a networked society. The debate is a format based on a pre-established statement - also called a "motion" - from two opposing perspectives.
President of the debate:
Alan Tait - Professor Emeritus of Distance Education and Development, Open University, UK
Speakers:
Cristina Costa - Assistant Professor, Durham University School of Education, UK
Mar Pérez-Sanagustín - PhD in Enhanced Learning through Technology, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse III, France
Closing plenary session
Friday, 23 October 2020 -16: 30 (15:30 CET)
President:
Josep M. Duart, EDEN Vice President for Research
Speakers:
Josep M. Duart - Vice President of EDEN for Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Terry Anderson - Professor Emeritus of Distance Education, Athabasca University, Canada
Martin Weller - Director - OER Hub at The Open University, Cardiff, UK
Maha Bali - Assoc. at the Center for Practice for Learning and Teaching, American University, Cairo
Lisbon 2020 Report “Research in the ODL State of the Art” & Goodbye
Friday, October 23, 18:30 (17:30 CEST)
President:
Josep M. Duart - EDEN Vice President for Research
Speakers:
Josep M. Duart - Vice President of EDEN for Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Alan Tait - Professor Emeritus of Distance Education and Development, Open University, UK
Inés Gil Jaurena - Professor at UNED, Madrid, Spain