EDEN Fellows’ Day

Christ Church CathedralDublin, June 18, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church_Cathedral,_Dublin

Morning programme• 9.30: Opening and introduction by Morten F. Paulsen, EDEN President

9.50: Keynote speeches: - Sir John Daniel, President of the Commonwealth of Learning, Founder of EDEN, - Maruja Gutierrez-Diaz, former Head of Unit and Advisor to the Director-General at the European Commission, DG Education Culture - Andras Szucs, EDEN Secretary General.

11.00: Coffee Break

11.30: Presentation of the draft Position Paper: Antonio Teixera, EDEN Vice-President Comments from participants.

12.30: Sandwich Lunch

Afternoon programme• After the Lunch Break: Visit of the Cathedral

14.00: Flash presentations from the Fellows – Part 1

15.15: Coffee Break

15.45: Flash presentations from the Fellows – Part 2

17.00: Speech from the United States Distance Learning Association

17.20: General discussion

18.00: End of the meeting.

EDEN has 34 Fellows and 13 Senior Fellows from 17 countries

The 20th Anniversary Conference goes Web 2.0

• EDEN has launched its own Page and set up a Conference Group on Facebook and LinkedIn as well as its Twitter account with the alias @edendublin. All conference news are shared plus daily paper recommendations from the official programme.

• Follow @edendublin on Twitter and get featured in the daily News via paper.li on Twitter. Include the hashtag #edendublin to your posts to be featured.

What happened in 1991?

What happened in 1991?June 1991

Sunday 09:The congress of the Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.

Monday 10:In what was dubbed "The Mother of All Parades," New York City hosts a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm.

Wednesday 12:Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.

Tuesday 25:Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.

Thursday 27:Slovenia, which declared independent two days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft.

www.spiritus-temporis.com/1991/

What happened in 1991?

• February 26Tim Berners-Lee introduces the web browser.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

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20 years ago

In 1991 I was the Founding Editor of DEOSand published The first EDEN Newsletter

http://home.nki.no/morten/index.php/english-menu/online-journals/deosnews/123-deosnews-volume-2-number-25.html

THE EDEN EXECUTIVE

President: Dr Erling Ljosa, Managing Director, NKS Ernst G. Mortensen Foundation.

Vice Presidents: Professor Armando Rocha Trindade, Rector, UniversidadeAberta. Professor Tamas Lajos, Technical University of Budapest.

Members: Dr John Daniel, Vice Chancellor, The Open University. Mr FredNickolmann, FernUniversitat. Mr Bernard Loing, Recteur d'Academie, CentreNational d'Enseignement ` Distance.

Observer: Reidar Roll, Secretary General, ICDE Permanent Secretariat

Secretariat - UK: Ms Kerry Mann, Executive Secretary, EDEN

Secretariat - Hungary: Dr Szucs, TEMPUS Hungarian Office

My 1991 Publications• Paulsen, M. F. 1991. The ICDL Database for Distance education. The American

Journal of Distance Education, 5(2):69-72.• Paulsen, M. F. 1991.

The Electronic University: Computer Conferencing in Mass Education. DEOSNEWS 1(20).

• Paulsen, M. F. 1991. Innovative Computer Conferencing Courses. DEOSNEWS 1(14).

• Paulsen, M. F. 1991. Computer-Mediated Communication and Distance Education around the World. DEOSNEWS 1(10).

• Paulsen, M. F. 1991. Bibliography on Computer Mediated Communication in Distance Education. DEOSNEWS 1(6).

• Paulsen, M. F. 1991. The ICDL Database for Distance Education. DEOSNEWS 1(5).

Distance Education in a Modern Society Erling Ljoså

Czechoslovak National Conference on Distance Education, Prague, 30 May, 1991

There are several roles distance education should fill in a modern education system:

1. Balance inequalities between age groups2. Offer "second chance" up grading3. Deal with information and education campaigns for large audiences4. Speedy and efficient training of key target groups5. Education for otherwise neglected target groups6. Expand the capacity for education in new areas7. Extend geographical access to education8. Offer the combination of education with work and family life9. Develop multiple competencies10. Offer trans national programmeshttp://nettskolen.nki.no/forskning/16/ljosaa2.htm

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Tuesday session

• Tuesday afternoon, at the conference there will be a session entitled „EDEN 20 Years” where Morten, Alan Tait, EDEN Past-President will speak and Antonio will summarise the outcomes of the Fellows’ Day. The moderator of the session will be Erwin Wagner, another Past-President. Open discussion with the audience will complete the session and the discussion results will be available for further online elaboration.

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