Conference Session Online Stream

The EDEN 2012 Annual Conference Plenary sessions (Thursday and Friday) and selected parallel sessions will be broadcasted via online streaming. Streaming will be online according to the schedule below. The URL for the webcasts is now available.

Technical details

the streaming works through simple Media Players, such as WMP or VLC. Please, make sure you have one of these installed on your computer to watch the video streams. To see all plenary and parallel sessions to be webcasted and all workshops with webinar function, please read the details below.

Sessions with Online Webstream

9.00-11.00 (GMT) 7 June, Thursday	Plenary Session 1 With : Morten Flate Paulsen, Ligia Maria Ribeiro, Gyula Hegyi, Isabel Leite, Bob Fryer Keynote Speakers
11.30-13.00 (GMT) 7 June, Thursday	Parallel Session: Distance and e-Learning Policy and Strategy
14.30-16.00 (GMT), 7 June, Thursday	Workshop: Learning in e-Europe in 2022: Scenarios for a More Open, Efficient, Sustainable and User-friendly Education System
16.30-18.00 (GMT), 7 June, Thursday	Parallel Session: Social Web and Collaborative Learning
9.00-11.00 (GMT) 8 June, Friday	Plenary Session 2 With: Dale J. Stephens and David White Keynote Speakers
11.30-13.00 (GMT), 8 June, Friday	Workshop: Increasing Equity in Higher Education beyond Rhetoric: Campaign Launch and Research Results of the Project’s Second Year
14.30-16.00 (GMT), 8 June, Friday	Panel Discussion with Keynotes Speakers With: Gyula Hegyi, Isabel Leite, Bob Fryer, Dale J. Stephens and David White Keynote Speakers joined by ICDE Secretary General Gard Titlestad and Universidade Aberta Rector Paulo Dias
16.30-18.00 (GMT), 8 June, Friday	Workshop: How to Give Credit for Learning with Open Educational Resources: Six Scenarios, a Guideline and a European Taskforce

Conference Workshops with Webinar funktion

Workshops below will be available as webinars as well on the dedicated webinar rooms listed below (to enter to the webinar, click on the respective Workshop link).
Workshop teams provide a facilitator who enables online participants to contribute to the live discussions. Please, note, that the webinars will be recorded and later posted on the web.

11.30-13.00 (GMT), 7 June, Thursday	ICT in the Process of Developing Learning to Learn Competences in Lifelong Learning Transitions: From Theory into the Practice
16.30-18.00 (GMT), 7 June, Thursday	Adults Learning for Intergenerational Creative Experiences
14.30-16.00 (GMT), 8 June, Friday	Design Principles for Pedagogic Multimedia
16.30-18.00 (GMT), 8 June, Friday	How to give credit for learning with OERs
9.30-10.45 (GMT), 9 June, Saturday	The Demographic Challenge Needs Innovation in Health Services and Cultures: How e-Networking & e-Learning can Activate New Mindsets, Unlashing Intergenerational Resources for Society?

Best Research Paper Award Finalists

EDEN's Best Research Paper Award is granted yearly during the Annual Conference Dinner: The Award is presented in collaboration with the Ulrich Bernath Foundation.

This years' finalists are:

• Reconsidering "Gen Y" & Co: From Minding the Gap to Overcoming it
  Emanuele Rapetti, Lorenzo Cantoni, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
  
• Do Men Learn in Order to Earn? Motives for Lifelong Learners to Choose Web-Based Courses and the Relationship with Age, Gender, Parenthood and Rate of Studies
  Ron Mahieu, Simon Wolming, Department of Education, Umea University, Sweden
  
• Generational Distinctiveness in the Time Use of Working Distance Learners
  Bill McNeill, The College of Estate Management, United Kingdom
  
• Personalisation in e-Learning – The Key for Success in Learning in Later Life
  Sonia Hetzner, Eline Leen, Innovation in Learning Institute - ILI, Germany

The Conference Programme is online here.

See also: Ulrich Bernath talks about high-quality research on open and distance learning.

Plenary Sessions to be Streamed Online

Similar to previous years, selected sessions of the  2012 EDEN Annual Conference will be streamed online and recorded.

The keynote speeches will be available online after the conference.

Stay tuned for the direct stream link.

See also: Last year's recorded keynote sessions on the EDEN website

Keynotes' Panel with Online Streaming

On Friday afternoon in Session E1, Keynote Speakers will be joined by ICDE Secretary
General Gard Titlestad and Universidade Aberta Rector Paulo Dias for a special
discussion on central themes of the conference. While the keynotes elaborate their ideas
in detail after their speech, conference delegates have the chance to interact directly with
them in a friendly setting.

Participants on site and others joining the online stream are invited to submit questions
to the panelists via Twitter Facebook or Linkedin. Session Moderator, Deborah Arnold
will ask selected questions during the panel.

See also: Keynotes' Interviews: read what keynote speakers Dale Stephens and David White think.

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